Cavium Announces ThunderX2® General Availability

Significantly expands market opportunity for 64-bit Arm®-based servers by delivering highly competitive high-end server processors addressing the most demanding application and workload requirements

SAN FRANCISCO, May 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Cavium™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud wired and wireless networking today announced the General Availability (GA) of ThunderX2, Cavium's second generation of Arm^®v8-A SoC processors for next generation data center, cloud and high-performance compute applications.

"ThunderX2 combines our second generation Armv8-A custom core that delivers core and socket level performance comparable to highest end incumbent server CPUs, with best-in-class memory bandwidth, memory capacity and rich IO configurations to provide a highly differentiated offering for the server market, greatly expanding our serviceable server TAM," said Gopal Hegde, Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Processor Group, Cavium. "We have been working with over 60 different partners including OEMs, ODMs, and independent software and hardware vendors to enable the seamless deployment of ThunderX2 based platforms, and we are pleased to announce general availability of ThunderX2."

ThunderX2 SoC Family Technical Specifications:

The ThunderX2 processor family is a single chip system on a chip (SoC). Key ThunderX2 features include:

• Single chip system on a chip (SoC) server CPU
• Core and socket level performance comparable to highest end Xeon Skylake Platinum CPUs
• Second generation of full custom Cavium Arm core
• Quad Issue, Fully Out of Order
• Full SMT support – 1, 2, 4 threads per core
• Up to 2.5 GHz in normal mode, up to 3 GHz in Turbo mode
• 3X single thread performance compared to ThunderX^®
• Up to 32 cores per socket delivering > 2.5-3X socket level performance compared to ThunderX
• Cache:
• 32 KB L1 instruction and data cache, 256KB L2 per core
• 32 MB distributed L3 cache
• Advanced server class RAS features covering memory, CPU, cache, CCPI2 and PCIe interfaces
• Advanced power management
• On-chip management engine for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling across the chip
• Full Turbo mode support
• Single and dual socket configuration support using 2^nd generation of Cavium Coherent Interconnect with > 2.5X coherent bandwidth compared to ThunderX
• System Memory
• 8 DDR4 memory controllers per socket
• Dual DIMM per memory controller, for a total of 16 DIMMs per socket
• Up to 4 TB of memory in dual socket configuration
• 33% higher memory bandwidth and memory capacity compared to Xeon Skylake Platinum CPUs
• Flexible IO:
• Integrated 56 lanes of PCIe Gen3 interfaces, x1, x4, x8 and x16 support, 14 integrated PCIe controllers
• Integrated SATAv3, GPIOs, USB interfaces
• 16% higher IO bandwidth compared to Xeon Skylake Platinum CPUs

The ThunderX2 family includes over 40 different SKUs for both scale up and scale out applications, ranging from top bin 32 core 2.5GHz parts to 16-core 1.6GHz parts, mapping directly across Intel's Xeon Skylake server CPUs from highest end Platinum to low end SKUs. With list prices for volume SKUs (32 core 2.2GHz and below) ranging from $1795 to $800, the ThunderX2 family offers 2-4X better performance per dollar compared to Xeon Skylake family of processors.  The ThunderX2 family is fully compliant with Armv8-A architecture specifications as well as the Arm Server Base System Architecture and Arm Server Base Boot Requirements standards. The 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.

Supporting Quotes from System Partners

"Since the first Mont-Blanc project, our vision has been that Arm based CPUs would be a good alternative for high end servers and HPC in particular," said Eric Eppe, Global Head of Solution Marketing & Portfolio – HPC & Quantum at Atos. "The HPC community was waiting for it, BullSequana X1000 and ThunderX2's augmented memory bandwidth are offering the best-in-class TCO for customers using memory-bound applications."

"We've been working on ThunderX2 since its inception, it is now ready for prime time and we are really excited by this great step towards delivering Arm-based HPC platforms to our customers," said Agnès Boudot – VP HPC & Quantum at Atos. "We have a long term strategic engagement with Arm and Cavium, which will lead the way to our Exascale Program."

