Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!boulder!seri!bradley From: bradley@seri.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.hypercube Subject: Re: Question on hypercube routing Message-ID: <321@hubcap.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 08:18:06 EDT Article-I.D.: hubcap.321 Posted: Mon Jul 20 08:18:06 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jul-87 04:18:56 EDT Sender: fpst@hubcap.UUCP Lines: 14 Approved: hypercube@hubcap.clemson.edu According to "A High Performance Operating System for the NCUBE", pp. 90 of _Hypercube Multiprocessors 1987_", "The broadcast instruction [in the NCUBE instruction set] allows a message to be sent on any subset of the output channels of a node in a single DMA action." In other words, only a single message cal be sent at a time, but it can be sent out over several channels at once. David @radley bradley@a.cs.uiuc.edu Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Picasso: Official hypercube operating system of the 1988 Olympic Games"