The MIT Alewife Machine: A Large-scale Distributed-memory Multiprocessor
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Author(s)
Agarwal, Anant
Chaiken, David
Johnson, Kirk
Kranz, David
Kubiatowicz, John
Kurihara, Kiyoshi
Lim, Beng-Hong
Maa, Gino
Nussbaum, Dan
Date Issued
June 1991
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MIT-LCS-TM-454
Abstract
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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