QCDOC cont'd

• Currently: tests of daughterboard

• end 08/2003: 128 nodes

• end 2003: 5 k node system

• late spring 2004: 5 Tflops sustained for Edinburgh 5 Tflops sustained for Riken

• SCIDAC: in funding process for 10 Tflops

• Physics: -dynamical fermion simulations with small quark masses -staggered fermions

• Partitions: large machines might be divided in 2 or 4 smaller parts (software)