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The Caltech Cosmic Cube was a parallel computer, developed by Charles Seitz and Geoffrey C Fox from 1981 onward.〔Cosmic Cubism from Engineering & Science, March 1984 http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3419/1/Cubism.pdf〕 It was an early attempt to capitalise on VLSI to speed up scientific calculations at a reasonable cost. Using commodity hardware and an architecture suited to the specific task (QCD), Fox and Seitz demonstrated that this was indeed possible. In 1984 a group at Intel including Justin Rattner and Cleve Moler developed the Intel iPSC inspired by the Cosmic Cube. In 1987 several people in the group formed a company called Parasoft to commercialize the message passing interface developed for the Cosmic Cube.〔(History of Supercomputing )〕 ==Characteristics== * 64 Intel 8086/87 processors〔(Birth of the Hypercube )〕 * 128kB of memory per processor * 6-dimensional hypercube network, i. e. each processor can directly exchange data with six other processors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caltech Cosmic Cube」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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