  We will report on the status of a new large scale calculation of
thermodynamic quantities in QCD with light up and down quarks corresponding to
an almost physical light quark mass value and a heavier strange quark mass.
These calculations are currently being performed on the QCDOC Teraflops
computers at BNL. We will present new lattice calculations of the transition
temperature and various susceptibilities reflecting properties of the chiral
transition. All these quantities are of immediate interest for heavy ion
phenomenology.
