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| | Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine |
 | | The part that he was proudest of was the subroutine for computing logarithms. | | | The router of the Connection Machine was the part of the hardware that allowed the processors to communicate. | | | Floating point hardware was eventually added to the machine, and as the machine and its successors went into commercial production, they were being used more and more for the kind of numerical simulation problems that Richard had pioneered with his QCD program. |
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0504.html?printable=1
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| | Tamiko Thiel: The Connection Machine |
| | The Connection Machine was the first commercial computer designed expressly to work on simulating intelligence and life. | | | Departing from conventional computer architecture of the time, it was modeled on the structure of a human brain: Rather than relying on a single powerful processor to perform calculations one after another, the data was distributed over the tens of thousands of processors, all of which could perform calculations simultaneously. | | | A massively parallel supercomputer with 65,536 processors, it was the brainchild of Danny Hillis, conceived while he was a graduate student under Marvin Minsky at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. |
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http://mission.base.com/tamiko/cm
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| | *Lisp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | At the time the Connection Machine was being designed and built, the only language being actively developed for it was an Assembly-level language known as PARIS (Parallel Instruction Set). | | | A *Lisp Simulator, an emulator meant to run *Lisp code on standard, non-parallel machines, was developed at the same time by JP Massar. | | | (An application achieving more than two gigaflops, a helicopter wake simulator, was developed by Alan Egolf, then an employee of United Technologies, and J. Massar, a Thinking Machines employee, in 1987; see "Helicopter Free Wake Implementation On Advanced Computer Architectures", International Conference on Basic Rotorcraft Research, 1988) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp
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| | Elements of Hypermedia Design - 18.1 Implementing CYBERMAP on the Connection Machine |
| | Contrary to other machines, as, e.g., the CM-5, its successor, the CM-2 is a SIMD (single instruction multiple data) machine, which means that the same instruction can be executed in parallel on thousands of data objects (as many as there are processors in the CM-2). | | | While performance is a consideration in developing the algorithms, the development has sought not to provide performance at the cost of developing maintainable and extensible code. | | | The CM-2 is a massively parallel computer made by Thinking Machines Corporation [Hil87]. |
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http://www.dsi.unive.it/~smm/2000/docs/gloor/cyb89.html
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| | Connection Machine |
| | He became convinced that it was necessary to design a parallel computer with a structure closer to that of a human brain. | | | By now (1996) Thinking Machines Corporation has abandoned the hardware development, and now focuses on software development for massively parallel computers constructed by other companies. | | | In further development, the principle of using custom build hardware for the processors was abandoned, because commercial microprocessors were gaining in speed much faster than could be achieved with custom hardware. |
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http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/connection-machine.html
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| | The Connection Machine |
| | The Connection Machine is hosted by a front-end computer (usually a SUN-4). | | | There are other SIMD machines, for instance, the MasPar MP-1 [25] is a recent machine that is currently commercially available. | | | For further details on the communication algorithm the reader is referenced to [16]. |
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http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~csilva/papers/rpe/node5.html
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| | Debugging Open Firmware Using Telnet |
| | However, when you shut down the machine, anything that was entered at the keyboard is lost, and that's a big disadvantage. | | | Editing and debugging on the target machine can be continued on the client machine without losing information or data. | | | The Open Firmware user interface in one machine mode can limit a developer's ability to save information and therefore, slow the debugging process. |
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http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2004.html
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| | ImpLostMachine - Service routine to be called when a remote machine breaks connection. |
| | The Pid field is ignored, and the machine address is used to identify the machine. | | | This routine closes all connections this task may have to tasks on that machine, and returns the connection index values for all such connections. | | | The maximum number of tasks whose details can be returned. |
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http://www.aao.gov.au/drama/html/routines/ImpLostMachine.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Connection Machine (Artificial Intelligence): Books: W. Danny Hillis |
