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Lattice QCD is something legitimate that people have been working on since the 80s. Some of the earliest massively parallel machines like the Connection Machine
by orbifold 6y ago
Lattice QCD is something legitimate that people have been working on since the 80s. Some of the earliest massively parallel machines like the Connection Machine were thought to be useful for it. It’s totally plausible that physicists were crazy enough to build a custom Supercomputer for it. They routinely build complex custom ASICs for particle detectors. Note also the time (2004) nowadays they use GPUs for lattice QCD.
- kgwgk 6y agoPeople (the same people, actually) were building (not-so-)custom supercomputers for QCD (and other tasks) in the 80s: https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/1989/02/epn19892002p24.pdf https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/1989/02/epn...