Module 14: "Directory-based Cache Coherence"
  Lecture 33: "SCI Protocol"
 


Directory-based Cache Coherence:

Special Topics

Sequent NUMA-Q

SCI protocol

Directory overhead

Cache overhead

Handling read miss

Handling write miss

Handling writebacks

Roll-out protocol

Snoop interaction

Protocol processor

[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]