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NUMA Architectures
Distributed Shared Memory
Logically, a global address space is provided.
Physically, the memory is distributed among the processors.
Remote memory accesses via a scalable network.
NUMA architectures
Non-Uniform Memory Access
Local memory can be accessed faster.
COMA architectures
Cache Only Memory Achitecture.
All memory transformed into caches.
Scalable shared memory multiprocessors.
Author:
Wolfgang Schreiner
Last modification: November 15, 1996