Companies/Thinking Machines
Cambridge, MA, USA · defunct
Thinking Machines
No surviving parent
Built the Connection Machine series, including the CM-5 that topped the first published HPL list in June 1993. Filed for bankruptcy in 1994; no surviving corporate parent.
Systems this company appears in
- Systems
- 1
- Aggregate Rmax
- 59.7 GFlop/s
- Aggregate power
- 0 kW
- First appearance
- 1993-06
- Most recent
- 1993-06
- Concentration
- 100%
systems it appears in
where disclosed
largest is CM-5/1024
Aggregate Rmax is the sum of the systems this company supplies any part of. It is not revenue and not attributable share: an integrator and a memory vendor in the same machine both count its full FLOPS here. Attribution weighted by role is Phase 4.
Role breakdown
| Role | Systems | Rmax in those systems |
|---|---|---|
| Integrator | 1 | 59.7 GFlop/s |
| CPU | 1 | 59.7 GFlop/s |
| Interconnect | 1 | 59.7 GFlop/s |
Appearances
| System | Supplied as | Shipped under | Rmax | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM-5/1024 USA · 1993-06 | CPU, Interconnect, Integrator | Thinking Machines | 59.7 GFlop/s | #1 June 1993 → |
Parts supplied
| Part | Category | Generation | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thinking Machines CM-5 vector node | CPUs | Connection Machine | 1993 |
| Thinking Machines CM-5 fat tree | Interconnect | Connection Machine | 1993 |