Uniform memory access

Uniform Memory Access (UMA) is a computer memory architecture used in parallel computers having multiple processors and probably multiple^{[citation needed]} memory chips.

All the processors in the UMA model share the physical memory uniformly. Peripherals are also shared. Cache memory may be private for each processor. In a UMA architecture, accessing time to a memory ___location is independent from which processor makes the request or which memory chip contains the target memory data. It is used in symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).^{[citation needed]}

Uniform Memory Access computer architectures are often contrasted with Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures. UMA machines are, generally, harder for computer architects to design,^{[citation needed]} but easier for programmers to program, than NUMA architectures.