Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!mit-amt!adam From: adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Connection Machine Message-ID: <476@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 14 Aug 89 13:30:31 GMT References: <197@crash.cts.com> Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 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 -- "Offer me anything I ask for..." | email: adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu | "Anything you want." +---------------------------+---------+ "I want my father back, you son of a bitch." - The Princess Bride | Sigh... |