Broadcom’s Industry-Leading Data Center SoC Delivers Breakthrough Performance & Efficiency for Smart NIC & Scale-Out Storag...
August 03 2017 - 11:00AM
News Highlights:
Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ:AVGO), a leading designer, developer and
global supplier of a broad range of digital and analog
semiconductor connectivity solutions, today announced a new family
of data center system-on-chip (SoC) devices, the BCM58800, designed
for Smart NIC and scale-out storage applications. The BCM58800
provides significant advantages by integrating Broadcom’s
market-proven 100G NetXtreme® Ethernet NIC, eight
high-performance 3GHz 64-bit ARM® v8 Cortex®-A72 cores, 100G
encryption / decryption, and PCIe 3.0 connectivity.
Using the 16nm FinFET+ process minimizes power consumption
and enables the highest CPU performance to deliver breakthrough
data plane acceleration and storage performance in a compact form
factor.
Key Features & Benefits
- Advanced Smart NIC Adapter with Highly Efficient Hardware
Acceleration Engines
- Integrates industry-standard ARM processors, encryption /
decryption offload engines, and a 100G full-featured
NetXtreme NIC with TruFlow™ connected to high-speed interfaces to
accelerate application performance
- Incorporates RoCEv2 and SR-IOV enhancing network data transfers
and I/O performance
- Fits in industry standard server form factors including a
half-height, half-length PCIe form factor for ease of
deployment
- Compact Low-power, High-performance 100G Data Center SoC
- Octa-core 3GHz ARMv8 Coretx-A72 CPU architecture with optimal
power efficiency and industry leading performance enabled by 16nm
FinFET+ process
- 3 DDR memory channels delivering up to 50% higher memory
bandwidth for improved application performance compared to
dual-channel implementations
- Highly-optimized 100G NVMe-over-Fabric (NVMe-oF) Storage Target
Controller
- High-bandwidth 100G Ethernet connectivity maximizes data access
performance and scalability of disaggregated storage
- Fully integrated NVMe-oF solution with erasure and RAID offload
engines minimizes latency to improve overall system
performance
“Integrating an industry-leading 3GHz CPU complex with our
market-leading NetXtreme Ethernet NIC portfolio in a low power
footprint, the BCM58800 sets the bar for SmartNIC and NVMe-oF
disaggregation storage solutions,” said Ed Redmond, senior vice
president and general manager of the Compute and Connectivity
Division at Broadcom. “The feature set and performance of this
purpose-built data center SoC is unprecedented and will allow our
customers to build and deliver innovative SmartNIC and NVMe-oF
solutions never before possible.”
“As the industry looks for solutions to tackle the challenges of
continually and quickly evolving datacenters, SmartNICs with 64-bit
ARM support offer a new solution with the flexibility to keep
pace,” said Leendert Van Doorn, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft
Corp. “Small form factor, low power solutions built with 3GHz ARM
processors that conform to industry standards are showing an
ability to quickly respond to the continual changes in the
datacenter.”
“Quanta/QCT is excited to be partnering with Broadcom on next
generation server and storage technologies to address the continued
need for accelerated data center systems. Enabled by Broadcom’s
latest data center storage technology in all-flash NVMe drive
arrays, we can meet our customers’ strictest workload needs,” said
Mike Yang, president of QCT. “Through this partnership, we are
looking forward to our customers enjoying servers with improved
data rates.”
“Wistron is committed to the NVMe-oF market and believes the
BCM588xx will help enable our success in this new and growing
storage market,” said Peter Tung, chief operation officer of
Enterprise Business Group at Wistron. “The combination of
Broadcom’s expertise in networking and storage SoC along with
Wistron’s market-leading storage appliances will provide a powerful
NVME-oF solution to our end customers.”
“The BCM58800 from Broadcom is an ideal SoC solution for our
NVMe over Fabric storage products to directly address the newly
developing NVMe-oF market,” said Stephen Cheng, senior director of
Hardware Platform Solutions at Celestica. “Creating storage
solutions that combine Broadcom’s BCM58800 and Celestica’s
market-leading NVMe storage platforms allows our end customers to
easily take advantage of all the benefits NVMe-oF has to offer with
minimum effort while maximizing performance.”
“CNEX Labs is pleased to partner with Broadcom to bring
ground-breaking, highly scalable NVMe-oF reference designs
to the rapidly growing data center storage market,” commented
Dr. Alan Armstrong, CEO of CNEX Labs. “Broadcom is a global leader
in Ethernet networking and SOCs, and the combination of Broadcom’s
BCM58800 data center SoC for NVMe-oF disaggregated storage
arrays and CNEX Labs’ best-in-class NVMe and Open Channel
SSD controllers will bring unprecedented quality-of-service (QoS),
throughput, power efficiency, and scalability to meet the
increasingly diverse and stringent demands of the cloud
and hyper-scale storage market.”
“With storage disaggregation and NVMe adoption driving the
growth of NVMe-oF, we project Ethernet is well positioned to
capture 75% of the NVMe-oF market,” said Mike Heumann, managing
partner of G2M. “Broadcom is well positioned to capitalize on
the quickly evolving NVMe-oF market with its new BCM58800 SoC which
provides a 100G fabrics solution in a power efficient design with
industry leading 3GHz ARM processing complex. These capabilities
should enable end users to meet the increasing demands of this fast
growing market.”
Availability
Broadcom is currently sampling the compact BCM58802 controller
in a production Smart NIC form-factor (half-height, half-length
PCIe 3.0 NIC) along with the BCM58808 controller in an ATX-style
platform for storage target evaluation. Please contact your local
Broadcom sales representative for samples and pricing.
Further information on Broadcom’s BCM58800 products is available
online
athttps://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/controllers/bcm58800
About Broadcom
LimitedBroadcom Limited is a leading designer,
developer and global supplier of a broad range of digital and
analog semiconductor connectivity solutions. Broadcom Limited’s
extensive product portfolio serves four primary end markets: wired
infrastructure, wireless communications, enterprise storage and
industrial & other. Applications for our products in these end
markets include: data center networking, home connectivity, set-top
box, broadband access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones
and base stations, data center servers and storage, factory
automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and
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