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New Interconnection Topologies

Introduction

Parallel processing has assumed a crucial role in the field of supercomputing. It has overcome the various technological barriers and achieved high levels of performance. The most efficient way to achieve parallelism is to employ multicomputer system. The success of the multicomputer system completely relies on the underlying interconnection network which provides a communication medium among the various processors. It also determines the overall performance of the system in terms of speed of execution and efficiency. The suitability of a network is judged in terms of cost, bandwidth, reliability, routing ,broadcasting, throughput and ease of implementation. Among the recent developments of various multicomputing networks, the Hypercube (HC) has enjoyed the highest popularity due to many of its attractive properties. These properties include regularity, symmetry, small diameter, strong connectivity, recursive construction, partitionability and relatively small link complexity.