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{{Short description|Supercomputer}}
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{{Infobox supercomputer
| name         = Connection Machine
| image        = File:Connection Machine CM-2 and DataVault at Computer Museum of America.webp
| caption      = A Connection Machine CM-2 (1987) and accompanying [[DataVault]] on display at the [[Mimms Museum of Technology and Art]] in Roswell, Georgia. The CM-2 used the same casing as the CM-1.
| manufacturer = [[Thinking Machines Corporation]]
| designer     =
| release date = <ul><li>1986 (CM-1)</li><li>1987 (CM-2)</li><li>1991 (CM-5)</li></ul>
| units sold   = At least 70<ref name="SNMST">{{cite web |title=Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology, Parallelldator|url=https://digitaltmuseum.se/021027765253/parallelldator|access-date=2024-10-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2 |url=https://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/ |website=tamikothiel.com |access-date=2024-10-24}}</ref>
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| dimensions   = ≈ 6 feet cubed (CM-1 and CM-2)
| weight       = 575.0 kg (CM-2)<ref name="SNMST"></ref>
| power        =
| voltage      =
| front-end    =
| os           =
| cpu          = Up to 65,536 1-bit processors (CM-1 and CM-2)
| frequency    =
| memory       = <ul><li>512 [[Megabytes]] (CM-2)</li><li>10 [[Gigabytes]] ([[FROSTBURG]] CM-5)</li></ul>
| storage      = <ul><li>Up to 80 [[Gigabytes]] with eight [[DataVault]]s (CM-1 and CM-2)</li><li>≈ 2 [[Terabytes]] ([[FROSTBURG]] CM-5)</li></ul>
| mips         =
| flops        = <ul><li>2.5 GigaFLOPS (CM-2)</li><li>65.5 GigaFLOPS ([[FROSTBURG]] CM-5)</li></ul>
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The '''Connection Machine''' ('''CM''') is a member of a series of [[massively parallel]] [[supercomputer]]s sold by [[Thinking Machines Corporation]]. The idea for the Connection Machine grew out of doctoral research on alternatives to the traditional [[von Neumann architecture]] of computers by [[Danny Hillis]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in the early 1980s. Starting with CM-1, the machines were intended originally for applications in [[artificial intelligence]] (AI) and symbolic processing, but later versions found greater success in the field of [[computational science]].