Cache coherence literature for big (>=16CPU) systems

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Published on 2010-02-06T14:31:40Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 5:30 UTC
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Hello

What books and articles can you recommend to learn basis of cache coherence problems in big SMP systems (which are NUMA and ccNUMA really) with >=16 cpu sockets?

Something like SGI Altix architecture analysis may be interesting.

What protocols (MOESI, smth else) can scale up well?

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