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From: coop@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu
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Subject: IPSC Communications
Keywords: IPCS Parallel
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Date: 17 Nov 89 21:04:40 GMT
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A little while ago I saw a video lecture by a designer from Intel that
predicted that the next generation of their hypercube IPSC systems is going
to use a two-dimensional grid communications scheme with a more sophisticated
router instead of their currently n-cube communication scheme. Wouldn't this
make the architecture less flexible and expandable, besides making it necessary
to restructure the instruction set ? Does anyone have any details on this ?

P.S. Since IPSC/1 was based on 80286, and the IPSC/2 on the 80386, is an
     i860-based IPSC in the future ? It could make a cray look really
     bad for a fraction of the price ...

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