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Software Ecosystem Momentum Accelerates for Arm Neoverse in Infrastructure

Kevin Ryan
Kevin Ryan
February 20, 2019
5 minute read time.

In October, Arm announced Neoverse, our brand and initiative for creating Arm-based solutions for the infrastructure market from the edge to the cloud. Today we are proud to announce the Arm Neoverse N1 Platform for revolutionary compute performance and the Arm Neoverse E1 Platform for leading edge throughput efficiency.

Arm’s vision with Neoverse is about more than just processor IP. It is about delivering a complete infrastructure platform and the elements required to enable a robust ecosystem of software, SoCs, systems, and tools for compelling new solutions from the cloud data center to the 5G edge. 

Momentum with the Open Source Community

To further Arm adoption in the infrastructure market, we have been very active in open source communities and various organizations that support the open source projects.

We, and our partners, are deeply involved in helping further Arm ecosystem support in the cloud data center. Today, we are involved in over 100 open source projects and 25 standards organizations. This work spans operating systems, languages, libraries, tools, virtualization technologies and workloads heavily focused on the cloud native application space. Most recently, we have invested heavily in the container ecosystem by upping our involvement in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and specifically the work around Kubernetes. As we focus on the emergence of new cloud native workloads, being active members of the cloud native community is of high importance.

Another area I would like to highlight is the work around emerging edge networks with LFEdge, a new umbrella organization that aims to establish open, interoperable frameworks for edge computing. Edge infrastructure is undergoing tremendous change with the emergence of 5G and the exponential growth of data at the edge. Arm is driving many of these initiatives through our open source work with Akraino Edge Stack. We invite you to take a look at what we are doing there and the blueprints we are working on together with our technology and carrier partners.  

Momentum with Developer Access to Arm Neoverse-based Platforms

Behind these announcements is a strong developer program that makes Arm instances available to developers across a variety of consumption options. Most notably is the work that has gone on to make Arm Neoverse platforms available through cloud-based options including: Packet and the Works on Arm program, AWS 1 click availability of Arm instances in multiple configurations, Linaro which is the open source community dedicated to developing open source projects on Arm, and VExxhost. All these cloud-based development platforms enable a broad community to collaborate, develop and share to help drive a rapid acceleration of the Arm software ecosystem.  

Momentum with Partners and Customers

Over the last several months, there have been several announcements that leverage the work above and that have dramatically changed the landscape of Arm in the infrastructure market from a software ecosystem perspective. Here are three I would like to highlight as being significant in their magnitude:

  1. OS and software availability for AWS EC2 instances on Arm: When AWS announced the availability of their A1 Arm-based instances in November, three operating systems were made available at initial launch including Amazon Linux, Red Hat and Ubuntu giving this platform release a breadth of OS offerings to support a wide range of developer and end user environments. Along with the OS support, the Arm ecosystem has been adding to the list of supported capabilities for AWS A1 Arm-based instances including OPJDK AWS version Corretto, a leading container platform from Rancher, and NGINX support for A1 instances which is the leading web hosting solution in the AWS cloud. We expect the momentum to continue around software ecosystem enablement for AWS A1 instances with a robust set of open source and commercial software offerings that makes using Arm in the AWS cloud boring - meaning it just works!
  2. VMware ESXi in tech preview: This fall at VMworld US and EMEA, Pat Gelsinger (VMware CEO) and Ray O’Farrell (VMware CTO) stood on the main stage to announce the tech preview of ESXi on Arm for the first time. This is significant for the Neoverse ecosystem for a couple of reasons. First, the world’s leading hypervisor is now in tech preview on Arm. Second, one of VMware’s goals with the announcement is to enable VMware ESX on the edge. This goal is closely aligned with the Arm Neoverse strategy of enabling distributed compute capabilities at the edge with the emergence of 5G. Arm has a significant presence on today’s edge and as the edge emerges into a much more robust platform, working with partners like VMware will help provide choice in software platforms on Arm to our partners and customers. 
  3. Huawei TaiShan Arm-based server support for Hortonworks: In January 2019, Huawei announced a powerful portfolio of servers based on a high performance 64-bit Arm based server SoC implementation from HiSilicon. These server platforms are targeted at the most demanding of applications as evidenced by the focus on data analytics market with the announcement of Hortonworks support.

These three are a few examples of the great momentum of our ecosystem partners to continue to expand the diversity and completeness of the Arm software ecosystem. The Arm Infrastructure Developer Community page includes information about many other announcements from our Neoverse partners over the past few months.

As we continue to evolve the entire Arm platform from silicon to software, we encourage you to learn more about the new Arm Neoverse platforms and robust ecosystem that is changing the way people think about infrastructure from the network edge to the cloud data center. I look forward to hearing from the community and collaborating on the journey ahead. Feel free to stop by and see what we are doing, collaborate with the broad ecosystem, and contribute to the next wave in computing as we enable a world of 1 trillion devices together. To learn more about Neoverse read our product announcement.

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  • xianlai
    xianlai over 6 years ago

    good

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  • CeDeROM
    CeDeROM over 6 years ago

    Will FreeBSD and mbedOS run on N1? Is code portable from Cortex-A* to N1? Can I use current CLANG/GCC to build for N1/ARMv8.2 or compiler updates are required? :-)

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