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Foil 21 Distributed Memory MIMD Multiprocessor

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
Multiple Instruction/Multiple Data
Processors with local memory connected by high-speed interconnection network
Typically high bandwidth, medium latency
Hardware support for remote memory access
Model breaks down when topology matters
Examples: Cray T3E, IBM SP

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