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

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 architecturesuperh Hitachi's SuperH architecturePower Architecture (formerly PowerPC)EnSilica's eSi-RISC architectureMilkymist architectureInmos' Transputer architectures * Western Design Center's 65816 architecture */

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.