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Foil 8 Global Arrays

From Overview of NPAC Research in Computational Chemistry Visit by CEWES Team -- Mar 25 1997. by David Bernholdt *
"Shared-memory" programming interface for both shared- and distributed-memory computers
Processes can asynchronously access logical blocks of physically distributed matrices, without need for explicit cooperation by other processes.
Exposes the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) characteristics of the high performance computers
Designed to complement rather than replace the message-passing programming model.

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