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Foil 4 3 Major Basic Hardware Architectures

From New CPS615 Foils-- B 28 August 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 MIMD Distributed Memory
2 MIMD with logically shared memory but perhaps physically distributed. The latter is sometimes called distributed shared memory.
3 SIMD with logically distributed or shared memory
4 One interesting hardware architecture .........
  • Associative memory - SIMD or MIMD or content addressable memories ..... whose importance deserves further study and integration with mainstream HPCCI
5 Also have heterogeneous compound architecture (metacomputer) gotten by arbitrary combination of the above.
  • Metacomputers can vary full collections of several hundred PC's/Settop boxes on the (future) World Wide Web to a CRAY C-90 connected to a CRAY T3D
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