FRANKFURT, Germany,
June 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Sugon
Information Industry Co. Ltd ("Sugon"), a leader in China's HPC sector and the largest HPC
manufacturer in Asia announced
availability of a new blade based on Cavium's (NASDAQ: CAVM)
ThunderX Workload Optimized™ processors for Galaxis SDC1000 Data
Center server platform.
Sugon Information Industry Co., Ltd ("Sugon") is a high-tech
enterprise formed on the basis of significant scientific and
technological achievements under Chinese National 863 Program, with
the strong drive from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sugon
specializes in the research, development and manufacture of
high-performance computers, general servers and storage products,
software services, system integration and other technical support
for high-end server platforms. Sugon has won top spot on the list
of list of China's TOP 100
supercomputers by market share for six years in a row from 2009 to
2015. Sugon is publicly traded on Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock
code: 603019).
Sugon's Galaxias SDC1000 server delivers a revolutionary data
center platform that brings together processors, networks, storage
and IO devices in a unified 4U energy efficient system. The server
provides flexible balance between computing, network and storage
capabilities thereby reducing resource pooling overheads. SDC1000
can be used for deploying applications such as Hadoop, Spark and
resources scheduling software
Galaxis SDC1000 can accommodate up to 16 ThunderX based blades
with up to 64GB of memory per CPU. It supports both dedicated and
shared storage options for the blades, dedicated 10G KR network and
a 1GbE management network per blade. Each node can be provisioned
on demand through a management console. Galaxias SDC1000 can scale
from a single chassis with 32 nodes to multiple chassis in a rack
and to multi-rack system with a 100GbE 3D torus network
The ThunderX product family is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8-A server
processor for next generation Data Center and Cloud applications,
and features high performance custom cores, single and dual socket
configurations, high memory bandwidth and large memory capacity.
The product family also includes 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, which affords ThunderX best-in-class
performance per dollar and watt. They are fully compliant with
ARMv8-A architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA and SBBR
standards, and widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor
and Software tool and application vendors.
"Our customers continue to demand continued platform innovation
that reduces TCO and increases workload performance: said Dr.
Xiaojun Yang, Chief Engineer, Sugon
Information Industry. "The ThunderX based blades for Galaxis
SDC1000 enhances our platform offering to deliver optimized
performance key cloud storage and big data workloads, and will
allow our customers to meet growing performance demands within
their existing infrastructure."
"We are pleased to partner with Sugon Information Industry on
their flagship Galaxis SDC1000 data center server platform," said
Gopal Hegde, VP/GM Data Center
Processor Group, Cavium. "The new ThunderX based blades
utilize full range of capabilities of ThunderX SOCs and will
deliver best-in-class performance and outstanding TCO for cloud
storage and big data applications".
Availability
ThunderX blades for Galaxias SDC1000 is
sampling today.
About Sugon
Sugon Information Industry Co., Ltd
("Sugon") is a high-tech enterprise formed on the basis of
significant scientific and technological achievements under the
National 863 Program, with the strong drive from the Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Sugon specializes in the research, development
and manufacture of high-performance computers, general servers and
storage products as well as providing the service of software
designing, system integration and other technical support based on
high-end computers. In 2014, Sugon was successfully listed on
Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 603019).
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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