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 
Email: pbergman@viewstream.com 
Telephone: +845-728-3984

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo 
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
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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Cavium and Leading Partners Showcase ThunderX® ARM-based Server Platforms, QLogic® FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs for High Performance Computing at SC16

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 15, 2016 -- 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 the showcasing of ThunderX based workload optimized server platforms and the QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs for High Performance Computing, Data Analytics, Scale Out Storage and Hyperscale Data Centers at SC16 in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The show Expo dates are from Monday, November 14th to Thursday, November 17th.

ThunderX is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8server 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 cloud, and is widely supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor, software tool and application vendors. ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

From the heart of the data center, to the edge of the enterprise, and in the cloud,  QLogic® Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters deliver an uncompromising suite of features, performance and reliability with a comprehensive suite of offerings that span 10GbE to 100GbE, and 8GFC to 32GFC (Gen6).  QLogic Fibre Channel adapters are the gold standard in SAN connectivity, trusted with running mission critical applications across the world, and the QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet adapters are the most flexible data networking solutions in the industry supporting FCoE, iSCSI and RDMA transports.  Together, these products make Cavium the industry leader in high performance network connectivity solutions.

Show Highlights and Demonstrations

Cavium executives will be available to discuss the broad range of ThunderX based production platforms, which are ideal for critical workloads such as highly parallel HPC applications, scale out storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases such as MySQL & Cassandra, and Web Serving with NGINX. In addition to the ThunderX based ODM and OEM platforms, Cavium's QLogic® FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs will be on display at Cavium's booth #4057 including:

• QLogic FastLinQ 10/25/40/50/100 Gb Ethernet Adapters
• QLogic Enhanced Gen5 and Gen6 Fibre Channel Adapter
• ThunderX System Partners including: Aewyn, E4, Gigabyte and Lenovo

Cavium representatives will also be presenting more details on ThunderX at a number of partner sponsored events during the week.  These events include the ARM HPC User Group as well as presentations at the Red Hat and SUSE booths during the week at the Convention Center. 

To schedule a meeting at SC16, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter SC16 Meeting Request in the subject line.

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, 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
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium QLogic Accelerates Cloud Deployments with OpenStack Integration

QLogic® FastLinQ™ Ethernet Adapters and QConvergeConsole® automate OpenStack® Configurations

BARCELONA, SPAIN – Oct. 25, 2016 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that it is showcasing technologies available for its FastLinQ™ line of 10/25/40/50/100GbE Ethernet adapters that accelerate the deployment of OpenStack by delivering the ability to orchestrate and manage an OpenStack configuration for hybrid and public cloud deployments. QLogic technologies like the Plug-in for Mirantis® Fuel for automatic SR-IOV configuration across multiple OpenStack nodes and QConvergeConsole (QCC) for OpenStack physical and logical topology maps enable hyperscale, private/hybrid and telco cloud deployments with Cavium QLogic Ethernet NICs to be accelerated with OpenStack. In addition, the ability to deliver QoS for network functions with QLogic FastLinQ technology comprise the broad set of technology investments.

Dynamics of Deploying an OpenStack Managed Infrastructure
As the scale of private and public cloud infrastructures grow exponentially, the orchestration of the discreet components that comprise the cloud has becoming increasingly challenging. OpenStack is a scalable, open sourced cloud computing platform that enables the construction of flexible IT infrastructures by bringing a harmony to the discreet but interconnected system, enabling it to be managed as one holistic solution serving storage, compute, and networking needs. While OpenStack has seen tremendous industry acceptance and support, some challenges still remain. The initial deployment and operation of OpenStack, which spans various services and projects and multi-vendor infrastructures, can be a significant hurdle in realizing the full potential of OpenStack. An OpenStack installation can be a manual, time-consuming and often complex process of deploying and configuring discreet hardware components and functions. In addition, current OpenStack inbuilt management services lack the ability to deliver an in-depth view of the interactions between OpenStack components. Customers are demanding a solution to gain better control of an OpenStack infrastructure from initial deployment to ongoing operations.  

QLogic Ethernet Integrations in OpenStack Simplify Deployment and Operation
Realizing the potential of a successful OpenStack deployment and the challenges that such a process entails, Cavium along with the OpenStack community have invested in several key technologies that allow the seamless integration and accelerated deployment of various networking technologies like SR-IOV with OpenStack. In addition, QLogic Ethernet management offerings deliver in-depth visibility of the OpenStack cloud along with the ability to control and guarantee network bandwidth for tenant workloads. Purpose built for accelerating and simplifying OpenStack deployments, these investments include:

• QLogic Plug-in for Mirantis Fuel for Automatic OpenStack Configuration – Single-pane-of-glass capabilities to configure SR-IOV functions across multiple nodes and eliminate manual error prone and time consuming tasks by leveraging the capabilities of the QLogic Plug-in for Mirantis Fuel. This accelerates the virtual network configurations for large scale deployments and is supported by an in-depth step by step installation runbook.
• QConvergeConsole (QCC) enables the visualization of OpenStack Components – With the ability to dynamically map the topology of an OpenStack environment, QLogic QCC enables cloud administrators to visualize the connections between virtual and physical devices, storage volumes and OpenStack services. This unique capability delivers in-depth visibility into OpenStack operations and QLogic networking components to maximize uptime, by giving operations staff the ability to map the OpenStack services interconnected by QLogic FastLinQ technology.
• Quality of Service for Tenant Networking Traffic – QLogic FastLinQ networking technology integrates with OpenStack Liberty to deliver dynamic control over tenant networking's share of the physical infrastructure. With the ability to guarantee network requirements like bandwidth, IaaS/SaaS providers can easily deliver on a strict Service Level Agreement (SLA) to their customers.

Visit the Cavium Booth #B36 at OpenStack Summit Barcelona, Spain to learn more about how OpenStack deployments can leverage QLogic networking technologies.

Supporting Quotes
"QLogic 3400/8400/45000 series of FastLinQ Ethernet adapters support a comprehensive set of virtualization and multi-tenant services for the most sophisticated data centers, telco and cloud providers," said Rajneesh Gaur, general manager and vice president of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. "With integrations into Mirantis Fuel and extensive visibility provided by QConvergeConsole, OpenStack cloud deployments and operations are simplified, accelerating their adoption into hyperscale datacenters."

Cavium QLogic is an OpenStack community member and a corporate sponsor.

For more information, visit:

1. QLogic OpenStack Webpage - http://www.qlogic.com/solutions/Pages/OpenStack.aspx
2. Mirantis Unlocked Partner - https://www.mirantis.com/partners/qlogic/ and http://plugins.mirantis.com/docs/q/l/Fuel-plugin-qlogic-sriov/qlogic-sriov-1.0-1.0.0-1.pdf
3. OpenStack Networking with QoS - http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/networking-guide/adv-config-qos.html
4. QLogic Corporate Website: www.qlogic.com

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software-compatible products ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure and intelligent functionality for compute, network connectivity, storage and wireless applications. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. 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

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