"Cray works closely with our customers to understand their workload requirements in order to deliver the highest-performance, most scalable systems on the planet," said Fred Kohout, senior vice president of products and chief marketing officer at Cray. "And that's why Cray is the only system partner that has developed an enhanced programming environment and compilers specifically for the Cavium ThunderX2 Arm processor."

"We are impressed with the customer response to our early deployments of HPE Apollo 70 Servers utilizing Cavium's ThunderX2 Arm processors," said Bill Mannel, Vice President and General Manager of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).  "Integrating ThunderX2 into the HPE Apollo 70 Servers is another example of HPE's leadership in driving innovation and superior technical solutions into the HPC server market. The ThunderX2 processor provides excellent compute and memory performance that is critical for our HPE Apollo 70 customers and the applications they depend on."

Supporting Quotes from End Users

Dr. Leendert van Doorn, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp said, "We congratulate Cavium on bringing a two-socket, highly competitive Arm server to the market that can address demanding workloads. We have contributed the design of the ThunderX2 motherboard for Microsoft's Project Olympus specification to the Open Compute Project and we look forward to further optimizing our internal cloud services workloads for ThunderX2."

"Sandia has been actively testing a range of key codes and applications on ThunderX2 as part of our ASC Advanced Architecture Testbed project," said Jim Laros, Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. "Sandia's experience with ThunderX2 to date has significantly accelerated our ability to expand our compute environment to support the Armv8 based system architecture along with optimized software solutions that are key to our research and development community."

"We are running a set of widely used HPC science codes on prototype ThunderX2 platforms, and we are seeing impressive performance out of the box, competitive with high end, latest generation server CPUs," said Prof. Simon McIntosh-Smith, Leader of the GW4 Isambard project and Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Bristol. "We are looking forward to deploying our production scientific workloads on ThunderX2 based production platforms."

Availability
ThunderX2 processors with full design collaterals and reference platforms are available. Multiple ODM and OEM platforms are also available. Contact your local Cavium sales representatives for further information and order placement.

For more information on ThunderX2, please visit: http://cavium.com/ThunderX2_Arm_Processors.html

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.

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Cavium Collaborates with Microsoft to Demonstrate ThunderX2 Platform Compliant with Microsoft’s Project Olympus Specifications

Open Compute Project expands platform availability with Cavium’s ThunderX2® ArmV8.1 workload optimized data center server processors

SAN JOSE, CA, March 20, 2018 – Cavium™, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, today announced a major milestone in its collaboration with Microsoft in the Open Compute Community with ThunderX2 Arm^®-based servers demonstrating the Project Olympus Platform.

A live demonstration that includes web applications hosted by a Windows IIS webserver running natively on ThunderX2 based on Microsoft’s Project Olympus platform will be shown at the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 in San Jose, CA, at the Cavium booth A37 from March 20^th – 21^st.  The annual Summit brings together more than 3,000 key decision makers, executives, engineers, developers and suppliers. Together, they help grow, drive and support the open hardware ecosystem in, near and around the data center and beyond.

The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation 64-bit Armv8-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.

Cavium and Microsoft originally announced their collaboration at the OCP U.S. Summit in March 2017, where the two companies demonstrated cloud service workloads developed for Microsoft’s internal use running on ThunderX2-based server platform.  This was followed in November 2017 with the additional announcement of the companies releasing the detailed specification of ThunderX2 server motherboard for Microsoft’s Project Olympus including block diagram, management sub-system, power management, FPGA card support, IO connectors, and physical specifications.

“Today’s demonstration is another key milestone in the collaboration between Microsoft and Cavium to drive Armv8-based workload enablement and optimization in Microsoft’s Project Olympus,” said Dr. Leendert van Doorn, Distinguished Engineer, Azure, Microsoft Corp. “Our collective commitment to the OCP community along with exciting platform innovation is the type of leadership our customers and partners have come to expect.  Working with Cavium to bring ThunderX2 to Project Olympus continues to demonstrate this leadership.”

“We are very excited to expand our collaboration with Microsoft to demonstrate the first dual socket 64-bit Armv8-A OCP platform  with ThunderX2,” said Gopal Hegde, Vice President & General Manager of the Data Center Processor Group, Cavium. “ThunderX2 continues to demonstrate the features and performance required by the most compute and IO intensive applications in the data center.” 

