Connection Machine

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Connection Machine
A Connection Machine CM-2 (1987) and accompanying DataVault on display at the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, Georgia. The CM-2 used the same casing as the CM-1.
Design
Manufacturer	Thinking Machines Corporation
Release date	1986 (CM-1) 1987 (CM-2) 1991 (CM-5)
Units sold	At least 70[1][2]
Casing
Dimensions	≈ 6 feet cubed (CM-1 and CM-2)
Weight	575.0 kg (CM-2)[1]
System
CPU	Up to 65,536 1-bit processors (CM-1 and CM-2)
Memory	512 Megabytes (CM-2) 10 Gigabytes (FROSTBURG CM-5)
Storage	Up to 80 Gigabytes with eight DataVaults (CM-1 and CM-2) ≈ 2 Terabytes (FROSTBURG CM-5)
FLOPS	2.5 GigaFLOPS (CM-2) 65.5 GigaFLOPS (FROSTBURG CM-5)
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The Connection Machine (CM) is a member of a series of massively parallel supercomputers sold by Thinking Machines Corporation. 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 of Technology (MIT) in the early 1980s. Starting with CM-1, the machines were intended originally for applications in artificial intelligence (AI) and symbolic processing, but later versions found greater success in the field of computational science.