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Monday, 7 May 2018

ThunderX2® Dual Socket Platform Adds Support for Oracle Linux

Cavium™ and Oracle collaborate on Oracle Linux preview for Arm®v8.1 architecture

SAN JOSE, CA, May 7, 2018 – Cavium, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, today announced ThunderX2 platform support for Oracle Linux. Cavium and Oracle have collaborated on the development program, which includes contributions to the open source community. The initial Oracle Linux 7 developer preview release extends the thriving software ecosystem for Cavium’s ThunderX2 product family. A live demonstration of the Oracle Linux 7 preview with MySQL running on a dual ThunderX2 platform was shown at OCP US Summit 2018 in March 2018.
The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation 64-bit Arm®v8-A server processor SoC 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. The new line of ThunderX2 processors includes multiple workload optimized 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. It is also widely supported by industry-leading operating system, hypervisor and software tool and application vendors.
Oracle Linux 7 is engineered for open cloud infrastructure and delivers leading performance, scalability, and reliability for enterprise SaaS and PaaS workloads as well as traditional enterprise applications.Oracle Linux 7 is available as a developer preview release for Cavium’s ThunderX2 platform and is packaged as an ISO image that can be used for standard installation.Software downloads, supporting documentation and additional product information are available from the Oracle website.
To support this engineering collaboration, Cavium has directly delivered key open source software contributions that are particularly targeted for compute-specific applications, such as optimizations for GCC and LLVM, as well as critical kernel support into kernel.org for enablement of ThunderX2.Many third-party commercial software partners are developing and optimizing their applications for ThunderX2 to include development tools and environments, storage and segment specific applications.  Cavium continues to contribute reference systems for build, test, optimization and validation activities.
“Oracle and Cavium continue to make good progress supporting the Armv8-A architecture with Oracle Linux,” said Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Operating Systems and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle.
“Teaming with Oracle has provided a tremendous opportunity to further expand our software ecosystem,” said Gopal Hegde, Vice President & General Manager of the Data Center Processor Group, Cavium. “This collaboration can help accelerate the development and deployment of critical applications to mainstream data center and cloud end users with a range of configuration and performance requirements that Oracle Linux and ThunderX2 are uniquely designed to address.”
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About Cavium
Cavium, 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. For more information about the Company, please visit: http://www.cavium.com/.
Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Monday, 13 November 2017

Cavium and Leading Partners to Showcase ThunderX2™ Arm-based Server Platforms and FastLinQ® Ethernet Adapters for High Performance Computing at SC17

SAN JOSE, CA and DENVER, CO, November 13, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, will showcase various ThunderX2™ Arm-based server platforms for high performance computing at this year’s Supercomputing (SC17) conference taking place in the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado from November 13th to 16th.

ThunderX2 server SoC 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. The new line of ThunderX2 processors includes multiple SKUs for both scale up and scale out applications and is fully compliant with Armv8-A architecture specifications as well as the Arm Server Base System Architecture and Arm Server Base Boot Requirements standards.

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 and toolchain optimization, actively contributing to Linaro’s Enterprise and Networking Groups, investing in key Linux Foundation projects such as DPDK, OpenHPC, OPNFV and Xen and sponsoring the FreeBSD Foundation’s Armv8 server implementation.

SC17 Show Highlights and Product Demonstrations
Cavium’s executive leaders and technology experts will be available to discuss the company’s ThunderX2 processor technology, platforms, roadmap and HPC target solutions while demonstrating a range of platforms and configurations. Many of Cavium’s key partners will also be present with demonstrations that include system implementation, system software, tools and applications.  In addition to the ThunderX2 based ODM and OEM platforms and Cavium's FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters, the following product demonstrations will be on display on the show floor and at Cavium's booth #349.
  • Cavium ThunderX2 – 64–bit Armv8 based SoC family that significantly increases performance, memory bandwidth and memory capacity. We will be demonstrating various applications running on ThunderX2 in both single and dual socket configurations.
    Cavium’s systems partners Bull/Atos (Booth #1925), Cray (Booth #625), Gigabyte (Booth #2151), HPE (Booth #925), and Penguin (Booth #1801) will be showcasing HPC platforms based on ThunderX2. Cavium’s software partners will be demonstrating a variety of software tools and applications optimized for ThunderX2. In addition, there will be a full rack of ThunderX2 based systems showcased in HPE’s Comanche collaboration booth #494.
  • Cavium FastLinQ®:– 10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet adapters that enable the highest level of application performance with the industry’s only Universal RDMA capability that supports RoCE v1, RoCE v2 and iWARP concurrently. With the explosion of data there is a critical need for fast and intelligent I/O throughout the data center. Cavium FastLinQ products enable machine learning, data analytics, NVMe over fabrics storage while maximizing system performance.
The following additional presentations by Cavium will cover ThunderX2 updates, Arm Ecosystem, and End User Optimizations focused on HPC.
  • On Monday, November 13, 2017 at 3:30 pm, Surya Hotha, Director of Product Marketing for Cavium’s Datacenter Processor Group, will present ThunderX2 in HPC applications at the third annual Arm SC HPC User Forum.
  • On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 10.30 am, Giri Chukkapalli, Distinguished Engineer, will present ThunderX2 technology overview at the Red Hat Theater.
  • On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 2.30 pm, Varun Shah, Product Marketing Manager for Cavium’s Datacenter Processor Group, will present ThunderX2 advantages for the HPC Market at the Exhibitor Forum.
  • On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 2.30 pm, Giri Chukkapalli, Distinguished Engineer, will present ThunderX2 technology overview at the HPE Theater.
  • On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 2.30 pm, Cavium experts will present at the SUSE booth.
To schedule a meeting at SC17, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter SC17 Meeting Request in the subject line.
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About Cavium
Cavium, 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. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

