What Is Uniform Memory Access?
Unified Memory Access (UMA for short) means that all processors share all physical memory uniformly.
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- Chinese name
- Unified memory access
- Foreign name
- Uniform Memory Access
- Also known as
- Shared memory architecture
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- Processors share all physical memory consistently
- Unified Memory Access (UMA for short) means that all processors share all physical memory uniformly.
- Uniform Memory Access
- Shared memory architecture can be divided into two types:
- Non-Unified Memory Access (referred to as NUMA) refers to the time that the processor accesses physical memory depends on the physical location of the memory. That is, in a multi-processor architecture, the CPU takes much longer to access shared memory than it takes to access local memory.