TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGABYTE, an
industry leader in high-performance server hardware, and Cavium™,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products
that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center,
cloud, wired and wireless networking, have announced the
availability of GIGABYTE's ThunderX2-based H-Series Density
Optimized Server platforms in the third quarter of this year (Q3
2018).
GIGABYTE™, with its award-winning product portfolio, has long
been recognized in the industry as a leader in design and
innovation. With the addition of this new server platform GIGABYTE
continues to broaden its offering of commercially available
Arm®-based server solutions and demonstrate engineering expertise
in delivering density optimized high performance platforms.
Through its world-wide presence, GIGABYTE is uniquely
positioned to accelerate the adoption and deployment of
ThunderX2-based systems into the cloud and high-performance
computing applications.
GIGABTYE's H261 series is a 2U platform with up to 4 dual-socket
ThunderX2 compute nodes that can scale up to 1024 logical
processors with 4 thread SMT and can address up to 4TB of memory
capacity. The chassis has multiple PCIe expansion slots and can
support 12 x 3.5" drives (H261-T60) or 24 2.5" drives (H261-T61)
making it an ideal solution for applications that are compute and
memory intensive.
Platform Specifications:
- Form Factor: 2U 4Node
- CPU: Dual socket ThunderX2 Arm®v8 Processors
- Memory: Up to 16 DDR4 slots per node
- PCIe: 2 Low Profile x16 PCIe 3.0 Slots and 1 x OCP x16
Mezzanine Card
- Network: 2 x 10/25 GbE SFP+ LOM, 1x 10/100/1000
Management
- BMC: ASPEED AST2500 with IPMI management SW
- Storage: 12 x 3.5" hot-swappable HDD bays, (3 per node)
(H261-T60)
24 x 2.5" hot-swappable HDD/SSD bays (6 per node) (H261-T61)
- PSU: 2200W Platinum PSU (1+1)
- OS Support: Supports a variety of OS environments
including Canonical, CentOS and SuSE
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. 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.
"GIGABYTE offers industry's broadest portfolio of ThunderX2
platforms with variety of form factors optimized for different
server workloads" said Andy Chen,
Vice President of Research and Development, GIGABYTE Technology.
"The H261 Series further expands our ThunderX2 platform portfolio
and provides our customers production-ready density optimized Arm
server solutions ideal for high performance computing applications.
Our entire portfolio of ThunderX2 systems is now available for
order and we look forward to introducing more platforms with Cavium
server SoCs."
"ThunderX2, our second-generation 64-bit Armv8 processor family,
is the industry's most widely adopted Arm server processor. It
integrates many custom Armv8-A cores, best-in-class memory
bandwidth, memory capacity and rich I/O into a single server SoC,"
said Surya Hotha, Director of Product Marketing, Data Center
Processor Group at Cavium. "The new series of GIGABYTE's 2U4N
Density Optimized H261 platforms are ideal for next generation HPC
and cloud computing workloads that demand outstanding performance
and significant TCO benefits."
In addition to the 2U4N high-density H261 platforms, GIGABYTE
will launch their ThunderX2-based 1U and 2U R-Series General
Purpose Rack Server platforms in July
2018.
GIGABYTE's H261 series will be showcased at the COMPUTEX 2018 in
Taipei, Taiwan from June 5th – 9th, at the
Grand Hyatt hotel in Cavium's suite 2412.
Availability
GIGABYTE's H261-T60 and H261-T61
ThunderX2 servers will be available to order from Q3 of 2018.
Please visit http://www.gigabyte.com/Buy to contact your
local GIGABYTE Arm Server distributor for further pricing and
availability information.
About GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE was founded in 1986 and has
established an enviable reputation for continuous technological
innovation. By focusing on key technologies and achieving strict
quality standards, GIGABYTE has been regarded as an innovative and
trusted IT hardware leader globally. To keep pace in a rapidly
changing world, we offer a comprehensive product line covering
Motherboards, Graphics Cards, PC Components, PC Peripherals,
Laptops, Desktop PCs, Network Communications, Servers and Embedded
Products. GIGABYTE is dedicated to enabling your digital life,
responding promptly and effectively to market needs and
desires.
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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