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searchaux" style="display:none">Series of parallel computing computers</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Ncube_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Ncube (disambiguation)">Ncube (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p><b>nCUBE</b> was a series of <a href="/wiki/Parallel_computing" title="Parallel computing">parallel computing</a> computers from the company of the same name. Early generations of the hardware used a custom <a href="/wiki/Microprocessor" title="Microprocessor">microprocessor</a>. With its final generations of servers, nCUBE no longer designed custom microprocessors for machines, but used server-class chips manufactured by a third party in <a href="/wiki/Massively_parallel" title="Massively parallel">massively parallel</a> hardware deployments, primarily for the purposes of <a href="/wiki/Video_on_demand" title="Video on demand">on-demand video</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Company_history">Company history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Company history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1242257876">.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-label{padding-right:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-below{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .ib-company-logo img{background-color:#f8f9fa}.mw-parser-output .ib-company-locality,.mw-parser-output .ib-company-country{display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">nCUBE</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Parallel_computing" title="Parallel computing">Parallel computing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Video_on_demand" title="Video on demand">video on demand</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1983<span class="noprint">; 42 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1983</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Beaverton,_Oregon" title="Beaverton, Oregon">Beaverton, Oregon</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Larry_Ellison" title="Larry Ellison">Larry Ellison</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arris_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Arris Group">Arris Group</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding_and_early_growth">Founding and early growth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Founding and early growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>nCUBE was founded in 1983 in <a href="/wiki/Beaverton,_Oregon" title="Beaverton, Oregon">Beaverton, Oregon</a>, by a group of <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a> employees (Steve Colley, Bill Richardson, John Palmer, Doran Wilde, Dave Jurasek) frustrated by Intel's reluctance to enter the <a href="/wiki/Parallel_computing" title="Parallel computing">parallel computing</a> market, though Intel released its <a href="/wiki/Intel_iPSC" title="Intel iPSC">iPSC/1</a> in the same year as the first nCUBE was released. In December 1985, the first generation of nCUBE's hypercube machines were released. The second generation (N2) was launched in June 1989. The third generation (N3) was released in 1995. The fourth generation (N4) was released in 1999. </p><p>In 1988, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Ellison" title="Larry Ellison">Larry Ellison</a> invested heavily in nCUBE and became the company's majority shareholder. The company's headquarters were relocated to <a href="/wiki/Foster_City,_California" title="Foster City, California">Foster City, California</a>, to be closer to the <a href="/wiki/Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a>. In 1994, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ronald_Dilbeck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ronald Dilbeck (page does not exist)">Ronald Dilbeck</a> became CEO and set nCUBE on a fast track to an <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="needs clarification on where the information is taken from (March 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pivot_to_video">Pivot to video</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pivot to video"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1996, Ellison <a href="/wiki/Layoff" title="Layoff">downsized</a> nCUBE. Dilbeck left and Ellison took over as acting CEO, redirecting the company to become Oracle's <a href="/wiki/Network_Computer" title="Network Computer">Network Computer</a> division.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the network computer diversion, nCUBE resumed development on video servers. nCUBE deployed its first VOD video server in <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Burj_al-Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Burj al-Arab">Burj al-Arab</a> hotel.