SARC Coherence: Scaling Directory Cache Coherence in Performance and Power

  • Authors:
  • Stefanos Kaxiras;Georgios Keramidas

  • Affiliations:
  • Uppsala University, Sweden;Industrial Systems Institute, Greece

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The SARC project seeks to improve power scalability of shared-memory chip multiprocessors (CMPs) by making directory coherence more efficient in both power and performance. The authors describe how they eliminate two major sources of inefficiency for directory coherence protocols: invalidation traffic on writes and directory indirection for finding the writer.