Hypercube

(computer science) A configuration of parallel processors in which the locations of the processors correspond to the vertices of a mathematical hypercube and the links between them correspond to its edges.
(mathematics) The analog of a cube in n dimensions (n = 2, 3, ….), with 2ⁿ vertices, n2^n-1 edges, and 2n cells; for an object with edges of length 2a, the coordinates of the vertices are (±a, ±a, …, ±a).

A parallel processing architecture made up of binary multiples of computers (4, 8, 16, etc.). The computers are interconnected so that data travel is kept to a minimum. For example, in two eight-node cubes, each node in one cube would be connected to the counterpart node in the other.

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