Multicomputers
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Like Multiprocessors, multicomputers can be characterized as MIMD, which stands for Multiple Instruction Multiple Data. In multicomputers, each processor has an own memory, i.e., the memory is distributed among the processors. Multicomputers are also denoted as distributed-memory architectures or NORMA architectures, which stands for NO Remote Memory Access. Multicomputers are relatively easy to build on a large scale as they don't need cache coherence hardware. Programming on multicomputers tends to be harder and more suited for coarse-grained applications. Subclasses are
Parallel architectures are different from
