Finally, because memory is shared, there can be cases where locked portions of memory may cause processors to stall while waiting for access. Scale-Out with Distributed Memory. In contrast with the ...

News. What's new in shared memory? By Jack Vaughan; March 24, 2003 [Programmers Report/March 25, 2003] - [UPDATE] While a lot of attention for IBM system developers has centered in recent years on ...

Peer-to-peer architecture, where each component or machine is equally capable of and responsible for performing any required task, and clustered architecture that has multiple machines running a ...

CS 358 serves as an introduction to the field of parallel computing. Topics include common parallel architectures (shared memory, distributed memory, CPU vs. GPU, multicore vs. multiprocessor), ...