APEmille

HPC and Data for Lattice QCD

APEmille

NIC Supercomputers at DESY Zeuthen: APEmille

APEmille 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	128
Peak performance per crate	69 GFlops
Memory per crate	4 GBytes
Aggregated peak performance	550 GFlops

Access to APEmille

The APEmille machines are kept operational until end of May 2009 or until a major defect occurs (whatever happens first). It is not possible to apply for further computer time on these machines.