Not long ago, the sound of the marriage between AMD and ARM was rapidly spreading in the industry, and on October 29, 2012, in Beijing, a conference call in the AMD company's office with adequate preparation prepared the cooperation and outsourcing. AMD announced that it will design multiple 64-bit ARM processors for the cloud server and data server markets, and by integrating X86, ARM and APU processors, it will provide a computing support platform for different workloads.
Despite changes in architecture or a mixed trend, the brand-new processors launched in 2014 still retain the original name-Opertron.
New trends of data centers in the era of low energy consumption and low cost cloud
In a certain sense, cloud computing can be regarded as a platform for scale and integration of service capabilities, and the data center is the physical carrier of this scale platform. Since it comes to scale, it also determines that the data center is a huge cloud computing Investment foundation. Too many cases of ultra-large data centers allow us to see the huge demand for space, energy consumption, bandwidth and other conditions. At present, the rapid development of processor manufacturing technology and microinstruction set has made the processor "unusual" Computing power, it is true that such high-performance processors benefit a lot from computationally intensive workloads such as HPC, but what about front-end servers that provide service capabilities?
I have heard that more than one user and one manufacturer are complaining that the bottleneck of the front-end access server is the network rather than the computing power. The rapid development of the common architecture is making the barrel effect more obvious, making computing and bandwidth more unbalanced Let users spend hundreds of dollars on the processor but only use less than half of its capacity, but the energy consumption is hardly reduced.
At this time, many people thought of a solution-ARM.
ARM company was founded in Cambridge, England in 1991, mainly selling the authorization of chip design technology. At present, microprocessors that use ARM technology intellectual property (IP architecture), which we commonly refer to as ARM microprocessors, have been used in various product markets such as industrial control, consumer electronics, communication systems, network systems, wireless systems, etc. The microprocessor application based on ARM technology accounts for more than 75% of the market share of 32-bit RISC microprocessors. The strength of the ARM commodity model is that it has more than 100 partners worldwide. ARM adopts a transfer license system, and its partners produce chips. Its biggest feature is the open architecture, both the cost of the chip and the low energy consumption. This is the important reason why ARM technology has gradually penetrated into all aspects of our lives. Almost all smartphones and tablets that have become important tools of our lives have almost all of them. It is based on the ARM processor.
Why is ARM?
Although innovations such as the 64-bit Opteron processor released in 2003 and the industry ’s first X86 dual-core processor in 2005 have made AMD ’s business prosperous, its market share has given X86 founder Intel a sense of crisis and directly contributed to it. To update its Tick Tock (alternatively update architecture and manufacturing process in two years) market strategy. However, after the advent of the Core architecture, AMD's technical reserves have not been able to bring sustainable competitive advantages. AMD's market strategy has gradually shifted from technological innovation and performance advantages to more cores and better cost performance, although this has become a cloud computing era in a certain sense. Selling point, but in terms of the product itself, market performance and even the stock price, AMD needs better innovations to let itself out of the trough.
It is precisely because of the three characteristics of openness, energy consumption, and cost that ARM has become a new hope for data centers in the cloud era and an opportunity for AMD products and business updates.
In the past 20 years, the choice of industrial x86 servers has been showing the "One For ALL, a single architecture is suitable for all" trend, which is also because the workload in the past is more similar. At the AMD conference call on October 29, the official PPT demonstrated that the ARM architecture can bring a high energy efficiency revolution in the data center, power and cost. The source is the current integration of IT and business, the increasing number of mobile devices and improvement Network, these new business models drive high parallel workloads, and high parallel loads drive the construction of very large-scale data centers, huge data centers need better energy efficiency ratios, and high energy efficiency ARM architectures can achieve ultra-high density Computing cluster.
With 10 years of hard work in the server CPU, more than one million systems have been shipped, with 64-bit processors. More importantly, there is a need for a breakthrough in the business model, to get rid of from pure X86 followers, or to become again. Industry leader in innovation.
Obviously, AMD has become an ally of ARM. In the server industry, it has begun a war of getting rid of and resisting a single architecture, and ARM also needs AMD's comrades with industry experience, channels and manufacturing capabilities.
SeaMicroFreedom-the catalyst to form a supercomputing architecture
As the core component in IT, the server also has the most complete industrial ecological chain. The cooperation between AMD and ARM actually surpassed the "Olong" processor to be released in 2014. Although the market in recent years has not been smooth, but after sorting out its own route, it still made some beneficial market attempts, including a good accumulation in memory, IO, key business, design theory, platforms and tools, especially in SeaMicro, acquired in early 2012, is a catalyst for the supercomputing architecture.
