[bogomipz]

>"Lack of memory uniformity was the compromise to achieve larger effective address spaces and "simple" programming."

Oh interesting. Might you have any links or suggested reading on this discussion and eventual compromise?

>"In the 2000's, before multi-core chips were a thing, there were two major camps, the 'super computer' camp, and the 'cluster' camp."

Is the cluster camp Beowulf then basically?

>"You got these very expensive fabrics from people like cray that would snoop access to memory from the cores and send coherency messages around to insure that if someone wrote something in to memory somewhere, everyone else's L1 or L2 cache got the message to invalidate what they were holding (shoot downs)."

Is this the MESI protocol then?

Thanks.

EDIT I just saw the link below about CCNUMA.