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Foil 15 Comparison of Memory Access Strategies
From CPS615-Lecture on Performance(end) and Computer Technologies(start) Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 10 September 96. byGeoffrey C. Fox * Secs 335.5
Memory can be accessed directly (analogous to a phone call) as in red lines below or indirectly by message passing (green line below)
We show two processors in a MIMD machine for distributed (left) or shared(right) memory architectures