Numascale ISC'11 Press Kit
ISC’11 - Exhibition – June 20 – 22, 2011, CCH–Congress Center Hamburg Am Dammtor / Marseiller Straße, 20355 Hamburg Germany
Booth 710
Monday, June 20 3:00 pm – 9:30 pm
- (ISC Welcome Party begins at 6:00 pm)
Tuesday, June 21 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Wednesday, June 22 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Press contact:
Jon Snilsberg, , +47 92203469
Numascale Announces support for Supermicro 1042G-LTF and IBM System x3755 M3 with multi socket 8/12 core AMD Opteron 6000 Series
Demonstrating NumaConnect Scalable Shared Memory System at ISC’11 in Hamburg
Numascale, a provider of innovative technology for cost-effective shared memory and cluster computer systems, announces support for their NumaConnect technology on new servers from IBM and Supermicro. Both servers use Socket G34, supporting the 8 or 12 core AMD Opteron Magny-Cours processors. This lays the foundation for an increased scalability in high-performance SMP systems using standard servers and NumaConnect SMP adapters.
The Supermicro 1042G-LTF is a 1U server with a combined HTX/PCIe slot allowing for high density, highly scalable systems. The NumaConnect SMP adapter card plugs in via an HTX riser-card and enables cache coherent shared memory across all servers in the system. The NumaChip on the SMP adapter combines a high-speed, low-latency 3D torus interconnect and a cache coherent memory controller which allows creating single systems with up to 256TB of shared memory.
Resources
Press release →Numascale at ISC10
Birds Of a Feather session, download PDF slides: →Return of the SMP
Click the images to download pdf documents
Flyer on the →NumaConnect SMP Adapter.
Numascale's SMP Adapter is an HTX card made to be used with commodity servers with AMD processors that feature an HTX connector to its HyperTransport interconnect.
Scalable, Directory Based Cache Coherence Protocol
Write-back cache for Remote Data: 2 or 4GB options, standard SDIMMs
White Paper by Douglas Eadline:
SMP Redux: You Can Have It All.→Download the SMP Redux White Paper
Eadline analyzes the place for SMP systems in HPC and the role that Numascale's products will play in this context.
A whitepaper that introduces you to the NumaChip and the technology.
The HTML version of the whitepaper can be found →here
Brief:
Numascale's NumaConnect™ technology enables computer system vendors to build scalable servers with the functionality of enterprise mainframes at the cost level of clusters.
NumaConnect differentiates from all other interconnects in providing a true high-performance ccNuma architecture and thereby the ability to provide unified access to all resources in a system and utilize caching techniques to obtain very low latency.
A Qualitative Discussion of NumaConnect vs InfiniBand and other high-speed networks
The HTML version of the whitepaper can be found →here
Brief:
The main focus of InfiniBand was to be able to encapsulate any packet format and provide high bandwidth connections between systems and their peripherals as well as between systems. InfiniBand is a "shared nothing" architecture. This means that all communication requires a driver level in software to control the communication and handle buffers for the RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) engines.
NumaConnect provides a scalable, low-latency, high bandwidth interconnect with full support for cache coherence. The shared address space allows processors to access remote memory directly without any software driver level intervention and no overheads associated with setting up RDMA transfers. A NumaConnect system addresses all memory and all memory mapped I/O devices directly.
