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Old 10-30-2011, 08:06 PM   #1795
BigV
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Cray XMP.

Do you know why it has that circular shape?

To make the connections between the multiple processors as short and uniform as possible, so they could communicate faster and with the minimum difference among the processors.
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I thought it was for shorter wire paths.
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