—     Hadoop/AMD Opte­ron A‑Series Pro­ces­sor com­bi­na­ti­on is desi­gned for increased plat­form agi­li­ty and effi­ci­en­cy for data manage­ment and ana­ly­sis  —

—     Gro­wing 64-bit ARM ser­ver soft­ware eco­sys­tem now boasts Hadoop on Java run­ning on two Linux dis­tri­bu­ti­ons —

SAN FRANCISCO — Sept. 30, 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today will make the first public demons­tra­ti­on of Apa­che™ Hadoop® run­ning on an ARM® Cortex®-A57-based AMD Opte­ron™ A‑Series processor.In a tech­ni­cal ses­si­on at the JavaO­ne™ con­fe­rence to be deli­ver­ed this after­noon by AMD cor­po­ra­te fel­low Leen­dert van Doorn, the com­pa­ny will show how the expan­ding AMD Opte­ron A‑Series ser­ver soft­ware eco­sys­tem now includes Hadoop, the Java-based frame­work for sto­rage and lar­ge-sca­le data pro­ces­sing. In addi­ti­on, Hen­rik Stahl, vice pre­si­dent, Java pro­duct manage­ment and Inter­net of Things at Ora­cle, will join van Doorn on stage to dis­cuss Oracle’s sup­port for AMD’s 64-bit ARM ser­ver architecture.

Hadoop, a dis­tri­bu­ted pro­ces­sing tech­no­lo­gy used pri­ma­ri­ly for big data ana­ly­sis, is a rapidly expan­ding mar­ket expec­ted to reach upward of $50 bil­li­on by 2020.[i] The com­bi­na­ti­on of 64-bit ARM-based ser­vers and Hadoop is desi­gned to acce­le­ra­te the chan­ging eco­no­mics of lar­ge-sca­le com­pu­ting by enab­ling dis­tri­bu­ted pro­ces­sing across clus­ters of ARM-based ser­vers. Run­ning on the recent­ly announ­ced AMD Opte­ron™ A1100 deve­lo­p­mentplat­form, the demons­tra­ti­on will fea­ture Apa­che Hadoop run­ning on the Ora­cle JDK.  Leen­dert will also show mul­ti­ple nodes run­ning the same demons­tra­ti­on using Linux envi­ron­ments based on Fedo­ra tech­no­lo­gy from the Red Hat-spon­so­red Fedo­ra com­mu­ni­ty and the com­mu­ni­ty sup­port­ed Open­SU­SE Project.

“This demons­tra­ti­on show­ca­ses AMD’s lea­der­ship in the deve­lo­p­ment of a robust, stan­dards-based eco­sys­tem for ARM ser­vers,” said van Doorn. “Ser­vers powered by AMD Opte­ron A‑Series pro­ces­sors are well-sui­ted for Hadoop, offe­ring an effi­ci­ent sca­le-out com­pu­te plat­form that can also dou­ble as an eco­no­mic­al per­sis­tent sto­rage platform.”

AMD con­ti­nues to dri­ve inno­va­ti­on in the ser­ver eco­sys­tem by enab­ling vir­tual­ly seam­less soft­ware and tools inte­gra­ti­on across both the x86 and ARM archi­tec­tu­re envi­ron­ments. Through its col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with part­ners such as ARM, Lin­a­ro, Ora­cle, Red Hat and SUSE, AMD is pro­vi­ding users access to a com­ple­te deve­lo­p­ment envi­ron­ment for ARM based appli­ca­ti­ons and cross-plat­form support.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on AMD’s ses­si­on, visit the JavaO­ne web­site.

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• Fol­low AMD Ser­ver on Twit­ter
• Fol­low AMD on LinkedIn

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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[i] Based on rese­arch from: http://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/hadoop-market.