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LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS —THE NEED FOR A TERAFLOP COMPUTER

1992

The introduction of vector processors {“supercomputers” with a performance in the range of 109 floating point operations (1 GFLOP) per second} has had an enormous impact on computational condensed matter physics. The possibility of a substantially enhanced performance by massively parallel processors (“teraflop” machines with 1012 floating point operations per second) will allow satisfactory treatment of a large range of important scientific problems which have to a great extent thus far escaped numerical resolution. The present paper describes only a few examples (out of a long list of interesting research problems!) for which the availability of “teraflops” will allow spectacular progres…