The Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams relationship to the Connection Machine CM-2 is rooted in parallel computing architecture and mathematical topology based on a 16 dimensional (216) hypercube.
Nigerian computer scientist Phillip Emeagwali received the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer . The application used computational fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir modeling. He received a $1000 prize in the “price/performance” category, with a performance figure of about 400 Mflops/$1M. - Wikipedia
"My scientific vision is also influenced by my earlier readings of my father's Rosicrucian Digest, an AMORC (Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis) quarterly publication that covers topics ranging from the mysteries of ancient Egypt to metaphysics and mysticism. Metaphysics teaches intuition and visualization techniques - attributes that I use in making scientific discoveries.
"Since animism attributes conscious life to nature or natural objects, scientists that have animist beliefs tend to have enormous respect for nature and Mother Earth and are therefore more likely to borrow from it. There are parallels between animist worship of trees, stones, and rivers and my design of the first computer networks that mimic the branching patterns of trees; my formulation of the new theory of tessellation which was inspired by the structure of crystal stones; and my mathematics thesis on river flows. Therefore, the animist religion of my Igbo tribe subconsciously influenced my scientific discoveries." - Interview by Ruben Abati – Nigerian Guardian (1997)
Here Emeagwali attributes pre-exposure to Indigenous Information Systems (in this case Afa divination) to his ability to more optimally utilize the Connection Machine at the Los Alamos National Laboratory - a machine which had sat largely unused after scientists had given up on figuring out how to make it simulate nuclear explosions. (Time Magazine)
The machine was designed to run 65,536 interconnected microprocessors - a network architecture mirroring that of a 16 dimensional Hypercube. A sixteen-dimensional hypercube is a mathematical structure often used in parallel computing to manage communication efficiently between 216 = 65,536 nodes. That number 16 we also find at the basis of the Afa and Ifa divination systems. - see also Mẹ́rìndínlógún ("sixteen" in Yoruba)