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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/. 

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Cavium and Sprint Collaborate for NFV Testing on Packet’s Public Cloud

Sprint orchestrates Virtualized Mobile Core Network on Containers running on Cavium ThunderX2™ArmV8.1 workload optimized data center server processors in the Packet bare metal cloud

SAN JOSE, CA, and BARCELONA, SPAIN February 26, 2018 – Cavium™, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, announced a collaboration with Sprint Corporation, a national carrier in the United States, using Packet, a cloud service provider, public cloud based on Cavium ThunderX2 Arm®-based servers and virtualized mobile core network orchestrated on Containers. 

Sprint’s testing has demonstrated promising total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages over conventional architecture. A live demonstration of this testing, including a complete end-to-end containerized mobile network with live traffic on commercial UE, will be shown at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, at both the Arm booth (Hall 6 Stand 6E30) and Cavium booth (Hall 2 Stand 2M61). 

The containerized mobile core network (cEPC) runs at Packet, a commercially available public cloud, on Cavium ThunderX2 Arm-based servers. The radio access network is a 3GPP compliant split-RAN implementation with both the vBBU (virtualized baseband unit) and the remote radio unit running on Cavium silicon (ThunderX2 and OCTEON Fusion-M® processors). 

“We see a great opportunity driving better economics and TCO with increased power savings using Arm-based servers, thereby enabling further distribution to the edge,” said Aaron Hinkle, Systems Architect, Technology, Innovation and Architecture, Sprint.

“Arm and our ecosystem of partners have been actively growing systems, especially targeting NFV and service provider network use cases,” said Drew Henry, senior vice president and general manager, Infrastructure Business Unit, Arm. “This is a significant step forward in completing end-to-end virtualized mobile network deployed on an Arm-based infrastructure which will enable the next trillion connected devices.” 

“We are very excited to collaborate with Sprint to test innovative NFV deployment scenarios and to showcase the promising TCO and power savings live demonstrations using our ThunderX2 Arm-based servers and 3GPP compliant virtualized RAN implementation,” said Raj Singh, Vice President & General Manager of the Network & Communication Group, Cavium. “Cavium has been collaborating with many service providers on innovative NFV projects both directly and in open source communities utilizing our differentiated and highly scalable Arm-based processor and SoC families, rich software, and hardware eco-systems, and strong application domain expertise.”

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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: https://www.cavium.com/. 

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Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium ThunderX2 Motherboard Specification for Microsoft’s Project Olympus Contributed to the Open Compute Project

London, Nov 8, 2017 – Cavium™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), announced today that they are collaborating with Microsoft to contribute the ThunderX2™ mother board specification to the Open Compute Project (OCP) as part of the design specification for Microsoft’s Project Olympus. The contribution enables the adoption and iteration by members of OCP, a global community of technology leaders who are reimagining hardware to make it more efficient, flexible, and scalable.

The 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. 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.

Cavium and Microsoft originally announced their collaboration at the OCP U.S. Summit in March 2017, where the two companies demonstrated cloud service workloads developed for Microsoft’s internal use running on ThunderX2 based server platform.  During the DCD:Zettastructure summit today, the companies released the detailed specification of ThunderX2 Server Motherboard for Microsoft’s Project Olympus including block diagram, management sub-system, power management, FPGA Card support, IO connectors, and physical specifications

“Cavium is pleased to collaborate with Microsoft on contributing world’s first dual socket ARM server mother board design to the Open Compute Project,” said Gopal Hegde, VP/GM, Data Center Processor Group at Cavium. “ThunderX2 delivers best-in-class compute, memory and IO performance to most demanding Data Center workloads and this contribution will enable interested server OEMs and ODMs to quickly design and proliferate ThunderX2 based Project Olympus platforms.”

