Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
Subject: Re: SMP vs. MPP
Organization: No Mountain Software
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 19:30:15 GMT
Message-ID: <3e9k5b$1487@theory.tc.cornell.edu>

In article <3e49dd$bgq@news.duke.edu> wrankin@ee.duke.edu (William T. Rankin) writes:
>Their failure as a business was due to many reasons, but their
>"allcache" architecture was not one of them.  Also, the KSR is best
>described as a "Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessor".  I feel 
>that using "Symetric Multiprocessing" and "KSR" in the same sentence
>is misleading.

I think it depends on whether you're talking about the hardware
or the software.  From the OS level on up, the KSR certainly
is symmetric.  In fact, one could argue that from the hardware
VM level on up, the KSR is symmetric.
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        Melinda Shore - No Mountain Software - shore@tc.cornell.edu
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