SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- OCP Summit
-- Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of
semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent
processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that it
is collaborating with Microsemi Corporation, and Marvell (NASDAQ:
MRVL), leading providers of semiconductor solutions, to demonstrate
a reference architecture for accelerating and scaling out NVMe over
Fabrics (NVMe-oF™). The architecture will be demonstrated live on
ARM64 and x86 architectures at the OCP Summit 2018 in San Jose, California, in booth #A37.
Integrating a broad range of proven Cavium technologies
(ThunderX2® processors, FastLinQ® 100GbE
NICs, XPliant® Programmable Switches) with Microsemi's
Switchtec™ PCIe switches and Flashtec™ NVRAM cards and
Marvell's NVMe SSD controllers enables multiple differentiated and
validated end-to-end NVMe solutions, including NVMe-based all-flash
arrays (AFAs), just a bunch of flash (JBOF) and fabric-attached
bunch of flash (FBOF).
In addition to a robust hardware solution, the collaboration
enables software integrations of Microsemi's open source PCIe
peer-to-peer (P2P) technology and Cavium FastLinQ concurrent RoCE
and iWARP for Storage Performance Dataplane Kit (SPDK). This
solution enables new efficiencies and performance by offloading the
compute resources from the data path leveraging NVMe 1.2 Controller
Memory Buffer (CMB) technology.
At the OCP Summit 2018, Cavium, Microsemi and Marvell are
demonstrating concurrent 100Gbps NVMe-oF RoCE and iWARP
connectivity from FastLinQ 100GbE OCP NICs on x86 servers to a
Celestica Nebula JBOF (with Marvell NVMe SSD controllers) and
Facebook Lightning JBOF driven by Cavium's ThunderX2 and XPliant
platforms. The demonstration showcases how storage IHVs can
leverage PCIe P2P and SPDK technology to completely offload the
server CPU from the datapath and reduce latency.
"NVMe technology is rapidly changing the way cloud and
enterprise data centers connect to shared storage, but building
NVMe-oF solutions require industrywide technology integrations,"
said Christopher Moezzi, vice
president of marketing, Ethernet Server Adapter Group, Cavium.
"Cavium FastLinQ Universal RDMA technology combined with the
broader Cavium and Microsemi portfolio delivers a high performance
and validated reference platform for JBOF/FBOF implementations,
reducing risk and time to market for joint storage customers."
"We are excited to collaborate with Cavium as part of
Microsemi's Accelerate Ecosystem. Microsemi's leadership in NVMe
connectivity and peer-to-peer technology reduces time to market and
time to revenue for our joint customers in creating NVMe-oF
solutions," said Andrew Dieckmann
vice president of marketing for Microsemi. "The scale-out
capabilities of Microsemi's Switchtec PCIe switches and P2P data
plane offload combined with Cavium's unique concurrent RoCE and
iWARP NICs provides compelling flexibility, scale and performance
for enterprise data center and cloud applications."
"Marvell's NVMe cloud and enterprise SSD controller data center
customers are seeking to significantly scale and disaggregate their
storage solutions without compromising latency, performance or
reliability," said Nigel Alvares,
vice president of SSD and Data Center Storage Solutions at Marvell.
"Cavium's unique Universal RDMA capabilities built into the
FastLinQ 41000 Series Ethernet NICs, combined with its integration
across the broad Cavium portfolio, are well-positioned to meet the
requirements of next-generation data centers while offering
best-in-class total cost of ownership."
Cavium FastLinQ NVMe over Ethernet Universal RDMA
Solutions for NVMe-oF
Driven by the performance demands of NVMe, high performance, low
latency networking is a fundamental requirement for a fabric to
scale out. Ethernet-based RDMA fabrics with their exceptional low
latency and offload capabilities have become a popular choice for
NVMe-oF. Cavium FastLinQ 10/25/40/50/100GbE Ethernet adapters
support Universal RDMA (RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP) and deliver the
ultimate choice to customers for scaling out NVMe over a
general-purpose Ethernet fabric. In addition, Cavium LiquidIO® line
of SmartNIC solutions are key enablers for delivering JBOF/FBOF
management and AFA storage services like full IPSEC offloads,
compression and deduplication.
Cavium ThunderX2 Servers Solutions for NVMe and
NVMe-oF
The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second-generation,
64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoCs for the data center, cloud,
storage and high-performance computing applications. The family
integrates high-performance custom cores along with outstanding I/O
connectivity, memory bandwidth and capacity. Delivering high single
core performance and multiple PCIe lanes per socket, Cavium
ThunderX2 SoCs enable highly optimized JBOF/FBOF
configurations.
Cavium XPliant 3.2T Ethernet Switching Solutions for
NVMe-oF
The XPliant family of Ethernet switches improves compute
and storage application performance in cloud, enterprise, and
service provider data centers by offering a variety of industry
leading features. The XPliant Programmable Architecture enables
switching solutions that can be optimized for specific network
architectures, including storage networks. Integrated end-to-end
network performance management via the Packet Trakker™
instrumentation tool suite and large fully shared packet buffer
guarantee robust lossless performance required for scaling out
NVMe-oF.
Availability
Cavium ThunderX2 ARM64 processors, FastLinQ 100GbE OCP 2.0 NICs
with Universal RDMA and XPliant 3.2T Programmable Ethernet Switches
are generally available from Cavium and its collaborators
worldwide.
For more information, visit www.cavium.com ,
www.microsemi.com and www.marvell.com.
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) offers a broad portfolio of
infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching,
connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium's highly integrated
multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions
across low to high performance points enabling secure and
intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service
Provider equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported
by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application
stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is
headquartered in San Jose, CA with
design centers in California,
Massachusetts, India, Israel, China
and Taiwan.
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