Kushagra Vaid, GM, Azure Hardware Infrastructure, Microsoft Corp. said, “We designed Microsoft’s Project Olympus with the ability to accommodate a variety of workloads and processor architectures. We’ve been closely collaborating with Cavium to integrate ThunderX2 into Microsoft’s Project Olympus design, and to drive innovation within the ARM ecosystem especially for workloads that benefit from high-throughput computing. The completion and contribution of our Project Olympus specification shows our continued commitment to the Open Compute Project and community developed innovation.”

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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/.

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

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Cavium Expands the ThunderX2 Server Ecosystem for Cloud and HPC Applications

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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Penguin Computing Announces Its Next-Generation Tundra Open Compute Servers Featuring Cavium’s ThunderX2™ Processors

High-Performance Server Platforms Optimized for HPC & Hyperscale Workloads

Frankfurt, Germany and San Jose, California – June 19, 2017 – Penguin Computing, a provider of high-performance computing, enterprise datacenter and cloud solutions, announced availability of its Tundra™ Extreme Scale (ES) server platforms based on Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), second generation ARMv8-based ThunderX2 processors. Tundra ES Valkre servers powered by ThunderX2 processors are now available for public order, and a standard 19” rack mount models will ship in 3^rd Calendar Quarter 2017.

Penguin Computing provides customized build-to-order server solutions for customers with specialized hardware requirements in enterprise, financial, federal government, bioinformatics and Internet segments. Penguin Computing has successfully delivered thousands of datacenter deployments, from departmental HPC clusters to TOP500 class supercomputers and scale-out server farms powering some of the largest web properties. Extending its ARMv8-based server offering, the new ThunderX2-basedplatforms enables Penguin Computing to provide high performance ARMv8 compute platform with reduced TCO, using SOCs optimized for exascale computing, in platforms customized for financial, bioinformatics, Internet and federal government market segments.

Penguin Computing’s second generation ARM based Tundra server platforms featuring Cavium ThunderX2 will focus on highly-scalable Hyperscale and HPC-type workloads including big data, large-scale graph analytics, molecular dynamics, and Ceph / Cloud storage. Performance will be driven by ThunderX2 ARMv8 SOCs optimized for these workloads, with high-performance custom cores, dual socket coherent connectivity and high memory bandwidth & capacity. Adding to these high-performance features are integrated scale-out IO supporting multiple x16 PCIe Gen3 ports enabling best-in-class performance. In addition, integration of IO interfaces and storage controllers reduces both power and cost, thereby driving outstanding reductions in TCO.

“Penguin Computing is the leading developer of open, Linux-based, HPC, cloud, and enterprise data center solutions,” said Jussi Kukkonen, Vice President, Advanced Solutions, Penguin Computing. “By extending our product roadmap to Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8 CPUs in our Tundra family of Open Compute servers we again step up our leadership position. Our customers get outstanding value from the efficiency and flexibility enabled by OCP infrastructure combined with best-in-class compute performance coming from Cavium's ThunderX2 offering.” 

“The momentum for ARM-based servers is building and the new range of server products from Penguin Computing enhances choice for the end users seeking for high compute performance with the most energy and cost-efficient solutions,” said Rishi Chugh, Director, Product Marketing, Cavium. “The new series of Tundra OCP compliant server family are well suited to address the high compute demands of next generation HPC and Cloud datacenter with outstanding performance and TCO.”

Availability

Penguin Computing Tundra servers featuring Cavium ThunderX2 CPUs are available for customer evaluation starting in June 2017, with general availability in the fourth calendar quarter of 2017. Penguin Computing welcomes interested parties to contact the company regarding the early access program.

Please visit us at ISC, at Penguin Computing booth J-610 and Cavium booth E1000.

About Penguin Computing
Penguin Computing is the largest, private, North American supplier of hardware, software, and services for Linux-focused, enterprise data center, high performance computing, and cloud solutions with more than 2,500 customers in 40 countries across eight major vertical markets. Penguin Computing pioneers the design and engineering of open technologies, including its Tundra product family of ultra-efficient, authorized, Open Compute Project (OCP) solutions.  Leveraging decades of experience, Penguin Computing delivers top-of-class services and support, and operates the leading, public HPC cloud service, Penguin Computing On-Demand.  Visit www.penguincomputing.com to learn more about the company and follow @PenguinHPC on Twitter.

