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	Connection Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 Connection Machine was originally intended for applications in artificial intelligence and symbolic processing, but later found greater success in the field of computational science.
		Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts (it was later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1983 and assembled a team to develop the CM-1 and then the CM-2, which, depending on the configuration, had as many as 65,536 processors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Connection_Machine (535 words)

	*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).
		Waiting for the completion of CM Lisp, or "Connection Machine Lisp" (an implementation of the very high-level programming language Lisp with parallel programming extensions) was not an option.
		PVARS represented Connection Machine memory, and were essentially vectors: one element per CM processor (or virtual processor).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/*Lisp (469 words)

	Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
		The router of the Connection Machine was the part of the hardware that allowed the processors to communicate.
		We had convinced ourselves at the time that the Connection Machine would not be efficient at "number-crunching," because the first prototype had no special hardware for vectors or floating point arithmetic.
		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.
	www.kurzweilai.net /articles/art0504.html?printable=1 (4357 words)

	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.
		The form of the machine was to express both its function and the passions of its creators: the dream of producing a "Machina Sapiens," a new genus of living, thinking machines.
	mission.base.com /tamiko/cm (268 words)

	Thinking Machine/Connection Machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 16 processors on each chip are connected by a switch which allows for a direct connection between any pair of processing units.
		Connection Machines have been mainly used in research fields for the government and in international business as well as in universities for educational purposes.
		Thinking Machines Corporation is the producer of the Connection Machines.
	home.wlu.edu /~whaleyt/classes/parallel/topics/cm.html (539 words)

	Color Photo: Connection Machine CM-2
		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.
		This hard geometric object, fl, 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.
		It was the archetype of an electronic brain, a living, thinking machine.
	mission.base.com /tamiko/cm/cm-image.html (84 words)

	Debugging Open Firmware Using Telnet
		There are real problems with one machine debugging such as the lack of scroll bars (to let you view past history of commands and results) and the inability to save your session.
		Two machine mode is preferred to one machine mode because it allows you to save all or part of your session on the client machine.
		Connect the client machine to the target machine using the crossover Ethernet cable.
	developer.apple.com /technotes/tn/tn2004.html (1475 words)

	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).
		Owing to the drastic differences between Macintosh and Connection Machine, we decided to start from scratch with the CM-2 implementation.
		As implementation language, we chose C, which is the parallel version of C on the Connection* Machine containing additional constructs to use the data parallel features of the CM-2.
	www.dsi.unive.it /~smm/2000/docs/gloor/cyb89.html (989 words)

	ImpLostMachine - Service routine to be called when a remote machine breaks connection. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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 Pid field is ignored, and the machine address is used to identify the machine.
		This is the number of connections this task had to tasks on the remote machine.
	www.aao.gov.au /drama/html/routines/ImpLostMachine.html (396 words)

	Connection Machine
		The Connection Machine CM-1 has 65,536 simple 1-bit processors connected into a hypercube and each having 4Kbits of memory.
		Every processor is connected to a central unit called the 'microcontroller' which issues identical 'nanoinstructions' to all of them.
		The next generation [CM-5] of connection machines used standard microprocessors, thus abandoning the SIMD principle.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/connection-machine.html (856 words)

	"Connection Machine" could help chip makers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There are 672 connections around the chip site in the center, only some of which are shown.
		Dubbed the Connection Machine, the PICT from the Electronic Packaging Program could help the industry meet a technology goal: microprocessors with 5,400 connections by the year 2009, and with 7,300 connections by 2012.
		The Connection Machine is expected to become operational in the second year of the project and will facilitate new high-density and high-precision connection research and development for academic researchers at Cornell and other universities, as well as researchers from industry.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/97/10.16.97/connection.html (442 words)

	4.3.7 QCD on the Connection Machine
		The Connection Machine Model CM-2 is also very well suited for large scale simulations of QCD.
		In the current version of the Connection Machine (the CM-2), groups of 32 processors (two chips) share a 32-bit (or 64-bit) Weitek floating-point chip, and a transposer chip, which changes 32 bits stored bit-serially within 32 processors into 32 32-bit words for the Weitek, and vice versa.
		In 1990-1992, the Connection Machine was the most powerful commercial QCD machine available: the ``Los Alamos collaboration'' ran full QCD at a sustained rate of
	www.netlib.org /utk/lsi/pcwLSI/text/node40.html (768 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When a connection is established, it is given certain properties that are valid until the connection is closed.
		After Machine B receives the message, it acknowledges it with a segment acknowledgment that increments the next sequence number (and hence indicates that it has received everything up to that sequence number).
		Connections Termination To close a connection, one of the TCPs receives a close primitive from the ULP and issues a message with the FIN flag set on.
	iris.nyit.edu /~aaltorfi/TCP.doc (2654 words)

	The Connection Machine
		The basic operation of the processing element is to read two bits from the external memory and one flag, combine them according to a specified logical operation producing two bits of results, and to write the resulting bits into the external memory and an internal flag, respectively.
		The communications network of the Connection Machine is wired in the form of a hypercube
		Its architecture is quite different than the Connection Machine and its processing cells are much more powerful, the reader is referenced to the literature for further reference on the MP-1.
	www.cs.sunysb.edu /~csilva/papers/rpe/node5.html (463 words)

