Cavium Announces Beta, Flash Support For ThunderX Processor Family

(RTTNews) - Cavium Inc. (CAVM), a provider of semiconductor products, announced Monday the availability of the Beta release of PathScale's optimized compiler and library software for the ThunderX ARMv8-A processor family. The company noted that the optimized PathScale BLAS libraries will help ensure scientists who rely on DGEMM, SGEMM and math library performance achieve the highest possible efficiency for Cavium's ThunderX processors.

Cavium also announced support for SanDisk flash memory solutions with Cavium's 64-bit ThunderX processor family, to accelerate the performance of Hyperscale and high performance computing or HPC workloads.

Cavium further announced collaboration with Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions for extreme scale computing, data center server and storage systems, to deliver InfiniBand connectivity for Cavium's ThunderX processor family.

The company will demonstrate ThunderX based workload optimized server platforms for HPC and hyperscale data centers at the International Supercomputing Conference from Monday, July 13th to Wednesday, July 15th in Frankfurt, Germany.

On Monday, Gopal Hegde, Vice President/General Manager of Data Center Processor Group at Cavium, will be presenting on ThunderX advantages for the HPC market at the ISC Vendor Showdown.

ThunderX is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8 server 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 HPC cloud, and is widely supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor, software tool and application vendors.