Commercial Symmetric Multiprocessors
Intel
SMP SPEC
Convex
Exemplar
(Set of Slides)
Michielse, P. Programming the Convex Exemplar Series SPP system. Parallel Scientific Computing. First International Workshop, PARA '94. Proceedings. Lyngby, Denmark, 20-23 June 1994). Edited by: Dongarra, J.; Wasniewski, J. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1994. p. 374-82.
Cray Research
T3E
CS6400
Cray Supercomputer Systems
Cray T3D
A Shared Memory MPP from Cray Research, R. Kent Koeninger, Mark Furtney, and Martin Walker,
Digital Technical Journal, Spring 1994.
Digitial Equipment Corporation (
System Info
The AlphaServer 8000 Series: High-end Server Platform Development
David M. Fenwick, Denis J. Foley, William B. Gist, Stephen R. VanDoren, and Daniel Wissell,
Digital Technical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1, 1995
.
AlphaServer 8200 and AlphaServer 8400
(Techinical Summary)
The Second-generation Processor Module for AlphaServer 2100 Systems
Nitin D. Godiwala and Barry A. Maskas,
Digital Technical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1, 1995
.
AlphaServer 2100
(Technical Summary)
AlphaServer 2000
DEC 700AXP
Encore
Infinity 90
Gigamax
MultiMax
Bell, C.G. Burkhart III, H.B., Emmerich, S., Anzelmo, A., and et al, The Encore Continuum: a complete distributed work station-multiprocessor computing environment, AFIPS Conference Proceedings: 1985 National Computer Conference. IL, USA, 15-18 July 1985. Edited by: Wojcik, A.S. Reston, VA, USA: AFIPS Press, 1985. p. 147-55.
Schanin, D.J., The design and development of a very high speed system bus-the Encore Multimax Nanobus, 1986 Proceedings of the Fall Joint Computer Conference (Cat. No.86CH2345-7). Dallas, TX, USA, 2-6 Nov. 1986). Edited by: Stone, H.S. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1986. p. 410-18.
Hewlett-Packard
Thomas B. Alexander, Kenneth G. Robertson, Deal T. Lindsay, Donald L. Rogers, John R. Obermeyer, John R. Keller, Keith Y. Oka, and Marlin M. Jones II. Corporate Business Servers: An Alternative to Mainframes for Business Computing.
Hewlett-Packard Jornal, June 1994, pages 8-33.
K400, K200
T500
IBM
Why a switch
A white paper on the RISC System/6000 SMP approach
RS/6000 R30
RS/6000 J30
RS/6000 G30
SP-2
Sequent
Symmetry 5000
Symmetry S81 and S27
Symmetry Balance
Raetz, G.M., Sequent general purpose parallel processing system, Northcon/87. Conference Record. Portland, OR, USA, 22-24 Sept. 1987)
Silicon Graphics
Power Challenge
Power Challenge
(Techical Report)
Challenge XL
Galles, M.; Williams, E. Performance optimizations, implementation, and verification of the SGI Challenge multiprocessor. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii Internation Conference on System Sciences Vol. I: Architecture, Wailea, HI, USA, 4-7 Jan. 1994, Edited by: Mudge, T.N.; Shriver, B.D. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1994. p. 134-43.
Power Series
Sun Microsystems
Enterprise Servers
Business Servers
Enterprise 1000
White paper
A Technical Survey of Multiprocessor/Multithreaded Systems using SPARC, Multi-level Bus Architectures and Solaris
Book blurb
SPARCcenter 2000E
20-way
SPARCcenter 2000
20-way
SPARCserver 1000E
8-way, 50 MHz SuperSPARC+, XDBus, 250 MB/s IO
SPARCserver 1000E
8-way, 50 MHz SuperSPARC+, XDBus, 250 MB/s IO
SPARCserver 690/MP
Cekleov, M.; Yen, D.; Sindhu, P.; Frailong, J.-M. et al, SPARCcenter 2000: multiprocessing for the 90's, Digest of Papers. COMPCON Spring '93 San Francisco, CA, USA, 22-26 Feb. 1993). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1993. p. 345-53.
Tandem
KSR
AT&T / NCR