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Foil 37 Computer Architectures - MIMD - Virtual 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
Important class of these hybrids is the so called virtual shared memory architecture.
Each processor has its own local memory (like a distributed machine), however, direct remote memory access (like a shared memory machine) is possible via a global address space.
Relies on special hardware or software to deal with the communication, while the processors continue computing.
Such a systems benefits from fast communications with a scalable architecture.

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