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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
For both parallel and sequential computers, cost is accessing remote memories with some form of "communication"
Data locality addresses in both cases
Differences are quantitative size of effect and what is done by user and what automatically
L3 Cache
Main
Memory
Board Level Interconnection Networks
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....
System Level Interconnection Network
L3 Cache
Main
Memory
L3 Cache
Main
Memory
Slow
Very Slow

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