SAN JOSE, Calif., March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 it has added support
for NVIDIA® Tesla® GPU accelerators in its ThunderX ARM®
processor family.
The ThunderX product family is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8 server
processor for next generation data center and cloud applications.
The ThunderX family integrates up to 48 high performance ARMv8-A
custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory
bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators,
integrated feature rich high bandwidth network and storage IO,
fully virtualized core and IO, and scalable high bandwidth, low
latency Ethernet fabric ThunderX enables best in class performance
per dollar and performance per watt.
The NVIDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform is the leading
platform for accelerating data analytics, deep learning and
scientific computing. By adding support for Tesla GPUs, Cavium will
further enhance the performance and compute efficiency that
ThunderX delivers to the server market.
Many key application and market segments will benefit directly
from this combination, including:
- High performance computing (HPC) workloads that require high
levels of double precision floating point compute
performance. These compute workloads also require high data
throughput and compute density which ThunderX delivers in both 48
core single socket configurations and 96 core dual socket
configurations.
- Data analytics workloads that require real-time results to
drive critical business decisions. The integration of compute
and storage that ThunderX delivers in an optimized SoC (System on
Chip) is critical to providing the complete system solution
required for leading data scientists.
Cavium will work closely with NVIDIA to optimize the system
hardware and software to enable the combination of Tesla GPU
accelerators with Cavium's ThunderX processors.
"Our collaboration with NVIDIA is yet another demonstration of
the Workload Optimized focus that Cavium is driving in the server
market with ThunderX," said Gopal
Hegde, VP/GM, Data Center Processor Group at Cavium.
"NVIDIA's leadership in high-performance computing solutions for
the HPC and data analytics markets is well recognized and
complements Cavium's continued innovation in processors for next
generation data center and cloud applications. Our partners
and customers will benefit with this collaboration as we continue
to drive application optimization, performance efficiency and TCO
advantage with ThunderX."
"GPU accelerators enable innovative ARM technology providers
like Cavium to deliver a new class of efficient, high-performance
computing solutions to HPC and enterprise customers," said
Sumit Gupta, general manager of
Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. "We look forward to working
with Cavium to deliver an expanded range of computing solutions to
accelerate customers' computationally intensive scientific,
engineering and data analytics workloads."
The ThunderX family includes multiple workload optimized SKUs
that enable servers and appliances that are optimized for compute,
storage, network and secure compute workloads. The ThunderX
processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture
specifications as well as ARM's SBSA and SBBR standards and is
widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and SW tool and
application vendors.
ThunderX customer reference platforms with NVIDIA Tesla GPU
accelerators will be on display in Cavium's booth #511 at the GPU
Technology Conference, McEnery convention center in San Jose from Tuesday
March 17th to Thursday
March 19th.
ThunderX processors with support for NVIDIA Tesla GPU
accelerators are expected to be available in Q2'2015.
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly
integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless
service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in performance
from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent
functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and
access and 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 office is in San Jose,
CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com.
ThunderX is a trademark of Cavium, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights
reserved. © Cavium, Inc. 2015.
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business are set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form
10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
March 2, 2015. All forward-looking
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