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Foil 20 Parallel Architectures

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Vary greatly in complexity:
2 small machine with a handful of processors on one circuit board.
3 larger machines might have many thousands of complex processors connected by a number of specialised communications networks contained in many cabinets.
4 Basically, any parallel computer consists of three main elements:
5 Processors
6 Memories
7 Interconnection network to enable communication between these elements.
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