| | The Connection Machine is not a textbook and may be intimidating to beginners, but it provides a wonderful picture of the kinds of issues involved in designing a new machine. | | | The philosophy behind the CM's design is that the right kind of machine for many important computational tasks is a machine with vast numbers of simple processors doing the same thing on different data. | | | Someday, perhaps soon, we will build a machine that will be able to perform the functions of a human mind, a thinking machine. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262580977?v=glance
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| | craigLog: The Connection Machine |
| | I've always been interested in novel computer designs, and the Connection Machine CM-1 and CM-2 were among the most interesting from the 1980's, and their designer Danny Hillis is just as interesting (look at how many times Wired has written about him). |
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http://www.suchland.com/craig/archives/000586.asp
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| | 4.3.7 QCD on the Connection Machine |
| | Therefore, the ALU can compute any two Boolean functions as output from three inputs, and all datapaths are one bit wide. | | | The Intel Delta and Paragon, as well as Thinking Machines CM-5, passed the CM-2 performance levels in 1993, but here optimization is not yet complete [Gupta:93a]. | | | In fact, CMIS ignores the bit-serial processors and thinks of the machine in terms of the Weitek chips. |
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http://www.netlib.org/utk/lsi/pcwLSI/text/node40.html
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| | Accelerated Learning on the Connection Machine - Cook, Holder (ResearchIndex) |
| | The parallel architecture of the Connection Machine provides a platform for the implementation and evaluation of parallel learning techniques. | | | Abstract: The complexity of most machine learning techniques can be improved by transforming iterative components into their parallel equivalent. | | | Application of Machine Learning to the Maintenance of.. |
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/148129.html
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| | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine Lambda the Ultimate |
| | We've mentioned the Connection Machine's data-parallel programming style on LtU before, and Connection Machine Lisp remains my all-time favourite paper in computer science. | | | Since every other comment I make here seems to lead to Alan Bawden's work on linear graph grammars, another link: linear graph grammars arose as a more radically connectionist way of programming the connection machine than Connection Machine LISP (and are briefly mentioned in Hillis' book) which is why they were first called connection graphs. | | | I got my copy of The Connection Machine from the online second-hand book seller Alibris and they have more copies available right now starting from $4.25. |
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http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/87
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| | "Connection Machine" could help chip makers |
| | But those chips can't communicate without package connections," explained Peter Krusius, professor of electrical engineering, director of the Electronic Packaging Program and principal investigator on the three-year Connection Machine project. | | | CU's 'Connection Machine' could help chip makers meet their goals for 2009 | | | In comparison, today's leading microprocessor chip, the Intel Pentium II, has "only" about 500 metallic connections between the chip itself and the circuit board. |
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http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/97/10.16.97/connection.html
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| | Kneib: Velocity Analysis on the Connection Machine |
| | Implemented in slightly different ways on one of the new massively parallel computers, the Connection Machine, the performance of Jon Claerbout's pixel-precise velocity analysis algorithm can differ by much more than one order. | | | The performance depends strongly on the way the Fortran programmer maps the data on the machine. |
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http://sepwww.stanford.edu/public/docs/sep65/guido/paper_html
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| | Comparison with the VP and Connection Machine |
| | A MIMD computer only executes the body of the conditional statement if it is true, however, a SIMD machine must execute the body (masked to a nop) as everything is executed in lockstep. |
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http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/4asc/node6.html
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| | TCP State Machine The rules regarding the initiation and termination of a TCP connection can be summarized in a state transition diagram. | | | This can be done without any notice to the other machine and without regard to any information in transit between the two. | | | Error correction: Checksums ensure that data is free of errors (within the checksum algorithm's limits). |
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http://iris.nyit.edu/~aaltorfi/TCP.doc
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| | A Comparison of Sorting Algorithms for the Connection Machine CM-2 |
