Rapid Growth
of System Vendors and Configuration Options Fueling Ecosystem Expansion
Frankfurt, Germany
and San Jose, California – June 19, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of
semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for
enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, continues to
aggressively expand the ThunderX2 server ecosystem with a broad array of
commercial and open source partners.
Demonstrating
success in working closely with software developers and communities since the
initial launch of ThunderX®, Cavium has established a significant
ecosystem that spans Operating Systems, Development Environments, Tools, and Applications. An increasing array of hosted options such as
Packet.Net and the online Scaleway® cloud
service offerings, combined with a rich set of single and dual-socket ODM
and OEM platforms that include and OCP configurations, allow developers to
easily build, develop, and deploy their software on ThunderX based platforms.
The
ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second-generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server
processor SoCs for datacenter, cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) 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 the ARM
Server Base System Architecture and ARM Server Base Boot Requirements
standards.
With increasing HPC end user deployments, Cavium
has directly delivered key open source software contributions that are
particularly targeted for compute-specific applications, such as optimizations
for GCC, LLVM, and OpenBLAS. Cavium continues
to actively contribute to the upstream kernel.org enablement for ThunderX2 that
supports close collaboration with leading Linux OS partners: Canonical, Red Hat,
and SUSE. OpenHPC is a growing community
for software and best practices that Cavium has actively supported with
reference systems for ARM based build, test, and validation activities. Building on the open source software that
OpenHPC is delivering, many of Cavium’s commercial partners are expanding their
commercial support for ThunderX and ThunderX2.
“We
have tested and supported Cavium technology since 2015, within the second phase
of the Mont-Blanc project, and we recently announced a new Mont-Blanc system based
on ThunderX2 developed by Bull atos technologies within the third phase of
Mont-Blanc,” says Filippo Mantovani, Senior researcher at Barcelona
Supercomputing Center and principal investigator of the Mont-Blanc project.
“The collaboration with Cavium has aligned with needs of the HPC community. The
development of the PAPI support for the ThunderX SoC has been a great example
of this and I am sure we will continue working together for enhancing the ARM
ecosystem,” concludes Mantovani.
"The HPC partner community that Cavium is
driving on ThunderX2 is further recognition of the growing demand for
alternative solutions to solve today’s most significant compute-based problems,"
said Larry Wikelius, Vice President of the Software Ecosystem and Solutions
Group at Cavium, Inc. "With both commercial and open source alternatives
ThunderX2 end users can quickly deploy and manage these platforms in the most
optimal fashion with support for the critical development environments and
applications they require."
Supporting Partner Quotes
Altair
“Altair is excited to be working with Cavium to
deliver key Altair software products and solutions on the ThunderX2 family of
processors. With a proven track record in the HPC community, Altair’s expertise brings tremendous value to
the ThunderX2 platform and will address key end user requirements for workload
management and application support. This collaboration has already
delivered results with the initial availability of Thea Render, a high-performance
CPU and NVIDIA GPU rendering solution, on ThunderX. Using Thea Render
technology, ThunderX is now able to provide complex photorealistic imagery for
applications such as architectural visualization, product design and automotive
engineering. Additionally, PBS Pro
supports ARM today, both as part of the pbspro.org open source project and as
part the OpenHPC community stack. Altair
is partnering with Cavium to ensure the next major commercial release of PBS
Pro will support the ThunderX2.” Piush
Patel - Vice President, Corporate
Development for HPC & Cloud
AMI
“American
Megatrends considers Cavium as a key partner in our push to expand our server
design support capabilities, particularly for the rapidly growing hyperscale
market segment. Beginning with the introduction of the original Thunder X
platform, AMI and Cavium have a strong history of collaboration, delivering the
most complete Firmware / Platform Management solution available for today’s
scale-out data center and cloud markets,” said Subramonian Shankar, President, Founder and CEO of American Megatrends.
“With our proven track record for Aptio® V UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC® SP-X
Management Solutions we are confident that our system partners will benefit
greatly from this partnership. In fact, we have already seen this partnership
begin to bear fruit in a growing number of rewarding customer engagements. As
such, we look forward to continuing to build on our partnership with Cavium and
to offer integral support for their products.”
