Frost & Sullivan Honors Calxeda for its Groundbreaking EnergyCore Architecture for Scalable Computing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the smart performance for scalable computing market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Calxeda with the 2013 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Leadership. Calxeda's EnergyCore Architecture is an energy- and performance-efficient processing technology designed to address data centers' issues of high energy usage and demands for high performance. As it is based on ARM, the EnergyCore Architecture lowers energy consumption and accelerates the adoption of Big Data applications in enterprises.

The EnergyCore processor is a game-changer in the data center market. It has the unique ability to concurrently, yet energy efficiently; handle complex processes in cloud and virtual computing infrastructure.

"As enterprises handle petabytes of unstructured and structured data in a single platform, they need highly scalable and sustainable data warehousing that consumes less energy," said Frost & Sullivan Sr. Research Analyst Swapnadeep Nayak. "Calxeda's EnergyCore processor enables this by rightsizing the processing elements to match the bandwidth and latency of typical disk drives, producing a more balanced and efficient analytic platform."

Another distinctive feature of this technology is its fabric switch design with system on chip (SoC), which contains five fabric links that can deliver speeds of up to 10 Gbps per channel and support several fabric topologies such as torus, grids and meshes. By eliminating the external port, the integrated fabric switch drastically reduces energy consumption.

The technology helps data centers cut operational costs during upgrades. In conventional data centers, upgrades require the installation of new hardware to increase system performance. Calxeda's EnergyCore technology helps to do away with such costs, as the processor's SoC design enables upgrades through a software patch.

"EnergyCore also has a self-adjustment feature to route fabric traffic around nodes that are congested or from faulty links to available ones," observes Swapnadeep. "This capability greatly reduces downtime or service interruption."

Besides this, the technology offers simplified management capabilities. It does so by building the management platform using industry standards-based management tools, including Intelligent Management Platform Interface (IMPI) 2.0 and Data Center Manageability Interface (DMPI). It also supports a remote management system to ensure seamless operational integration during deployment.

Service providers that do not have large spaces to build their data centers will benefit the most from this technology. By adopting this power-efficient yet high-performance architecture, they can reduce their investments in multiple servers.

"Calxeda's technology facilitates the cost-saving in the deploying of data centers, focusing on scale-out application such as Big Data, cloud storage, and server distributed networks," noted Swapnadeep Nayak. "In addition to that, multiple features such as complex processors with integrated server memory controllers, fabric switches with high-performance and adaptive link speed, and management engines for power management and remote access set the EnergyCore Architecture apart from peer technologies."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated uniqueness in developing a technology that significantly impacts both the functionality and the customer value of new products and applications. The award lauds the relevance of the innovation to the industry.

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About Calxeda

Founded in January 2008, Calxeda brings new performance density to the datacenter with revolutionary server-on-a-chip technology. Calxeda currently employs 100 professionals in Austin Texas and the Silicon Valley area. Calxeda is funded by a unique syndicate comprising industry leading venture capital firms and semiconductor innovators, including ARM Holdings, Advanced Technology Investment Company, Austin Ventures, Battery Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Vulcan Capital. See www.calxeda.com for more information.

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Contact:

Mireya Espinoza
P: 210. 247.3870
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Calxeda Contact:

Laura Beck
512-786-1098
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