<s>
APE100	B-Device
was	O
a	O
family	O
of	O
SIMD	B-Device
supercomputers	B-Architecture
developed	O
by	O
the	O
Istituto	O
Nazionale	O
di	O
Fisica	O
Nucleare	O
(	O
INFN	O
,	O
"	O
National	O
Institute	O
for	O
Nuclear	O
Physics	O
"	O
)	O
in	O
Italy	O
between	O
1989	O
and	O
1994	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
APE	O
(	O
"	O
ah-pei	O
"	O
)	O
,	O
an	O
acronym	O
for	O
Array	O
Processor	O
Experiment	O
,	O
was	O
the	O
collective	O
name	O
of	O
several	O
generations	O
of	O
massively	O
parallel	O
supercomputers	B-Architecture
since	O
1984	O
,	O
optimized	O
for	O
theoretical	O
physics	O
simulations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
APE100	B-Device
was	O
developed	O
at	O
INFN	O
in	O
Rome	O
and	O
Pisa	O
under	O
the	O
direction	O
of	O
Nicola	O
Cabibbo	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1991	O
,	O
it	O
became	O
the	O
most	O
powerful	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
in	O
the	O
world	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
version	O
of	O
APE100	B-Device
has	O
been	O
marketed	O
by	O
Alcatel	O
Alenia	O
Space	O
under	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
Quadrics	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
