Numascale

Numascale has developed a unique node controller hardware technology to lower the barrier for system vendors to design scale-up systems.

Numascale AS was founded in 2008. The Numascale technology includes a modular chip microarchitecture that allows system vendors to choose the right configuration to support their performance requirements. The microarchitecture incudes several parallel micro-coded memory transaction engines with a large number of outstanding memory transactions, memory controller for the cache and memory tags, a cross-bar switch for the interconnect fabric and a number of interconnect fabric link controllers. This means that there is no need for any external interconnect fabric switch, all switching is performed on-chip and the interconnect fabric is implemented with wiring through a PCB backplane or cables. The entire design for NumaConnect is implemented in a single FPGA or ASIC called NumaChip depending on the system vendor’s requirements.