The Remote Store Architecture is used to operate a parallel computer system with distributed memory. Each processing element stores a copy of the global data it is interested in in its own memory. It reads locally and writes globally. A spezialized communication manager translates the global address of a global write to the local memory address. A prototype of the system has been built as a PCI board.
Typical applications are compute servers, database servers and multi media servers.
A software library called Fast Communication Interface provides an easy to use access to the communication hardware.