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References and Links
The most comprehensive source for Alewife information is the MIT Alewife Project Home Page. A great wealth of information is available through the site, including people, publications, pictures, and posters (they do seem to have a knack for allitteration). The papers I found most helpful are all on their publications page, and they are the following:- David Chaiken. Mechanisms and Interfaces for Software-Extended Coherent Shared Memory. Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, September 1994.
- Anant Agarwal, Ricardo Bianchini, David Chaiken, Kirk L. Johnson, David Kranz, John Kubiatowicz, Beng-Hong Lim, Ken Mackenzie, and Donald Yeung. The MIT Alewife Machine: Architecture and Performance. Proceedings ISCA '95
- David Chaiken, John Kubiatowicz, Anant Agarwal. LimitLESS Directories: A Scalable Cache Coherence Scheme. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS IV), pages 224-234, April 1991
- David Lars Chaiken. Cache Coherence Protocols for Large-Scale Multiprocessors. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, September 1990.
- David Chaiken and Anant Agarwal. Software-Extended Coherent Shared Memory: Performance and Cost. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture, pages 314-324, April 1994.
The following books also provided background information as well as some very useful (if sometimes conflicting) information regarding the Alewife project.
- David E. Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh (with Anoop Gupta), Parallel Computer Architecture: A Handware/Software Approach. Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
- Daniel E. Lenoski and Wolf-Dietrich Weber. Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing. Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.