MIMD Classifications

• Textbook uses two classifications (Fig 15.6)

  • Thread-level Architectures
  • Process-level Architectures

• Thread-level Architectures (relatively new development)

  • Single Address Space, shared memory
    • Physically Shared Memory
    • Distributed Shared Memory

• Process-Level Architectures

  • Multiple Address Space, distributed Memory
  • Single address space, shared memory

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