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Every time I hear about these, I think about the Jurassic Park movie, which claimed to run the park using a network of Thinking Machines Corporation CM-5 machin

by ryao 10y ago

Every time I hear about these, I think about the Jurassic Park movie, which claimed to run the park using a network of Thinking Machines Corporation CM-5 machines instead of a Cray supercomputer that the book had used.

DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> the Jurassic Park movie, which claimed to run the park using a network of Thinking Machines Corporation CM-5 machines instead of a Cray supercomputer that the book had used. That was probably due to the CM's more impressive blinkenlights: https://youtu.be/BVtHh9JoS3s?t=2m20s https://youtu.be/BVtHh9JoS3s?t=2m20s The rest of the video seems pretty interesting as well, it looks like a 10 minute intro to the CM architecture.
qubex 10y ago
That was the Connection Machine 5, a very different (MIMD/fat tree) architecture compared to the ‘classic’ Connection Machine 2-type architecture (SIMD/hypercube) described in this thesis.
- qubex 10y ago
  Anybody feel like explaining why I've been down voted for making what is (to the best of my knowledge) a factual statement?
  - douche 10y ago
    They're just internet points, nothing to get too worked up over. On mobile it can be really easy to accidentally downvote, too.
    - sangnoir 10y ago
      > On mobile it can be really easy to accidentally downvote, too. Good thing it is now possible to undo an accidental downvotes (or upvotes)