I find the term "far memory" a bit strange, specially considering that the paper starts using the dual of "remote" and "local". The first paper of the "Prior wo

I find the term "far memory" a bit strange, specially considering that the paper starts using the dual of "remote" and "local". The first paper of the "Prior works" also is being consistent and uses the adjective "remote" applied to cpu, procedure, and memory. Is there a technical distinction that I am missing here? (Oddly enough, just did a search for "remote memory data structures" and guess what blog post and paper comes up!)