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Foil 27 Distributed Shared Memory (DSM)

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
1 A hybrid of distributed and shared memory
2 Small groups of processors share memory; others access across a scalable network
3 Low to moderate latency, high bandwidth
4 Model simplifies the multilevel hierarchy
5 Examples: SGI Origin, HP Exemplar
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