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Foil 11 Distributed Shared Memory (DSM)

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
A hybrid of distributed and shared memory
Small groups of processors share memory; others access across a scalable network
Low to moderate latency, high bandwidth
Model simplifies the multilevel hierarchy
Examples: SGI Origin, HP Exemplar

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