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Foil 19 Real Parallel Computers Architectures
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Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations --
Fall Semester 1998
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by
Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
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Major architecture types
Distributed memory MIMD
Shared memory MIMD
Distributed shared memory (DSM)
Workstation clusters and "metacomputers"
An older design SIMD where processors run in lockstep has fallen out of favor
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Idealized Multicomputer Model fits current architectures pretty well
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