Numascale SC09 Press Kit
November 16-19, 2009 Oregon Convention Center Portland, Oregon,
Booth 634
Press contact:
Jon Snilsberg, , +47 92203469
Numascale to Offer Affordable, Highly Scalable SMP Computing with NumaConnect
Combining the Low TCO of Clusters and Cache Coherent Shared Memory to Deliver High-End SMP Systems
At Supercomputing 2009 Numascale is presenting NumaConnect™, a new product series consisting of SMP adapter cards with their own →NumaChip onboard, used to build highly scalable SMP computers from clustered x86 servers using AMD’s HTX connectors.
Numascale's NumaConnect technology enables computer system vendors, system integrators and end users to build scalable servers at a fraction of the price of current enterprise systems. NumaConnect allows high volume manufactured server boards to be used as building blocks for systems with features that are only found in the high-end enterprise servers. NumaConnect includes full support for virtualization of processing, memory and IO resources and can be used with standard operating systems like Linux, Windows and Solaris. →About Numascale
The NumaConnect SMP Adapters will be generally available in Q3 of 2010.
Resources
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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
For early access to the technology Numascale introduce the →NumaConnect Software development Kit (SDK).
The NumaConnect™ SDK has been developed as a vehicle for customers to get early access to Numascale’s groundbreaking ccNuma technology. The SDK consists of a module that plugs into the HTX connector that can be found on AMD-based servers from some vendors.
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.
Recent News
Numascale and StatoilHydro start collaboration project for the application of Numascale’s technology to oil-exploration software
Stavanger-Oslo 15. September 2009
The NumaLoop project is funded under StatoilHydro’s LOOP Product Development Program
The project will build a computer system based on Numascale’s shared memory interconnect hardware and qualify the system for StatoilHydro’s applications. The project will provide analysis of the performance and capability advantages of the platform for the applications.
Read more on the Statoil Numascale project →here
Numascale and the University of Oslo prepare for large scale NumaConnect™ system for the University’s Center for Information Technology Services (USIT)
Oslo 08. September 2009
The objective of the program is to build a shared memory system based on standard high volume servers and Numascales’s interconnect as a prototype for the University’s next large computer system
Read the story →here
ProVenture Seed AS and Investinor AS with co-investors fund Numascale AS with NOK 30 million
Trondheim-Oslo 02. September 2009
Read about the Numascale financing →here
