Tesseract (disambiguation)
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Tesseract may mean:
- Tesseract — the 4-dimensional analogue of the cube.
- Tesseract (software) — optical character recognition software.
- The Tesseract, a novel by Alex Garland.
- The Tesseract (film), 2003 film starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and based on the Alex Garland novel.
- Tesseract, a four wheel vehicle developed by Yamaha.
- TesseracT (band), a djent band from the UK (http://www.tesseractband.co.uk)
- Tesseracts are a fold in space used by galactic travelers in Madeleine L'Engle's novel A Wrinkle In Time.
[edit] Hypercubes in computer architecture
In computer science, the term hypercube refers to a specific type of parallel computer, whose processors, or processing elements (PEs), are interconnected in the same way as the vertices of a hypercube.
Thus, an n-dimensional hypercube computer has 2n PEs, each directly connected to n other PEs.
Examples include the nCUBE machines used to win the first Gordon Bell Prize, the Caltech Cosmic Cube; the Connection Machine, which uses the hypercube topology to connect groups of processors.
The purpose of this is to function as an exponential expansion of parallel processing; in computer farms of this type the computing power of the individual processors is not merely added but multiplied, leading to an exponential growth in processing power.
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