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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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5 hours on a multiprocessor computer known as the CM-5 Connection Machine.
Today, the company's parallel solutions are available through its product partnerships with leading open hardware platform vendors, such as Sun Microsystems, as well as through its standalone system, the Connection Machine.
In this example, Stiller's program, running on a multiprocessor computer known as The Connection Machine, provided the answer in about 90 minutes.
 
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