Module 8: Memory Consistency Models and Case Studies of Multi-core
  Lecture 15: Memory Consistency Models and Case Studies of Multi-core
 

The Lecture Contains:

Memory Consistency

SC

SC in MIPS R10000

Relaxed Models

CMP

Why CMP?

Moore's Law

Power Consumption?

ABCs of CMP

IBM POWER4

4-chip 8-way NUMA

32-way: Ring Bus

POWER4 Caches

POWER4 L2 Cache