Today
GIGABYTE Technology and Cavium announced a new set of servers built on the
industry-leading ThunderX family of workload-optimized ARM server SoCs.
According to Cavium, the collaboration brings the world’s most powerful 64-bit
ARM-based servers to market to address increasingly demanding application and
workload requirements.
"The
momentum for ARM-based servers is building and the new range of server
products from GIGABYTE and Cavium enhances choice for companies seeking
to match compute needs with the most energy and cost-effective
solutions,” said Lakshmi Mandyam, senior marketing director of server
program, ARM. “It is excellent to see ARM partners at the heart of
driving innovative solutions that are delivering to the rigorous demands
of cloud data center application and workload diversity.”
The
server launch comes on the heels of news that ARM is being acquired by
Softbank investment group in Japan. At a joint event in Shanghai,
GIGABYTE and Cavium officially announced the release of a range of 14
server SKUs – the results of co-operation based on the Cavium ThunderX
platform, utilizing GIGABYTE’s almost 20 years of experience in the
server industry. With these products, the partnership has produced a
compelling, high performance alternative to the incumbent solutions in
the market. GIGABYTE and Cavium had the honor of inviting ecosystem
partners – ARM, Innodisk, Linaro, Qlogic, Red Hat, and Suse – all of
which have committed resource to bringing ARM-based servers to the
mainstream enterprise market – as guest speakers at the event. GIGABYTE
and Cavium are working with these stakeholders to bring higher
performance-per-dollar to the server market and open up a range of
potential new applications.
This
solution targets high performance volume servers deployed by
Public/Private Cloud and Telco data centers. It is optimized for key
Data Center workloads including compute, security, storage, and
distributed databases. GIGABYTE ThunderX servers deliver comparable
performance at a more compelling TCO than traditional x86 server
systems.
Key GIGABYTE ThunderX Server Features:
- - Adoption of the first dual-socket ARM SoC architecture that scales
up to 48 cores per processor with up to 2.0 GHz core frequency
- - The highest integrated I/O capability with up to 160Gb of I/O
bandwidth
- - Four DDR4 72 bit memory controllers capable of supporting up to 1TB
of memory in a dual socket configuration at 2133MHz
- - Best in class performance per watt and performance per dollar for
storage and compute applications
- - A comprehensive range of designs, from cost-focused entry level
solutions to high density storage and compute focused platforms
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"GIGABYTE has developed and is already shipping a range of Cavium ThunderX-based server products to customers in US, Europe and Asia,” said Andy Chen, AVP, Network and Communications Business Unit, GIGABYTE. “Our comprehensive portfolio of ThunderX-based systems is available for order and a number of customers have already received production units. We are seeing strong demand for these ARM-based platforms – especially from cloud service providers".
