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unusual facts about shared memory



Sequent Computer Systems

The Balance 21000 included up to thirty 10 MHz National Semiconductor NS32032 processors (in multiples of 2), each with a small write-through cache connected to a common memory to form a shared memory system.


see also

BMDFM

BMDFM (Binary Modular Dataflow Machine) is software, which enables running an application in parallel on shared memory symmetric multiprocessors (SMP) using the multiple processors to speed up the execution of single applications.

SPMD

The current standard interface for shared memory multiprocessing is OpenMP.

ΜC++

μC++ is part of the μSystem project, of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, a large-scale project led by professor Peter Buhr with the goal to create a "highly-concurrent shared-memory programming system".