ARM
“The availability of Cavium ThunderX2 processors
specifically designed for HPC is a major milestone toward the wide adoption of
the ARM architecture in HPC and Cloud,” said Javier Orensanz, General Manager, Development Solutions Group, ARM.
“ARM and Cavium have been working closely with many partners to develop and
expand the rich ARM-ready ecosystem for HPC. As
a result of our collaboration, ARM’s commercially supported compilers and
libraries are delivering an increasing number of performance optimizations
targeted to HPC applications running on ThunderX2.”
Bright Computing
“Since announcing our
partnership in 2015, Bright Computing has worked closely with Cavium’s
engineering team to bring Bright’s cluster management software to Cavium’s
ThunderX platform. With a number of mutual clients already expressing
interest in leveraging the power of Bright to manage their ARM estate, we are
excited by the introduction of Cavium’s ThunderX2 technology and expect this to
accelerate the demand. Bright Computing is proud to be included in
Cavium’s ecosystem of partners, and we look forward to playing an important
role in empowering Cavium customers to deploy and manage their Cavium-based
platforms, quickly and easily.” Lee Carter – VP WW Alliances Bright Computing
Canonical
“Today’s announcement
extends the long-standing partnership between Canonical and Cavium as we
continue to combine our core expertise to bring innovative cloud and HPC
solutions to the ARMv8-A server market via ThunderX2 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS”,
said Anand Krishnan, EVP of Cloud, Canonical. "ThunderX2 with its HPC and cloud
specific optimizations, together with Canonical’s bare metal provisioning
(MAAS) and workload orchestration tools (Juju) deliver a solid platform for
outstanding performance, deployments at scale and fully automated management.”
Linaro
"Cavium and
its hardware platforms have been key to Linaro's open source collaborative
engineering for more than five years," said George Grey, Linaro CEO. "In the last year, the work has
accelerated rapidly, and Linaro now offers Cloud services to developers on
member-based ARMv8 hardware located in the US, UK and China. This hardware
includes Cavium's ThunderX, and is being used
to work on open source projects including OpenStack, OpenHPC, enterprise
optimizations and upstreaming of SVE implementations in GCC, LLVM and QEMU. The
Linaro Developer Cloud and QEMU can now be used by ecosystem developers to
bootstrap their applications for HPC and data center environments. We continue
our strong partnership with Cavium, and we
look forward to adding ThunderX2 support to the Linaro Developer Cloud in the
near future."
Numerical
Algorithms Group (NAG)
“NAG have been working closely with Cavium and ARM
for several years. Cavium’s release of ThunderX2 is a significant step forward
in ARM based hardware for the HPC market. Cavium’s second generation ARM server
processor, the ThunderX2 offers real opportunities for HPC users. We look
forward to continued collaboration with Cavium’s technical team and supporting
the end-users.” John Holden, VP
Global Markets - Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
Red Hat
”From driving
standards to delivering stable development platforms, our collaboration with
Cavium in the ARM ecosystem has helped to solidify the basic underpinnings of
ARM as a datacenter technology. As customer interest in ARM for next-generation
use cases like cloud and high-performance computing begins to grow, Cavium’s
contributions, along with those from Red Hat and many other community members,
will help to codify how ARM-based systems can best run these modern workloads
on emerging hardware and the role accelerators play in modern system designs.” Jim
Totton, Vice President and General Manager, Platforms Business Unit, Red Hat
Rogue Wave Software
“Rogue Wave Software is pleased to partner with
Cavium. Our TotalView for HPC product supports ThunderX2 platform users with
high-scale debugging and detection of memory leaks on the platform,” says Martin Bakal, Principal Product Manager at
Rogue Wave Software. “We’re also happy to announce our multi-language,
Python and C/C++ support in TotalView version 2017.1 to make it even easier for
users to debug and analyze the execution of their complex applications.”
SUSE
“Cavium
is a key partner for SUSE as we jointly bring the advantages of Linux for
64-bit ARM processors to enterprise environments,” said Gerald Pfeifer, Vice President of Products and Technology Programs at
SUSE. “Building a server ecosystem from the bottom up is an enormous job.
With Cavium's support, we were able to deliver the first commercial Linux
distribution for ARM with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and to enable OpenHPC
for the ARM platform.”
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 about the Company, please
visit:
http://www.cavium.com/.
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