SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGABYTE
Technology, an industry leader in high-performance servers,
graphics and gaming platforms with a broad portfolio of workstation
products, and Cavium™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of
semiconductor products for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired
and wireless networking, today announced the availability of
ThunderXStation™: the industry's first 64-bit Armv8 workstation
platform based on Cavium's flagship ThunderX2®
processor.
Workstations are standalone platforms with high performance
CPUs, lots of memory and excellent graphics capabilities, widely
used for advanced software development. ThunderXStation integrates
dual socket ThunderX2 motherboard in a 4U tower suitable for office
environments. Arm has a very strong ecosystem with millions of
developers and is the processor of choice for a variety of
verticals such as mobile, embedded and IoT. Arm software developers
currently utilize binary translators and cross compilers resulting
in increased development and debug cycles. By delivering native
performance and eliminating the need for cross compilers,
ThunderXStation simplifies software development for Arm and
significantly improves time to solution delivery.
Developers need their workstations to include comprehensive
software development environment including latest compilers, tool
chains, libraries and middleware. For gaming application
development, excellent graphics capabilities are required. In
addition, developers also need the ability to quickly test and
debug their code.
ThunderXStation offers unprecedented performance and flexibility
for Arm software development for Android, gaming, embedded and NFV
applications. Each system comes preinstalled with comprehensive
software development environment, enabling developers to rapidly
develop, debug and release applications for Arm processors. Key
preinstalled software development tools include gcc 7.2, LLVM, gdb,
Golang, OpenJDK 9.0, HHVM, Python, PHP, Ruby etc. The CentOS 7.4
environment on ThunderXStation includes support for KVM and Docker,
enabling developers to quickly test their applications in either
hypervisor based or containerized environments. Open source
graphics drivers included with the OS, enable development and
testing of gaming applications quick and painless.
ThunderXStation Specifications:
- Form Factor: 4U Tower
- CPU: Single or Dual socket ThunderX2 ARM64
Processors
- Memory: Up to 16 DDR4 Channels
- PCIe: 6 x PCIe 3.0 Slots and 2 x OCP x16 slots
- Network: 2 x 1/10 GbE QLogic NIC
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce® GT710 with dual monitor
support
- BMC: ASPEED AST2500 with IPMI management SW
- Storage: 4 x NVMe + 2 x 2.5" U.2/SATA III combo bay
- PSU: 1600W Platinum PSU (1+1)
- Firmware: AMI Aptio V ® UEFI and AMI MegaRAC™ BMC
- OS/Tools: CentOS 7.4 with gcc/LLVM/gdb tool chain,
OpenJDK 9.0
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. ThunderX2 family includes multiple
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.
"GIGABYTE has partnered with Cavium to deliver a broad range of
server platforms optimized for cloud and HPC workloads based on
ThunderX2 family of processors," said Andy
Chen, Assistant Vice President at GIGABYTE Technology. "With
Arm servers moving mainstream, we saw significant customer demand
for Arm workstations. ThunderXStation with its outstanding compute
performance and excellent memory bandwidth coupled with graphics
capabilities is designed to meet this demand. Our entire portfolio
of ThunderX2 based systems are now available for order and we are
seeing a strong demand for these platforms."
"Cavium is disrupting the server industry with our
second-generation 64-bit Armv8 processor family by delivering
significantly higher compute performance with best-in-class memory
bandwidth, capacity and rich I/O configurations," said Surya Hotha,
Director of Product Marketing, Data Center Processor Group at
Cavium. "ThunderXStation is an ideal platform for Arm software
developers across networking, embedded, mobile, and IoT verticals.
We are delighted to be working closely with GIGABYTE on this, and
we look forward to supporting them on a number of innovative new
platforms."
The ThunderXStation will be showcased at the Open Compute
Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 in San
Jose, CA, at the Cavium booth A37 from March 20th – 21st.
Availability:
The ThunderXStation (SKU: W281-T92) is available to order. Please
contact server.grp@gigabyte.com to place your order.
For more details please visit: www.thunderxforums.com.
About GIGABYTE Technology
GIGABYTE is a leading brand in the global IT industry with
employees and business channels in almost every country. Founded in
1986, GIGABYTE started as a research and development team and has
since taken the lead in the world's motherboard and graphics card
markets. Drawing from its vast R&D and manufacturing capacities
and know-how, GIGABYTE had further expanded its product portfolio
to include network communication devices, servers and storages,
with a goal to serve each facet of the digital life in homes and
offices. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to "Upgrade Your Life" with
innovative technology, exceptional quality, and unmatched customer
service. Visit http://b2b.gigabyte.com/ for more information.
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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