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Foil 22 Parallel Computer Memory Structure

From Master Set of Foils for 1997 Session of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 For both parallel and sequential computers, cost is accessing remote memories with some form of "communication"
2 Data locality addresses in both cases
3 Differences are quantitative size of effect and what is done by user and what automatically
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