ADLINK Technology Inc., a global leader in edge computing, announces the availability of the Ampere Altra Developer Platform based on the COM-HPC Ampere® Altra® module, the world’s first 32/64/80-core COM-HPC based server type module with head-turning performance and scalability necessary to drive a variety of use cases across the cloud-to-edge development communities. Examples include real-time applications that require reliable and predictable processing of the most computationally demanding workloads like medical imaging and robotic surgery, stationary and mobile robotics, autonomous driving, test and measurement to multimedia broadcasting, and more.
Backed by a broad Arm® ecosystem with an Ampere® Altra® SoC at its core, using the Arm® Neoverse™ N1 platform, the Ampere Altra Developer Platform provides premium performance from a cloud-to-edge infrastructure, keeps an extremely low thermal envelope, lower TCO, and significantly lower power consumption than x86 designs.
The COM-HPC Ampere Altra Server Type module, the basis of the Ampere Altra Development Platform (AADP), delivers an unprecedented performance-power ratio. For example, while running 80 Ampere Altra cores at 2.6GHz, the typical usage power is below 115W. It provides three PCIe Gen4 x16 lanes with a homogeneous architecture and valuable computing power that effectively eliminates bottlenecks and restrictions typically caused by memory caches and system memory limits. The PCIe interfaces in this platform support qualified inline accelerator cards which can be easily plugged in to perform compute intense and low latency functions mostly popular with the 5G and telco applications. Ampere Altra is a high-performance, scalable, cloud-native processor with industry-leading power efficiency which unlocks new opportunities for developers from the edge, embedded, and other performance- and power-optimized applications.
“We are thrilled to have such an engaging and benchmark-setting collaboration with both Ampere and Arm. This resulted in ADLINK bringing the first Arm-based COM-HPC to the market last September. Ultimately, it spun up this revolutionary and powerful beast of a workstation built around the Ampere Altra 80 core SOC,” says Alex Wang, ADLINK’s senior product manager of embedded platforms and modules product center.
“This ground-breaking workstation is a unique opportunity for developers to facilitate almost any kind of Cloud Native application development on a high performance, approachable form factor provided via strong collaboration between ADLINK, Arm, and Ampere,” says Sean Varley, Senior Director of Solutions at Ampere.