Uniform memory access

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Uniform Memory Access (UMA) is a computer memory architecture used in parallel computers having multiple processors and probably multiple memory chips. 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. A typical example of different memory architectures used in parallel computer is Non-Uniform Memory Access.