The Cosmic Cube
Abstract
Sixty-four 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 feasible and attractive.
- Publication:
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Communications of the ACM
- Pub Date:
- January 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985CACM...28...22S
- Keywords:
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- Algorithms;
- Design;
- Experimentation;
- Highly concurrent computing;
- Message-passing architectures;
- Message-based operating systems;
- Process programming;
- Object-oriented programming;
- VLSI systems