Proud advisor moment: Igi Brkić presented his master’s work at NoCArc 2023, co-located with #micro2023. The industry shift to chiplets lowers cost but can hurt performance. We find that the performance penalty of chiplets varies wildly across parallel applications (up to almost 2x slowdown) and correlates with invalidation intensity: INV msgs/instr. See more in our paper https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~mcj/papers/2023.disintegration-slowdown.nocarc.pdf