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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kubiatowicz, John, Agarwal, Anant
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99692
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7015-4262