Network Transaction: A Common Building Block

One-way transfer of information from an output buffer at the source to an input buffer at the destination causing some kind of action to occur at the destination, the occurance of which is not directly visible at the source.
- E.g., read cache miss->data read on remote node
- Can generate new network transactions.

One-way transfer of information from an output buffer at the source to an input buffer at the destination causing some kind of action to occur at the destination, the occurance of which is not directly visible at the source.