Automatic Management of Locality in a Scalable Cache- Coherent Multiprocessor: The MIT Alewife Machine

Alewife实验的目标是证明并行计算机系统既可扩展又易于编程。为了实现这一目标，一个名为Alewife的可扩展并行计算机系统正在被设计、建造和评估，作为这个项目的实验工具。该系统是一组网状连接的处理器节点，每个节点由一个稍作修改的SPARC处理器（称为SPARCLE）、一些主存储器和缓存、一个加州理工学院的路由芯片和一个定制的存储器管理电路组成，所有这些都在定制的PC板上。

Agarwal The goal of the Alewife experiment is to demonstrate that a parallel computer system can be made both scalable and easily programmable. To achieve this end, a scalable parallel computer system called Alewife is being designed, built and evaluated as the experimental vehicle for this project. The system is a mesh- connected set of processor nodes, each consisting of a slightly modified SPARC processor, called SPARCLE, some main memory and cache, a Caltech route chip, and a custom memory management circuit, all on a custom PC board.