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A system with several processors run having different access to memory and to the IO subsytem(s). Contrast NUMA and SymmetricMultiProcessing.

Most modern computers use AsymmetricMultiProcessing, with processors to handle graphics, network or disk access logic. These processors may have special operations to achieve these tasks or may be generic processors tasked with the function. This seperation of function removes constriants from the CPU (or CPUs) to run the application logic with fewer scheduling and "house keeping" operations to run.