FRANKFURT, Germany,
July 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of Data
Center solutions today announced collaboration with Mellanox
Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and
Ethernet interconnect solutions for extreme scale computing, data
center server and storage systems to deliver InfiniBand
connectivity for Cavium's ThunderX processor family.
Pushing the frontiers of science and technology requires
extreme-scale computing. Mellanox specializes in delivering
high-bandwidth, high-performance interconnects for HPC, Web 2.0,
cloud, storage and financial services markets, increasing
datacenter efficiency by providing high throughput and low
latency. Mellanox IB adapters include advanced acceleration
technology enabling higher cluster efficiency and large scalability
to tens-of-thousands of nodes.
The ThunderX product family is designed for intensive scale-out
workloads such as molecular dynamics, big data, and large-scale
graph analytics, providing best-in-class ARMv8 performance with 48
custom cores, single and dual socket support, high memory bandwidth
and capacity, and integrated hardware accelerators. Mellanox
InfiniBand adapters provide very high bandwidth and ultra-low
latency interconnect for ThunderX based servers utilized in high
performance computing clusters.
"Mellanox and Cavium have similar goals: Delivering
best-in-class, scalable products that accelerate HPC and Hyperscale
workloads and drive greater return on investment," said
Gilad Shainer, Vice President,
Marketing, Mellanox Technologies. "Cavium's powerful and
scalable ARM SOCs are a great match for our highly-scalable,
low-latency InfiniBand solutions, and we look forward to delivering
optimal performance for our HPC, cloud and big data
customers."
"High performance compute clusters leveraging high performance
scale out compute technologies based on ThunderX require a very
high bandwidth and ultra-low latency cluster interconnects," said
Gopal Hegde, VP/GM, Data Center
Processor Group, Cavium. "We optimized our ThunderX ARMv8
processors to deliver best-in-class performance for HPC and
Hyperscale workloads, with 48 cores, high memory bandwidth, and
onboard accelerators. This collaboration with Mellanox will
enable an InfiniBand interconnect option to our customers for high
performance and ultra-low latency interconnects for their HPC
platforms based on ThunderX processors."
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 & 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
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