Collaboration brings the world's most powerful 64-bit ARM®
based servers to market to address increasingly demanding application
and workload requirements
SHANGHAI,
China., July 19, 2016 –GIGABYTE Technology (TWSE: 2376), a leading manufacturer of
motherboards and barebones for server applications, and Cavium Inc. (NASDAQ:
CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for enterprise, cloud, and data center, today announced a line-up of
products built on the industry-leading ThunderX family of
workload-optimized ARM server SoCs.
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
GIGABYTE has utilized its know-how to become the first and only server vendor
to capture the benefits of Cavium’s revolutionary design and bring disruptive
new solutions to the market through production-ready server products, which
bring about:
- - 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
"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."
A comprehensive ecosystem is key to the
development of a market for ARM-based servers. To this end, we have been
working with stakeholders across the value chain. GIGABYTE’s release partners
contributed their views on co-operation and the market in general:
ARM:
"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.”
CAVIUM:
“The ARM server market is beginning to expand and grow and mature” said Rishi
Chugh, Director, Data Center Processor Group at Cavium. “GIGABYTE is the
perfect partner to lead this effort and showcase the breadth of ThunderX-based
workload optimized server platforms delivering the flexibility and performance
required for next generation cloud data centers.”
Red Hat:
"Red Hat1 has been collaborating with GIGABYTE for quite some time via the
Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program, as they worked to develop systems
based on Cavium's ThunderX processor family," said Tim Burke, vice
president, Linux Engineering, Red Hat. "These new, scalable servers serve
as an excellent example of the technical innovation and standardization efforts
within the growing ARM ecosystem. We are very pleased that as a result of our
joint efforts we currently have Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM
Development Preview running on GIGABYTE systems in lab and development
environments."
Innodisk:
“Innodisk is a leading provider of industrial-grade storage solutions.
Innodisk’s miniDIMM and RDIMM series solutions, especially aimed at server and
telecommunication applications, have been certified by GIGABYTE and Cavium.
Innodisk has collaborated with GIGABYTE and CAVIUM for years and looks forward
to continuing to provide the best storage solutions in this field,” said Samson
Chang, Vice President, Embedded DRAM division of Innodisk.
SUSE
“SUSE’s collaboration with Cavium and GIGABYTE has helped
to bring AArch64 and cloud solutions to our customers, a development which
is also highly meaningful for the development of the industry,” said Andy
Jiang, Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan General Manager with
SUSE. “With the hyper-scale hardware of GIGABYTE, SUSE can now deliver the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Enterprise Storage and SUSE OpenStack Cloud
to our clients. Cavium and GIGABYTE have demonstrated strong leadership in the
ARM server market, and SUSE will work continue to closely with them.”
QLogic:
“The advent of data center-class ARM processors provide end users options to
tailor hardware to suit specific workloads,” said Greg Scherer, vice president
and CTO, QLogic. “The new ThunderX-based servers push the envelope of compute
and drive the need for higher speed I/O.”
About GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is known as a global brand in the IT
industry, with employees and business channels in almost every country. Founded
in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a research and development team and has since
taken the lead in the world's motherboard and graphics card markets.
On
top of motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE has become a leading
producer of server hardware. Taking advantage of many years of
know-how in motherboard design and manufacturing, GIGABYTE uses the most
reliable components and aims for the highest quality standards only. This focus
on excellence has allowed the company to work successfully with the
biggest names in the server industry over the years, fueling its dedication to
keep creating innovative server solutions for the future.
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and
wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance up to
100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise,
data center, broadband and access & 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 offices
are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California,
Massachusetts, India, and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.Cavium.com.
Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