| | Abstract: We have implemented three parallel sorting algorithms on the Connection Machine Supercomputer model CM-2: Batcher's bitonic sort, a parallel radix sort, and a sample sort similar to Reif and Valiant's flashsort. | | | This paper analyzes the three algorithms in detail and discusses many practical issues that led us to the particular implementations. | | | A Comparison of Sorting Algorithms for the Connection Machine CM-2 |
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/scandal/public/papers/cm-sort-SPAA91.html
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| | Connection Machine |
| | Basic image processing algorithms implemented on a high performance machine to enable interactive segmentation and visualization -- used routinely for surgical planning and data analysis (brain, breast, knee etc.). | | | Next: IBM PVS Up: Parallel Computing at the Previous: Parallel Computing at the | | | First, the user can change level and width of the gray scale images and can move through any sections of images independently. |
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http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/cluster/node10.html
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| | The Connection Machine 2 |
| | The massively parallel Connection Machine 2 supercomputer at NCSA, produced by Thinking Machines Corporation, contains 32,768 processors that work in parallel to solve problems with many calculations very quickly. |
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http://www.evl.uic.edu/EVL/SHOWCASE/wojt/cm2.html
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| | Color Photo: Connection Machine CM-2 |
| | It was the archetype of an electronic brain, a living, thinking machine. | | | This hard geometric object, black, the non-color of sheer, static mass, was transparent, filled with a soft,constantly changing cloud of lights from the processor chips, red, the color of life and energy. | | | The final design, used for both the CM-1 and its faster successor, the CM-2, was a massive, 5 feet tall cube formed in turn of smaller cubes, representing the 12-dimensional hypercube structure of the network that connected the processors together. |
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http://mission.base.com/tamiko/cm/cm-image.html
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| | Massively Parallel Model Matching: Geometric Hashing on the Connection Machine |
| | Tucker and G. Robertson, "Architecture and applications of the Connection Machine," IEEE Comput. | | | Lin and V.K. Prasanna Kumar, "Efficient Histogramming on Hypercube SIMD Machines," Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. | | | Little, G.E. Blelloch, and T.A. Cass, "Algorithmic Techniques for Computer Vision on a Fine-Grained Parallel Machine," IEEE Trans. |
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http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/co/1992/02/r2033abs.htm
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| | Thinking Machine/Connection Machines |
| | Each processing node has a 64-bit RISC microprocessor, 32 MB of memory, and interface to the control and data interconnection networks. | | | It specializes in parallel techniques, software, and systems solutions for parallel computing problems. | | | Thinking Machines Corporation is the producer of the Connection Machines. |
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http://home.wlu.edu/~whaleyt/classes/parallel/topics/cm.html
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| | RSP Software |
| | The integrity of files is done with cyclic redundancy check, if the crc don't match an error will occur in the remote machine | | | Each file sent has also the original cyclic redundancy check sent, in the remote machine it is checked to verify the file integrity | | | - The connection occurs in a fully multi-thread environment, so the application don't hung while transfering files, indeed you can do other works while waiting for the end of the transmission |
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http://rspsoftware.clic3.net/rspppc.htm
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| | SISC Volume 18 Issue 5 |
| | The conclusions presented regarding the SVD's numerical properties are general to the algorithm and not specific to the Connection Machine implementation. | | | The main conclusion is that extra accuracy in the eigenvalue computation very often enhance orthogonality of the eigenvectors computed with inverse iteration to the point where reorthogonalization is not needed. | | | Guidelines followed to implement this approach efficiently on the Connection Machine CM-5/CM-5E are described. |
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http://epubs.siam.org/sam-bin/dbq/article/28135
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| | Parallel Genetic Algorithms for the Connection Machine |
| | However, as we have demonstrated in earlier work, a simple port of existing GA code developed for serial machines is not sufficient. | | | As GAs are applied to larger and more complex problems, the limitations of serial computer architectures become apparent. | | | In FY95, we explored various approaches to decentralizing GAs to improve parallelism. |
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http://www.nrl.navy.mil/hpc/annual-reports/fy96/dejong219.html
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| | Keith Price Bibliography Multi-Processor Algorithms, Connection Machine, Hypercube |
| | An exploration of the connection machine for edge detection, connected components, hough, visibility, graph matching and shortest path. | | | Thompson, D.W. Mundy, J.L. Model-Directed Object Recognition On The Connection Machine, | | | Harris, J.G., and Flynn, A.M. Object Recognition Using the Connection Machine's Router, |
