CS 284a Lecture Tuesday, 7 October 1997

10/8/97


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CS 284a Lecture Tuesday, 7 October 1997

Multiprocessors and Multiprocessing

Why Buy a Multiprocessor?

Multiprocessor Architectures

Message-Passing Architecture

Shared-Memory Architecture

Shared-Memory Architecture: SMP and NUMA

Shared-Memory Architecture: Cache Coherence

Example: Quad-Processor Pentium Pro

Example: SGI Origin 2000

Message-Passing versus Shared-Memory ?Architectures

 Author: John Thornley

Email: cs284@cs.caltech.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~cs284/