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- From: David Karr <karr@cs.cornell.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Torus vs. Hypercube
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.142815.27527@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- References: <1992Dec27.201910.28352@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:22:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.201910.28352@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> bai@rainier.eng.ohio-state.edu (Baback A. Izadi) writes:
- >Couple of weeks ago, I think heard a speaker claiming that
- >2-dimensional Torus and hypercube have basically the same
- >topology. How could this be true?
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- First of all, I was under the impression that the usual interpretation
- of a "torus" network was *always* 2-D. Perhaps the speaker meant "2-D
- hypercube," i.e. the 4-node hypercube, which would in fact match the
- 4-node 2x2 torus.
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- Also, it turns out the 16-node (4-D) hypercube and the 16-node 4x4 torus
- have the same topology. But that's the largest number of nodes for
- which this can occur, because in higher dimensions the hypercube nodes
- have degree 5 or greater, but the torus nodes have degree 4.
-
- >If it is, can someone
- >point me to some references?
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- Leighton has lengthy discussions about both 2-D arrays (including the
- torus) and hypercubes, but none that I recall about this point.
-
- -- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
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