TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enables intelligent processing for enterprise, cloud, data center,
wired and wireless networking today announced ThunderX2™, its
second generation of Workload Optimized™ ARM server SoCs.
ThunderX2 targets high performance volume servers deployed
by Public/Private Cloud and Telco data centers and high performance
computing applications. It is optimized for key Data Center
workloads such as compute, security, storage, data analytics,
network function virtualization and distributed databases.
ThunderX2 will deliver two to three times the performance across a
wide range of standard benchmarks and applications compared to
ThunderX®. It also significantly expands the
market reach of the ThunderX family of processors by targeting
applications that require high single thread performance such as
web search, graph analytics, a variety of enterprise applications
such as massively parallel processing (MPP) databases, data
warehousing and enterprise HPC applications such as computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) and reservoir modelling. ThunderX2 will
deliver comparable performance at a better total cost of ownership
compared to the next generation of traditional server
processors.
ThunderX2 is the second generation Workload Optimized processor
from Cavium. It is based on the latest ARMv8-A architecture and
built on a 14nm FinFET process node. It is fully compliant
with ARM's Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) standard.
Key ThunderX2 features will include:
- 2nd generation of full custom Cavium ARM core
- Multi-Issue, Fully OOO.
- 2.4 to 2.8 GHz in normal mode, Up to 3 GHz in Turbo mode.
- > 2X single thread performance compared to ThunderX.
- Up to 54 cores per socket delivering > 2-3X socket level
performance compared to ThunderX
- Cache
- 64K I-Cache and 40K D-Cache, highly associative.
- 32MB shared Last Level Cache (LLC).
- Single and dual socket configuration support using
2nd generation of Cavium Coherent Interconnect with >
2.5X coherent bandwidth compared to ThunderX
- System Memory
- 6 DDR4 memory controllers per socket.
- Dual DIMM per memory controller, for a total of 12 DIMMs per
socket.
- Up to 3200MHz in 1 DPC and 2966MHz in 2 DPC configuration.
- Up to 3 TB of memory in dual socket configuration.
- Full system virtualization for low latency from virtual machine
to IO enabled through Cavium virtSOC™ technology
- Next Generation IO
- Integrated 10/25/40/50/100GbE network connectivity.
- Multiple integrated SATAv3 interfaces.
- Integrated PCIe Gen3 interfaces, x1, x4, x8 and x16
support.
- Integrated Hardware Accelerators
- OCTEON® style packet parsing, shaping, lookup, QoS
and forwarding.
- Virtual Switch (vSwitch) offload.
- Virtualization, storage and NITROX® V security.
"The Cavium ThunderX2 will expand the market opportunity for
ARM-based server technologies by addressing demanding application
and workload requirements for compute, storage networking and
security," said Simon Segars, CEO,
ARM. "ThunderX2 demonstrates Cavium's ability to deliver a
combination of innovation and engineering execution and the new
product family increases the momentum for server deployments
powered by ARM processors in large scale data centers and end user
environments."
The ThunderX2 family of processors includes FOUR workload
optimized processors targeting different workloads.
- ThunderX2_CP™: Optimized for cloud compute
workloads such as private and public clouds, web serving, web
caching, web search, commercial HPC workloads such as computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) and reservoir modeling. This family supports
multiple 10/25/40/50/100 GbE network Interfaces and PCIe Gen3
interfaces. It also includes accelerators for virtualization and
vSwitch offload.
- ThunderX2_ST™: Optimized for big data, cloud storage,
massively parallel processing (MPP) databases and Data warehousing
workloads. This family supports multiple 10/25/40/50/100 GbE
network interfaces, PCIe Gen3 interfaces and SATAv3 interfaces. It
also includes hardware accelerators for data protection/
integrity/security, user to user efficient data movement.
- ThunderX2_SC™: Optimized for secure web front-end,
security appliances and cloud RAN type workloads. This family
supports multiple 10/25/40/50/100 GbE interfaces and PCIe Gen3
interfaces. Integrated hardware accelerators include Cavium's
industry leading, 5th generation NITROX security technology with
acceleration for IPSec, RSA and SSL.
- ThunderX2_NT™: Optimized for media servers, scale-out
embedded applications and NFV type workloads. This family supports
multiple 10/25/40/50/100 GbE interfaces. It also includes OCTEON
style hardware accelerators for packet parsing, shaping, lookup,
QoS and forwarding.
"ThunderX2 combines our next generation core that will deliver
significantly higher single thread performance with next generation
IO and hardware accelerators to provide a compelling value
proposition for the server market and greatly expand the
serviceable server TAM," said Syed
Ali, President and CEO of Cavium. "ThunderX2 will enable
flexible, scalable and fully optimizable servers for next
generation software defined data centers."
Cavium's ThunderX2 SoC family is supported by a comprehensive
software ecosystem ranging from platform level systems management
and firmware to commercial Operating Systems, Development
Environments and Applications. Cavium has actively engaged in
server industry standards groups such as UEFI and delivered
numerous reference platforms to a broad array of community and
corporate partners. Cavium has also demonstrated its
leadership role in the Open Source software community driving
upstream kernel enablement for ThunderX, actively contributing to
Linaro's Enterprise and Networking Groups, investing in key Linux
Foundation projects such as Xen and OPNFV and sponsoring the
FreeBSD Foundation's ARMv8 server implementation.
