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- From: nikhil@crl.dec.com (R.S. Nikhil)
- Newsgroups: comp.parallel
- Subject: Re: Torus vs. Hypercube
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.150211.27158@crl.dec.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:02:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.201910.28352@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec29.142815.27527@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.142815.27527@hubcap.clemson.edu>, karr@cs.cornell.EDU (David Karr) writes:
- >
- > First of all, I was under the impression that the usual interpretation
- > of a "torus" network was *always* 2-D.
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- The Tera system currently under construction by the Tera Computer Company in Seattle, WA,
- uses a 3D torus; see
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- "The Tera Computer System"
- Alverson, R., Callahan, D., Cummings, D., Koblenz, B., Porterfield, A. and Smith, B.
- in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Supercomputing, Amsterdam, June 1990
-
- Rishiyur Nikhil (nikhil@crl.dec.com)
-