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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 Systems
• Servers
• Desktops
• Handheld Computers
• Supercomputers

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• arm ARM, sARM architecture (32-bit)ARM64 (64/32-bit)
• avr Atmel's AVR architecture
• pic Microchip's PIC architecture
• msp430 Texas Instruments's MSP430 architecture
• mcs-51 Intel's 8051 architecture
• z80 Zilog's Z80 architecture
• superh Hitachi's SuperH architecture

• Power Architecture (formerly PowerPC)
• EnSilica's eSi-RISC architecture
• Milkymist architecture
• Inmos' Transputer architectures

* Western Design Center's 65816 architecture */

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• Pre-x86
• x86 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 architectures
• MOS Technology's 6502 architecture
• Zilog's Z80 architecture
• Power 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

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• DEC's Alpha architecture
• HP's PA-RISC architecture
• Power Architecture (formerly POWER and PowerPC)
• Intel's Itanium architecture (formerly IA-64)
• MIPS Computer Systems Inc.'s MIPS architecture
• Oracle's (formerly Sun Microsystems's) SPARC architecture

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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 architecture
• UNIVAC 1100/2200 series architecture (currently supported by Unisys ClearPath IX computers)
• MIL-STD-1750A - the U.S.'s military standard computer
• AP-101 - the space shuttle's computer

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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 Loongson
• Parallax Propeller, a 160 MIPS multicore microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC cores.