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="needs clarification on where the information is taken from (March 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1999, nCUBE announced it was acquiring <a href="/w/index.php?title=SkyConnect&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SkyConnect (page does not exist)">SkyConnect</a>, a seven-year-old software company based in <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Colorado" title="Louisville, Colorado">Louisville, Colorado</a>, which developed digital advertising and VOD software for <a href="/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television">cable television</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1990s, nCUBE shifted its focus from the parallel computing market and, by 1999, had identified itself as a <a href="/wiki/Video_on_demand" title="Video on demand">video on demand</a> (VOD) solutions provider, shipping over 100 VOD systems delivering 17,000 streams and establishing a relationship with <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft TV">Microsoft TV</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company was once again on IPO fast-track, only to be halted again after the bursting of <a href="/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">dot-com bubble</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lawsuits_and_dot-com_aftermath">Lawsuits and dot-com aftermath</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Lawsuits and dot-com aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2000, <a href="/wiki/SeaChange_International" title="SeaChange International">SeaChange International</a> filed a patent infringement suit against nCUBE, alleging its <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Computer_models">nCUBE MediaCube-4</a> product infringed on a SeaChange patent. A jury upheld the validity of SeaChange's patent and awarded damages. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit subsequently overturned the ruling on June 29, 2005. A separate lawsuit against SeaChange was filed by nCUBE in 2001 after it acquired the patents from Oracle's interactive television division. nCUBE claimed that SeaChange's video server offering violated its VOD patent on delivery to <a href="/wiki/Set-top_box" title="Set-top box">set-top boxes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-santo_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-santo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> nCUBE won the lawsuit and was awarded over $2 million in damages.<sup id="cite_ref-brian_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brian-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SeaChange appealed, but the decision was upheld in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-ced_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ced-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the business front, the dot-com bubble burst and ensuing recession as well as lawsuits meant that nCUBE was not doing well. In April 2001 nCUBE laid off 17% of its workforce and began closing offices (Foster City in 2002 and Louisville in 2003) to downsize and consolidate the company around its Beaverton manufacturing office.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in 2002, Ellison stepped down and named former SkyConnect CEO Michael J. Pohl as CEO.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acquired">Acquired</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Acquired"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2005, nCUBE was acquired by <a href="/wiki/C-COR" title="C-COR">C-COR</a> for approximately $89.5 million, with an <a href="/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">SEC</a> filing for the purchase in October 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2007, C-COR was acquired by <a href="/wiki/Arris_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Arris Group">ARRIS</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Computer_models">Computer models</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Computer models"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="nCUBE_10">nCUBE 10</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: nCUBE 10"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of the first nCUBE machines to be released was the <b>nCUBE 10</b> of late 1985. It was originally called <b>NCUBE/ten</b> but the name morphed over time. These were based on a set of custom chips, where each compute node had a processor chip with <a href="/wiki/32-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="32-bit">32-bit</a> <a href="/wiki/Arithmetic_logic_unit" title="Arithmetic logic unit">ALU</a>, a <a href="/wiki/64-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="64-bit">64-bit</a> <a href="/wiki/IEEE_754" title="IEEE 754">IEEE 754</a> <a href="/wiki/Floating_point_unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Floating point unit">FPU</a>, special communication instructions, and 128 <a href="/wiki/Kilobyte" title="Kilobyte">KB</a> of <a href="/wiki/Random_Access_Memory" class="mw-redirect" title="Random Access Memory">RAM</a>. A node delivered 2 <a href="/wiki/Million_instructions_per_second" class="mw-redirect" title="Million instructions per second">MIPS</a>, 500 <a href="/wiki/FLOP" class="mw-redirect" title="FLOP">kiloFLOPS</a> (32-bit <a href="/wiki/Single_precision" class="mw-redirect" title="Single precision">single precision</a>), or 300 kiloFLOPS (64-bit <a href="/wiki/Double_precision" class="mw-redirect" title="Double precision">double precision</a>). There were 64 nodes per board. The host board, based on an <a href="/wiki/Intel_80286" title="Intel 80286">Intel 80286</a>, ran <b>Axis</b>, a custom Unix-like <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a>, and each compute node ran a 4 KB kernel, Vertex.