The idea for the Connection Machine grew out of doctoral research on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computers by Danny Hillis at Massachusetts Institute …

Danny Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation in 1982 to build massively parallel computers. Like the ILLIAC IV 15 years earlier, the CM-1 was a SIMD (single instruction, …

Using the model of the human brain, Hillis's design placed importance not so much on the processors themselves, but rather on the nature and mutability of the connections between …

The term “Connection Machine” refers to massively parallel supercomputers manufactured by Thinking Machines Corporation. The CM-1 (1985) was a purely SIMD architecture intended for …

Sep 21, 2024 · A Connection Machine (CM) is a member of a series of massively parallel supercomputers that grew out of doctoral research on alternatives to the traditional von …

Apr 19, 2022 · The Connection Machine was a groundbreaking massively parallel supercomputer of the mid-1980s and 90s. Just as incredible as the machine’s performance was its industrial …

Jun 8, 2025 · Danny Hillis is a computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur best known as the visionary behind the Connection Machine, one of the earliest and most ambitious attempts at …

Architecture of the performance, data-parallel l/O system (bottom of Figure 1) connects processors At the heart of the Connection Machine system lies the parallel-processing unit

Jan 1, 1989 · This paper describes the connection memory, a machine for concurrently manipulating knowledge stored in semantic networks. We need the connection memory …

The Connection Machine was a massively parallel computing architecture developed in the 1980s by Thinking Machines Corporation, based on the PhD thesis of W. Daniel Hillis, who later co …