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Foil 36 Communication Hardware

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Memory capacity increased by adding modules, I/O by controllers
  • Add processors for processing!
  • For higher-throughput multiprogramming, or parallel programs
2 Communication is natural extension of uniprocessor
3 Already have processor, one or more memory modules and I/O controllers connected by hardware interconnect of some sort
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