Penguin Computing, Scyld ClusterWare, Scyld Insight, Scyld HCATM, Relion, Altus, Penguin Computing On-Demand, POD, Tundra, Arctica and FrostByte are trademarks or registered trademarks of Penguin Computing, Inc.

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/.

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

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Cavium and Partners to Demonstrate a Range of Efficient, Secure and Scalable Datacenter and Networking Infrastructure Solutions at COMPUTEX 2017

COMPUTEX, TAIWAN and SAN JOSE, CA – May 29, 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, will demonstrate the company’s latest product innovations at COMPUTEX 2017, in Taipei, Taiwan from May 30^th – June 3^rd, at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Cavium’s suite 2412.

In an increasingly complex technology landscape, Cavium distinguishes itself by providing a rich and diverse product portfolio for all infrastructure segments, including datacenters, cloud, virtualization, security and networking.

Cavium’s ThunderX & ThunderX2™ 64–bit ARMv8-based family of processors feature high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory capacity & bandwidth, integrated hardware accelerators for networking, storage, and security along with highest level of I/O throughput and scalability. 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. Various ODM & OEM ThunderX & ThunderX2 platforms targeting cloud & HPC workloads will be on display.

Cavium‘s XPliant® Ethernet switch family is the first to deliver a high throughput programmable datacenter switching solution that is in production and shipping today. Platforms based on the XPliant Ethernet switch family leverage its flexible control of table resources and pipeline logic to meet the specific needs of the network architecture and while providing unprecedented packet visibility and telemetry. In addition to programmability, the XPliant family of Ethernet switches architecture offers a fully centralized shared dynamically allocated packet buffer to absorb large packet bursts and provide advanced traffic management functions. Various ODM and OCP compliant platforms will be on display running various network operating systems.

Cavium’s OCTEON Fusion–M®, the industry‘s most comprehensive Radio Access Network (RAN) offerings, enabling Macro and Micro Cells, Intelligent Remote Radio Heads, and NFV and Cloud RAN solutions. The CNF75xx and CNF73xx processor families support 2G / 3G / 4G and emerging 5G standards.

Cavium's OCTEON TX™ is a complete line of 64-bit ARM-based SoCs for control plane and data plane applications in networking, security, and storage. The OCTEON TX expands the addressability of Cavium's embedded products into control plane application areas within enterprise, service provider, datacenter networking and storage that need support of extensive software ecosystem and virtualization features. This product line is also optimized to run multiple concurrent data and control planes simultaneously for security and router appliances, NFV and SDN infrastructure, service provider CPE, wireless transport, NAS, storage controllers, IOT gateways, printer and industrial applications.

Cavium’s FastLinQ® Ethernet adapters support 10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/100Gb speeds and are ideally suited for enterprise–class datacenters, public and private clouds, managed service providers and telco deployments as well as storage applications. The feature rich family of adapters supports Universal RDMA with RoCE/RoCEv2 & iWARP, server virtualization with NPAR and SR–IOV, network tunneling with VXLAN, NVGRE and GENEVE, network storage with iSCSI, FCoE & NVMe-oF™ and improves cloud/telco efficiency with DPDK support.

The following Cavium and Partner product demonstrations will be shown during the week of Computex at the Grand Hyatt hotel, suite 2412:

• ThunderX/ThunderX2: 64–bit ARMv8 Workload Optimized processors:
• ThunderX/ThunderX2 running Cloud Applications on various ODM platforms

• XPliant® Ethernet Switch Family:
• XPliant-based production platforms from various customers will be on display, including the S5160 Series from Arista and SLX series from Brocade.
• Various XPliant-based ODM and OCP compliant switch platforms showing various form factors such as “32x100G” and “48x25G + 6x100G” will be on display.
• Demonstration of various Network Operating Systems (NOS) such as SONiC from Microsoft, PicOS from Pica8 and open source NOS OpenSwitch (OPX) running on OCP AS7512-32X open network 100GE datacenter platform by Edgecore Networks.
• Demonstration of Interoperability between Cavium's XPliant CNX880xx and MACOM’s ES200 MACsec PHY, transporting wire-rate 100GbE MACsec encrypted traffic over QSFP28 100G optics.

