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Keith Farkas, Zvonko G. Vranesic, and Michael Stumm,
"Cache consistency in hierarchical-ring-based multiprocessors,",
In Proceedings Supercomputing (SC'92), Minneapolis, MN USA, November, 1992, pp. 348–357.

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Abstract:

A cache consistency scheme is presented for a class of multiprocessors based on a hierarchy of rings. By taking advantage of the natural broadcast and ordering properties of rings, cache consistency is achieved via a simple, selective-broadcast based protocol requiring no complex hardware. Using address-trace driven simulations of the Hector shared-memory multiprocessor, it is shown that the scheme performs well.

Keywords:

Memory architecture, protocols, shared memory systems, Hector shared-memory multiprocessor, cache consistency scheme, hierarchical-ring-based multiprocessors, scalability

Reference Info:

DOI: 10.1109/SUPERC.1992.236668
ISBN: 0-8186-2630-5

BibTeX:

@inproceedings(Farkas-SC92,
    author = {Keith Farkas and Zvonko G. Vranesic and Michael Stumm},
    title = {Cache consistency in hierarchical-ring-based multiprocessors,},
    booktitle = {Proceedings Supercomputing (\textbf{SC'92})},
    location = {Minneapolis, MN USA},
    month = {November},
    year = {1992},
    pages = {348-357},
    doi = {10.1109/SUPERC.1992.236668},
    isbn = {0-8186-2630-5},
    keywords = {Memory architecture, protocols, shared memory systems, Hector shared-memory multiprocessor, cache consistency scheme, hierarchical-ring-based multiprocessors, scalability}
)