Hybrid architectures

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Architectures with shared and distributed memory can be combined.

  • Quite common are SMP clusters, in which each node of the cluster is a SMP.
  • Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) is a software layer that implements a shared memory view for the programmer on top of a physically distributed memory.
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