Shared-memory architecture: Difference between revisions

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Shared memory architectures may use:<ref name=adv />

:* [[Uniform Memory Access]] (UMA): all the processors share the physical memory uniformly.

:* [[Non-Uniform Memory Access]] (NUMA): memory access time depends on the memory ___location relative to a processor.

:* [[Cache-only memory architecture]] (COMA):

:* [[Cache-only memory architecture]] (COMA): the local memories for the processors at a node is used as cache.

==References==