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# There is no limit on the amount of shared memory in the system.

# Resource contention is absent.

# The programs written on these machines are, in general, of type [[MIMD]]. Certain special cases such as [[SIMD]] may also be handled in such a framework.

These kinds of algorithms are useful for understanding the exploitation of concurrency, dividing the original problem into similar sub-problems and solving them in parallel.