— Packa­ged Bund­le with Cano­ni­cal Ubun­tu Deli­vers Industry’s Easie­st Way to Crea­te an Enter­pri­se Open­Stack Pri­va­te Cloud —

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Sept. 16, 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced a new col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Cano­ni­cal® that pro­vi­des one of the industry’s easie­st ways to deploy an Open­Stack® pri­va­te cloud.  The solu­ti­on fea­tures the Sea­Mi­cro SM15000™ ser­ver, Ubun­tu® LTS 14.04 and Open­Stack, which includes a set of powerful tools to build one of the most fle­xi­ble and relia­ble pri­va­te clouds.  The AMD and Cano­ni­cal col­la­bo­ra­ti­on over­co­mes the com­ple­xi­ty of deploy­ing Open­Stack tech­no­lo­gy and pro­vi­des an out of the box expe­ri­ence making it pos­si­ble to deploy a pri­va­te cloud in hours com­pared to days.  The joint solu­ti­on auto­ma­tes com­plex con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on tasks, sim­pli­fies manage­ment, and pro­vi­des a gra­phi­cal user inter­face to dyna­mi­cal­ly deploy new ser­vices on demand.

“AMD and Cano­ni­cal have dedi­ca­ted a tre­men­dous amount of engi­nee­ring resour­ces to ensu­re an inte­gra­ted solu­ti­on that remo­ves the com­ple­xi­ty of an Open­Stack tech­no­lo­gy deploy­ment,” said Dhi­raj Mallick, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, AMD data cen­ter ser­ver solu­ti­ons.  “The SM15000 ser­ver, Ubun­tu LTS 14.04 and Open­Stack is an ama­zing solu­ti­on fil­ling a need in the indus­try for an Open­Stack solu­ti­on that can be deploy­ed easi­ly wit­hout spen­ding a for­tu­ne on pro­fes­sio­nal ser­vices or hiring teams of people.”

The Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 ser­ver and Ubun­tu LTS 14.04 and Open­Stack solu­ti­on is one the most sca­lable solu­ti­ons in the indus­try, as demons­tra­ted in set­ting the indus­try bench­mark record for hypers­ca­le cloud com­pu­ting.  The record of 168,000 vir­tu­al machi­nes was achie­ved using MAAS (Metal as a Ser­vice) and Juju, both part of Ubun­tu LTS 14.04 and Open­Stack.  MAAS was used to deli­ver the bare metal ser­vers, sto­rage and net­wor­king, and Juju was used for deploy­ment.  The solu­ti­on is available today and is the most sca­lable, auto­ma­ted appli­ca­ti­on for deploy­ing Ubun­tu LTS 14.04 and Open­Stack in hypers­ca­le environments.

“Cano­ni­cal has deve­lo­ped the most sophisti­ca­ted set of tools in the indus­try to remo­ve the com­ple­xi­ty of an enter­pri­se gra­de Open­Stack deploy­ment,” said John Zan­nos, vice pre­si­dent of cloud chan­nels and alli­ances at Cano­ni­cal.  “The AMD-Cano­ni­cal Open­Stack solu­ti­on bund­le will help dri­ve increased velo­ci­ty for cli­ents see­king to levera­ge sca­le-out cloud tech­no­lo­gy for next gene­ra­ti­on workloads.“

AMD-Cano­ni­cal Out of the Box Solu­ti­on Details:

AMD Hard­ware	Cano­ni­cal Software
Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 ser­ver pro­vi­des the fol­lo­wing in 10 rack units: —     3 Cloud Controllers —     57 Nova nodes —     3 Cin­der nodes —     64 GB Object Storage —     128 GbE NICs (Max. 512 possible) —     Inte­gra­ted Lay­er 2 Switching —     80 Gbps I/O —     Con­su­me 55 Watts per server	Ubun­tu LTS 14.04 and OpenStack —     Ubun­tu server —     MAAS —     Juju

 

AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 Server

AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 sys­tem is one of the hig­hest-den­si­ty, most ener­gy-effi­ci­ent ser­vers in the mar­ket. In 10 rack units, it links 512 CPU cores, 160 giga­bits of I/O net­wor­king, more than five peta­bytes of sto­rage with a 1.28 tera­byte high-per­for­mance super­com­pu­te fabric, cal­led Free­dom™ fabric. The SM15000 ser­ver eli­mi­na­tes top-of-rack swit­ches, ter­mi­nal ser­vers, hundreds of cables and thou­sands of unneces­sa­ry com­pon­ents for a more effi­ci­ent and simp­le ope­ra­tio­nal environment.

AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro ser­ver pro­duct fami­ly curr­ent­ly sup­ports the next-gene­ra­ti­on AMD Opte­ron™ (“Piledri­ver” core) pro­ces­sor, Intel® Xeon® E3-1265L­v2 (“Ivy Bridge”), E3-1265L­v3  (“Has­well”) pro­ces­sors. The Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 ser­ver also sup­ports the Free­dom Fabric Sto­rage pro­ducts, enab­ling a sin­gle sys­tem to con­nect with more than five peta­bytes of sto­rage capa­ci­ty in two racks. This approach deli­vers the bene­fits of expen­si­ve and com­plex solu­ti­ons such as net­work atta­ched sto­rage (NAS) and sto­rage area net­wor­king (SAN) with the sim­pli­ci­ty and low cost of direct atta­ched storage.

To learn more about the AMD-Cano­ni­cal solu­ti­on, plea­se cont­act seamicro@amd.com.

Sup­port­ing Resources 

• Learn more about AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 ser­ver here
• Down­load AMD’s Open­Stack Refe­rence Archi­tec­tu­re here
• Beco­me a fan of AMD onFace­book
• Fol­low AMD Ser­ver on Twit­ter
• Fol­low AMD on LinkedIn
• Read more about AMD’s hypers­ca­le cloud com­pu­ting indus­try bench­mark record here

 

About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) designs and inte­gra­tes tech­no­lo­gy that powers mil­li­ons of intel­li­gent devices, inclu­ding per­so­nal com­pu­ters, tablets, game con­so­les and cloud ser­vers that defi­ne the new era of sur­round com­pu­ting. AMD solu­ti­ons enable peo­p­le ever­y­whe­re to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their favo­ri­te devices and appli­ca­ti­ons to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.amd.com.        

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