Foster City, California-based nCube Corp next week previews its lastest monster, the 6.5 TFLOPS nCube 3, its third-generation general-purpose hypercube supercomputer (CI No 1,927). The whopper is scalable to 65,536 proprietary 64-bit processors, boasting a daunting 3GIPS peak performance – 200 times faster than its predecessor, the nCube 2. Also announced is the interim nCube 2S and the entry-level nCube 2E. Due to ship in 1994, the nCube 3 will run a parallelised OSF/1 Unix, and hook up to machines supporting Ethernet TCP/IP, HIPPI, Fiberchannel and FDDI. The interim product, the nCube 2S, meanwhile, will ship this August, offering a 50% performance increase on the existing nCube 2 (which is rated at 27 GFLOPS peak), although scalable to the same maximum complement of 8,192 processors, and up to 512Gb main memory. Details of both machines are in page three inside.
