Mellanox Solutions for AppliedMicro’s X-Gene ARM-Based Server Platform

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd announced that itsFDR 56Gb/s IB and 10/40 GbE interconnect solutions deliver performance and efficiency for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation‘s X-Gene ARM-based platform.

High Performance Enterprise Class ARMv8 64-bit Server SOC

The X-Gene family with integrated 64-bit ARM-enabled processing is the first commercially available 64-bit ARM platform. Connected with Mellanox interconnect solutions, the X-Gene ARM architecture platform provides performance data centers, cloud providers and application developers with an efficient ARM-based infrastructure. Demonstrations of the joint solution took place at the ISC’14 conference.

FDR 56Gb/s IB and 10/40 GbE products, optimized for the X-Gene platform, ensures that ARM technology applications receive high CPU efficiency levels with the fastest data speeds to enable performance.

“As the only ARM 64-bit-based x86-class server solution provider, AppliedMicro is pleased to work with the interconnect market leader to enable scale-out solutions with both IB and Ethernet for a variety of workloads, including HPC, with our first generation X-Gene Server on a Chip product,” said Gaurav Singh, VP of technology strategy, Applied Micro. “Mellanox’s high-speed, high-reliability end-to-end solutions paired with X-Gene’s brawny cores, wide memory bandwidth and integrated high-speed I/O delivers world-class system-level performance at substantially lower power.“

“Mellanox enables the usage of data by enabling the fastest movement of information between CPUs and between CPUs and storage elements. Together with AppliedMicro, we now introduce the first 64-bit ARM platform for commercial usage,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “Server and storage platforms utilizing the X-Gene platform with Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s IB and Ethernet interconnect solutions will ensure the highest performance and return-on-investment.“