Thinking Machines Corporation
<company> The company that introduced the Connection Machine parallel
computer ca 1984. Four of the world's ten most powerful supercomputers are
Connection Machines. Thinking Machines is the leader in scalable computing, with
software and applications running on parallel systems ranging from 16 to 1024
processors. In developing the Connection Machine system, Thinking Machines also
did pioneering work in parallel software.
The 1993 technical applications market for massively parallel systems was
approximately $310 million, of which Thinking Machines Corporation held a 29
percent share. Thinking Machines planned to become a software provider by 1996,
by which time the parallel computing market was expected to have grown to $2
billion.
Thinking Machines Corporation has 200 employees and offices worldwide.
Address: 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1264, USA. Telephone: +1 (617)
234 1000. Fax: +1 (617) 234 4444.
(1994-12-01)
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