Re: Connection Machine

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From: Adam Glass
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 13:30

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maddie@pnet01.cts.com (Tom Schenck) writes:
>    I was looking through a few of my back issues of Scietific American, and I
> noticed an article on the Connection Machine... I was wondering if anyone on
> the net has heard anything of this machine? It was apparently designed and
> built in the mid-1980's, and I haven't heard much else on it.

So far as I know, the Connection Machine is a massively parallel machine,
having 16384 (or thereabouts) processors (I think it would be deemed "fine
grain" by most people). It is made by Thinking Machines (Corporation?) here
in Cambridge, MA. Again, this is just a guess, but I believe that we here
at the Media Lab own the only one, though this doesn't sound likely.

Anything beyond that and you're going to have to ask someone who knows more
about the beastie.

Adam

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Subject: Re: Connection Machine
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