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Foil 36 Distributed Memory: Examples

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
hypercube machines (e.g., nCube)
Hypercube architectures typically utilise off-the-shelf processors coupled via proprietary networks (both hardware and message-passing software);
IBM SPx
Utilising standard RS6000-type processors coupled via a very high speed, high bandwidth switch networking architecture, the nodes within an SPx system use a special very low-level message-passing library for the lowest-level (i.e., most efficient, fastest) mechanism for communicating with one another.

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