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Volume 28 ,  Issue 1  (January 1985) table of contents
Special section on computer architecture
Pages: 22 - 33  
Year of Publication: 1985
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Charles L. Seitz  California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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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.


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