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Foil 18 Parallel Computer Memory Structure

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
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 Processor
5 Cache
6 L2 Cache
7 L3 Cache
8 Main
9 Memory
10 Processor
11 Cache
12 L2 Cache
13 Processor
14 Cache
15 L2 Cache
16 Board Level Interconnection Networks
17 ....
18 ....
19 System Level Interconnection Network
20 L3 Cache
21 Main
22 Memory
23 L3 Cache
24 Main
25 Memory
26 Slow
27 Very Slow
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