Shared Memory Architecture

Shared memory systems form a major category of multiprocessors. In this category, all processors share a global memory. Communication between tasks running on different processors is performed through writing to and reading from the global memory. All inter‐processor coordination and synchronization...

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Published in:	Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing pp. 77 - 102
Main Authors:	El‐Rewini, Hesham, Abd‐El‐Barr, Mostafa
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken, NJ, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 17.12.2004
Series:	Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Subjects:	basic cache coherency methods bus based symmetric multiprocessors cache‐only memory architecture (COMA) directory based protocols non‐uniform memory access (NUMA) shared memory programming shared‐memory classification schemes shared‐memory multiprocessors snooping protocols uniform memory access (UMA)
ISBN:	9780471467403, 0471467405
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