5  made by Thinking Machines. It contained many SPARC 2 RISC processors  and the LEDs were added to make the machine more aesthetically  pleasing than their previous models. Unfortunately, it was not  actually a very good supercomputer and the company failed not long  afterwards. The comment about networking five connection machines is  pretty superfluous as they were meant to be used like this. The  bigger problem was writing programs that efficiently mapped onto the  data parallel architecture.