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CONNECTION MACHINE [1 record]

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Record 1 1992-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computers and Calculators
  • Artificial Intelligence
OBS

Parallel computer produced by Thinking Machines (US).

DEF

A family of parallel computing machines characterized by an unusually large number of very simple processing elements, each of which is associated with a small amount of local memory but has access to the full memory of the machine through a high-band routine network.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ordinateurs et calculateurs
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

At THINKING MACHINES, D. Hillis étudie une "connection machine" qui comporterait un million de processeurs identiques (VLSI) chacun ayant un minimum de mémoire.

CONT

Cette Connection Machine est une machine très particulière composée de 65 536 processeurs, à deux niveaux de parallélisme. Les processeurs sont minimaux : ils possèdent un registre de 1 bit.

OBS

Marque déposée d'ordinateur parallèle. Ne pas traduire. L'accord se fait au féminin : la Connection Machine.

Spanish

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