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The Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI) is a point-to-point
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developed by
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which replaced the
Intel QuickPath Interconnect The Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) is a point-to-point processor interconnect developed by Intel which replaced the front-side bus (FSB) in Xeon, Itanium, and certain desktop platforms starting in 2008. It increased the scalability and avai ...
(QPI) in
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Skylake-SP platforms starting in 2017.


Interconnect

UPI is a
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coherent interconnect for scalable
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systems with a shared address space. It uses a directory-based home snoop coherency protocol with a transfer speed of up to 10.4 
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. Supporting processors typically have two or three UPI links. Comparing to QPI, it improves power efficiency with a new low-power state, improves transfer efficiency with a new packetization format, and improves scalability with protocol layer that does not require preallocation of resources. UPI only supports directory-based coherency, unlike previous QPI processors which supported multiple snoop modes (no snoop, early snoop, home snoop, and directory). A combined caching and home agent (CHA) handles resolution of coherency across multiple processors, as well as snoop requests from processor cores and local and remote agents. Separate physical CHAs are placed within each processor core and last level cache (LLC) bank to improve scalability according to the number of cores, memory controllers, or the sub-
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clustering mode. The address space is interleaved across different CHAs, which act like a single logical agent.


See also

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HyperTransport HyperTransport (HT), formerly known as Lightning Data Transport, is a technology for interconnection of computer processors. It is a bidirectional serial/ parallel high-bandwidth, low- latency point-to-point link that was introduced on Apri ...
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Front-side bus A front-side bus (FSB) is a computer communication interface (bus) that was often used in Intel-chip-based computers during the 1990s and 2000s. The EV6 bus served the same function for competing AMD CPUs. Both typically carry data between the ...


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Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family Technical Overview
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