Software tools for distributed processing include standard APIs such as MPI and PVM, VTL, and open source-based software solutions such as Beowulf.
Junija 2011 sta najvišje dve mesti na lestivici "Green 500" zasedla Blue Gene računalnika v New Yorku z 2097 MFLOPS/W, tretje mesto je pa zasedel DEGIMA cluster v Nagasakiju z 1375 MFLOPS/W.