SHANGHAI, July 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGABYTE
Technology (TWSE: 2376), a leading manufacturer of motherboards and
barebones for server applications, and Cavium Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM),
a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing for enterprise, cloud, and data
center, today announced a line-up of products built on the
industry-leading ThunderX family of workload-optimized ARM server
SoCs.
At a joint event in Shanghai,
GIGABYTE and Cavium officially announced the release of a range of
14 server SKUs – the results of co-operation based on the Cavium
ThunderX platform, utilizing GIGABYTE's almost 20 years of
experience in the server industry. With these products, the
partnership has produced a compelling, high performance
alternative to the incumbent solutions in the market. GIGABYTE and
Cavium had the honor of inviting ecosystem partners - ARM,
Innodisk, Linaro, Qlogic, Red Hat, and Suse - all of which have
committed resource to bringing ARM-based servers to the
mainstream enterprise market - as guest speakers at the event.
GIGABYTE and Cavium are working with these stakeholders to bring
higher performance-per-dollar to the server market and open up a
range of potential new applications.
This solution targets high performance volume servers deployed
by Public/Private Cloud and Telco data centers. It is optimized for
key Data Center workloads including compute, security,
storage, and distributed databases. GIGABYTE ThunderX servers
deliver comparable performance at a more compelling TCO than
traditional x86 server systems.
Key GIGABYTE ThunderX Server Features
GIGABYTE
has utilized its know-how to become the first and only server
vendor to capture the benefits of Cavium's revolutionary design and
bring disruptive new solutions to the market through
production-ready server products, which bring about:
- Adoption of the first dual-socket ARM SoC architecture that
scales up to 48 cores per processor with up to 2.0 GHz core
frequency
- The highest integrated I/O capability with up to 160Gb of I/O
bandwidth
- Four DDR4 72 bit memory controllers capable of supporting up to
1TB of memory in a dual socket configuration at 2133MHz
- Best in class performance per watt and performance per dollar
for storage and compute applications
- A comprehensive range of designs, from cost-focused entry level
solutions to high density storage and compute focused
platforms
"GIGABYTE has developed and is already shipping a range of
Cavium ThunderX-based server products to customers in US,
Europe and Asia," said Andy
Chen, AVP, Network and Communications Business Unit,
GIGABYTE. "Our comprehensive portfolio of ThunderX-based systems is
available for order and a number of customers have already received
production units. We are seeing strong demand for these ARM-based
platforms – especially from cloud service providers."
A comprehensive ecosystem is key to the development of a market
for ARM-based servers. To this end, we have been working with
stakeholders across the value chain. GIGABYTE's release partners
contributed their views on co-operation and the market in
general:
ARM:
"The momentum for ARM-based servers is building
and the new range of server products from GIGABYTE and Cavium
enhances choice for companies seeking to match compute needs with
the most energy and cost-effective solutions," said Lakshmi
Mandyam, senior marketing director of server program, ARM. "It is
excellent to see ARM partners at the heart of driving innovative
solutions that are delivering to the rigorous demands of cloud data
center application and workload diversity."
CAVIUM:
"The ARM server market is beginning to expand
and grow and mature," said Rishi
Chugh, Director, Data Center Processor Group at Cavium.
"GIGABYTE is the perfect partner to lead this effort and showcase
the breadth of ThunderX-based workload optimized server platforms
delivering the flexibility and performance required for next
generation cloud data centers."
Red Hat:
"Red Hat1 has been collaborating
with GIGABYTE for quite some time via the Red Hat ARM Partner Early
Access Program, as they worked to develop systems based on Cavium's
ThunderX processor family," said Tim
Burke, vice president, Linux Engineering, Red Hat. "These
new, scalable servers serve as an excellent example of the
technical innovation and standardization efforts within the growing
ARM ecosystem. We are very pleased that as a result of our joint
efforts we currently have Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM
Development Preview running on GIGABYTE systems in lab and
development environments."
Innodisk:
"Innodisk is a leading provider of
industrial-grade storage solutions. Innodisk's miniDIMM and RDIMM
series solutions, especially aimed at server and telecommunication
applications, have been certified by GIGABYTE and Cavium. Innodisk
has collaborated with GIGABYTE and CAVIUM for years and looks
forward to continuing to provide the best storage solutions in this
field," said Samson Chang, Vice
President, Embedded DRAM division of Innodisk.
SUSE
"SUSE's collaboration with Cavium and
GIGABYTE has helped to bring AArch64 and cloud
solutions to our customers, a development which is also highly
meaningful for the development of the industry," said
Andy Jiang, Vice President,
Asia Pacific & Japan General
Manager with SUSE. "With the hyper-scale hardware of GIGABYTE,
SUSE can now deliver the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE
Enterprise Storage and SUSE OpenStack Cloud to our clients. Cavium
and GIGABYTE have demonstrated strong leadership in the ARM server
market, and SUSE will work continue to closely with
them."
QLogic:
"The advent of data
center-class ARM processors provide end users options to tailor
hardware to suit specific workloads," said Greg Scherer, vice president and CTO, QLogic.
"The new ThunderX-based servers push the envelope of compute and
drive the need for higher speed I/O."
About GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE, headquartered in Taipei,
Taiwan, is known as a global brand in the IT industry, with
employees and business channels in almost every country. Founded in
1986, GIGABYTE started as a research and development team and has
since taken the lead in the world's motherboard and graphics card
markets.
On top of motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE has
become a leading producer of server hardware. Taking
advantage of many years of know-how in motherboard design and
manufacturing, GIGABYTE uses the most reliable components and aims
for the highest quality standards only. This focus on
excellence has allowed the company to work successfully with
the biggest names in the server industry over the years, fueling
its dedication to keep creating innovative server solutions
for the future.
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