Question: what is the difference between a ring and a bus? I tried looking the words up and it seems to apply to network topology. Am I right to say that if the Shared L3 Cache didn't exist, then it will be a bus interconnect?
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@markwongsk: Yes, they are different interconnect implementations. I'll answer your question in the interconnects lecture in the second half of the course. The present of a cache does not change what the topology of the interconnect is.
Question: what is the difference between a ring and a bus? I tried looking the words up and it seems to apply to network topology. Am I right to say that if the Shared L3 Cache didn't exist, then it will be a bus interconnect?
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@markwongsk: Yes, they are different interconnect implementations. I'll answer your question in the interconnects lecture in the second half of the course. The present of a cache does not change what the topology of the interconnect is.
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