Connection Machine

The Connection Machine was a series of supercomputers that grew out of Danny Hillis's research in the early 1980s at MIT on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computation. The CM-1, originally conceived of at MIT, was a "massively parallel" hypercubic arrangement of thousands of very simple microprocessors or CPUs, each with its own RAM, which together executed in a SIMD fashion. The Connection Machine was originally intended for applications in artificial intelligence and symbolic processing, but later found greater success in the field of computational science.
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