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Here we are reminded that the message-passing model, unlike the data parallel and shared memory models, has no shared address space. In these two models, every process had access to the entire grid, and only computed the portion to which it is assigned. In a message passing model, however, each separate process has its own address space, and thus has full ownership of (that is, can load/store only to) its portion of the grid.