Real time emulation of coherence directories using global sparse directories

摘要

A method and structure for an emulation system comprises of a plurality of field programmable gate arrays adapted to emulate nodes of a multi-node shared memory system, a plurality of cache directories, each connected to one of the arrays, and a plurality of global coherence directories, each connected to one of the arrays. Each of the global coherence directories maintain information on all memory lines remotely cached by each of the cache directories.