Editing NCUBE (section)

=== nCUBE 10 ===
One of the first nCUBE machines to be released was the '''nCUBE 10''' of late 1985. It was originally called '''NCUBE/ten''' but the name morphed over time. These were based on a set of custom chips, where each compute node had a processor chip with [[32-bit]] [[Arithmetic logic unit|ALU]], a [[64-bit]] [[IEEE 754]] [[floating point unit|FPU]], special communication instructions, and 128 [[kilobyte|KB]] of [[Random Access Memory|RAM]]. A node delivered 2 [[million instructions per second|MIPS]], 500 [[FLOP|kiloFLOPS]] (32-bit [[single precision]]), or 300 kiloFLOPS (64-bit [[double precision]]). There were 64 nodes per board. The host board, based on an [[Intel 80286]], ran '''Axis''', a custom Unix-like [[operating system]], and each compute node ran a 4&nbsp;KB kernel, Vertex.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/MM.1986.304707 |author1=Hayes, J. |author2=Mudge, T. |author3=Stout, Q. |author4=Colley, S. |author5=Palmer, J. |name-list-style=amp | year = 1986 | title = A microprocessor-based hypercube supercomputer | journal = IEEE Micro | volume = 6 | issue = 5 | pages = 6–17 |citeseerx=10.1.1.645.8596 |s2cid=7927930 }}</ref>

'''nCUBE 10''' referred to the machine's ability to build an order-ten [[hypercube]], supporting 1,024 CPUs in a single machine. Some of the modules would be used strictly for [[input/output]], which included the '''nChannel''' storage control card, [[frame buffers]], and the InterSystem card that allowed nCUBEs to be attached to each other. At least one host board needed to be installed, acting as the terminal driver. It could also [[virtualization|partition the machine into "sub-cubes"]] and allocate them separately to different users.