Im Keller haben wir drei DataVaults, thekengroße Schränke für die Festplatten der Connection Machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataVault Jede wiegt geschätzt 300kg und bot Platz für bis zu 10 GB. Heute gingen zwei auf eine Reise.
#ConnectionMachine #DataVault #KITInformatik #ZKMKarlsruhe #ZKM
Eine Connection Machine – ein ehemaliger Supercomputer – fristet in unserem Informatik-Hauptgebäude ein Dornröschen-Dasein. Zwar kann sie nicht mehr wachgeküsst werden, aber sie wird bald einem größeren Publikum präsentiert:
https://zkm.de/de/2026/03/connection-machine-cm-2
#KITInformatik #ConnectionMachine #ZKMKarlsruhe #ZKM #Karlsruhe
Some of you probably remember WAIS. An Internet search engine from the Gopher era (more specific: a search protocol). TIL: Thinking Machines (those with the massive red blinkenlights servers) were the main driver and developer of WAIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server #vintagecomputing #techhistory #wais #thinkingmachines #connectionmachine
Old CM Fortran Code
Great #ConnectionMachine + #Feynman story!
“By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange.”
#computerhistory #computerarchitecture https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/112354279945181945
Check out the 1:10 scale Connection Machine complete with BlinkenLights by @trevorflowers posted over at HackADay. It’s very cool.
https://hackaday.io/project/193444-110-scale-connection-machine
Yes, it’s just a big black box. But hey! The first CM-1 I see in my life which is not on a picture but very real in front of me. #thinkingmachines #connectionmachine #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computerhistory #chm
Sunday at @ACM #FCRC #SPAA
https://spaa.acm.org
https://spaa.acm.org/program-spaa-2023/
Test of Time Paper Award lecture:
The network architecture of the #ConnectionMachine CM-5 (1992 paper)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/140901.141883
2023 Retrospective (2023 abstract)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3558481.3591321
40 days left to the submission deadline of #EuropeanLispSymposium (#ELSConf) in #Amsterdam:
🧷 (Friendica) https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1763-a88a-e526-72b275177682
🦎 (Matrix) https://matrix.to/#/!gqlYAZsfzSnmFNEHAT:magdeburg.jetzt/$z7kGECRQluF1iZzNhW-0I1e3lUmg-pff8PcAh96gox4
🦎 (Telegram) https://telegram.me/FamilyOfLisp/309
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🏷️ #Lisp #Scheme #CommonLisp #Clojure #Racket #Emacs #ACL2 #AutoLisp # ISLisp #DylanLang #SKILL #Hy #Shen #Carp #Janet #uLisp #Picolisp #Gamelisp #TXR #InterLisp #Medley #OpenGenera #Symbolics #ThinkingMachines #ConnectionMachine #MultiLisp #AMOP #CLOS #SICP #PAIP #AIMA #Lambda #CLtL2 #HTDP
The #Telegram and #Matrix groups named #FamilyOfLisp are now synchronized (bridged):
🦎 https://telegram.me/FamilyOfLisp
🦎 https://matrix.to/#/#family-of-lisp:magdeburg.jetzt
The two groups are for friendly exchange and dialogue on topics related to the Family of #Lisp #programming languages.
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🏷️ #Scheme #CommonLisp #Racket #Clojure #DylanLang #ELSConf #AMOP #CLOS #InterLisp #OpenGenera #LispMachine #Medley #ConnectionMachine #Symbolics #AutoLisp #MacLisp #ZetaLisp #EuLisp #ISLisp #CLHS #SICP #AIMA #CLtL2 #PAIP #HTDP
If you would like to come over to a friendly group on Telegram focused on the programming languages in the #FamilyOfLisp — please feel welcomed to join!
We are here:
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🏷️ #Lisp #Scheme #CommonLisp #Racket #InterLisp #Clojure #BaLindaLisp #Hy #ELSConf #ZetaLisp #LispMachine #ConnectionMachine #ThinkingMachines #Emacs #AutoLisp #CLOS #AMOP #SICP #CLtL2 #PAIP #AIMA #PCL #Symbolics #Genera #DylanLang #LFE #ISLisp #Arc #Janet #Jank #OnLisp #HTDP #CLHS #EuLisp
@lojikil @anticomputer@emacs.ch @lispnik
I have a big heart for all of them, and I am particular in love with #ConnectionMachineLisp, though Steele didn't manage to fully resolve some issues with the semantics of the alpha-beta syntax.
However, since this work predates #CLOS, I consider it possible to resolve those issues with a language design which still uses the #Xapping concept, but combined with #MOP generic dispatch.
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@anticomputer@emacs.ch @lispnik
There's also a famed paper on #ConnectionMachineLisp by Guy L Steele Jr and W Daniel Hillis from #Y1986:
→ https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319870
The book is Hillis' thesis (supervised by Gerald J Sussman) which is based on his #AIMemo (#MITTechnicalReport) from #Y1981:
→ https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5679
A Technical Summary of the CM-2 is here:
→ https://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/nov06/ConnectionMachineModelCM-2TechnicalSummary.pdf
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🏷️ #Lisp #ConnectionMachine #Xapping #Xector #Xap #StarLisp #ELSConf #ThinkingMachines
Btw, maybe you would like to join this Lisp Telegram group:
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Über die Designerin Tamiko Thiel, in den 1980ern verantwortlich für das Blechkleid der Thinking Machines CM-1 und CM-2: https://www.fastcompany.com/90151279/the-woman-supercomputer-designer-who-inspired-steve-jobs #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #connectionmachine #thinkingmachines
Nice #connectionmachine link! I was all set to post it to the #retrocomputing forum but I see it already appears in an existing thread:
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/a-lego-version-of-a-connection-machine/166?u=eds
Oops, forgot to add an #imageDescription for the above image.
A black cube-like massively parallel supercomputer consisting of 2 by 2 equal-sized cubes, divided internally by slightly sunken black borders.
The front is covered with red blinking lights from the processors inside.
It is standing in an equally futuristic office, with a curved desk/cabinet, and a small colourful monitor, to its right.
Photo taken from http://www.corestore.org/cm200.htm from the #ConnectionMachine brochure.
When #TamikoThiel has found a #European replacement for #SpreadShirt, I'm quite tempted to buy her #TShirt design from #1983 that pre-dated this #ConnectionMachine system: https://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html
A design that apparently was worn by #RichardFeynman in a #ThinkDifferent #Apple campaign in the #90s.
US-based #SpreadShirt store link: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mission-base-creations/cm+1+logo+flexprint?idea=5d89c895f937647d81fe06aa
I also really love the design of the #ConnectionMachine ¹ ² #CM200 as shown in Nostalgia Nerd's video.
Kudos to lead #designer #TamikoThiel ³ for this slick black box consisting of 4 smaller boxes with bright red #BlinkenLights.
Her more modern projects ⁴ look interesting too, but to me perhaps not as striking as this massively parallel #supercomputer from the late #80s!
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
² http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html
