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- parallel processing architecture in which each processor has its own memory but can also access the memory of other processors (Computers)
- The name of the all of the peoples of the Nevada area, This name is actually a word referring to people who are speakers of a language type
- Non-Uniform Memory Access This term is generally used to describe a shared-memory computer containing a hierarchy of memories, with different access times for each level in the hierarchy The distinguishing feature is that the time required to access memory locations is not uniform; i e , access times to different locations can be different
- Non-Uniform Memory Access (or Architecture) A form of memory where access times are not constant See the NUMA section of the HPCinfo SMP page for more details
- Non-Uniform Memory Architecture Usually on an SMP system, all memory beyond the caches costs an equal amount to reach for each CPU In NUMA systems, some memory can be accessed more quickly than other parts Later kernels have some NUMA support for preferring to use memory "nearer" to the CPU, rather than higher-latency distant memory See Documentation/vm/numa for details
- Nonuniform memory access architecture Amount of time for processes to access memory across hypernodes is nonuniform depending upon where data is stored
- Non-Uniform Memory Access
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
- born March 18, 1830, Paris, France died Sept. 12, 1889, Massy French historian. He had a brilliant teaching career at the University of Strasbourg (1860-70) and later received other academic appointments. He championed the importance of objectivity and the unreliability of secondary sources, which became important tenets of modern historiography, and his insistence on the use of contemporary documents led to the full use of the French national archives in the 19th century. Most of his work, including La Cité antique (1864) and La Gaule romaine (1891), dealt with Roman Gaul and the Germanic invasions of the Roman Empire