Contents

• Introduction and account
• The Main Architectural Classes
  • Shared-memory SIMD machines
  • Distributed-memory SIMD machines
  • Shared-memory MIMD machines
  • Distributed-memory MIMD machines
• Recount of the (almost) available systems
  • Shared-memory SIMD systems
    • The Hitachi S3600 series.
  • Distributed-memory SIMD systems
    • The Alenia Quadrics.
    • The Cambridge Parallel Processing Gamma II.
    • The Digital Equipment Corp. MPP series
    • The MasPar MP-1.
    • The MasPar MP-2.
  • Shared-memory MIMD systems
    • The Cray Research Inc. Cray J90-series, T90 series.
    • The Hitachi S3800 series.
    • The HP/Convex C4 series.
    • The Digital Equipment Corp. AlphaServer.
    • The NEC SX-4.
    • The Silicon Graphics Power Challenge
    • The Tera MTA
  • Distributed-memory MIMD systems
    • The Alex AVX 2.
    • The Avalon A12.
    • The C-DAC PARAM 9000/SS.
    • The Cray Research Inc. T3E.
    • The Fujitsu AP1000.
    • The Fujitsu VPP300 series.
    • The Hitachi SR2201 series.
    • The HP/Convex Exemplar SPP-1200.
    • The IBM 9076 SP2
    • The Intel Paragon XP.
    • The Matsushita ADENART.
    • The Meiko Computing Surface 2.
    • The nCUBE 3.
    • The NEC Cenju-3.
    • The Parallel Computing Industries system.
    • The Parsys TA9000.
    • The Parsytec GC/Power Plus.
• Systems Disappeared from the List
• Systems under development
  • The Fujitsu VPP300 successor
• References
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