Fermilab operates large
clusters of computers for lattice quantum chromodynamics, as
part of the national computational infrastructure for lattice QCD established
by the Department of Energy. Their goal is the understanding of
the strong dynamics
of quarks and gluons, which is beyond the reach of the traditional
perturbative methods of quantum field theory.
A central goal of the groups using the computers is the
accomplishment of the calculations
required to extract
from experiment the fundamental
parameters of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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