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Cavium and Leading Partners Showcase ThunderX® ARM-based Server Platforms, QLogic® FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs for High Performance Computing at SC16
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 15, 2016 --
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 showcasing of
ThunderX based workload optimized server platforms and the QLogic
FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs for High Performance
Computing, Data Analytics, Scale Out Storage and Hyperscale Data Centers
at SC16 in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The show Expo dates are from Monday, November 14th to Thursday, November 17th.
ThunderX is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8server processor family
for next generation high performance computing and hyperscale
workloads. 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.
ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
From
the heart of the data center, to the edge of the enterprise, and in the
cloud, QLogic® Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters deliver an
uncompromising suite of features, performance and reliability with a
comprehensive suite of offerings that span 10GbE to 100GbE, and 8GFC to
32GFC (Gen6). QLogic Fibre Channel adapters are the gold standard in
SAN connectivity, trusted with running mission critical applications
across the world, and the QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet adapters are the most
flexible data networking solutions in the industry supporting FCoE,
iSCSI and RDMA transports. Together, these products make Cavium the
industry leader in high performance network connectivity solutions.
Show Highlights and Demonstrations
Cavium
executives will be available to discuss the broad range of ThunderX
based production platforms, which are ideal for critical workloads such
as highly parallel HPC applications, scale out storage with CEPH, Apache
Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases such as MySQL
& Cassandra, and Web Serving with NGINX. In addition to the ThunderX
based ODM and OEM platforms, Cavium's QLogic® FastLinQ Ethernet
Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs will be on display at Cavium's booth
#4057 including:
- QLogic FastLinQ 10/25/40/50/100 Gb Ethernet Adapters
- QLogic Enhanced Gen5 and Gen6 Fibre Channel Adapter
- ThunderX System Partners including: Aewyn, E4, Gigabyte and Lenovo
Cavium
representatives will also be presenting more details on ThunderX at a
number of partner sponsored events during the week. These events
include the ARM HPC User Group as well as presentations at the Red Hat
and SUSE booths during the week at the Convention Center.
To schedule a meeting at SC16, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter SC16 Meeting Request in the subject line.
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan.
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan.
Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
A sprinkling of Internet of Things ... and ... it's alive: Startup
Igneous Systems has re-discovered and re-imagined the idea of customers renting
an externally managed system on their premises, giving it an Internet of Things
(IoT) and public cloud make-over.
Customers
start with a 2x1 system of two dataRouters and one dataBox at a usable capacity
of 212TB. The dataRouters and dataBoxes can scale independently.
The
new angles are that IoT devices can generate vast amounts of data which is
difficult to send to a set of on-premises servers or the public cloud because
transmission is too slow and/or the data is sensitive and needs to be retained
on site.
Igneous's
answer is to store it locally in a public cloud-like, scale-out,
hyper-converged system that can run some compute processes on the data, and be
managed through the cloud. Example compute workloads are auto-tagging, metadata
extraction, image processing, and text analysis.
Igneous
owns and operates the on-premises equipment and the customer has a
capacity-based subscription pricing scheme. The systems are remotely managed
and monitored through a cloud service, and there is automated cloud management
processes for upgrades, troubleshooting, and failure management. Igneous claims
that these functions can be performed on a mirror of incoming and outgoing data
streams without slowing down low-level system functions.
The
Igneous architecture utilises a microservices approach and incorporates stream
processing, an event-driven framework, and container services.
The
equipment is based on ARM-powered nano-servers, with each being a disk drive,
ARM processor and Ethernet link. Igneous calls this a JBOND - Just a Bunch of
Networked Drives. There is a SoC (System On Chip) with a Linux-running Marvell
32-bit Armada 370 processor, with two Cortex-A9 cores running at up to 1 GHz.
Networking is via two 1 GbitE ports, and the nanoservers operate in a kind of
mesh.
It
reminds El Reg of Seagate's Ethernet-addressed Kinetic disk drives, except that
Igneous has had its own nanoservers built and the JBOND is accessed as an S3
data store. Any processing capabilities to operate on the stored data need
adding. Data is stored using erasure coding and failed nanoserver disks have
data rebuilt using other nanoservers.
We
also think 32-bit ARM CPUs look a bit light in compute power terms and 64-bit
ones will need to be used if any serious compute is going to be done on the
data.
Access
is via Amazon's S3 API across a customer's 10Gbit Ethernet infrastructure.
Other public cloud service access protocols will probably be added in the
future.
A
dataBox has 60 drives (nano-servers with 6TB disks) in a 4U enclosure and is a
capacity store. A dataRouter is a stateless 1U server used for protocol
endpoints and keeping track of data in the nanoserver mesh.
There
is some existing third-party software support. For example, Commvault Virtual
Server Protection (VSP) enables users to back up to an Igneous System and
Infinite IO works with Igneous.
This
Igneous nanoserver kit is an interesting start in what we might ultimately call
micro or nano hyper-converged systems. Getting involved with it means
leading/bleeding edge work for Linux and S3 buffs.
Get
a datasheet here. The Igneous Data Service is available immediately to
customers in North America. Customers can purchase annual subscriptions in
increments of 212TB of usable capacity, starting at under $40,000 (equivalent
to 1.5 cents/GB/month). This is claimed to be lower than the cost of S3 (3
cents/GB/month). Volume discounts are available, based on installed capacity or
contract duration. ®
