30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
4:32 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Jay West once stated:
Sean wrote....
Nope. Made by Thinking Machine Inc out of Boston. The first model used
a custom 1-bit CPU for each node (of which there were 65,536). Later models
used SPARCs for each node. It's a pretty cool machine and operations that
are O(n**2) on normal computers are O(nlog n) on this machine.
-spc (Even from a software perspective it's pretty cool)
I seem to recall a supercomputer made by Intel
that used Pentiums. I
forget the name though, but it was quite a behemoth of a machine from what
little I recall (many CPUs).
Wasn't that "The Connection Machine"?