CF
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2007
ACM
In this work we reduce interconnect power dissipation in Symmetric Multiprocessors or SMPs. We revisit snoopy cache coherence protocols and reduce unnecessary interconnect activit...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Snoopy cache coherence can be implemented in any physical network topology by embedding a logical unidirectional ring in the network. Control messages are forwarded using the ring...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Snoopy cache coherence protocols broadcast requests to all nodes, reducing the latency of cache to cache transfer misses at the expense of increasing interconnect power. We propos...