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These are some common terms that will come up when working with shared memory.
Shared Memory - Block of memory that can be used by multiple CPU's
CPU Core - Independent processing unit (physical)
Thread - Sequence of programmed instructions (software)
Logical Processor - Number of physical cores times the number of threads from hyperthreading
Hyperthread - Uses threads to split physical CPU core into 2 logical cores