The Wisconsin Multicube: a new large-scale cache-coherent multiprocessor

Author

Goodman, James R. ; Woest, Philip J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

30 May-2 Jun 1988

Firstpage

422

Lastpage

431

Abstract

The Wisconsin Multicube, a large-scale, shared-memory multiprocessor architecture that uses a snooping cache protocol over a grid of buses, is introduced. The authors describe its cache coherence protocol and discuss efficient synchronization primitive. Then they discuss a number of other important design issues and modeling results. They introduce the general Multicube topology and discuss the scalability of the Wisconsin Multicube. A formal description of the cache consistency protocol is also given

Keywords

buffer storage; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; protocols; Multicube topology; Wisconsin Multicube; cache coherence protocol; interconnection topology; large-scale cache-coherent multiprocessor; shared-memory multiprocessor architecture; snooping cache protocol; synchronization primitive; Coherence; Computer architecture; Delay; Grid computing; Hardware; Hypercubes; Large-scale systems; Programming profession; Protocols; Random access memory; Scalability; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Architecture, 1988. Conference Proceedings. 15th Annual International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0861-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCA.1988.5253

Filename

5253