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Sundray to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Parallel computing with 64,000 processors, in 1986: The Connection Machine CM-1(1986)

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Parallel computing with 64,000 processors, in 1986: The Connection Machine CM-1(1986)

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Sundray to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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Connection Machine CM-1(1986) & CM-2 (1987), Danny Hillis' parallel supercomputer
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A CM-2 is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York. For more information on its legacy in the field of design, see the interviews here: http://...

Created by a company called Thinking Machines, and intended for AI applications… how far we’ve come 😆 .

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    You know anybody who can network 8 connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job? Because if he can I’d like to see him try.

    How far we’ve come, indeed. Lol.

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    A while ago I read this really good essay about working with Richard Feynman on the Connection Machine: https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/

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