The CM-5 Connection Machine

The Connection Machine Model CM-5 Supercomputer is a massively parallel computer system designed to offer performance in the range of 1 teraflops (1e12 floating-point operations per second). The CM-5 obtains its high performance while offering ease of programming, flexibility, and reliability. The machine contains three communication networks: a data network, a control network, and a diagnostic network.

To read more about the technical aspects of the CM-5, you can read The Network Architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5,
by Charles E. Leiserson, Zahi S. Abuhamdeh, David C. Douglas, Carl R. Feynman, Mahesh N. Ganmukhi, Jeffrey V. Hill, W. Daniel Hillis, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Margaret A. St. Pierre, David S. Wells, Monica C. Wong, Shaw-Wen Yang, and Robert Zak.
(An early version of this paper appeared in the 1992 ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, pp. 272-285, June 1992, San Diego, California.)

During tournament play, the MIT parallel chess programs (StarTech and *Socrates) have used the 512-node CM-5 at the
The National Centner for SuperComputing Applications
For development, we have used the 128-node CM-5 at Project Scout, which is physically located at the
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

The CM-5 is manufactured by

This blurb was assembled by Bradley C. Kuszmaul on Feb 6, 1995.