ApeNEXT

HPC and Data for Lattice QCD

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

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)

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