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Foil 53 Parallel Computer Memory Structure

From Introduction to Computational Science CPS615 Computational Science Class -- Spring Semester 2000. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 For both parallel and sequential computers, cost is accessing remote memories with some form of "communication"
2 Data locality addresses in both cases
3 Differences are quantitative size of effect and what is done by user and what automatically
4 L3 Cache
5 Main
6 Memory
7 Board Level Interconnection Networks
8 ....
9 ....
10 System Level Interconnection Network
11 L3 Cache
12 Main
13 Memory
14 L3 Cache
15 Main
16 Memory
17 Slow
18 Very Slow
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