Anatomy of a message in the Alewife multiprocessor

Shared-memory provides a uniform and attractive mechanism for communication. For efficiency, it is often implemented with a layer of interpretive hardware on top of a message-passing communications network. This interpretive layer is responsible for data location, data movement, and cache coherence....

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Main Authors: Kubiatowicz, John (Contributor), Agarwal, Anant (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015-11-03T19:03:13Z.
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