Caltech Cosmic Cube

Caltech Cosmic Cube

The Caltech Cosmic Cube was a parallel computer, developed by Charles Seitz and Geoffrey Fox from 1981 onward.

It was an early attempt to capitalise on VLSI to speed up scientific calculations at a reasonable cost. Using commodity hardware and an architecture suited to the specific task (QCD), Fox and Seitz demonstrated that this was indeed possible.

Characteristics

* 64 Intel 8086/87 processors
* 128kB of memory per processor
* 6-dimensional hypercube network, i. e. each processor can directly exchange data with six other processors.

External links

* [http://www.netlib.org/utk/lsi/pcwLSI/text/node13.html Birth of the Hypercube]


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