Connection Machine

Connection Machine definition - computer

A family of parallel processing computers from former Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA, that contained from 4K to 64K processors. Used in applications such as signal processing, simulation and database retrieval, they were set up as hypercubes and other topologies, which required another computer as a front end.



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