QUonG initiative

The QUonG Project

QUonG is an INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) initiative targeted to develop a High Performance Computing system dedicated (but not limited) to Lattice QCD computations.

QUonG is a massively parallel computing platform built up from commodity multi-core processors coupled with last generation GPUs; exploits the characteristics of LQCD algorithms, its network mesh is a point-to-point, high performance, low latency 3 dimensional toroidal network interconnecting the computing nodes.

The network is built upon the APEnet+ project.

The final shape of a deployed QUonG system is an assembly of standard 42U racks, each one capable of 60 TFlops/rack of peak performance, at a cost of 5kEuro/TFlops and for an estimated power consumption of 25 kW/rack.

A first QUonG system prototype is expected to be delivered at the end of the year 2011.