DRogers@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (08/18/83)
From: David Rogers <DRogers@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
In Volume 40 of the AIList Alan Glasser asked about hardware
implimentations using marker passing a la NETL. The closest hardware I
am aware of is called the Connection Machine, and is begin developed
at MIT by Alan Bawden, Dave Christman, and Danny Hillis (apologies if
I left someone out). The project involves building a model with about
2^10 processors. I'm not sure of its current status, though I have
heard that a company is forming to build and market prototype CM's.
I have heard rumors of the SPICE project at CMU, though I am
not aware of any results pertaining to hardware, the project seems to
have some measure of priority at CMU. Hopefully members of each of
these projects will also send notes to AIList...
David Rogers, DRogers@SUMEX-AIM