For the server, ARM is a medicine with side effects.
While enjoying huge advantages in energy consumption and cost, ARM was originally designed to meet the needs of embedded systems. On the server, the ARM processor cannot adapt to a network connection like a large CPU, while bringing excellent computing costs. If you connect each ARM processor to the network, this will bring side effects-a more expensive network, if you apply a similar existing server model.
The SeaMicro Freedom optical fiber architecture can solve this problem. Simply put, the optical fiber architecture turns the CPU into a cluster and connects the cluster to the network, thereby cleaning up the side effects of ARM. This is also the result of SeaMicro's continued commitment to the development of micro servers.
AMD promises that the AMD SeaMicro Freedom fiber architecture will be embedded in industry-standard supercomputing networks. These advanced fiber technologies have been deployed in similar environments for more than 2 years, and the cooperation between the two parties has accumulated more than millions of hours of manufacturing experience. The AMD SeaMicro Freedom fiber architecture will form a catalyst for supercomputing architectures by connecting cores of different sizes in the server, ignoring the industry standard of CPUs of X86 or ARM.
AMD's cloud vision: open cloud, hybrid architecture for different loads
Just as ARM processors are more suitable for services at the front-end access layer, although the future of cloud computing will be open, the choices are more diverse. AMD plans its cloud vision this way-different processors and combinations are more suitable for different jobs Load, customers can choose the right one, this also has a benefit, AMD's another good card-APU has also become part of its cloud strategy.
Through the latest marriage and fusion APU, AMD can form three typical load support platforms:
ARM + X86: It can cover cloud computing and ultra-large-scale data centers, targeting streaming, mobile network HPC, analog computing, big data analysis, website access and other loads;
APU: It can support media clusters for virtual desktops, streaming media, remote games, video encoding and other loads;
X86 + APU: It can support computing clusters for artificial intelligence and other loads;
From a market perspective, AMD has taken a trick. The next question is ...
When will the 64-bit ARM ecosystem come?
If the IT system is regarded as a person, hardware is equivalent to flesh, software is thought and soul. After the conference call, the 51CTO reporter was fortunate to be the only questioner of the Chinese journalists group. When asked about the “64-bit ARM ecosystem When will the system arrive? "Andrew Feldman, AMD ’s global vice president and general manager of the data center server solutions business unit, expressed cautious affirmation.
He said that the cooperation of the software ecosystem will take time. The brand-new ARM architecture Opteron will be delivered in 2014, and software providers will work with OEMs to accelerate the solution of the ecological environment.
Another blog post obtained by the reporter from Jon Masters, chief ARM architect of Red Hat, believes that in this new era of high energy efficiency, high density, and ultra-large-scale computing, the role of ARM-based processors as an alternative architecture will become increasingly important. ARM has energy-efficient DNA. In fact, the ARM architecture design team always takes energy efficiency performance into consideration when making trade-offs.
In addition, "Red Hat engineers have been working with AMD for several months. We are ready to support the next-generation 64-bit ARM architecture server processor of the Fedora project. It is conceivable that it is necessary to provide operating system support for a new architecture. There is a lot of planning work. Fedora has provided long-term support for 32-bit ARM architecture processors, including support for Fedora 15 to the latest ARMv7 32-bit server processor, and we have successful experience in practicing this process. In the laboratory, Not only do we make original components for our software, but we can also use various simulation environments to run test programs. In the coming months, when the actual hardware is developed, we will work with a wider community of partners and ecosystems such as AMD Partners collaborate to provide full support for the 64-bit ARM architecture in the Fedora project. "
To a certain extent, Red Hat can be regarded as the iconic leader of open system software vendors, and its optimistic and open attitude will allow the software ecosystem to form support for the ARM architecture more quickly
Conclusion: 2014 worth looking forward to
When reviewing the information, the author sees that the market data about ARM is displayed as follows:
90% market share of mobile phone processors;
30% market share of netbook processors;
70% market share of tablet computer processors;
Competitor: Intel.
The three words at the end obviously make the marriage between AMD and ARM more logical, and in terms of market, the data listed above will also be updated after a period of time, and the server processor market share will become the Xinjiang domain of the AMD / ARM alliance.
After all, I remember that the competitors mentioned above expected a low energy / micro server market to account for 10% of the overall server market. In any case, this is not a small number.
Recently, Zhao Yonglin, AMD's server sales director for Greater China, said in an interview that AMD's future path in servers will include x86, ARM, and APU. He summarized the current status and future of AMD servers in ten words-the reality is skinny and the future is full. "
It seems that 2014 is a year worth looking forward to.
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