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Foil 25 Computer Architectures - MIMD - Shared Memory

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
All processors associated with the same shared memory structure access the exact same storage location
Synchronisation is achieved by controlling tasks' reading from and writing to the shared memory.
A shared memory location must not be changed by one task while another, concurrent task is accessing it.

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