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Subject: Re: Latency versus Information Bandwidth: Questions

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 17:04:57 12/05/02

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On December 05, 2002 at 19:56:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 05, 2002 at 18:22:09, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On December 05, 2002 at 18:10:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>That's fine, but that is not the same thing as saying "each processor has a
>>>dedicated bus to its
>>>own memory".
>>
>>Each processor DOES have a dedicated bus to its own memory.
>
>
>One of the two statements can't be true.  A crossbar is _not_ a dedicated bus.
>
>So either it is a dedicated bus which means NUMA, or it is a crossbar which
>means it is not a dedicated bus...

Each processor has a dedicated bus to its local memory.  Other processors access
that memory via the crossbar.



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