Alewife:

In my previous life, I was a graduate student in the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I was involved in both the hardware and software building efforts for the MIT Alewife Machine, a cache-coherent distributed-memory multiprocessor. The Alewife Project investigated several interesting architectural features for large-scale distributed shared memory machines, including the integration of message passing and shared memory communication models, software-extended directory-based cache coherence, block multithreading, and full-empty bits for fine-grain synchronization.

Below is a picture of an Alewife node. For more details, check out the Alewife home page.

Last updated: January 1999 by Donald Yeung (yeung@eng.umd.edu)