nCUBE

a series of massive parallel computers based on a [|hypercube] topology performing [|MIMD], first released 1985 by the [|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 ALU and 64-bit [|FPU] and 128 KiB of 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 searching sub-trees in the massive parallel chess program Waycool.
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 * [[image:245px-NCUBE_nCUBE-10_die.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NCUBE_nCUBE-10_die.jpg"]] ||~ || **nCUBE**,

The single-chip **nCUBE-2** processor launched in June 1989 used [|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 [|C-COR], and subsequently acquired by [|ARRIS] in December 2007. || toc =Chess Programs=
 * [|Die] of nCUBE 10 processor ||~ ||^ ||
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=See also=
 * Connection Machine
 * Paragon
 * Transputer

=Selected Publications=
 * John P. Hayes, Trevor N. Mudge, Quentin F. Stout, et al. (**1986**). //[|Architecture of a Hypercube Supercomputer]//. [|pdf]
 * Ed Felten, Steve Otto (**1988**). //[|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**). //[|Coherent parallel C]//. Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications

=External Links=
 * [|nCUBE by Wikipedia]
 * [|nCUBE Corporation] hosted by the [|Wayback machine]
 * [|nCube and the Rise of the HyperCubes] | [|The CPU Shack Museum]

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