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Processor Configurations

Processors can be interconnected in a number of ways, see Figures 15 and 16:

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Figure 15: A 2D Processor Grid

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Figure 16: A 1D Processor Chain

Data is distributed (or `overlaid') onto the processor grids.

A more complex configuration is a hypercube. This is similar to a 2x2x2 cube except it is constructed in much more than 3 dimensions.


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Adam Marshall ©University of Liverpool, 1996
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