Make data center greener and more efficient interview with Arm server owner

"Tenkine Server Channel" in mid-May, the APU14 Beijing Technology Innovation Conference, AMD released the 64-bit ARM architecture authorization, to be able to provide 64-bit arm and x86 high-performance dual-architecture computing and graphic graphics products chip manufacturers. The emergence of dual-architecture computing not only makes AMD's market prospects widen, but its use of the new ARM architecture of the server chip is also officially unveiled in front of Chinese users, so that the future of data center building more likely.

At the meeting, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13453.html ">arm Server system and ecosystem Director Lakshmi Mandyam also came to the scene, Participated in the 64-arm authorized cooperation link. After the meeting, Tenkine to Lakshmi Mandyam conducted an interview, Lakshmi Mandyam not only for us to introduce the ARM and AMD cooperation history, but also the future of the data center market development published their own views.

Arm server systems and ecosystem Director Lakshmi Mandyam, an exclusive interview with Tenkine

According to Lakshmi Mandyam introduced, arm and AMD in 2012 launched the first cooperation, the October AMD announced the announcement of the arm authorized, 2013, AMD announced the processor code-named Seattle. 3721.html ">2014 May 5, AMD announced in the year after the introduction of the ARM V8 architecture Authorized Server processor--k12, AMD is the first to adopt a 64-bit ARMV8 Architecture Server processor products.

Based on the rapid development of cloud computing, the 2014 server market is in a rapidly changing era, Lakshmi Mandyam that the entire market driven by enterprises to the data center users. The emergence of a new computing model presents an opportunity for a novel instruction set, with large data being presented with higher challenges to storage of data, and the SOC integrating processors with memory has more opportunities in the new situation.

Although in performance, the use of ARM Architecture processor server products can not be compared with the X86 server, but its flexible deployment capabilities and ultra-low power performance, but also to more and more users of this type of micro-server products to give more recognition. In the face of competitors ' efforts to reduce energy consumption, Lakshmi Mandyam said that arm will continue to optimize the architecture to improve performance, so that partners and end users have a better choice.

Due to the performance of the current limit, Lakshmi Mandyam Frankly, the use of ARM architecture of the server processor is currently focused on the domain is not a computing power of the server, the main coverage is to store and other categories of server products. But with AMD as the representative of the efforts of partners, Lakshmi Mandyam firmly believe that in 2017, the arm architecture of the server processor performance will be a qualitative leap, "to know, ARM architecture has unlimited possibilities!"

With the massive rise of data center construction, many customers have started the process of on-demand customization of the server. Lakshmi Mandyam says the ODM process is more flexible and cheaper. Because data center customers want the server to be able to combine efficient and low-power, the arm architecture that has made great success in the Mobile world has more opportunities.

In the construction of computer room, the server processor with ARM architecture seeks the development of new business of customers, instead of the traditional server products. For customers, more choices and better innovation are the most important. ARM's products in the data center area to emphasize more is to add, in the customer's business to the geometric speed up today, more arm server can not only effectively meet the needs of the business, relatively more energy-saving, reduce the cost of energy use.

In 2013, Arm won a beautiful report card in the global market, with more than 10.4 billion SOC shipments. And in the construction of the ecosystem, the arm of more than 300 companies makes arm become an important force that cannot be neglected in the whole IT industry. Although to achieve a breakthrough in the server market than the mobile market has a greater challenge, but arm firmly believe that with AMD, with rich experience in the manufacture of the manufacturer's continuous in-depth cooperation, ARM will eventually be in this market to get their own place. Lakshmi Mandyam stressed, "in the near future, the ARM architecture of the server processor, in performance and power will achieve a more perfect balance, arm must make customers absolutely satisfied!"