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Foil 20 Parallel Computer Memory Structure

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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 Main
5 Memory
6 Interconnection Network
7 ....
8 ....
9 Main
10 Memory
11 Main
12 Memory
13 Slow
14 Can be Very Slow
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