Pro­vi­des Foun­da­ti­on to Levera­ge Open­Stack Com­pu­te for Lar­ge Net­works of Vir­tua­li­zed and Bare Metal Servers

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and Hong Kong, Novem­ber 5, 2013, Open­Stack Sum­mit – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that the Sea­Mi­cro SM15000™ ser­ver sup­ports bare metal fea­tures in Open­Stack® Com­pu­te.  AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 ser­ver is ide­al­ly sui­ted for mas­si­ve Open­Stack deploy­ments by inte­gra­ting com­pu­te, sto­rage and net­wor­king into a 10 rack unit sys­tem. The sys­tem is built around the Free­dom™ fabric, the industry’s pre­mier super­com­pu­ting fabric for sca­le out data cen­ter appli­ca­ti­ons. The Free­dom fabric dis­ag­gre­ga­tes com­pu­te, sto­rage and net­work I/O to pro­vi­de the most fle­xi­ble, saleable and resi­li­ent data cen­ter infra­struc­tu­re in the indus­try.  This allows cus­to­mers to match the com­pu­te per­for­mance, sto­rage capa­ci­ty and net­wor­king I/O to their appli­ca­ti­on needs.  The result is an adap­ti­ve data cen­ter whe­re any ser­ver can be map­ped to any hard disk/SSD or net­work I/O to expand capa­ci­ty or reco­ver from a com­po­nent failure.

“Open­Stack Compute’s bare metal capa­bi­li­ties pro­vi­de the sca­la­bi­li­ty and fle­xi­bi­li­ty to build and mana­ge lar­ge-sca­le public and pri­va­te clouds with vir­tua­li­zed and dedi­ca­ted ser­vers,” said Dhi­raj Mallick, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Data Cen­ter Ser­ver Solu­ti­ons, at AMD. “The Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 server’s bare metal pro­vi­sio­ning capa­bi­li­ties should sim­pli­fy enter­pri­se adop­ti­on of Open­Stack and acce­le­ra­te mass deploy­ments sin­ce not all work loads are opti­mi­zed for vir­tua­li­zed environments.”

Bare metal com­pu­ting pro­vi­des more pre­dic­ta­ble per­for­mance than a shared ser­ver envi­ron­ment using vir­tu­al ser­vers.  In a bare metal envi­ron­ment the­re are no delays cau­sed by dif­fe­rent vir­tu­al machi­nes con­ten­ding for shared resour­ces, sin­ce the enti­re server’s resour­ces are dedi­ca­ted to a sin­gle user ins­tance.  In addi­ti­on, in a bare metal envi­ron­ment the per­for­mance penal­ty impo­sed by the hyper­vi­sor is eli­mi­na­ted, allo­wing the appli­ca­ti­on soft­ware to make full use of the processor’s capabilities

In addi­ti­on to lea­ding in bare metal pro­vi­sio­ning, AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 ser­ver pro­vi­des the abili­ty to boot and install a base ser­ver image from a cen­tral ser­ver for mas­si­ve Open­Stack deploy­ments.  A cloud image con­tai­ning the KVM, the Open­Stack Com­pu­te image and other appli­ca­ti­ons can be con­fi­gu­red by the cen­tral ser­ver.  The coor­di­na­ti­on and sche­du­ling of this work­flow can be mana­ged by Heat, the orchestra­ti­on appli­ca­ti­on that mana­ges the enti­re life­cy­cle of an Open­Stack cloud for bare metal and vir­tu­al machines.

AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 Server

AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 sys­tem is the hig­hest-den­si­ty, most ener­gy-effi­ci­ent ser­ver in the mar­ket. In 10 rack units, it links 512 com­pu­te 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® E3-1260L (“San­dy Bridge”), E3-1265L­v2  (“Ivy Bridge”), E3-1265L­v3  (“Has­well”) and Intel® Atom™ N570 pro­ces­sors. The AMD Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 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.

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