Platform to expand software developer environment and accelerate
application optimization
SAN JOSE, CA, March 20, 2018 – GIGABYTE Technology, an industry leader in
high-performance servers, graphics and gaming platforms with a broad portfolio
of workstation products, and Cavium™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading
provider of semiconductor products for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired
and wireless networking, today announced the availability of ThunderXStation™:
the industry’s first 64-bit Armv8 workstation platform based on Cavium’s
flagship ThunderX2® processor.
Workstations are standalone platforms
with high performance CPUs, lots of memory and excellent graphics capabilities,
widely used for advanced software development. ThunderXStation integrates dual
socket ThunderX2 motherboard in a 4U tower suitable for office environments.
Arm has a very strong ecosystem with millions of developers and is the
processor of choice for a variety of verticals such as mobile, embedded and
IoT. Arm software developers currently utilize binary translators and cross
compilers resulting in increased development and debug cycles. By delivering
native performance and eliminating the need for cross compilers,
ThunderXStation simplifies software development for Arm and significantly
improves time to solution delivery.
Developers need their
workstations to include comprehensive software development environment
including latest compilers, tool chains, libraries and middleware. For gaming
application development, excellent graphics capabilities are required. In
addition, developers also need the ability to quickly test and debug their
code.
ThunderXStation offers
unprecedented performance and flexibility for Arm software development for
Android, gaming, embedded and NFV applications. Each system comes preinstalled
with comprehensive software development environment, enabling developers to
rapidly develop, debug and release applications for Arm processors. Key
preinstalled software development tools include gcc 7.2, LLVM, gdb, Golang,
OpenJDK 9.0, HHVM, Python, PHP, Ruby etc. The CentOS 7.4 environment on
ThunderXStation includes support for KVM and Docker, enabling developers to
quickly test their applications in either hypervisor based or containerized
environments. Open source graphics drivers included with the OS, enable
development and testing of gaming applications quick and painless.
|
ThunderXStation Specifications:
|
|
ThunderX2 product family is
Cavium's second-generation, 64-bit Armv8-A server processor SoCs for data
center, cloud and high-performance computing applications. The family
integrates fully out-of-order, high-performance custom cores supporting single-
and dual-socket configurations. ThunderX2 is optimized to drive high
computational performance, delivering outstanding memory bandwidth and memory
capacity. ThunderX2 family includes multiple SKUs for both scale up and scale
out applications and is fully compliant with Armv8-A architecture
specifications, as well as Arm's SBSA and SBBR standards.
“GIGABYTE has partnered with
Cavium to deliver a broad range of server platforms optimized for cloud and HPC
workloads based on ThunderX2 family of processors,” said Andy Chen, Assistant
Vice President at GIGABYTE Technology. “With Arm servers moving mainstream, we
saw significant customer demand for Arm workstations. ThunderXStation with its
outstanding compute performance and excellent memory bandwidth coupled with graphics
capabilities is designed to meet this demand. Our entire portfolio of ThunderX2
based systems are now available for order and we are seeing a strong demand for
these platforms."
“Cavium is disrupting the server
industry with our second-generation 64-bit Armv8 processor family by delivering
significantly higher compute performance with best-in-class memory bandwidth,
capacity and rich I/O configurations,” said Surya Hotha, Director of Product
Marketing, Data Center Processor Group at Cavium. “ThunderXStation is an ideal
platform for Arm software developers across networking, embedded, mobile, and
IoT verticals. We are delighted to be working closely with GIGABYTE on this,
and we look forward to supporting them on a number of innovative new platforms.”
The ThunderXStation will be
showcased at the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 in San Jose, CA,
at the Cavium booth A37 from March 20th – 21st.
Availability:
The ThunderXStation (SKU: W281-T90 series) is available to order. Please contact server.grp@gigabyte.com to place your order. For more details please visit: www.thunderxforums.com.
The ThunderXStation (SKU: W281-T90 series) is available to order. Please contact server.grp@gigabyte.com to place your order. For more details please visit: www.thunderxforums.com.
# # #
About GIGABYTE Technology
GIGABYTE is a leading brand in the global 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. Drawing from its vast R&D and manufacturing capacities and know-how, GIGABYTE had further expanded its product portfolio to include network communication devices, servers and storages, with a goal to serve each facet of the digital life in homes and offices. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to “Upgrade Your Life” with innovative technology, exceptional quality, and unmatched customer service. Visit http://b2b.gigabyte.com/ for more information.
GIGABYTE is a leading brand in the global 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. Drawing from its vast R&D and manufacturing capacities and know-how, GIGABYTE had further expanded its product portfolio to include network communication devices, servers and storages, with a goal to serve each facet of the digital life in homes and offices. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to “Upgrade Your Life” with innovative technology, exceptional quality, and unmatched customer service. Visit http://b2b.gigabyte.com/ for more information.
About CaviumCavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of
infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching,
connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC
products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance
points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center
and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported
by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks,
hardware-reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San
Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China
and Taiwan.
Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
0 comments:
Post a Comment