People (the same people, actually) were building (not-so-)custom supercomputers for QCD (and other tasks) in the 80s: https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/

People (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...