Thinking Machines Corporation

company The company that introduced the Connection Machineparallel computer ca 1984. Four of the world's ten most

powerful supercomputers are Connection Machines. Thinking

Machines is the leader in scalable computing, with software

and applications running on parallel systems ranging from 16

to 1024 processors. In developing the Connection Machine

system, Thinking Machines also did pioneering work in parallel

software.

The 1993 technical applications market for massively parallel

systems was approximately $310 million, of which Thinking

Machines Corporation held a 29 percent share. Thinking

Machines planned to become a software provider by 1996, by

which time the parallel computing market was expected to have

grown to $2 billion.

Thinking Machines Corporation has 200 employees and offices

worldwide.

Address: 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1264, USA.

Telephone: [phone]. Fax: [phone].

(1994-12-01)