• OCTEON TX: 64-bit ARMv8 Embedded Multicore Processors:
• High performance DPDK IPsec security applications.
• The OCTEON TX CN81XX IoT gateway/router reference design.
• Various low power fan-less ODM platforms for SD-WAN and NFV.
• Openwrt and partner VNF software.

• OCTEON Fusion–M:
• The recently announced CNF73xx single chip micro BTS reference design.
• The Facebook Telecom Infra Project (TIP) 4G OpenCellular basestation with:
• OCTEON Fusion CNF7130 baseband processor.
• Cavium’s open source LTE software.
• Cloud RAN implementation.
• OCTEON Fusion–M Remote Radio Head.
• ThunderX Virtual Base Band Unit.
• Cavium’s LTE split stack software. 

• Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters:
• Latest 10/25/50/100Gb controller based OCP adapters.
• Low latency Universal RDMA.
• NVMe storage over iWARP showcasing best in class IOPs and latency.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lilly.ly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at Computex 2017 in the subject line.

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

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Tel: (408) 943-7417
Email:angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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Ingrasys Enables High Performance Computing and Hyperscale Workloads with New Class of Server Platforms Powered by Cavium ThunderX2™ Processors

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, May 29, 2017 – Ingrasys, fully owned subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, world’s largest manufacturer of server and storage platforms, today announced the sampling of new rack mount server platforms based on Cavium, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CAVM), second generation 64-bit ARMv8ThunderX2 product family. 

Ingrasys is a trusted name in contract manufacturing services and is a recognized leader in the delivery of high-performance and scalable server and storage designs to leading server Innovation Design and Manufacturing (IDM) as well as container datacenter end user customers. 

The Osmium platform from Ingrasys is a 2U4N rack mount density optimized server platform optimized for Cloud compute and high performance computing workloads. The platform supports four compute nodes in a 2U form factor delivering highest compute and memory density in a very compact form factor. Each compute node integrates two ThunderX2 SoCs in a cache coherent dual socket configuration with up to 1 TB of memory per node and 4 x16 PCIe slots enabling a variety of rich IO configurations. The four compute nodes share common chassis and power supply infrastructure enabling cost and density optimized server platforms that require a balance of high density compute with flexible OCP v2.0 Mezzanine card for network and storage connectivity options.

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.

“Our customers continue to demand platform innovation that reduces TCO and increases workload performance,” said Taco Chang, Director of ARM platform product group at Ingrasys.  “The new platforms leverage ThunderX2’s compute, memory and rich IO capabilities to deliver highest levels of performance at compelling TCO allowing our customers to meet growing performance demands within their existing infrastructure.”

“Our design approach for the ThunderX product family continues to prove itself,” said Rishi Chugh, Director Product Marketing for Cavium’s Data Center Processor Group.  “Our partnership with Ingrasys is a great match, combining both companies’ focus on delivering high performance solutions for Cloud and high performance computing workloads with outstanding TCO.  Together, we are delivering the increases in performance and scalability necessary for businesses to handle increasingly data intensive workloads.”  

Availability
Ingrasys Osmium ThunderX2 servers are sampling to select customers.

About Ingrasys
Ingrasys Technology Inc., founded in February 2002, is a global leading developer in the cloud computing technologies. Headquartered in Taoyuan, Taiwan with approximately 1,000+ employees worldwide. Over 90% are engineers specialized in cloud computing technologies developments. Based upon its own innovative innovation in the fields of storage, server, data center, Ingrasys has maintained a steady growth on the business toward the global market. Ingrasys is dedicating to deliver the solid-state networking storage device/server, as well as the full spectrum of intelligent embedded network systems and service solutions for the fast-growing cloud computing environment. With extensive experiences in the cloud computing technologies, Ingrasys Technology Inc. is continuously aiming as the Best-In-Class technology company that connects all our partners to the future growth. For more information, please visit: http://www.ingrasys.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

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Tel: (408) 943-7417
Email:angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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