Alewife (multiprocessor)

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Alewife was a

CPU to include the APRIL techniques for fast context switches.[4]

The Alewife project was one of two predecessors cited by the creators of the popular

Beowulf cluster multiprocessor.[5]

References

  1. ^ Agarwal, A.; Chaiken, D.; Johnson, K.; Kranz, D.; Kubiatowicz, J.; Kurihara, K.; Lim, B. H.; Maa, G.; et al. (1991), The MIT Alewife Machine: A Large-Scale Distributed-Memory Multiprocessor, Tech. Report TM-454, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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  5. ^ Sterling, Thomas; Becker, Donald J.; Savarese, Daniel; Dorband, John E.; Ranawake, Udaya A.; Packer, Charles V. (1995), "Beowulf: A parallel workstation for scientific computing", Proc. 24th Int. Conf. Parallel Processing, vol. I, pp. 11–14.

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