• 0: Home .
• 1: APE .
  • 1.1: UserDoc .
    • 1.1.1: Support .
    • 1.1.2: APEmille .
    • Standort: 1.1.3: ApeNEXT .
      • 1.1.3.1: HW Counters .
      • 1.1.3.2: Tutorials .
      • 1.1.3.3: Topology .
    • 1.1.4: Batch .
    • 1.1.5: Account .
    • 1.1.6: Storage .
    • 1.1.7: APE Team .
  • 1.2: AdminDoc .
  • 1.3: Hardware .
  • 1.4: Software .
  • 1.5: Publications .
  • 1.6: Physics .
• 2: LDG .
• 3: QPACE .
• 4: GPE .

ApeNEXT

apeNEXT is custom designed, massively parallel computer optimised for simulating Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
on the lattice.

Technical parameters

Number of crates	8
Number of processors per crate	256
Peak performance per crate	250 GFlops (after upgrade: 300)
Memory per crate	64 GBytes
Aggregated peak performance	2 TFlops (after upgrade: 2.5 TFlops)

Access to apeNEXT

Resources on apeNEXT are granted by the NIC's Resource Allocation Committee. The allocation period usually lasts one year starting on 1st July.