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
    • Compaq Alpha EV7
    • Hewlett Packard PA-RISC 8800
    • IBM POWER4+
    • IBM POWER5
    • IBM BlueGene processor
    • Intel Itanium 2
    • Intel Pentium 4/Xeon Nocona
    • MIPS R16000
    • Sun UltraSPARC IV
  • Networks
    • Infiniband
    • Myrinet
    • QsNet
    • SCI
• Recount of the (almost) available systems
  • System descriptions
    • The Bull NovaScale.
    • The C-DAC PARAM Padma.
    • The Cray Inc. MTA.
    • The Cray SX-6.
    • The Cray Inc. X1.
    • The Cray Inc. XD1.
    • The Fujitsu/Siemens PRIMEPOWER.
    • The Hitachi SR11000.
    • The HP 9000 SuperDome.
    • The HP Integrity SuperDome.
    • The HP/Compaq GS Series.
    • The HP/Compaq AlphaServer SC45 Series.
    • The IBM eServer p690.
    • The IBM BlueGene/L.
    • The NEC SX-6.
    • The NEC TX-7 series.
    • The Quadrics Apemille.
    • The SGI Altix 3000 series.
    • The SGI Origin3900.
    • The Sun Fire E25K.
    • The Unisys Server ES7000.
• Systems Disappeared from the List.
• Systems under development.
• Glossary of terms.
• Acknowledgments.
• References.
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