To support education and research efforts in heterogeneous computing, the National Security Agency donated a Thinking Machines CM-2 for use by UCSD Professor Fran Berman and her students.

In a joint project with SDSC, Professor Fran Berman networked the Thinking Machines CM-2 with SDSC’s Paragon and Cray C-90 via a HIPPI channel to form a local heterogeneous network, to study how to solve single, large computational problems using a network of distinct architectures.