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Foil 92 Cache Only COMA Machines

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 KSR-1 (Colorado)
2 Cache Only Machines "only" have cache and are typified by the Kendall Square KSR-1,2 machines. Although this company is no longer in business, the basic architecture is interesting and could still be used in future important machines
3 In this class of machine one has a NUMA architecture with memory attached to a given processor being lower access cost
4 In simplest COMA architectures, think of this memory as the cache and when needed migrate data to this cache
5 However in conventional machines, all data has a natural "original home"; in (simple) COMA, the home of the data moves when it is accessed and one hopes that data is "attracted" through access to "correct" processor

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