Supporting Comments from Cavium ThunderX Partners
AMI:
"Since 2014, AMI has been an active partner with
Cavium, with the two companies collaborating to deliver the most
complete firmware and platform management solution in the scale-out
data center and cloud industry. AMI's scalable Aptio® UEFI
Firmware and MegaRAC® SP-X management solutions enable ThunderX
partners to quickly deliver complete system solutions to the
market. AMI is currently shipping production versions of Aptio UEFI
firmware and MegaRAC management solutions customized for ThunderX
to customers in US and Asia. We
see Cavium as a key partner with AMI in expanding our server design
capability to include the rapidly growing hyperscale market, as AMI
has been greatly impressed with the tremendous feature set and
truly differentiating technology that Cavium offers with ThunderX.
We expect that the latest generation of ARMv8 server announced
today – ThunderX2 – will continue to improve on that legacy of
distinction, and we have great optimism for the expanded
opportunities that this next-generation ARM server platform will
bring to our collective product offering and innovations,"
commented Subramonian Shankar, President and CEO of American
Megatrends, Inc.
Canonical:
"Canonical and Cavium have partnered since
the beginning of the ThunderX program and we have successfully
delivered the recent production release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on
ThunderX," said Mark Shuttleworth,
Founder, Canonical. "With the launch of ThunderX2 Cavium is
yet again demonstrating leadership in the ARMv8 server market and
Canonical is excited to collaborate on further extending and
optimizing Ubuntu and key Canonical features such as MAAS, Juju and
Snappy to further accelerate end user deployment and integration.
We congratulate Cavium on this major milestone
and look forward to continuing to expand our partnership."
E4:
"It is a honor to be able to rely on such a close
business relationship with a partner like Cavium, we designed and
delivered our own solutions based on Cavium ThunderX SoC for a
while now, with extreme satisfaction in terms of performances,
support and overall results. We can't wait to get our hands the
next gen SoC as we are confident it will provide an additional
boost to an already strong and tested product line."
Cosimo Gianfreda, CTO E4 Computer
Engineering.
FreeBSD:
"The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to be part
of the collaborative effort, working closely with ARM and Cavium,
as an integral player in bringing ARMv8 to FreeBSD, and is excited
to explore the options provided by Cavium's new processor family.
Cavium continues to play a key leadership role in developing
the ecosystem for ARM based servers and ThunderX2 will be another
driving force for expansion in the Open Source Community. We are
focused on supporting strategic technologies and working closely
with the community and commercial vendors, to facilitate and
monitor development work like this, to continue making FreeBSD a
compelling platform for education, research, and product
development." Deb Goodkin,
Executive Director, The FreeBSD Foundation.
Gigabyte:
"Gigabyte has developed and is already
shipping a range of Cavium ThunderX based server products to
customers in US, Europe and
Asia," said, Alex Liu, Head of Product Marketing, GIGABYTE.
"Our comprehensive portfolio of ThunderX-based systems is available
for order and a number of customers have received production units.
We are seeing strong demand for these ARM-based platforms –
especially from cloud service providers. The ThunderX2 represents a
leap ahead in terms of overall performance and connectivity, which
allows it to address demanding next generation data center
workloads such as real time analytics and deep learning. Gigabyte
will continue to partner with Cavium on ThunderX2 platforms."
Inventec:
"ThunderX2 from Cavium promises to be the
breakthrough ARM-based processor that the data center
market is looking for in terms of general compute intensive
scale-out workloads". said Banks Chen, Head of product center
division of Inventec.
Linaro:
"The ThunderX platform and Cavium's support
have been key components of the collaborative software engineering
in the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG), enabling continuous
integration and testing of our work upstream in projects like UEFI
and ACPI," said Linaro CEO George
Grey. "We are looking forward to integrating ThunderX2
systems into our workflow to accelerate development and further
optimize the enterprise software stacks on ARMv8."
NGINX:
"We are excited to see the continued growth of
Cavium's ARM based server product line with today's announcement of
ThunderX2," said Paul Oh, Head of
Business Development, NGINX, Inc. "With the proliferation
of new applications and digital services, NGINX Plus
provides a complete software-based application delivery
platform with full support for new technologies, such as efficient
and powerful ARMv8 based servers. We look forward to further
partnering with Cavium to drive the migration to cloud-based
content and application delivery."
Red Hat:
"As an inaugural member of the Red Hat ARM
Partner Early Access Program, Cavium has been a strong partner in
driving technical innovation and standardization within the ARM
ecosystem in the core areas such as UEFI and ACPI to the ARM SBSA
standard" said Tim Burke, vice
president, Linux Engineering, Red Hat. "With this latest version of
ThunderX family of processors Cavium brings support for scalable
server designs into the upstream Linux kernel. We look forward to
continuing our collaboration and enablement efforts with Cavium as
they deliver innovative designs based on ARM V8-A
architecture."
SUSE:
"Since SUSE announced its partner program to
bring SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 to ARMv8 processors, Cavium has
worked closely with us to not only deliver SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 12 to ThunderX customers, but we have also collaborated with
Cavium to bring SUSE Enterprise Storage to our joint customers,"
said Jay Kruemcke, SUSE product
manager. "The initial launch of ThunderX by Cavium raised the
standard for ARM servers with key capabilities such as dual socket
support, 96 core scalability and integrated server class
IO. Cavium has demonstrated great leadership in the ARM server
market, and the next-generation ThunderX2 SOC continues that
tradition."
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 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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