List of Figures

•  The performance over time as it can be seen in the TOP500 .

•  The geographical distribution of the system counts over time.

•   The geographical distribution of the performance over time.

•  The market share of the most important vendors over time.

•  The market share in performance of the most important vendors over time.

•  The evolution of the architectures as it can be seen in the TOP500 .

•  The usage of different CPU technologies as can be seen in the TOP500 . We count for this figure the following systems as CMOS off-the-shelf: Convex SPP1000, Cray T3D and CS6400, IBM SP1/2, intel Paragon and iPSC/860, Meiko CS/i860, Parsytec GC/PP, SGI, TMC CM5/CM5E.

•  The usage of different FPU technologies as can be seen in the TOP500 . We count for this figure the following systems as CMOS off-the-shelf: Convex SPP1000, Cray T3D and CS6400, IBM SP1/2, intel Paragon and iPSC/860, , Meiko CS/i860, Parsytec GC/PP, SGI.

•  The usage of different node technologies as can be seen in the TOP500 . We count for this figure the following systems as CMOS off-the-shelf: Convex SPP1000, IBM SP1/2, SGI.

•  The distribution of systems on the different application areas over time.

•  The distribution of performance on the different application areas over time.