The cosmic cube

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.

VLSI Architecture: Past, Present, and Future

“…Several meth-ods of programming parallel machines have been demonstrated. Research machines were constructed to demonstrate the technology, provide a platform for parallel software research, and solve the engineering problems associated with its realization [Seitz85,NWD93,SBSS93]. The results of this research resulted in numerous commercial machines [Scott96] that form the core of the high-end computer industry today*.…”

Solving elliptic partial differential equations on the hypercube multiprocessor

“…For the case n = 3, the 8 nodes can be represented as the vertices of a three dimensional cube. One of the main advantages of the hypercube is that it imbeds many of the classical topologies such as two-dimensional or three-dimensional meshes (in fact arbitrary dimension meshes can be imbedded) [12,7]. The diameter of an n-cube is n: to reach a node from any other node one needs to cross at most n interprocessor connections.…”

Stochastic Fault-Tolerant Routing in Dual-Cubes

“…In this study, we focus on such a topology, dual-cube [1]. The dual-cube is an extension of the hypercube [2], and it addresses some of the drawbacks of the hypercube when applied to massively parallel systems. Since the existence of faulty elements is inevitable in a massively parallel system, we propose here a fault-tolerant routing algorithm for dual-cubes.…”