SAN JOSE, Calif., March 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), announced today that they are collaborating with
Microsoft on evaluating and enabling a variety of cloud workloads
running on Cavium's flagship ThunderX2 ARMv8-A Data Center
processor for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
The companies are also demonstrating web services on a version
of Windows Server developed for Microsoft's internal use running
cloud services workloads on ThunderX2. The server platform is based
on Microsoft's Project Olympus – Microsoft's next generation open
source hyperscale cloud hardware design. The demonstrations
will be shown at the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit in
San Jose on March 8 and 9, 2017 and are the result of an
extensive long term collaboration between the two companies.
The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation
64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoCs for Data Center, Cloud and
High Performance Computing applications. The family integrates
fully out-of-order high performance custom cores supporting single
and dual socket configurations. ThunderX2 is optimized to drive
high computational performance delivering outstanding memory
bandwidth and memory capacity. The new line of ThunderX2 processors
includes multiple workload optimized SKUs for both scale up and
scale out applications and is fully compliant with ARMv8-A
architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA and SBBR
standards. It is also widely supported by industry leading OS,
Hypervisor and SW tool and application vendors.
Cavium's hardware platform is fully compliant with Microsoft's
Project Olympus which is one of the most modular and flexible cloud
hardware designs in the data center industry. The platform
integrates two ThunderX2 processors in a dual socket configuration.
ThunderX2 SoC integrates a large number of fully out-of-order
custom ARMv8-A cores with rich IO connectivity for accommodating a
variety of peripherals for Azure, delivering excellent throughput
and latency for cloud applications. The platform has been designed
in collaboration with a leading server ODM supplier for
Microsoft.
"Cavium is excited to work with Microsoft on ThunderX2," said
Gopal Hegde, VP/GM, Data Center
Processor Group at Cavium. "ARM-based servers have come a long way
with first generation ThunderX-based server platforms being
deployed at multiple data centers, which enabled a critical mass of
ecosystem partners for ARM. We see the second generation products
helping to drive a tipping point for ARM server deployment across a
mainstream set of volume applications. Microsoft's support will
help accelerate commercial deployment of ARMv8 server platforms for
Data Centers and Cloud."
Dr. Leendert van Doorn,
Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp said,
"We're impressed with the innovation and competitiveness of the
latest generation of ARM server processors, like ThunderX2, and are
excited about the roadmap. Microsoft has developed a version of
Windows Server, for Microsoft's internal use, that supports
ARMv8. We have also been working closely with Cavium on
ThunderX2 to support Microsoft's Project Olympus design so they can
be consumed in our data centers."
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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