NumaConnect Adapter Card N323
Cable Connect
Scalable Cache Coherent Shared Memory on your Cluster Budget
Numascale's SMP Adapter is used with commodity servers with AMD processors with cable connection to HyperTransport.
N323
The N323 is connected to the server motherbpard via a cable and pick-up module.
Adapter set is available for IBM x3755 server.
N323 in a IBM x3755
NumaConnect Pick-Up Cable
NumaConnect Pick-Up Card
NumaConnect Essentials
ccNuma and Numa low latency shared memory interconnect
Virtualizes Everything, Including Memory and IO
>10x price/performance benefit over proprietary solutions
Seamless Scaling of Application Size and Performance - NO Porting Efforts
Scalable, Cache Coherent, Shared Memory System Interconnect
AMD processor nodes with Coherent HyperTransport
Based on field proven design
Enables commodity cost level for high-end servers
NumaConnect Features
Converts between snoop-based (broadcast) and directory based coherency protocols
Write-back to Remote Cache
Non-coherent transactions (for optimized MPI)
Pipelined memory access (16 outstanding transactions + 16 non-coherent)
Remote Cache size up to 4GBytes (remote data)
NumaConnect RAS Features
ECC for single bit correction and double bit detection
Automatic scrubbing after single bit error detection
Automatic background scrubbing to minimize probability of soft error accumulation
Flexible micro-coded coherence processing engine
Watch-bus for internal activity observation in real-time
Built-in Performance Counters
NumaConnect Specifications
Bandwidth to the node-local CPUs
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1 cHT link (16+16) @800MHz DDR = 6.4GB/s over HT Proprietary Cable
Latency for remote accesses
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Short time in node by-pass FIFOs
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Few "hops" on an average access patterns
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Only one or two dimension switch delays worst-case for 2-D or 3-D Torus topologies
Link Speed and capacity
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4 lane SerDes 4Gb/s per link, 6 links => 96Gb/s = 9.6GBytes/s x2 => 19.2GBytes/s
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Net average throughput on a ring is ≈1.4 times, unidirectional link speed with random access patterns less link and fabric overhead, total for 6 links => 26.9GBytes/s (multiple senders can be active simultaneously)
Remote Cache (RMC)
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2 or 4 GBytes per node, configurable
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System Performance expected to be more dependent on large size rather than faster access time => use of DRAM
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RMC access time will be close to neighbor CPU node-local memory access time
Address Range
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12 bits Node ID = 4k nodes max. (Multiple sockets per node possible)
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48 bits address (256 Terabytes)
- Local Node address range:
• N323-22 56 GigaBytes
• N323-44 112 GigaBytes
• N323-48 240 GigaBytes
NumaConnect OS Support
Linux, Windows Server, Solaris, Unix