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http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/applicat789.html
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| | Capitol: The Connection Machine 2 |
| | CAPP's aim was to develop an infrastructure for the support of parallel computation — for example, tools for problem decomposition and expression, parallel algorithms, and high-performance networking and graphics. | | | The CM-2, named "capitol," was an 8,192-proceessor computer manufactured by Thinking Machines Corporation. | | | SCD became the operational facility for CAPP, and under its auspices, an 8,192-processor Connection Machine system (model CM-2) was delivered to NCAR in August 1988. |
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http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/computers/gallery/tmc/capitol.jsp
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| | Tamiko Thiel: The Connection Machine |
| | candidate under Marvin Minsky at the MIT AI Lab, the Connection Machine was the first commercially available massively parallel supercomputer and in its time one of the fastest computers in the world. | | | Thiel’s design challenge was to find a form for its 12-dimensional network of 65,536 processors that was not only buildable, but also communicated the passion and conviction of its makers that this was indeed the first of a new generation of machines. | | | Finding Form for an Electronic Brain: the Connection Machines CM-1/CM-2 |
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http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/cm/MITlecture.html
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| | Parallel Join Algorithms for the Connection Machine |
| | We show that these models can be effectively used for estimating the performance of these algorithms on the Connection Machine. | | | Using the experimental evaluations of the Ction primitives we develop analytical models for the performance of these join algorithms. | | | These algorithms are hash based, i.e., the tuples in a relation are divided into different buckets based on the hash value of the join attribute. |
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http://www.cs.umn.edu/tech_reports_upload/1991/TR_91-32_Parallel_Join_Algorithms_for_the_Connection_Machine.html
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| | 'Future' Reviews Human-Machine Connection |
| | "We are at a threshold where language processing and the ability to have somewhat intelligent interactions with a machine are near. | | | Fax server software eliminates the need for costly fax machines, fax hardware and complex network configurations. | | | It's a great sink for compute power in the future. |
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http://eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1820179,00.asp?kc=ewnws052505dtx1k0000599
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| | C TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia |
| | C is an object oriented programming object oriented, data parallel superset of ANSI C with synchronous semantics, for the Connection Machine, designed by Thinking Machines, 1987. | | | The goal of both languages is to bring the C programming language closer to computer hardware, creating more compact machine | | | C is a name used for at least two different, unrelated programming language s. |
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http://www.tutorgig.co.uk/encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=C++
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| | Introduction to CM FORTRAN on the Connection Machine |
| | Paper manuals for the CM-5 and its software, including CM FORTRAN, are available for reference in the Computer Graphics Lab and can be purchased from Information Technology. | | | If you have a hypertext reader, you can follow this pointer to a description of the CM-5 maintained by the Scientific Computing and Visualization group at Boston University. | | | , and there is a viewing program for all Connection Machine documents. |
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http://scv.bu.edu/Tutorials/CMF
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| | Corestore collection: Connection Machine CM-2a |
| | Front-end interface - Connection Machines are essentially enormous co-processors; they do nothing without a front-end workstation. | | | http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cm-1-2-5.html The Computer History Museum have three Connection Machines... | | | The CM-2a is the low-end machine in the CM-2x line. |
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http://www.corestore.org/cm2a.htm
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| | Connection Machine LISP |
| | LISP with a parallel data structure, the 'xapping', an array of values assigned to an array of sites. | | | "Connection Machine LISP Reference Manual", Thinking Machines Corp, Feb 1987. | | | "Connection Machine LISP: Fine-Grained Parallel Symbolic Processing", Guy L. Steele et al, in Proceedings of the 1986 ACM Conference on LISP and Functional Programming, Aug 1986, pp.279-297. |
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http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Langs/C/Connection,Machine,LISP.htm
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| | United Communities of Spirit |
