AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server has been certified for CDH4, an Apache Hadoop distribution by Cloudera.
The company is pitching the server, with its up to 512 processor cores and more than five petabytes of storage in a single system, as an energy-efficient server platform for big-data applications. With everything required for CDH4, it becomes a “Hadoop-in-a-Box” solution, AMD said.
Hadoop is the most popular open-source framework for setting up server clusters for high-performance data-analytics applications. Cloudera is one of the most popular distributions for Hadoop, with a variety of software and services built around it.
AMD says its SeaMicro Freedom Fabric provides the bandwidth and storage I/O to scale compute and storage for scale-out computing. The system’s design allows petabytes of storage to be added by installing more hard drives, while the system is in service.
Tim Stevens, VP of business and corporate development at Cloudera, said the certification assured that the server system had passed testing and performance requirements for the Hadoop distribution. "Leveraging the deep domain expertise and expanding knowledge base offered by Cloudera and the greater Cloudera Connect partner ecosystem, AMD can enable its customers to bypass the complexity associated with deploying and managing Hadoop and put their data to immediate use."
The SM15000 links 512 compute cores, 160 gigabits of I/O networking, using the 1.28 terabyte high-performance Freedom Fabric and more than five petabytes of Freedom Fabric Storage in a 10U space.