Module 14: "Directory-based Cache Coherence"
  Lecture 30: "SGI Origin 2000"
 


Directory-based Cache Coherence:

Virtual networks

Three-lane protocols

Performance issues

SGI Origin 2000

Origin 2000 network

Origin 2000 I/O

Origin directory

Cache and dir. states

Handling a read miss

Serializing requests

Handling writebacks

[From Chapter 8 of Culler, Singh, Gupta]
[SGI Origin 2000 material taken from Laudon and Lenoski, ISCA 1997]
[GS320 material taken from Gharachorloo et al., ASPLOS 2000]