the workstation today is shalled memory system?

ztdep · September 16, 2012, 23:13

Dear friends:
I have a Dell workstation with 2 xeon cpus 8cores,and 16G memeroy, could you please tell me it is a sharedMemory system or a distributed memory system.
Regards

CapSizer · September 17, 2012, 05:24

That is shared memory. Not that it makes a huge difference, nearly all parallel CFD codes work with domain decomposition, which does not require shared memory. In fact, there is a whole thread on how OpenMPI for example deals with CPU and core affinity and the related non-uniform memory access.

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ztdep Senior Member p ding Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 427 Rep Power: 19	Dear friends: I have a Dell workstation with 2 xeon cpus 8cores,and 16G memeroy, could you please tell me it is a sharedMemory system or a distributed memory system. Regards

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September 17, 2012, 05:24		#2
CapSizer Senior Member Charles Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 185 Rep Power: 18	That is shared memory. Not that it makes a huge difference, nearly all parallel CFD codes work with domain decomposition, which does not require shared memory. In fact, there is a whole thread on how OpenMPI for example deals with CPU and core affinity and the related non-uniform memory access.