% table of parameters used 

\begin{tabular}{ll}\hline
MIMD, distributed-memory & 32 processors\\
Compute processors (CPs) & 16 {\small *}\\
I/O processors (IOPs) & 16 {\small *}\\
CPU speed, type & 50 MHz, RISC \\
\hline
Disks & 16 {\small *} \\
Disk type & HP~97560 \\
Disk capacity &  1.3~GB\\
Disk peak transfer rate & 2.34~Mbytes/s \\
File-system block size & 8 KB \\
I/O buses (one per IOP)  & 16 {\small *} \\
I/O bus type & SCSI \\
I/O bus peak bandwidth & 10~Mbytes/s \\
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Interconnect topology & $6 \times 6$ torus\\
Interconnect bandwidth & $200 \times 10^6$ bytes/s \\
                       & bidirectional\\
Interconnect latency & 20 ns per router \\
Routing & wormhole \\
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\end{tabular}
