Applied Micro Collaborates With Red Hat, Cirrascale To Deliver HPC Cluster

(RTTNews) - Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) Monday said it joined hands with Red Hat Inc. (RHT) and Cirrascale Corp. to deliver high performance computing cluster or a HPCC based on an ARM 64-bit server on a chip X-Gene to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Cirrascale will provide the RM1905D chassis for the HPC cluster. The chassis delivers twice the density over standard 1U rackmount implementations, Applied Micro said in a statement.

Red Hat will provide the software platform for the server, through its ARM partner early access program.

Red Hat's program enhances partner-initiated system designs based on the 64-bit ARM architecture and provides a common server software platform.

AppliedMicro's X-Gene platform consists of 8 ARMv8-A cores running at 2.4Ghz, with 4 memory channels capable of accommodating up to 512Gb of high speed DDR3 memory, and multiple integrated 10Gigabit Ethernets.

The processor also comes with seventeen lanes of third generation Peripheral Component Interconnect Express or PCIe.

The X-Gene processor is tailored for increased growth in cloud computing, high performance computing and next-generation data centers.