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Foil 23 Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD)

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
MIMD architectures consist of a number of powerful processors which can each execute individual instruction streams. The usual subdivision of this class is by the relationship between the processor and memory.
1. MIMD - Shared Memory
2. MIMD - Distributed Memory
3. MIMD - Virtual Shared Memory

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