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>nCUBE 10</b> referred to the machine's ability to build an order-ten <a href="/wiki/Hypercube" title="Hypercube">hypercube</a>, supporting 1,024 CPUs in a single machine. Some of the modules would be used strictly for <a href="/wiki/Input/output" title="Input/output">input/output</a>, which included the <b>nChannel</b> storage control card, <a href="/wiki/Frame_buffers" class="mw-redirect" title="Frame buffers">frame buffers</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Virtualization" title="Virtualization">partition the machine into "sub-cubes"</a> and allocate them separately to different users. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="nCUBE_2">nCUBE 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: nCUBE 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NCUBE_nCUBE-2_die.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/NCUBE_nCUBE-2_die.JPG/250px-NCUBE_nCUBE-2_die.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/NCUBE_nCUBE-2_die.JPG/330px-NCUBE_nCUBE-2_die.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/NCUBE_nCUBE-2_die.JPG/500px-NCUBE_nCUBE-2_die.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3254" data-file-height="3240" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Die_(integrated_circuit)" title="Die (integrated circuit)">Die</a> of nCUBE 2 processor</figcaption></figure> <p>For the second series the naming was changed, and they created the single-chip <b>nCUBE 2</b> processor. This was otherwise similar to the nCUBE 10's CPU, but ran faster, at 25 <a href="/wiki/Megahertz" class="mw-redirect" title="Megahertz">MHz</a> to provide about 7 MIPS and 3.5 megaFLOPS. This was later improved to 30 MHz in the 2S model. RAM was increased as well, with 4 to 16 <a href="/wiki/Megabyte" title="Megabyte">MB</a> of RAM on a "single wide" 1 inch x 3.5 inch module, with additional form factors of "double wide" (double modules), and quadruple that in a double wide, double side module. The I/O cards generally had less RAM, with different backend interfaces to support <a href="/wiki/SCSI" title="SCSI">SCSI</a>, <a href="/wiki/HIPPI" title="HIPPI">HIPPI</a> and other protocols. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RR0_4171.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/RR0_4171.JPG/250px-RR0_4171.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/RR0_4171.JPG/330px-RR0_4171.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/RR0_4171.JPG/500px-RR0_4171.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Three single-chip nCUBE 2 processors on a 1" x 3.5" module with memory.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RR0_4174b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/RR0_4174b.jpg/250px-RR0_4174b.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/RR0_4174b.jpg/330px-RR0_4174b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/RR0_4174b.jpg/500px-RR0_4174b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3191" data-file-height="3657" /></a><figcaption>nCUBE 2 circuit board with 64 processors and memory</figcaption></figure> <p>Each nCUBE 2 CPU also included 13 I/O channels running at 20 Mbit/s. One of these was dedicated to I/O duties, while the other twelve were used as the interconnect system between CPUs. Each channel used <a href="/wiki/Wormhole_routing" class="mw-redirect" title="Wormhole routing">wormhole routing</a> to forward messages. The machines themselves were wired up as order-twelve hypercubes, allowing for up to 4,096 CPUs in a single machine. </p><p>Each module ran a 200 KB <a href="/wiki/Microkernel" title="Microkernel">microkernel</a> called <b>nCX</b>, but the system now used a <a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a> <a href="/wiki/Workstation" title="Workstation">workstation</a> as the front end and no longer needed the Host Controller. nCX included a <a href="/wiki/Clustered_file_system" title="Clustered file system">parallel filesystem</a> that could do 96-way <a href="/wiki/Data_striping" title="Data striping">striping</a> for high performance. <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> and <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a> languages are available, as is NQS, <a href="/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)" title="Linda (coordination language)">Linda</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Parasoft" title="Parasoft">Parasoft</a>'s Express. These were supported by an in-house compiler team. </p><p>The largest nCUBE 2 system installed was at <a href="/wiki/Sandia_National_Laboratories" title="Sandia National Laboratories">Sandia National Laboratories</a>, a 1,024-CPU system that reached 1.91 gigaFLOPS in testing. In addition the nCX operating system, it also ran the <a href="/wiki/SUNMOS" title="SUNMOS">SUNMOS</a> lightweight kernel for research purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Researchers Robert Benner, John Gustafson and Gary Montry of the Parallel Processing Division of Sandia National Laboratory first won the <a href="/wiki/Karp_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Karp Prize">Karp Prize</a> of $100 and then won the first <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Bell_Prize" title="Gordon Bell Prize">Gordon Bell Prize</a> in 1987 using the nCUBE 10.