Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Shared Memory Concept

In Hardware :
A single RAM is shared by many CPU's in a multi processing environment.


In Software :
Shared Memory in software is a method of interprocess communication. This is a method of exchanging data between different processes. One process will create an area in RAM which other processes can access.Both the processes can access the same memory in the same way as they access regular memory, it is faster.