SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Nov. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Marvell® (NASDAQ:MRVL) today announced that it
has been awarded funding from Los Alamos National Laboratory to
accelerate the architecture, design and development of advanced
server technology required for more efficient usable operations per
second per watt or operations per second per dollar of programmer
time. With this funding, Marvell will focus on advancing key areas
of system architecture and silicon design that maximize the
efficiency and overall performance of large-scale supercomputers
that are critical for the most demanding and complex problems in
science and research. Key technology elements to be addressed
include processor core design, enhanced memory technology and
optimized processor interconnect architecture.
Improving computing efficacy is critical for future United
States Department of Energy high performance computing (HPC)
systems. As the nation's nuclear stockpile moves further from the
nuclear test base due to aging, remanufactured components, and Life
Extension Programs (LEPs), the need for efficient predictive
simulation is becoming increasingly urgent. Potential Advanced
Technology (AT) systems in 2021 and beyond envisioned by the
Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program will be critical to
the success of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP) and the current and planned LEP
activities. Having more efficient computing options for extreme
scale, multi-physics weapons simulations is at the heart of this
collaborative effort.
Marvell will leverage its experience and expertise in delivering
the currently shipping Marvell ThunderX2®
processor, which is the leading Arm®-based processor in
the HPC industry and is currently deployed at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory running classified simulation codes in support
of the SSP. The collaboration with LANL will leverage
extreme-scale, complex simulation expertise and provide some of the
most demanding simulation workload needs for next-generation
processor technologies to tackle.
"The funding from Los Alamos National Laboratory, combined with
our ongoing technical collaboration, will further accelerate our
designs and innovations for our future server products," said
Gopal Hegde, vice president and
general manager, Server Processor Business Unit at Marvell
Semiconductor, Inc. "Marvell has demonstrated the ability to
consistently deliver high performance Arm-based server SoC
solutions. ThunderX2, our second-generation Arm-based server
processor, combines high compute performance with best-in-class
memory bandwidth, memory capacity and rich IO configurations to
deliver compelling performance for a variety of cloud and HPC
applications, and is the industry's most widely adopted Arm-based
server processor. We look forward to working with Los Alamos in this next phase of exciting
technology development."
"This collaborative and integrated
development activity between LANL and
Marvell is the first step toward creating a
variety of new architectural components which will enable LANL's
goal of creating or enabling a family of system elements
which are centrally focused on
efficient mission-centric computing which is naturally
the focus of the new LANL-led Efficient Mission Centric Computing
Consortium (EMC3)," said Stephen
Poole, LANL senior architect. "All of these
activities will utilize a more balanced co-design process
where system elements move toward application needs at least as far
if not farther than applications have to move toward systems
element design, and all target being integrated into potential
future systems from multiple processor/component vendors and
integrators. Though the enhancements
and new capabilities are strategically targeted at
addressing LANL complex simulation needs, they will
certainly apply to many other complex computing needs."
About Los Alamos National Laboratory (www.lanl.gov)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research
institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national
security, is operated by Triad, a public service oriented, national
security science organization equally owned by its three founding
members: Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle), the Texas A&M University System (TAMUS), and the
Regents of the University of California
(UC) for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security
Administration.
Los Alamos enhances national
security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear
stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons
of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy,
environment, infrastructure, health, and global security
concerns.
About Marvell
Marvell first revolutionized the digital
storage industry by moving information at speeds never thought
possible. Today, that same breakthrough innovation remains at the
heart of the company's storage, processing, networking, security
and connectivity solutions. With leading intellectual property and
deep system-level knowledge, Marvell's semiconductor solutions
continue to transform the enterprise, cloud, automotive,
industrial, and consumer markets. To learn more,
visit: https://www.marvell.com/
Marvell, the M logo and ThunderX2 are registered trademarks of
Marvell and/or its affiliates. All other company names, product
names, and service names mentioned herein may be trademarks of
their respective companies.
Marvell Media Relations
Kristin Hehir
Senior Manager, Public Relations
408-222-8744
kristinh@marvell.com
Hanna Kang
Senior Manager, Public Relations
408-222-3780
hhkang@marvell.com
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