Machines
- Uniprocessor (non-parallel): workstations
- Vector shared memory: C90, T90, J90; NEC; ...
- SMP: Dec Alpha, Sun, IBM, SGI Challenge, ….
- Distributed Shared Memory: SGI Origin2000, HP Exemplar, …
- Pure Distributed Memory: IBM SP, Cray T3E, Fujitsu VPP, Beowulf clusters
- Distributed Memory configurations of SMPs: IBM SP, Compaq Alpha clusters, ...