Contents

• Introduction and account
• The Main Architectural Classes
  • Shared-memory SIMD machines
  • Distributed-memory SIMD machines
  • Shared-memory MIMD machines
  • Distributed-memory MIMD machines
  • ccNUMA machines
  • Clusters
  • Processors
    • AMD Opteron
    • HP/Compaq Alpha EV7
    • Hewlett Packard PA-RISC 8700+
    • IBM POWER4+
    • Intel Itanium 2
    • Intel Pentium 4
    • MIPS R16000
    • Sun UltraSPARC III
  • Networks
    • Infiniband
    • Myrinet
    • QsNet
    • SCI
• Recount of the (almost) available systems
  • The Bull NovaScale.
  • The Cambridge Parallel Processing Gamma II Plus.
  • The C-DAC PARAM Padma.
  • The Cray Inc. MTA.
  • The Cray Inc. SV1ex.
  • The Cray SX-6.
  • The Cray Inc. T3E.
  • The Cray Inc. X1.
  • The Fujitsu AP3000.
  • The Fujitsu/Siemens PRIMEPOWER.
  • The Hitachi SR8000 system.
  • The HP 9000 SuperDome.
  • The HP/Compaq GS Series.
  • The HP/Compaq AlphaServer SC45 series.
  • The IBM eServer p690.
  • The NEC SX-6 series.
  • The NEC TX-7 series.
  • The Quadrics Apemille.
  • The SGI Altix 3000 series.
  • The SGI Origin 3000 series.
  • The Sun Fire 3800-15K.
  • The Unisys Server ES7000.
• Systems Disappeared from the List
• Systems under development
• Acknowledgments
• References
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