Media Contacts
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager, Cavium
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

Monday, 29 May 2017

Inventec Launches New Baymax™ HyperScale Server Platforms Powered by Cavium ThunderX2™ Processors

Platforms compliant with Project Olympus Open Compute Platform Specifications

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, May 29, 2017 – Inventec, world's leading ODM server manufacturer for enterprise and cloud datacenter server and storage platforms, today announced, Baymax, a new server platform optimized for Cloud compute, high-performance cloud storage and Big Data applications based on Cavium, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: CAVM), second-generation 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX2 product family.

Inventec is the largest ODM server manufacturer in the world and is a recognized leader in the delivery of high-performance and scalable server and storage designs to leading server OEMs as well as Mega Scale Datacenter end user customers.  The Baymax platform from Inventec is an OCP Project Olympus compliant 1U rack mount server platform supporting two ThunderX2 SoCs in a dual socket configuration with up to 1.5TB of DDR4 memory, three PCIe x16 slots, four SATA ports complimented by four M.2 flash for local storage. This platform is optimized for diverse workloads such as Hadoop, SQL, high performance cloud storage and Search workloads that require a balance of high computing performance with highest memory capacity and bandwidth.

The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoCs for Datacenter, 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. The new line of ThunderX2 processors includes multiple workload optimized 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. It is also widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and SW tool and application vendors.

“Inventec’s success as world’s largest server ODM has been based on our compelling designs and manufacturing expertise and our ability to deliver leading edge cost effective server platforms to world’s largest mega scale datacenters,” said Evan Chien, Senior Director of Inventec Server Business Unit 6. “Earlier this year Inventec’s customers requested platforms based on Cavium’s ThunderX2 ARMv8 processors, and the new Baymax platform is the first platform being delivered.”

“Inventec is well known for their robust and innovative designs and broad customer base in both Hyperscale and Enterprise server markets and are expanding their ThunderX server portfolio offering with the addition of Baymax platforms,” said Gopal Hegde, VP/GM, Datacenter Processor Group, Cavium, “They are a great addition to the growing list of ThunderX2-based platform manufacturers.”  

About Inventec
Since its establishment, Inventec has adhered to a corporate philosophy of “Innovation, Quality, Open Mind, and Execution.” Starting from calculator and telephone, Inventec has moved forward into notebook industry and established a compelling reputation. In 21th century, Inventec has entered the fields of cloud computing, mobile computing, wireless communications, network applications, digital home appliances, software application and sustainable energy for the diversification. For more information, please visit: http://www.inventec.com

About Cavium
Cavium, 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, Datacenter 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. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com

Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 


GIGABYTE Technology Announces Expansion of their ARM Server Portfolio based on Cavium's ThunderX2™ Workload Optimized Processor Family

Range of 1U and 2U High Density Server Platforms for Hyperscale Cloud and High Performance Computing Applications

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 29 2017 – GIGABYTE Technology, a leading producer of high performance server hardware, and Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking - today announced availability of high performance ARM server platforms based on Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX2 product family.

GIGABYTE, with its award-winning product portfolio, has been long recognized in the industry as a leader in design and innovation. With a broad offering of commercially-available ARM-based server solutions, GIGABYTE continues to demonstrate engineering expertise in system level integration that manages intensive compute I/O, large memory configurations and power optimization. Through its world-wide presence, GIGABYTE is uniquely positioned to accelerate the adoption and deployment of ThunderX2 based systems into the cloud and hyperscale data center applications.

