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From: aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Available shared memory hardware
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Date: 13 Nov 88 15:32:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov's message of 12 Nov 88 03:58:26 GMT

Eugene Brooks writes:

 I am specifically interested in machines which share a large common
 memory in a finely interleaved way, machines such as the BBN butterfly
 for which you have to lay out your data in seperate memories either by
 hand or using vendor supplied library calls are a no go. 

You want to be careful to separate the hardware from the software. For
example, Butterfly Scheme offers a totally uniform memory access
model. 

Albert Boulanger
BBN Systems and Technlogies Corp.
aboulanger@bbn.com