Archive for January 1986
Computer History 1986
Daniel Hillis of Thinking Machines Corp.
moved artificial intelligence a step forward when he developed the
controversial concept of massive parallelism in the Connection Machine.
The machine used up to 65,536 processors and could complete several
billion operations per second. Each processor had its own small memory
linked with others through a flexible network that users could alter by
reprogramming rather than rewiring.The machine´s system of connections and switches let processors broadcast information and requests for help to other processors in a simulation of brainlike associative recall. Using this system, the machine could work faster than any other at the time on a problem that could be parceled out among the many processors.
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