The connection machine
by W. Daniel Hillis · first published 1985
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…the architecture of the CM-5 https://youtu.be/Ua-swPZTeX4 Note how similar the programming concepts are to CUDA (at an abstract level). Hillis also in the 80s published his MIT thesis as a book: The Connection Machine https://www.amazon.com/Connection-Machine-Press-Artificial-I... An incredibly well written and fascinating read, just as relevant today for programming a GPU as it was for programming the ancient beast…
on “The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (1995)” ↗The book "The Connection Machine" by Danny Hillis is a fantastic account of the philosophy of the CM design. When I was in high school, I didn't have a computer, I only had computer books from the library, and TCM was a huge influence…
on “The Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2 (2015)” ↗The Connection Machine by Daniel Hillis https://archive.org/details/connectionmachin00hill Describes the motivations for and design of a massively parallel computer with many (millions? 64k?) of very simple processing nodes…
on “Quirky computing books” ↗Am I misunderstanding something or does this sound a lot like a Connection Machine? http://www.amazon.com/The-Connection-Machine-Artificial-Inte...
on “Neurosynaptic chips” ↗…https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Artificial-Intelligence-Avro... https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/parallel-distributed-processi... https://www.amazon.com/Neural-Massively-Parallel-Computers-B... https://www.amazon.com/Connection-Machine-Press-Artificial-I... https://www.amazon.com/Legged-Robots-Balance-Artificial-Inte... https://www.amazon.com/Machines-That-Walk-Adaptive-Suspensio... ...and more.
on “The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s” ↗In Danny Hillis' lecture on the architecture of the CM-5 [1], he talks about some of the historical motivation behind the CM-2 described in his thesis paper turned into a book "The Connection Machine" [2] which goes into some detail on the alpha, beta, and dot operators and the xapping data type (the book calls it a "xector") described in detail in this paper. Years ago I attempted to take a stab…
on “Connection Machine Lisp (1986)” ↗https://www.amazon.com/Connection-Machine-Artificial-Intelli...
on “The Connection Machine (1985) [pdf]” ↗