Recount of the (almost) available systems

In this section we give a recount of all types of systems as discussed in the former section and that are marketed presently or will appear within 6 months from now. When vendors market more than one type of machine we will discuss them in distinct subsections. So, for instance, we will discuss Cray systems under entries, X1 and XD1 because they have a very different structure.

At the time of writing Compaq is now fully integrated into HP. Therefore the earlier Compaq systems are now listed under "HP/Compaq" to distinguish between the Alpha-based product line stemming from Compaq and the PA/RISC-based line originating from HP.

System descriptions of:

The systems are presented alphabetically. The "Machine type" entry shortly characterises the type of system as discussed in the former chapter: Processor Array, ccNUMA, etc.

• The Bull NovaScale.
• The Cambridge Parallel Processing Gamma II Plus.
• The C-DAC PARAM Padma.
• The Cray Inc. MTA-2.
• The Cray SX-6.
• The Cray Inc. X1.
• The Cray Inc. XD1.
• The Cray Inc. XT3.
• The Fujitsu/Siemens PRIMEPOWER.
• The Hitachi SR11000 system.
• 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-8 series.
• The NEC TX-7 series.
• The SGI Altix 3000 series.
• The SGI Origin3900.
• The Sun Fire E25K.
• The Unisys Server ES7000.