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="nCUBE-3">nCUBE-3</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: nCUBE-3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>nCUBE-3</b> CPU used a 64-bit <a href="/wiki/Arithmetic_logic_unit" title="Arithmetic logic unit">arithmetic logic unit</a> (ALU). Its improvements included a process-shrink to 0.5u, allowing the speed to be increased to 50 MHz (with plans for 66 and 100 MHz). The CPU was also <a href="/wiki/Superscalar" class="mw-redirect" title="Superscalar">superscalar</a> and included 16 KB instruction and data <a href="/wiki/CPU_cache" title="CPU cache">caches</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Memory_management_unit" title="Memory management unit">memory management unit</a> for virtual memory support. </p><p>Additional I/O links were added, with 2 dedicated to I/O and 16 for interconnects, allowing for up to 65,536 CPUs in the hypercube. The channels operated at 100 Mbit/s, due to use of 2-bit parallel lines, instead of the serial lines used previously. The nCUBE-3 also added <a href="/wiki/Fault_tolerance" title="Fault tolerance">fault-tolerant</a> adaptive routing support, in addition to fixed routing, although in retrospect it's not entirely clear why. </p><p>A fully loaded nCUBE-3 machine can use up to 65,536 processors, for 3 million MIPS and 6.5 teraFLOPS; the maximum memory would be 65 TB, with a network I/O capability of 24 TB/second.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, the processor is biased in terms of I/O, which is usually the limitation. The nChannel board provides 16 I/O channels, where each channel can support transfers at 20 MB/s. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Microkernel" title="Microkernel">microkernel</a> was developed for the nCUBE-3 machine, but it was never completed, having been abandoned in favor of <a href="/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs" title="Plan 9 from Bell Labs">Plan 9</a>'s Transit operating system. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="nCUBE-4">nCUBE-4</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: nCUBE-4"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The nCUBE-4 marked the transition to commodity processors, with each node containing an Intel <a href="/wiki/IA-32" title="IA-32">IA32</a> server-class CPU. The n4 also brought exclusive focus on video streaming rather than scientific applications. Each hub contained one hypercube node, one CPU, a pair of <a href="/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect" title="Peripheral Component Interconnect">PCI buses</a>, and up to 12 <a href="/wiki/SCSI" title="SCSI">SCSI</a> drives. The n4 was followed by the n4x, the n4x r2, and the n4x r3. These last two were based on the <a href="/wiki/Serverworks" class="mw-redirect" title="Serverworks">Serverworks</a> chipset rather than the Intel ones. The nCUBE-5 was very similar to the n4 family but incorporated two hypercube nodes in each hub and only supported video streaming over <a href="/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet" title="Gigabit Ethernet">Gigabit Ethernet</a>. </p><p>In 1999, nCUBE announced the MediaCUBE 4, which supported 80 simultaneous 3 Mbit/s streams to 44,000 simultaneous VOD streams, in concurrent <a href="/wiki/MPEG-2" title="MPEG-2">MPEG-2</a>, <a href="/wiki/MPEG-1" title="MPEG-1">MPEG-1</a> and mid bit-rate encoding protocols.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ametek" title="Ametek">Ametek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/INMOS_transputer" class="mw-redirect" title="INMOS transputer">INMOS transputer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IWarp" title="IWarp">iWarp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parsytec" title="Parsytec">Parsytec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SUPRENUM" title="SUPRENUM">SUPRENUM</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=NCUBE&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2021-11-22</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=report&rft.btitle=What+is+SUNMOS%3F&rft.au=Rolf+Riesen&rft.au=Lee+Ann+Fisk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F2397853&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANCUBE" class="Z3988"></span>—a paper that explains what SUNMOS is (CiteSeer cached copy)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051111140632/http://scicomp.ewha.ac.kr/netlib/benchmark/bell1">"The Gordon Bell Awards for 1987"</a>. 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