QDT has also submitted the Centriq 2400 Open Compute Motherboard server to the Open Compute Project (OCP). The specification, based on the latest version of Microsoft’s Project Olympus – a open source cloud hardware design – addresses multiple areas of hardware and software, including board development, firmware, operating system, compilers and tools and CoreCLR security.
The Open Compute Motherboard (pictured) integrates Qualcomm’s 48 core server processor – based on the ARMv8 architecture – with advanced interfaces for memory, network and peripherals. QDT contends this will enable ARM-based servers to be developed for most common cloud compute workloads. The specification fits a standard 1U server system and can be paired with compute accelerators, multi host network interface cards and leading storage technologies.
“Qualcomm is accelerating innovation in datacentres by delivering the world’s first 10nm server processor,” said Anand Chandrasekher, QDT’s general manager. “Our collaboration with Microsoft and contribution to the OCP community enables innovations such as Centriq 2400 to be designed in and deployed into the datacentres rapidly. We are democratising system design and enabling a broad-based ARM server ecosystem.”
QDT added that it has been working with Microsoft for several years on ARM based server enablement. Dr Leendert van Doorn, a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, added: “Microsoft and QDT are ... addressing server acceleration and memory technologies that have the potential to shape the data centre of tomorrow.”
