Processor subsystem interconnect architecture for a large symmetric multiprocessing system

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 323-337

  Mak, Pak Kin ^a   Strait, Gary E ^a   Blake, Michael A ^a   Kark, Kevin W ^a   Papazova, Vesselina K ^a   Seigler, A E ^a   Van Huben, Gary A ^a   Wang, Liyong ^a   Wellwood, George C ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; CACHE MEMORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SERVERS;

CACHE COHERENCY; FIELD REPLACEABLE UNIT; MEMORY COHERENT DIRECTORY;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4043154404     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.483.0323     Document Type: Article

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