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From: grunwald@M.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.hypercube
Subject: Re: Ncube-10: not always 2^10
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Date: 22 Feb 88 13:11:39 GMT
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The NCube-10 has 11 DMA channels per node. The 11th channel is routed to the
back-plane for I/O. While you could upgrade the N-cube to a 2^11 machine,
it would mean no I/O, which doesn't make it very useful.

If you want to shove in more than 2^10, you'd have to change the topology.