[ConservativeMind]

This is a good pairing, with IBM intimately aware of both processors due to partnership agreements.

What I like to see is that the symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) capabilities are all on very powerful processors in their own right.

This is technically not a "massively parallel" computer because the processors are not made with parallelism-based architecture. The difference amounts to the granularity of the processes and the ability of each processor to natively support parallel assembler constructs.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Would be fun to study and use this machine....lots of work to be done to get performance....