nebezene@uunet.UU.NET (Todd Michael Bezenek) (01/29/88)
[ If someone has a nice bibliography for elementary source and will forward it, I'll pass it on to new readers as the contact the net. Steve ] I am looking for sources of information about the hypercube. Any reference suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -Todd M. Bezenek Bitnet: nebezene@ndsuvax UUCP: uunet!ndsuvax!nebezene
eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) (02/03/88)
This is something like asking for information about `computers' (for a
naive first person). I think the community should DESIGNATE several
works and go with them (improve them). Just checking Caltech references
resulted in over 1000 lines of citations. Most of which are
unfathomable to the average person. There are now (also) the yearly
conference papers published by SIAM.
This is a community thing. Using buzzwords doesn't help.
I sort of wonder if people really regard the Connection Machine (tm)
as a Hypercube. It could also be argued that meshes can be molded (using
software) into hypercubes. So do I give a person like this CM references?
>From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
"You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
"Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."
{uunet,hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugenefpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson,the Moderator) (02/03/88)
I think that Eugene Miya's is important from two standpoints.
@ For the non-technician, the term "hypercube" has taken on a
generic meaning - like "kleenix" for a tissue.
@ For the technical folks, the term is a specific communications
topology.
Both distinctions serve a purpose. I would submit that the problems
of interest (to the newsgroup) are independent of the topology.
Locally, we're calling things like the CM and the T-series
"network connected." This avoids any committment to any theology.
Be that as it may, I'll support some sort of taxonomy and my offer
stands to collect the submitted references. I guess that has to extend
to the sorting out of the taxonomy.
Steve Stevenson fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson), fpst@clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science, comp.hypercube
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell