SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 20th –
21st. 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."
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/.
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