High Performance Computing 1
Shared Memory Parallel Computer
•Memory in banks is accessed equally through a switch (crossbar) by the processors (usually vector)
•Processors run “p” independent tasks with possibly shared data
•Usually some compilers and preprocessors can extract the fine-grained parallelism available
•Shared Memory Computer
Cray T90
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