THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION

Thinking Machines Corporation is a supercomputer manufacturer. It provides advanced data mining software for predicting customer behaviors. The company produced a number of Connection Machine models: the CM-1, CM-2, CM-200, CM-5, and CM-5E. The CM-1 and 2 came first in models with 64K (65,536) bit-serial processors (16 processors per chip) and later, the smaller 16K and 4K configurations. The Connection Machine was programmed in a variety of specialized languages including Lisp, CM Lisp, C,... and CM FORTRAN. These languages used proprietary compilers to translate codes into the parallel instruction set of the Connection Machine. The CM-1 through CM-200 were examples of SIMD architecture (Single Instruction Multiple Data), while the later CM-5 and CM-5E were MIMD (Multiple Instructions Multiple Data) that combined commodity SPARC processors and proprietary vector processors. Thinking Machines Corporation also introduced an early commercial RAID2 disk array, the DataVault, circa 1988. Founded in 1983, Thinking Machines Corporation is based in Burlington, Massachusetts.More