Multiprocessor Architectures are Converging

Hypercubes are one of seveal architectures trying to eliminate the Von Neumann Bottleneck without drastically changing the appearance of computers. Examining these projects reveals that certain common approaches have been successful for all the projects even though they were independently motivated. This paper examines these approaches, which are named modular and protocol programming. To show the completeness.of these methods, the paper shows how to build a system that could be used like a conventional computer but runs faster due to its transparent use of parallelism