NewsForge: Shared vs. distributed memory in large Linux clusters
Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Tuesday November 04 2003 @ 04:58PM EST
With Linux clusters becoming more commonplace in business IT settings, it seemed helpful to learn concepts that keep popping up in discussions of using clusters to solve problems. One such concept is the difference between shared and distributed memory.
The two architectures are suited to solving different kinds of problems, according to Bob Ciotti, Terascale Project Lead at NASA Ames Research Center, and Jason Pettit, Altix product manager at SGI. Understanding the problem at hand can help IT staff make decisions about the kind of computing resources needed to attack advanced problems efficiently.
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