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'''nCUBE''',<br/>
a series of massive parallel computers based on a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube hypercube] topology performing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMD MIMD], first released 1985 by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE company of the same name]. The first model, the '''nCUBE 10''' was able to build an order-ten hypercube, supporting up to 1024 CPUs with 32-bit [[Combinatorial Logic#ALU|ALU]] and 64-bit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit FPU] and 128 KiB of [[Memory#RAM|RAM]] per node, also supporting dynamic reconfigurable partitioning the machine into "sub-cubes", that is connected processor teams working on particular sub-problems, such as [[Parallel Search|searching]] sub-trees in the massive parallel chess program [[Waycool]] <ref>[[Ed Felten]], [[Steve Otto]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71250/ Chess on a Hypercube]''. The Third Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications, Vol. II-Applications</ref>.
The single-chip '''nCUBE-2''' processor launched in June 1989 used [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole_switching wormhole routing] with up to 4096 nodes, the 64-bit ALU nCUBE-3 was released in 1995, and the fourth generation MediaCUBE 4 in 1999. In January 2005, nCUBE was acquired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-COR C-COR], and subsequently acquired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arris_International ARRIS] in December 2007 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE nCUBE by Wikipedia]</ref>.
=Chess Programs=
* [[Waycool]]
=See also=
* [[Connection Machine]]
* [[Paragon]]
* [[Transputer]]
=Selected Publications=
* [[Mathematician#JPHayes|John P. Hayes]], [[Mathematician#TNMudge|Trevor N. Mudge]], [[Mathematician#QFStout|Quentin F. Stout]], et al. ('''1986'''). ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221085751_Architecture_of_a_Hypercube_Supercomputer Architecture of a Hypercube Supercomputer]''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/icpp/icpp1986.html#HayesMS86 ICPP'86]
* [[Ed Felten]], [[Steve Otto]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71250/ Chess on a Hypercube]''. The Third Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications, Vol. II-Applications
* [[Ed Felten]], [[Steve Otto]] ('''1988'''). ''A Highly Parallel Chess Program''. Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems
* [[Ed Felten]], [[Steve Otto]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/62297.62347 Coherent parallel C]''. Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE nCUBE by Wikipedia]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030512172227/http://www.npac.syr.edu/nse/hpccsurvey/orgs/ncube/ncube.html nCUBE Corporation] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback machine])
* [http://www.cpushack.com/2013/11/01/ncube-and-the-rise-of-the-hypercubes/ nCube and the Rise of the HyperCubes] | [http://www.cpushack.com/ The CPU Shack Museum]
=References=
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'''nCUBE''',<br/>
a series of massive parallel computers based on a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube hypercube] topology performing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMD MIMD], first released 1985 by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE company of the same name]. The first model, the '''nCUBE 10''' was able to build an order-ten hypercube, supporting up to 1024 CPUs with 32-bit [[Combinatorial Logic#ALU|ALU]] and 64-bit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit FPU] and 128 KiB of [[Memory#RAM|RAM]] per node, also supporting dynamic reconfigurable partitioning the machine into "sub-cubes", that is connected processor teams working on particular sub-problems, such as [[Parallel Search|searching]] sub-trees in the massive parallel chess program [[Waycool]] <ref>[[Ed Felten]], [[Steve Otto]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71250/ Chess on a Hypercube]''. The Third Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications, Vol. II-Applications</ref>.
The single-chip '''nCUBE-2''' processor launched in June 1989 used [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole_switching wormhole routing] with up to 4096 nodes, the 64-bit ALU nCUBE-3 was released in 1995, and the fourth generation MediaCUBE 4 in 1999. In January 2005, nCUBE was acquired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-COR C-COR], and subsequently acquired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arris_International ARRIS] in December 2007 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE nCUBE by Wikipedia]</ref>.
=Chess Programs=
* [[Waycool]]
=See also=
* [[Connection Machine]]
* [[Paragon]]
* [[Transputer]]
=Selected Publications=
* [[Mathematician#JPHayes|John P. Hayes]], [[Mathematician#TNMudge|Trevor N. Mudge]], [[Mathematician#QFStout|Quentin F. Stout]], et al. ('''1986'''). ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221085751_Architecture_of_a_Hypercube_Supercomputer Architecture of a Hypercube Supercomputer]''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/icpp/icpp1986.html#HayesMS86 ICPP'86]
* [[Ed Felten]], [[Steve Otto]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71250/ Chess on a Hypercube]''. The Third Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications, Vol. II-Applications
* [[Ed Felten]], [[Steve Otto]] ('''1988'''). ''A Highly Parallel Chess Program''. Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems
* [[Ed Felten]], [[Steve Otto]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/62297.62347 Coherent parallel C]''. Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE nCUBE by Wikipedia]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030512172227/http://www.npac.syr.edu/nse/hpccsurvey/orgs/ncube/ncube.html nCUBE Corporation] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback machine])
* [http://www.cpushack.com/2013/11/01/ncube-and-the-rise-of-the-hypercubes/ nCube and the Rise of the HyperCubes] | [http://www.cpushack.com/ The CPU Shack Museum]
=References=
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