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Foil 38 History -- Minicomputer

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
"Minicomputer" approach
  • Almost all microprocessor systems have a bus
  • Motivated by multiprogramming, TP
  • Used heavily for parallel computing
  • Called symmetric multiprocessor (SMP)
  • Latency larger than for uniprocessor
  • Bus is bandwidth bottleneck
    • caching is key: coherence problem
  • Low incremental cost

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