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Tech HistoryDeep Dive October 3, 2026 7 min read

The Connection Machine: Turning Massive Parallelism into a Practical Architecture

Explore the CM-1's 65,536 one-bit processors, SIMD execution, hypercube communications, programming model, and the limits of specialized parallelism.

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Tech HistoryDeep Dive October 3, 2026 10 min read

A technical history of the Cray-1's vector registers, chaining, memory system, scalar performance, and role in scientific computing at NCAR.

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