distributed memory

(architecture)

The kind of memory in a parallel processor where each processor has fast access to its own local memory and where to access another processor's memory it must send a message via the inter-processor network.

Opposite: shared memory.

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Mentioned in

Kali
locality
Message Passing Interface
P4
parallel processing
PARMACS
SP/2
Split-C

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