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 latest generation GPUs; its communication mesh - being tailored to the characteristics of LQCD algorithms - is a point-to-point, high performance, low latency network where the computing nodes are topologically arranged as vertexes of a 3 dimensional torus.
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.
