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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
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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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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