Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Thinking Machines Corp has sold one of its new massively parallel CM-5 Scale 3 computers to US management and technology consultants Booz, Allen & Hamilton, McLean, Virginia: the machine will be used as a ‘computing powerhouse’in the firm’s System Resource Center; Booz Allen specialises in data analysis, scheduling and database applications for government and industry and is currently developing massively parallel applications for identifying fraud by analysing transaction data, and applications that analyse credit card sales to track customers’ purchasing behaviour.
