Alewife (multiprocessor)
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
- ^ 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.
- doi:10.1109/5.747864.
- S2CID 14678370.
- .
- ^ 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.
External links
- MIT Alewife Project
- Kubiatowicz, John. "The Alewife-1000 CMMU: Addressing the multiprocessor communications gap" (PDF). hotchips.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 23, 2016. Retrieved Feb 5, 2020.