Budget Beowulfs
Joel C. Adams, Jacob Caswell, Suzanne J. Matthews, Charles Peck, Elizabeth Shoop, David M. Toth · 2015
In response to the shift to multicore processors, the ACM-IEEE CS2013 curriculum recommendations [1] include parallel and distributed computing (PDC) as a new core knowledge area. Some of the key concepts in PDC are the distinctions between shared-memory, distributed-memory, and heterogeneous system architectures.