GIGABYTE has announced multiple platforms optimized to utilize the ThunderX2 SoC. The R181 (1U) series utilizes a single socket ATX form factor motherboard with multiple PCIe x16 Gen3 and SATA connectors for expansion modules, along with high memory capacity. R181 is an ideal solution for applications that need cost effective high performance compute platforms.

GIGABYTE’s H216 series is a 2U server platform that can support 4 dual socket ThunderX2 compute nodes, with 1TB memory capacity per sled and multiple PCIe x16 slots. The chassis itself supports dual redundant power supplies and 24 2.5” HDDs. The H216 is designed to address the requirements of the most demanding applications in high performance computing and public/private cloud applications.

All platforms integrate IPMI-based management and are supported by GIGABYTE’s proprietary remote management application.

“GIGABYTE’s second generation line of ARMv8 server offerings, enabled by Cavium’s ThunderX2 processors, provides best-in-class high performance ARM solution for the Data Center, the Cloud and for Telcos,” said Etay Lee, General Manager of GIGABYTE Technology. “ThunderX2 SoCs deliver performance competitive with the latest high end server processors. GIGABYTE has developed highly integrated system solutions enabling an efficient and cost effective path to high density Hyperscale class data center design using the industry’s best ARMv8 server class processor. Our innovation, reliability and flexibility deliver time-to-market advantages to customers developing next generation data center & cloud solutions." 

“The Cavium ThunderX2 multi-core ARMv8 product family is well suited to address the high compute demands of next generation data center and cloud infrastructure,” said Rishi Chugh, Director Product Marketing for Cavium’s Data Center Processor Group. “By using Cavium’s ThunderX2 class processors, GIGABYTE is able to offer a wide variety of high-performance, high volume 1U and 2U systems in single and dual socket configurations as well as reference platforms that fully utilize core differentiators such as integrated SATA port integration, high memory bandwidth & capacity along with multiple PCIe Gen3 x16 ports. Together, we are delivering the performance, scalability and reliability necessary for businesses to handle increasingly complex data intensive workloads in a highly virtualized cloud based environments.”

The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoC for Datacenter, 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. The new line of ThunderX2 processors includes multiple workload optimized 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. It is also widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and SW tool and application vendors.

About GIGABYTE Technologies
GIGABYTE was founded in 1986, from there establishing our uncontested position in continuous technological innovation. By focusing on key technologies and achieving strict quality standards, GIGABYTE has been regarded as an innovative and trusted motherboard leader globally. To keep pace in a rapidly changing world, we offer a comprehensive product line covering Motherboards, Graphics Cards, PC Components, PC Peripherals, Laptops, Desktop PCs, Network Communications, Servers and Embedded Products. GIGABYTE Technology is dedicated to enabling a full-range digital life, responding promptly and effectively to market needs and desires.

About Cavium
Cavium, 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, Datacenter 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. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

GIGABYTE Contact:
Vincent Wang,
Director of Datacenter Sales Division,
GIGABYTE Technology
Telephone: +886 8912 4000 ext. 1269
Email: vincent.wang@gigabyte.com

Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,
Cavium, 2315 N. First Street,
San Jose CA 95131,
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 


Monday, 20 June 2016

Cavium and Partners to Demonstrate ThunderX Servers at ISC 2016

ThunderX system partners, high performance I/O partners and software partners showing platforms in various form factors supporting HPC and hyperscale cloud applications

San Jose, CA and Frankfurt, Germany, June 20, 2016 –Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, is demonstrating ThunderX-based work load optimized server platforms in various form factors for High Performance Compute and hyperscale data centers at the International Super Computing Conference (ISC) 2016 from Monday, June 20th to Wednesday, June 22nd in Frankfurt, Germany.
ThunderX is Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8 server processor family for next generation high performance computing and hyperscale workloads. With up to 48 high-performance custom cores, single and dual socket capability, high memory bandwidth and capacity, and integrated hardware accelerators, ThunderX enables best-in-class ARMv8 performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple SKUs that enable servers optimized for compute, storage, network and security workloads in the HPC cloud, and is widely supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor, software tool and application vendors.
Show Highlights and Demonstrations
Cavium executives will be available to discuss the broad range of HPC solutions, including the company’s most recent announcements. ThunderX platforms from various ODM & OEM partners will be on display at Cavium booth #1105 along with presentation sessions at ISC 2016.  Specific activities include:
  • ThunderX®64–bit ARMv8 based SoC family of workload optimized processors with a range of SKUs and form factors optimized for high performance computing, including grid computing, heterogeneous computing, storage, secure compute and networking specific workloads
    • Live demo of ThunderX processors deployed on Cavium‘s single and dual socket reference platforms.
  • ThunderX2™: Update on Cavium’s next generation 64–bit ARMv8 based SoC family
  • Cavium’s ecosystem partners will be demonstrating ThunderX based platforms, including E4, SUSE, Allinea, Gigabyte, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Bright Computing, Penguin Computing, and NAG.
  • On Monday, June 20th at 1:30 pm, Gopal Hegde, Vice President/General Manager of Data Center Processor Group at Cavium, will be presenting on ThunderX advantages for the HPC market at the ISC Vendor Showdown.
  • On Wednesday June 22nd at 1:40 pm, Larry Wikelius, VP Software Ecosystem and Solutions Group, Cavium, will be presenting at the Exhibitor Forum on ThunderX leadership role in the HPC ecosystem.
To schedule a meeting at ISC, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter ISC 2016 Meeting Request in the subject line.

