He and his group have most recently deployed the
Connection Machine, a user-adaptive expertise locator.
Our first parallel implementation of the algorithm was developed in a machine-language which was specific to the CM-2
Connection Machine. This version of the code used a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) model which fits our problem closely.
Its demise did not occur because of mismanagement or sloppy engineering of the so-called
Connection Machine. It vanished because parallelism could be decentralized; the very same kind of massively parallel architectures has suddenly become possible by threading together low-cost, mass-produced personal computers.
The
connection machine, for instance, has been proposed as one such computational model for the mechanical processing of sensory inputs in Hillis [1991]; see Lyngzeidetson [1990] for a discussion of the
connection machine in the context of the mind-machine problem.
Our supercomputing section opens with an insiders' view of the CM-5
Connection Machine: A Scalable Supercomputer.
"The first one happened to come out in the first batch of 64." Each set of 64 trials took about 1.5 hours on a multiprocessor computer known as the CM-5
Connection Machine.
* The Stanford Exploration Project at Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.) has acquired a
Connection Machine 5 from Thinking Machines Corp.
The CM-5
Connection Machine is a scalable homogeneous multiprocessor designed for large-scale scientific and business applications.
Lyngzeidetson |1990~ claims that the architecture of a parallel computer, the
Connection Machine, has fundamental implications for Cognitive Science.