Cavium, Inc. a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless
networking, will demonstrate ThunderX and LiquidIO II based solutions
for private and public cloud infrastructure and scale out applications
at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. The OpenStack Summit is a four-day
conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud
Software and is held from Tuesday October 27th through Thursday October 29th.
Cavium Product Highlights and Demonstrations
(Booth T31)
Cavium's LiquidIO II Intelligent
Server adapters fully support and seamlessly integrate OpenStack
software. This functionality includes:
- Providing value-add functionality for application
acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and
isolation in multi-tenant compute clusters.
- Accelerating network performance in cloud data centers for
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization
(NFV) applications by offloading Open vSwitch with various server
virtualization techniques.
- Providing security acceleration and support for overlay
networks, IPsec encryption, DPI for application recognition and dynamic
service chaining.
- Cloud configuration, provisioning and management utilizing
OpenStack API services/ plugins and support SDN controllers including
OpenDaylight and Floodlight. Cavium's product demonstration will include
LiquidIO II offloading (OVS and IPsec) with OpenStack Cloud OS network
acceleration and provisioning.
Cavium's ThunderX ARMv8 based workload optimized
processor integrates key capabilities that are critical for the most
demanding Public and Private Cloud workloads:
- Fully integrated I/O including 10G and 40G Ethernet, PCIe
Gen3 and SATAv3. ThunderX delivers full bandwidth and low latency across
all of these interfaces.
- virtSOC™ technology delivers full system virtualization
and SR-IOV capable IO. Hypervisor support for both KVM and Xen are fully
enabled.
- Integrated security, networking and storage hardware
accelerators. Easily enabled with standard kernel and library
interfaces, these hardware accelerators provide significant performance
improvements for key cloud workloads such as secure compute, NFV, Cloud
Storage and Big Data/Analytics.
- Support for industry standard server class software
including UEFI and ACPI along with upstream support in the Linux Kernel,
GCC Toolchain and OpenJDK Java.
OpenStack cloud infrastructure enables end users to
fully utilize ThunderX features for critical workloads such as cloud
storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed
data bases such as MySQL and Cassandra and web serving with NGINX.
ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).