The cosmic cube

  • Authors:
  • Charles L. Seitz

  • Affiliations:
  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Special section on computer architecture
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Sixty-four small computers are connected by a network of point-to-point communication channels in the plan of a binary 6-cube. This “Cosmic Cube” computer is a hardware simulation of a future VLSI implementation that will consist of single-chip nodes. The machine offers high degrees of concurrency in applications and suggests that future machines with thousands of nodes are both feasible and attractive.