No Remote Memory Access (abbreviated as
NoRMA) is a computer
memory architecture for
multiprocessor systems, given its name by . In a NoRMA architecture, the address space globally is not unique and the memory is not globally accessible by the processors. Accesses to remote memory modules are only indirectly possible by messages through the interconnection network to other processors, which in turn possibly deliver the desired data in a reply message. The entire storage configuration is partitioned statically among the processors.