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The alternatives to shared memory are Distributed Memory and Distributed Shared Memory , with another, similar set of issues. See also Non-Uniform Memory Access .


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In software the term shared memory refers to memory that is accessible by more than one process, where a process is a running instance of a program. In this context, shared memory is used to facilitate Inter-process Communication . See the entry for Thread for more information about processes and threads.


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