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The well-known torus and its variants, which we call hyper-rings, as well as hypercube architectures are further studied and evaluated as interconnection networks for multicomputers. Comparisons are made among hyper-rings and between hyper-ring and hypercube networks under different communication patterns. It is concluded that although it is believed that a hypercube is generally superior to hyper-rings in performance, this is not always the case, particularly for locally constrained applications, where communications occur mostly among neighboring nodes.
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This research work is currently supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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Wang, J., Kang, J. & Han, Z. On the communication structures of hyper-ring and hypercube multicomputers. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 4, 2–13 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943983
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