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Foil 22 Parallel Computer Memory Structure

From Master Set of Foils for 1997 Session of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 97. 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

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