Fong Pong, M. C. Browne, Andreas G. Nowatzyk, Michel Dubois
Abstract
This paper describes the methods used to formulate and validate the memory subsystem of the cache-coherent Sun Scalable Shared-memory MultiProcessor (S3.mp) at three levels of abstraction: the memory consistency model, the cache coherence protocol, and the implementation.
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This paper describes the methods used to formulate and validate the memory subsystem of the cache-coherent Sun Scalable Shared-memory MultiProcessor (S3.mp) at three levels of abstraction: the memory consistency model, the cache coherence protocol, and the implementation.
Key concepts: Cache coherence, MESI protocol, Computer science, MESIF protocol, Parallel computing, Shared memory, Bus sniffing, Cache-only memory architecture