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From: fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.hypercube
Subject: Re: Summary of Spang Robinson Report.
Message-ID: <1071@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 20:47:08 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Approved: hypercube@hubcap.clemson.edu

In article <1036@hubcap.UUCP> you write:
>Ametek has announced a Series 2010, a hypercube based system, where
<messages pass through nodes without requiring processor time.
>Each node is a 68020 CPU plus 68881 floating point unit with 1
<to eight MBYTES memory.  It does not require expansions in powers
>of two and can grow to 1024 nodes.

Ametek series 2010 is not a hypercube based system.  Its has a
physical connectivity of a 2D mesh with hardware message routing.
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Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     fpst@clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            comp.hypercube
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