Comment on Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-oriented programmingparentComments−dragonbonheur12yThat's a really cool blog post. Makes me wonder about a lot of stuff:What were the projects and discoveries for which the connection machines were clearly essential?Are there connection machines that are still in operation?What happened to the old ones?Does Danny Hillis now keep a cluster of GPUs running somewhere instead of his old hardware?Would connection machines be more useful now than in the past?Is it the right time to boot up thinking Machines 2.0 ?−jerven12yParrella boards and cray xmt both are probably the closest you get to connection machines today.
Comments
That's a really cool blog post. Makes me wonder about a lot of stuff:
What were the projects and discoveries for which the connection machines were clearly essential?
Are there connection machines that are still in operation?
What happened to the old ones?
Does Danny Hillis now keep a cluster of GPUs running somewhere instead of his old hardware?
Would connection machines be more useful now than in the past?
Is it the right time to boot up thinking Machines 2.0 ?
Parrella boards and cray xmt both are probably the closest you get to connection machines today.