Numascale Builds A 5184 AMD Core Shared Memory System

Our friends at Numascale have assembled the world's largest shared memory system to date: 5184 CPU cores with 20.7 terabytes of shared memory.

The Norwegian company unveiled today during the Super Computing '14 conference that they've delivered to a North American customer the largest shared memory system ever assembled. Using AMD Opteron processors in Supermicro 1U Servers, with the Numascale interconnect technology they've linked up 108 of these servers to provide a single system image and 20.7 TBytes of memory to all 5184 CPU cores. The system is, of course, running Linux.

Numascale with their NumaConnect technology is very interesting having tried it myself. At the time I benchmarked 256 AMD CPU cores interconnected with shared memory. See that earlier Phoronix article for more information on this technology.

Find out more about this record breaking shared memory system build at Numaq.com. Embedded below is also a video from SC13 about their technology.