| | The Cognitive Connection, Thought and Language in Man and Machine, Prentice Hall Press, New York | | | Logic Machines, Diagrams and Boolean Algebra, Dover Publications, New York | | | Sowa, John F. Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. |
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http://origin.org/ucs/text/biblio.cfm
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| | Center for Computational Science |
| | In its role as a service organization, the Center for Computational Science provides training and consulting for users of remote and local computing facilities. | | | The Center also maintains and upgrades the local NRL operational network (NICEnet) and provides gateways and servers for worldwide connectivity. |
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http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil
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| | Littlebear: The Connection Machine 5 |
| | The CM-5 also had a large Scalable Disk Array with a UNIX filesystem and 24 gigabytes available for storing user data. | | | The machine had 1 gigabyte of internal memory (32 megabytes per node) and performed at a peak speed of 128 megaflops per node. | | | A a 32-node Connection Machine-5 (CM-5) from Thinking Machines Corporation arrived at NCAR on April 21, 1993. |
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http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/computers/gallery/tmc/littlebear.jsp
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| | Connection Machine and DataVault from Thinking Machines Corporation |
| | My Projects at Thinking Machines Corporation, 1985 - 1992 | | | Connection machine systems were used in a range of research and "big science" applications including data base retrieval, image processing, computer-aided design and floating-point intensive scientific calculations. | | | Connection Machine and DataVault from Thinking Machines Corporation |
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http://www.svisions.com/sv/cm-dv.html
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| | Function Cells and Value Cells |
| | Lisp [Steele 1986], which he wanted to implement as a simple read macro, could not be implemented that way because of this context problem. | | | In a presentation at the 1986 ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming, Steele complained that the α operator in Connection Machine | | | To some programmers, a basic 'rule' of Lisp style is that code is clearest when the least amount of context is necessary to determine the meaning of an expression. |
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| | VENDING Connection, Vending machine Resource directory, vending business start up info |
| | On our website you can find NEW vending machines business opportunities. | | | ©VendingConnection.com website is designed to provide the viewer information on vending machine suppliers and related coin operated industries. | | | We are an E-Commerce directory for vending machine commercial Businesses, USA and Worldwide. |
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http://www.vendingconnection.com
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| | CM-5 Connection Machine (obsolete) |
| | The Connection Machine Model CM-5 Supercomputer is a massively parallel computer system designed to offer performance in the range of 1 teraflops (1e12 floating-point operations per second). | | | The machine contains three communication networks: a data network, a control network, and a diagnostic network. | | | To read more about the technical aspects of the CM-5, you can read The Network Architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5, |
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http://www.cs.umbc.edu/pub/gopher/ftp/gopher/conferences/mtd95/mm_match/cm5_old.html
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| | connection_machine - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include connection machine: connection machine lisp | | | We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word connection machine: | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "connection machine" is defined. |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=connection_machine&loc=resrd
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| | Connection Machine |
| | The machine was plugged in, live, and in use. | | | I was in the machine room at NASA Ames in the early 90s, on a private tour with an aquaintance who worked there (we'd both just been to a VR conference in San Jose). | | | Next message: Wild times at NASA (was:Connection Machine) |
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http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2004-May/042047.html
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| | Gallery of Connection Machine CM-5 Images |
| | NAS Thinking Machines CM-5, photographer: Tom Trower, 1993 (This is probably a 256 processor machine.) | | | This is scanned from a publicity photograph given to me by Thinking Machines Corporation Christopher F. Joerg scanned it. |
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http://bradley.csail.mit.edu/~bradley/cm5
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| | the connection machine, painless |
| | Design and Software Engineering by Default / SpringBolt © 2006 | | | Both records changed my life in a subtle way for the better, like only the best music can. | | | For me the Connection Machine offer some of the deepest, most freestyle, soulful, and emotive Detroit-tinged techno I’ve heard. |
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http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=16379
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