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. 2008 Dec 29;9:558. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-558

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Parallel architectures. A) A block diagram of a shared memory system in which all processors access the same memory by means of a network. B) A block diagram of a message passing system in which memory is private to a processor. Processors share data by explicit communication over the network.