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Foil 14 Distributed Shared Memory Machines

From DoD HPF Training -- 1. Introduction to HPF DoD Training and Others -- 1995-98. by Chuck Koelbel -- Rice University
1 Combining the advantages of shared and disttributed memory
2 Lots of hierarchical designs are appearing.
  • Typically, ³nodes² with 4 to 32 processors (see below)
  • Each processor has a local cache
  • Processors within a node access shared memory
  • Nodes can get data from or put data to other nodes¹ memories
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