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yrkumar

I'm not sure how efficient the message passing model would be for the grid problem as compared to the shared address space model. Since the different parts of the array are located in private address spaces, I'm assuming it would require more overhead to send/receive the data necessary to compute rows compared to when the array is stored in an address space accessible to all threads. Does this seem correct?

mchoquet

I think you're probably right about that, but we still have to pay the synchronization costs, and we have to worry about cache coherency. It's also possible that restricting the memory to be for a single core allows the hardware people to make it faster for that core (a NUMA-style thing), while shared memory would be slow for everybody. I'm not sure how these factors balance out.