	Accelerated Learning on the Connection Machine - Cook, Holder (ResearchIndex)
		Abstract: The complexity of most machine learning techniques can be improved by transforming iterative components into their parallel equivalent.
		The parallel architecture of the Connection Machine provides a platform for the implementation and evaluation of parallel learning techniques.
		The architecture of the Connection Machine is described along with limitations of the...
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /148129.html (492 words)

	Connection Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.).
		This program run on the Connection Machine, and was written using C/Paris which is a low-level protocol for data parallel programing.
		Second, the user can apply basic image processing algorithms like thresholding, dilation, erosion, connected component labelling and selecting structures on the volume of images and the outcome of these process will immediately display on all of the 2-D section windows and update the 3D rendering at a speed convenient for interactive use.
	splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000 /pages/papers/cluster/node10.html (266 words)

	Connection Machine and DataVault from Thinking Machines Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		[At the height of their popularity, there were over 30 Connection Machines installed, including sites such as Los Alamos National Labs, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and dozens of universities.
		Thinking Machines Corp. underwent Chapter 11 reorganization in the 1993's, reorganized into a Data-Mining software corporation, which was later purchased by Oracle in 1999.]
	www.svisions.com /sv/cm-dv.html (292 words)

	Amazon.com: The Connection Machine (Artificial Intelligence): Books: W. Danny Hillis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		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.
		W. Daniel Hillis is a founder of Thinking Machines Corporation where he is engaged in building connection machines as a significant step toward real thinking machines.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262580977?v=glance (895 words)

	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.
		According to The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines it was a bit of a rocky ride, so perhaps they don't like to dwell on it.
	lambda-the-ultimate.org /node/view/87 (546 words)

	Tamiko Thiel: The Connection Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		She considers the Connection Machine to have been her first artwork and has gone on since then to develop an international reputation in the media arts.
		Currently she is a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where she is developing the narrative potential of interactive virtual reality as an artistic medium for addressing cultural and social issues.
	www.mission-base.com /tamiko/cm/MITlecture.html (243 words)

	Littlebear: The Connection Machine 5
		A a 32-node Connection Machine-5 (CM-5) from Thinking Machines Corporation arrived at NCAR on April 21, 1993.
		The CM-5 cost $1.47 million ($46K per node) and was paid for with DARPA funds.
		The machine had 1 gigabyte of internal memory (32 megabytes per node) and performed at a peak speed of 128 megaflops per node.
	www.cisl.ucar.edu /computers/gallery/tmc/littlebear.jsp (197 words)

	RSP Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the connection both machines will be able to send and receive files in both directions, the control acts as a client and a server, the first request for emission of file will put the remote machine in download mode until the end of the download or until an error occurs
		This function will reset the connection, then if a file is being sent it will just stop, and if a file is being received also, it just close all the openned resources and reset the internal state of the control to the initial state, it don't disconnect or connect, just reset
		Documentation of the RSP Parallel Port Connection OCX 1.2.0
	rspsoftware.clic3.net /rspppc.htm (1496 words)

	SISC Volume 18 Issue 5
		Guidelines followed to implement this approach efficiently on the Connection Machine CM-5/CM-5E are described.
		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.
		The conclusions presented regarding the SVD's numerical properties are general to the algorithm and not specific to the Connection Machine implementation.
	epubs.siam.org /sam-bin/dbq/article/28135 (325 words)

	The Connection Machine - The MIT Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It offers a preview of a parallel processing computer that Daniel Hillis and others are now developing to perform tasks that no conventional, sequential machine can solve in a reasonable time.
		Daniel Hillis is a founder of Thinking Machines Corporation where he is engaged in building connection machines as a significant step toward real thinking machines.
		The Connection Machine is included in the Artificial Intelligence series, edited by Patrick Winston, Michael Brady, and Daniel Bobrow.
	mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/item?sid=BAEB210E-2A42-4326-B6C8-E88CC7C01850&ttype=2&tid=5558 (175 words)

	The Connection Machine - A Massively Parallel Supercomputer (ResearchIndex)
		Abstract: This paper describes the parallel supercomputer Connection Machine designed by Thinking Computers Corp., now sold by Connection Machine Services Inc. It presents the Connection Machine's historic development, it's different models with their hardware architecture, additional devices, operating system and software.
		Furthermore, it compares the Connection Machine's architecture with other computer architectures.
		1 Tucker: The CM-5 Connection Machine (context) - Hillis - 1993
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /427250.html (276 words)

	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.
		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.
		The CM-2, named "capitol," was an 8,192-proceessor computer manufactured by Thinking Machines Corporation.
	www.cisl.ucar.edu /computers/gallery/tmc/capitol.jsp (168 words)

	Connection Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Next message: Wild times at NASA (was:Connection Machine)
		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).
		The machine was plugged in, live, and in use.
	www.classiccmp.org /pipermail/cctalk/2004-May/042047.html (226 words)

	Parallel Join Algorithms for the Connection Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		Using the experimental evaluations of the Ction primitives we develop analytical models for the performance of these join algorithms.
		We show that these models can be effectively used for estimating the performance of these algorithms on the Connection Machine.
	www.cs.umn.edu /tech_reports_upload/1991/TR_91-32_Parallel_Join_Algorithms_for_the_Connection_Machine.html (194 words)

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