Survey of High Performance Computing Systems

Release 2.0

This is an ongoing survey of High Performance Computing hardware systems. Some are no longer available, some were never commercially available, and some are household names. This survey is intended as a roadmap to integrate the information about the HPC platforms and the organizations that built them. Also, this roadmap provides more information on those systems that are currently (as of Summer 98) more widely used.

The Information can be accessed by:

A template entry for an organization producing HPC platform(s) illustrates how the information is laid out. There are many cross references incorporated into the basic material, and it is also coupled to a glossary, of HPCC.

Hyperlinks to other sites carrying out relevant activities in HPCC are also given. In particular, benchmarking data for many of the systems described is available from the National Software Exchange. Some system vendors (of those still actively providing systems) have their own WWW pages at their own sites.

Credits and Acknowledgments

Ken Hawick
Jack Dongarra
Geoffrey Fox
M. A. Saleh Elmohamed