Design Verification of the S3.mp Cache-Coherent Shared-Memory System

  • Authors:
  • Fong Pong;Michael Browne;Andreas Nowatzyk;Michel Dubois;Günes Aybay

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA;Yago Systems, Sunnyvale, CA;Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA;Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;Yago Systems, Sunnyvale, CA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper describes the methods used to formulate and validate the memory subsystem of the cache-coherent Sun Scalable Shared-memory MultiProcessor (S3.mp) at three levels of abstraction: the memory consistency model, the cache coherence protocol, and the implementation