Uniform Memory Access is a computer memory architecture used in parallel computers having multiple processors and probably multiple memory chips. In a UMA architecture, accessing time to a memory location is independent from which processor makes the request or which memory chip contains the target memory data. It is used in symmetric multiprocessing. A typical example of different memory architectures used in parallel computer is Non-Uniform Memory Access. A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions - a program. ... Parallel computing is the simultaneous execution of the same task (split up and specially adapted) on multiple processors in order to obtain faster results. ... Processor can mean: A central processing unit of a computer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Non-Uniform Memory Access or Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA) is a computer memory design used in multiprocessors, where the memory access time depends on the memory location relative to a processor. ...