Thinking Machines Corporation


Thinking Machines Corporation

(company)The company that introduced the Connection Machine parallel computer ca 1984. Four of the world's ten mostpowerful supercomputers are Connection Machines. ThinkingMachines is the leader in scalable computing, with softwareand applications running on parallel systems ranging from 16to 1024 processors. In developing the Connection Machinesystem, Thinking Machines also did pioneering work in parallelsoftware.

The 1993 technical applications market for massively parallelsystems was approximately $310 million, of which ThinkingMachines Corporation held a 29 percent share. ThinkingMachines planned to become a software provider by 1996, bywhich time the parallel computing market was expected to havegrown to $2 billion.

Thinking Machines Corporation has 200 employees and officesworldwide.

Address: 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1264, USA.Telephone: +1 (617) 234 1000. Fax: +1 (617) 234 4444.