William Daniel Hillis's dissertation about the Connection Machine is available online [1] and is a fascinating read. It generated some interesting past discussi

William Daniel Hillis's dissertation about the Connection Machine is available online [1] and is a fascinating read. It generated some interesting past discussion here [2]. I started reading through the dissertation earlier this year with a hope of gathering enough information to reverse engineer Feynman's partial differential equation based method to calculate the number of buffer's needed per chip. I had to drop that project for lack of time but came away really impressed with the considerations that went into the design of the CM. [1] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/14719/18524280-MIT.pdf https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/14719/1852428... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281637