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Connection Machine

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Connection Machine
A family of parallel processing computers from former Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA, that contained from 4K to 64K processors. Used in applications such as signal processing, simulation and database retrieval, they were set up as hypercubes and other topologies, which required another computer as a front end.


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Encore Computer Corp, the now defunct minimaker and storage systems company, has finally closed the sale of its real-time computer systems and processing business to a newly formed subsidiary of Connection Machines Inc, one of the Gores Technology Group of companies, for $3m in cash.
5 hours on a multiprocessor computer known as the CM-5 Connection Machine.
announced Wednesday the closing of the sale of its real-time computer system and processing business to a newly formed subsidiary of Connection Machines Inc.
 
 
 
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