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- <text id=91TT2228>
- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: Business Notes:Computers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- COMPUTERS
- Parallel Turn
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- <p> When Danny Hillis built his parallel computer six years ago,
- the industry largely dismissed the machine as too radical. While
- it was able to run rings around the most powerful supercomputers
- by processing thousands of instructions simultaneously rather
- than one at a time, Hillis' machine required customized software.
- But with conventional supercomputers aging and unable to meet
- future demands, mainstream computer makers are starting to warm
- up to parallel computing. In perhaps the biggest endorsement yet,
- IBM last week formed a joint venture with Hillis' company,
- Thinking Machines, to incorporate parallel technology into Big
- Blue's line of large computers. The deal marks a major concession
- by Big Blue, which for years has tried to develop its own
- parallel computers.
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- </body></article>
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