Danny Hillis designed the Connection Machine architecture during his work at MIT, abandoning the traditional, linear Von Neumann architecture. He built a supercomputer based on massive parallel processing featuring 64,000 interconnected microprocessors, establishing the direct ideological ancestor of modern GPU clusters powering contemporary LLMs.
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