@Article{dunigan:hypercubes, author = {T. H. Dunigan}, title = {Performance of the {Intel iPSC/860} and {Ncube 6400} hypercubes}, journal = {Parallel Computing}, year = {1991}, volume = {17}, pages = {1285--1302}, publisher = {North-Holland (Elsevier Scientific)}, keywords = {intel, ncube, hypercube, multiprocessor architecture, performance, parallel I/O, pario-bib}, comment = {An excellent paper presenting lots of detailed performance measurements on the iPSC/1, iPSC/2, iPSC/860, nCUBE 3200, and nCUBE 6400: arithmetic, FLOPS, communication, I/O. Tables of numbers provide details needed for simulation. iPSC/860 definitely is fastest, but way out of balance wrt communication vs. computation. Number of message hops is not so important in newer machines.} }