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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael A. Blake, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Timothy C. Bronson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Pak-kin Mak, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Vesselina K. Papazova, Highland, NY (US);
Robert J. Sonnelitter, III, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to managing a shared high-level cache for dual clusters of fully connected integrated circuit multiprocessors. An example of a computer-implemented method includes: providing a drawer comprising a plurality of clusters, each of the plurality of clusters comprising a plurality of processors; providing a shared cache integrated circuit to manage a shared cache memory among the plurality of clusters; receiving, by the shared cache integrated circuit, an operation of one of a plurality of operation types from one of the plurality of processors; and processing, by the shared cache integrated circuit, the operation based at least in part on the operation type of the operation according to a set of rules for processing the operation type.