Commanding parallel system architectures
In the last few years, multiple varieties of computing models provisioning great processing performance have been developed. They are classified depending on the memory allocated to their processors and how their alignment is designed. Some of the important parallel systems are as follows:
- MPP
- SMP
- CC-NUMA
- Distributed systems
- Clusters
Let's get into a little more detail about each of these system architectures and review some of their important performance characteristics.
MPP
MPP, as the name suggests, is a huge parallel processing system developed in a shared nothing architecture. Such systems usually contain a large number of processing nodes that are integrated with a high-speed interconnected network switch. A node is nothing but an element of computers with a diverse hardware component combination, usually containing a memory unit and more than one processor. Some of the purpose nodes are designed to have backup disks or additional storage capacity....
