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Overview of Recent Supercomputers

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Authors

Aad J. van der Steen and Jack J. Dongarra

Aad J. van der Steen
(actstea@cc.ruu.nl)

Academic Computing Centre Utrecht
PO Box 80.011, 3508 TA
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jack J. Dongarra
(dongarra@cs.utk.edu)

Department of Computer Science
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1301 USA
Mathematical Sciences Section
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA

10 Feb 1996
Sixth Edition

Abstract

In this report we give an overview of parallel- and vector computers which are currently available or will become available within a short time frame from vendors; no attempt is made to list all machines that are still in the research phase. The machines are described according to their architectural class. Shared- and distributed memory SIMD- and MIMD machines are discerned. The information about each machine is kept as compact as possible. Moreover, no attempt is made to quote prices as these are often even more elusive than the performance of a system.

This document reflects the technical state of the supercomputer arena as accurately as possible. However, the authors nor their employers take any responsibility for errors or mistakes in this document. We encourage anyone who has comments or remarks on the contents to inform us, so we can improve this work. (1)


(1) NCF, the National Computing Facilities Foundation, supports and furthers the advancement of technical and scientific research with and into advanced computing facilities and prepares for the Netherlands national supercomputing policy. Advanced computing facilities are multi-processor vectorcomputers, massively parallel computing systems of various architectures and concepts and advanced networking facilities.

Copyright © 1996 Aad J. van der Steen and Jack J. Dongarra


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