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AMD to Accelerate the ARM Server Ecosystem With the First ARM-Based CPU and Development Platform From a Server Processor Vendor

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Also Announ­ces ARM-Based Open Com­pu­te Micro-Ser­ver Board and OCP Contribution

SAN JOSE, CA — 01/28/14 – Open Com­pu­te Sum­mit V — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today added a major new mile­stone to its list of semi­nal deve­lo­p­ments in ser­ver tech­no­lo­gy. The com­pa­ny dis­play­ed a com­pre­hen­si­ve deve­lo­p­ment plat­form for its first 64-bit ARM®-based ser­ver CPU, fabri­ca­ted using 28 nano­me­ter pro­cess tech­no­lo­gy, the first from an estab­lished ser­ver ven­dor. AMD also announ­ced the immi­nent sam­pling of the ARM-based pro­ces­sor, named the AMD Opte­ron™ A1100 Series, and a deve­lo­p­ment plat­form, which includes an eva­lua­ti­on board and a com­pre­hen­si­ve soft­ware suite. In addi­ti­on, AMD announ­ced that it would be con­tri­bu­ting to the Open Com­pu­te Pro­ject a new micro-ser­ver design using the AMD Opte­ron A‑Series, as part of the com­mon slot archi­tec­tu­re spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­on for mother­boards dub­bed “Group Hug.”

The AMD Opte­ron A‑Series pro­ces­sor, code­na­med “Seat­tle,” will sam­ple this quar­ter along with a deve­lo­p­ment plat­form that will make soft­ware design on the industry’s pre­mier ARM-based ser­ver CPU quick and easy. AMD is col­la­bo­ra­ting with indus­try lea­ders to enable a robust 64-bit soft­ware eco­sys­tem for ARM-based designs from com­pi­lers and simu­la­tors to hyper­vi­sors, ope­ra­ting sys­tems and appli­ca­ti­on soft­ware, in order to address key workloads in Web-tier and sto­rage data cen­ter envi­ron­ments. The AMD Opte­ron A‑Series deve­lo­p­ment plat­form will be sup­port­ed by a broad set of tools and soft­ware inclu­ding a stan­dard UEFI boot and Linux envi­ron­ment based on the Fedo­ra Pro­ject, a Red Hat-spon­so­red, com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven Linux distribution.

“The needs of the data cen­ter are chan­ging. A one-size-fits-all approach typi­cal­ly limits effi­ci­en­cy and results in hig­her-cost solu­ti­ons,” said Suresh Gopa­l­a­krish­n­an, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of the AMD ser­ver busi­ness unit. “The new ARM-based AMD Opte­ron A‑Series pro­ces­sor brings the expe­ri­ence and tech­no­lo­gy port­fo­lio of an estab­lished ser­ver pro­ces­sor ven­dor to the ARM eco­sys­tem and pro­vi­des the ide­al com­ple­ment to our estab­lished AMD Opte­ron x86 ser­ver processors.”

The AMD Opte­ron A1100 Series pro­ces­sors support:

  • 4 or 8 core ARM Cortex™-A57 processors
  • Up to 4 MB of shared L2 and 8 MB of shared L3 cache
  • Con­fi­gura­ble dual DDR3 or DDR4 memo­ry chan­nels with ECC at up to 1866 MT/second
  • Up to 4 SODIMM, UDIMM or RDIMMs
  • 8 lanes of PCI-Express® Gen 3 I/O
  • 8 Seri­al ATA 3 ports
  • 2 10 Giga­bit Ether­net ports
  • ARM Trust­Zo­ne® tech­no­lo­gy for enhan­ced security
  • Cryp­to and data com­pres­si­on co-processors

The AMD Opte­ron A‑Series deve­lo­p­ment kit is packa­ged in a Micro-ATX form fac­tor and includes:

  • An AMD Opte­ron A1100 Series processor
  • 4 Regis­tered DIMM slots for up to 128GB of DDR3 DRAM
  • PCI Express® con­nec­tors con­fi­gura­ble as a sin­gle x8 or dual x4 ports
  • 8 Seri­al-ATA connectors
  • Com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with stan­dard power supplies
  • Abili­ty to be used stand-alo­ne or moun­ted in stan­dard rack-mount chassis
  • Stan­dard UEFI boot environment
  • Linux envi­ron­ment based on Fedo­ra, which pro­vi­des deve­lo­pers with a rich set of tools and applications 
    • Stan­dard Linux GNU tool chain, inclu­ding cross-deve­lo­p­ment version
    • Plat­form device drivers
    • Apa­che web ser­ver, MyS­QL data­ba­se engi­ne, and PHP scrip­ting lan­guage for deve­lo­ping robust web ser­ving applications
    • Java 7 and Java 8 ver­si­ons to pro­vi­de deve­lo­pers to work in a 64-bit ARM environment

“Sin­ce 2012, AMD has been working with mem­bers of the Lin­a­ro Enter­pri­se Group (LEG) on acce­le­ra­ting the ARM ser­ver eco­sys­tem,” said Andrea Gal­lo, LEG direc­tor. “Linaro’s work on boot archi­tec­tu­re inclu­ding UEFI and ACPI, as well as key core ser­ver soft­ware such as an opti­mi­zed LAMP stack and a best-in-class enter­pri­se qua­li­ty OpenJDK 8 Java imple­men­ta­ti­on deve­lo­ped in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Red Hat, will enable AMD to deli­ver dif­fe­ren­tia­ted and inno­va­ti­ve hard­ware solu­ti­ons pro­vi­ding indus­try-lea­ding per­for­mance and low-power pro­ducts for the next gene­ra­ti­on of data cen­ter ser­ver platforms.”

AMD con­ti­nues to dri­ve the evo­lu­ti­on of the open-source data cen­ter from visi­on to rea­li­ty and bring choice among pro­ces­sor archi­tec­tures. It is con­tri­bu­ting the new AMD Open CS 1.0 Com­mon Slot design based on the AMD Opte­ron A‑Series pro­ces­sor com­pli­ant with the new Com­mon Slot spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­on, also announ­ced today, to the Open Com­pu­te Project.

“Pre­de­fi­ned, ‘one size fits all’ ser­ver plat­forms are giving way to cus­to­mi­zed solu­ti­ons that deli­ver high per­for­mance at the lowest power con­sump­ti­on,” said Frank Fran­kovs­ky, chair­man and pre­si­dent of the Open Com­pu­te Pro­ject. “AMD’s con­tri­bu­ti­on to the Open Com­pu­te Pro­ject expands a gro­wing port­fo­lio of OCP designs that enable uti­liza­ti­on and effi­ci­en­cy gains in data cen­ter operations.”

AMD’s Andrew Feld­man and Suresh Gopa­l­a­krish­n­an, exe­cu­ti­ves in the ser­ver busi­ness unit, will be hos­ting a vir­tu­al press brie­fing today at 1:30 p.m. PT/ 4:30 p.m. ET to dis­cuss the AMD Opte­ron A‑Series announce­ment. Ian Drew, CMO of ARM, will also be on hand.

For more infor­ma­ti­on plea­se visit AMD’s booth at the Open Com­pu­te Sum­mit today and tomor­row whe­re the AMD Opteron‑A deve­lo­p­ment kit, AMD Open CS 1.0 ser­ver plat­form and part­ner tech­no­lo­gies will be on display.

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