Using Broadcasting to Implement Distributed Shared Memory Efficiently
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Parallel computers come in two varieties: those with shared memory and those without. The former are hard to build; the latter are hard to program. In this paper we propose a hybrid form that combines the best properties of each.
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تاریخ انتشار 1994