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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ETA-10
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Date: 1 Nov 88 19:06:47 GMT
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In article <638@woods.unix.ETA.COM> rpeglar@woods.UUCP () writes:
>Then, a brief flurry about Cray "shared memory" from Eugene Brooks out
>at LLNL and Michael.  It's highly amusing to "read between the lines"
>and see the effect of Real Users (more correctly, Real Users' perceptions)
>on architectural entities.  BTW, Eugene, which Cray were you referring to?
>I'll let the net determine if the "honest to God shared memory" is
>actually of divine ordinance.
Any of the multi-cpu models, some of them have better memory subsystem
performance than others, some of them have a shared SSD in ADDITION to the
shared memory.