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 The SGI RC100 Platform consists of 3 CPU blades each with an Intel Itanium2 1.6Ghz and 3 RASC Blades each populated with 2 Virtex 4 LX200 FGPAs and 80MB of QDR memory. The blades are interconnected via dual NUMALink 4 ports providing a 12.8GB/s bandwidth.
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 The Cray XD1 Platform consists of 6 blades, each populated with 2 Opteron 250 (2.4Ghz) processors and 8 gigabytes of RAM; 6 Application FGPA duaghter cards each populated with a Xilix Virtex II Pro 50 FPGA with 4 banks of 8MB QDR SRAM; and a Cray RapidArray fabric switch with an aggregate bandwidth of 48GB/s.
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 The SRC6 with Hi-Bar platform consists of a very highspeed crossbar switch (Hi-Bar); 2 memory chassis each containing 8GB of memory; 4 Multi Adaptive Processor (MAP) boards each containing 2 user programmable Xilinx VIrtex II 6000 FPGAs, 6 banks of 4MB DDR SRAM; 2 CPU chassis each containing a SNAP board, two 2.8Ghz Xeon processors, and 1GB of DDR SDRAM. |
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 The SRC6e platform consists of 2 Multi Adaptive Processor (MAP) boards each containing 2 user programmable Xilinx VIrtex II 6000 FPGAs, 6 banks of 4MB DDR SRAM; 2 CPU chassis each containing a SNAP board, two 1Ghz Pentium III processors, and 1GB of DDR SDRAM. |
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 The SGI Altix-RASC platform consists of an Altix 350 chassis with two 1.4Ghz Itanium 2 processors, 4GB of DDR2 SDRAM; and a RASC chassis containing a Xilinx Virtex II 6000 FPGA with 3 banks of 4MB QDR SRAM. |
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 The Starbridge HC-36M (HyperComputer 36Million Gate) consists of two 2.4GHz Xeon Processors, 4GB of DDR SDRAM, an HC Quad PCI-X daughther card consisting of 4 user programmable Xilinx Virtex || 6000 FPGAs each with 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM. |
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 The Myrnet Cluster consists of 9 CPU chassis each containing two 1.8Ghz Xeon processors, 512MB DDR SDRAM, and a Myrinet NIC. The chassis are all interconnected via a high speed Myrinet switch which provides a 2.6us MPI latency and a sustained 2Gb/s communication bandwidth. The cluster also is often populated with 4 AMS Firebird boards each with XIlinx Virtex II 2000 FPGAs; 2 Slaac-1V boards each with 3 Xilinx Virtex II 1000 FPGAs; an AMS Wildforce board with a Xilinx XC4062 FPGA, an AMS Wild-One board with a Xilinx FPGA. |
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 The SGI Origin 2000 platform consists of 32 SGI R10000 processors and 16GB of SDRAM interconnected with a highspeed cache coherant Non Uniform Memory Access (ccNUMA) link in a hypercube architecture. |
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Supercomputers 
Pyramid is composed of 131 Sun X2200 M2 X64 servers, dual socket quad-core Opteron 2.2 GHz with 8GB of RAM; for a total of 1048 cores. The cluster can deliver a theoritical peak of 9.2 TFLOPS. The nodes are interconnected with stackable GigE switches.