A Resource for the International Lattice Gauge Theory Community

Lattice Quantum ChromoDynamics is a challenging computational field employing large scale numerical calculations to extract predictions of the Standard Model of nuclear physics, Quantum ChromoDynamics. LQCD researchers currently exploit machines of scale one teraflop/s sustained, growing to several teraflop/s sustained in 2005. The links below lead to additional information about the exciting science, the complex algorithms employed, and the machines now in use and soon to be deployed.

Links

• The USQCD Collaboration and the "National Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory", a part of the US Department of Energy's SciDAC program.

• The UKQCD Collaboration, a major UK Lattice QCD collaboration.

• The MILC "MIMD Lattice Computation" Collaboration, a part of USQCD with a focus on weak decays.

• The LHPC Lattice Hadron Physics Collaboration, a part of USQCD collaboration with a focus on hadron structure.

• The Lattice QCD Archive at CP-PACS in Japan.

• The NERSC Gauge Connection, a data repository for LQCD.

• The ILDG International Lattice Data Grid -- a collaboration seeking to build the infrastructure necessary to exchange valuable data sets to accelerate LQCD science.

• The ILFTNet International Research Network for Computational Particle Physics builds upon the ILDG infrastructure to promote international collaboration.