NUMA Vs. Cluster Computing
One can view NUMA as a very tightly coupled form of cluster computing. The addition of virtual memory paging to a cluster architecture can allow the implementation of NUMA entirely in software where no NUMA hardware exists. However, the inter-node latency of software-based NUMA remains several orders of magnitude greater than that of hardware-based NUMA.
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