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Foil 66 Shared Memory Architecture

From Second set of lectures on CPS615 Parallel Computing Overview CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 Some machines have a "true" shared memory. i.e. every location is "equally accessible" by each node. Original Ultracomputer, Burton Smith's Tera, Some Bus based Systems
2 Others, such as BBN Butterfly, Kendall Square KSR-2, have non-uniform access time but all memory locations accessible
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