Alewife was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the early 1990s by a group led by Anant Agarwal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1][2] It was based on a network of up to 512 processing nodes, each of which used the Sparcle computer architecture,[3] which was formed by modifying a Sun Microsystems SPARC CPU to include the APRIL techniques for fast context switches.
[4] The Alewife project was one of two predecessors cited by the creators of the popular Beowulf cluster multiprocessor.
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