SAN JOSE, Calif., May 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- 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."
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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