FRANKFURT, Germany,
July 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products
that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center,
cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced the
availability of the Beta release of PathScale's optimized compiler
and library software for the ThunderX ARMv8-A processor
family.
ThunderX is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8 server processor family for
next generation datacenter and cloud applications. With up to 48
high-performance custom cores, single and dual socket capability,
high memory bandwidth and capacity, and integrated hardware
accelerators, ThunderX enables best-in-class ARMv8 performance per
dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes
multiple SKUs that enable servers optimized for compute, storage,
network and security workloads in the cloud, and is widely
supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor, software tool and
application vendors.
The EKOPath compiler for High Performance Computing (HPC)
supports advanced loop optimizations, SIMD vectorization and
many-core support. This release of EKOPath includes optimizations
specifically for the ThunderX microarchitecture as well as tuning
tailored to typical HPC workloads, including computationally
complex and data intensive applications as well as OpenMP. This
Beta release from PathScale provides essential support for ThunderX
to scale performance on both single SOC 48 core systems as well as
dual socket configurations of 96 cores and delivers the features
and capabilities previously available from PathScale on other
server architectures. Future releases of the PathScale EKOPath
compiler will further optimize for Cavium's memory controller
architecture that targets latency and memory sensitive HPC
applications.
The optimized PathScale BLAS libraries will help ensure
scientists who rely on DGEMM, SGEMM and math library performance
achieve the highest possible efficiency for Cavium's ThunderX
processors.
"PathScale's software will provide essential highly optimizing
compilers for C, C++ and Fortran HPC applications on ThunderX,"
said Larry Wikelius, Director
Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement at Cavium. "Today's
announcement is the latest example of Cavium's leadership in the
ARM server and HPC ecosystem. This release will dramatically
accelerate the development, optimization and delivery of software
on ThunderX based systems for the HPC market that are being
provided by Cavium partners such as Cray, Lenovo, E4 and ASUS."
"This Beta release of the PathScale software will enable the HPC
market to fully utilize the features that ThunderX delivers in both
single and dual socket configurations up to 96 cores," said
Christopher Bergstrom, Chief
Technology Officer, PathScale. "PathScale's HPC industry and
many-core expertise offers a tremendous combination to Cavium's
leadership in scalable SOC architecture and design."
The ThunderX family includes multiple workload optimized
processors that enable servers and appliances that are optimized
for compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads. The
ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8
architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA and SBBR
standards and is widely supported by industry leading OS,
Hypervisor and SW tool and application vendors.
ThunderX customer reference platforms will be on display at
Cavium booth #1105 at the International Supercomputing Conference
from Monday, July 13th to
Wednesday, July 15th in
Frankfurt, Germany. The
PathScale team will be jointly participating with Cavium at
ISC.
About PathScale
PathScale has developed industry leading high performance
Fortran, C and C++ compiler products for ARMv8, AMD GPU, NVIDIA GPU
and provides support to users desiring the highest level of
performance from their applications. The PathScale Compiler Suite
has the world's most advanced optimization infrastructure and can
fully exploit the potentials of many-core architectures The
company's goal is to deliver robust and high performance compilers
and GPGPU solutions tailored to clustered and multi-core computing
environments.
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data
center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications.
Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software-compatible
processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that
enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise,
data-center, broadband/consumer and access and service provider
equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners
that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and
other services. Cavium's principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in
California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com.
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