4.1.1.1 Hardware Platform

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In Distributed System, each Network Node in the Node Network is associated with a Computer Architecture. As a consequence, a requirement of the distributed system is to specifically identify the computer architectures which are permitted

Gyanu Kumar gave an excellent review of the computer architectures. This list summarizing his findings is provided here as a reference. For details about each of these architectures, please use the original work.1) Gyanu Kumar, What are the types of computer architectures in a CPU?, 19 May 2019, Accessed 24 May 2020, https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-types-of-computer-architectures-in-a-CPU

Embedded CPU architectures

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ARM, sARM architecture (32-bit)ARM64 (64/32-bit)avr Atmel's AVR architecture pic Microchip's PIC architecturemsp430 Texas Instruments's MSP430 architecturemcs-51 Intel's 8051 architecturez80 Zilog's Z80 architectureWestern Design Center's 65816 architectureHitachi's SuperH architectureAxis Communications' ETRAX CRIS architecturePower Architecture (formerly PowerPC)EnSilica's eSi-RISC architectureMilkymist architectureInmos' Transputer architectures

Microcomputer CPU architectures

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Pre-x86x86 Intel's IA-32 architecture, also called x86-32×86-64 with AMD's AMD64 and Intel's Intel 64 version of it Motorola's 6800 and 68000 architecturesMOS Technology's 6502 architectureZilog's Z80 architecturePower Architecture (formerly POWER and PowerPC)ARM'sARM (32-bit) (previously Advanced RISC Machines ARM, originally Acorn's RISC Machine) and StrongARM /XScale architecturesARM64 (64/32-bit)Renesas RX CPU architecture - Combination of RISC and CISC architectures

Workstation/Ser ver CPU Architectures

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DEC's Alpha architectureHP's PA-RISC architecturePower Architecture (formerly POWER and PowerPC)Intel's Itanium architecture (formerly IA-64)MIPS Computer Systems Inc.'s MIPS architectureOracle's (formerly Sun Microsystems's) SPARC architecture

Mini/Mainframe CPU architectures

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Burroughs large systems architecture (1961–present) currently supported in the Unisys ClearPath/MCP series.IBM's System/360, System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture (1964–present)DEC's PDP-8 architecture, the successor PDP-11 architecture, and its final form, the VAX architectureUNIVAC 1100/2200 series architecture (currently supported by Unisys ClearPath IX computers)MIL-STD-1750A - the U.S.'s military standard computerAP-101 - the space shuttle's computer

Mixed-core CPU architectures

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IBM's Cell architecture (a general purpose architecture that uses a POWER4 based core and 8 RISC based co-processors)CAS's LoongsonParallax Propeller, a 160 MIPS multicore microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC cores.