CSC/ECE 506 Spring 2010/ch 6 PP

Cache Structures of Multi-Core Architectures

6.1 Overview

With the advent of multicore and many core architectures, we are facing a problem that is relatively new to parallel computing, namely, the management of hierarchical parallel caches. This chapter describes some of the mainstream memory organizations in multiprocessor architectures. It also focuses on cache coherence and memory consistency issues and protocols to handle them.