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 up to 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data center, broadband 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.

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Cavium to Demonstrate Solutions for Cloud Infrastructure and Scale-Out Applications at OpenStack Summit Tokyo

ThunderX™ and LiquidIO® II Help Maximize Performance Per Dollar Per Watt for Key Volume Compute, Storage, Secure Compute and Networking Workloads

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct 27, 2015 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will demonstrate ThunderX and LiquidIO II based solutions for private and public cloud infrastructure and scale out applications at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo.  The OpenStack Summit is a four-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software and is held from Tuesday October 27th through Thursday October 29th.

Cavium Product Highlights and Demonstrations (Booth T31)
Cavium’s LiquidIO II Intelligent Server adapters fully support and seamlessly integrate OpenStack software. This functionality includes:
    • Providing value-add functionality for application acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and isolation in multi-tenant compute clusters.
    • Accelerating network performance in cloud data centers for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) applications by offloading Open vSwitch with various server virtualization techniques.
    • Providing security acceleration and support for overlay networks, IPsec encryption, DPI for application recognition and dynamic service chaining.
    • Cloud configuration, provisioning and management utilizing OpenStack API services/ plugins and support SDN controllers including OpenDaylight and Floodlight. Cavium’s product demonstration will include LiquidIO IIoffloading (OVS and IPsec) with OpenStack Cloud OS network acceleration and provisioning.
    • Fully integrated I/O including 10G and 40G Ethernet, PCIe Gen3 and SATAv3. ThunderX delivers full bandwidth and low latency across all of these interfaces.
    • virtSOC™ technology delivers full system virtualization and SR-IOV capable IO. Hypervisor support for both KVM and Xen are fully enabled.
    • Integrated security, networking and storage hardware accelerators. Easily enabled with standard kernel and library interfaces these hardware accelerators provide significant performance improvements for key cloud workloads such as secure compute, NFV, Cloud Storage and Big Data/Analytics.
    • Support for industry standard server class software including UEFI and ACPI along with upstream support in the Linux Kernel, GCC Toolchain and OpenJDK Java.
Cavium’s ThunderX ARMv8 based workload optimized processor integrates key capabilities that are critical for the most demanding Public and Private Cloud workloads:

OpenStack cloud infrastructure enables end users to fully utilize ThunderX features for critical workloads such as cloud storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases such as MySQL and Cassandra and web serving with NGINX.  ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).


Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Cavium to Demonstrate Cloud Workload Instances at OVH Summit 2015

  • Providing value-add functionality for application acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and isolation in multi-tenant compute clusters.
  • Accelerating network performance in cloud data centers for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) applications by offloading Open vSwitch with various server virtualization techniques.
  • Providing security acceleration and support for overlay networks, IPsec encryption, DPI for application recognition and dynamic service chaining.
  • Cloud configuration, provisioning and management utilizing OpenStack API services/ plugins and support SDN controllers including OpenDaylight and Floodlight. Cavium’s product demonstration will include LiquidIO IIoffloading (OVS and IPsec) with OpenStack Cloud OS network acceleration and provisioning.
  • Fully integrated I/O including 10G and 40G Ethernet, PCIe Gen3 and SATAv3. ThunderX delivers full bandwidth and low latency across all of these interfaces.
  • virtSOC™ technology delivers full system virtualization and SR-IOV capable IO. Hypervisor support for both KVM and Xen are fully enabled.
  • Integrated security, networking and storage hardware accelerators. Easily enabled with standard kernel and library interfaces these hardware accelerators provide significant performance improvements for key cloud workloads such as secure compute, NFV, Cloud Storage and Big Data/Analytics.
  • Support for industry standard server class software including UEFI and ACPI along with upstream support in the Linux Kernel, GCC Toolchain and OpenJDK Java.