The MIT Alewife Machine: A Large-scale Distributed-memory Multiprocessor
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Agarwal, Anant; Chaiken, David; Johnson, Kirk; Kranz, David; Kubiatowicz, John; Kurihara, Kiyoshi; Lim, Beng-Hong; Maa, Gino; Nussbaum, Dan; ... Show more Show less![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/149181/MIT-LCS-TM-454.pdf.jpg?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)
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The Alewife multiprocessor project focuses on the architecture and design of a large-scale parallel machine. The machine uses a low dimension direct interconnection network to provide scalable communication band-width, while allowing the exploitation of locality. Despite its distributed memory architecture, Alewife allows efficient shared memory programming through a multilayered approach to locality management. A new scalable cache coherence scheme called LimitLess directories allows the use of caches for reducing communication latency and network bandwidth requirements.
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1991-06Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TM-454