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From: eugene@pioneer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Hypercubes (reference) ignore if they bore you
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Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 17:22:09 EST
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In article <1881@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> jon@oddhack.UUCP (Jon Leech) writes:
>>Geoffrey Fox of CalTech
>>presented a paper in one of the 1984 conferences extolling some of the virtues
>>of a hypercube architecture (NOTE: NOT an iPSC - the iPSC is based on Fox's
>>design) for computing.  
>
>	This is a common misconception which I will attempt to correct.
>The original Caltech Cosmic Cubes (sitting not 20 feet from me),
>    -- Jon Leech (jon@csvax.caltech.edu || ...seismo!cit-vax!jon)
>    Caltech Computer Science Graphics Group

As I mailed to the OGC, by chance I was at that meeting where Fox spoke.
It was the IEEE COMPCON, and I won't forget it.  It was in a different
hotel that usual in SF because the usual hotel (Cathedral Hill where it
runs as I write) had a fire.  One week before the LA Times Article about
hypercubes as possible future supercomputers.

Fox (a physicist) got up before these EEs who had read this article.  He
was not well received.  Geoffrey left the stage saying, "I'm not
responsible for what people say about us."  Not one of EE's brighter
moments.  Fox is basically a good guy (also known in the CS community as
part of the Caltech SMP project).

%A Geoffrey C. Fox
%T Concurrent Processing for Scientific Calculations
%J Digest of Papers COMPCON, Spring 84
%r Hm62
%I IEEE
%D Feb. 1984
%P 70-73
%K Super scientific computers
%X An introduction the the current 64 PE Caltech hypercube.  Based
on the dissertation by Lang (Caltech 1982) on the `Homogeneous machine.'

Bart Locanthi also gets credit for the original Homogeneous Machine
thesis (Caltech, 1980).

Oh where is Eugene Brooks, III arguing for shared memory hypercubes when
you need him? Sorry, I should summarize more and follow up less.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
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