Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu!jdm@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu From: jdm@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James D Mooney,205K,7,2913548) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Connection Machine Message-ID: <414@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 17:49:10 GMT References: <197@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu Lines: 20 From article <197@crash.cts.com>, by maddie@pnet01.cts.com (Tom Schenck): > > 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. The Connection Machine has been a commercial product for several years. There are at least two current models, CM-1 and CM-2, each with potentially as many as 64K real processors. For a fairly recent description see the article by Tucker and Robertson in IEEE Computer Magazine, August 1988. Recently an offer was posted on comp.parallel to provide internet access to a CM-2 at Thinking Machines Corporation. Accounts were being offered on request; however, I requested one and was placed on a waiting list. For information contact David Ray (ray@think.com). Jim Mooney Dept. of Stat. & Computer Science (304) 293-3607 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 INTERNET: jdm@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu