Marvell® OCTEON® 10 DPU
and F5 NGINX Application Show How Linux Foundation's OPI Improves
Portability of Cloud and Data Center Applications
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Oct. 16,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure
semiconductor solutions, today announced Marvell, F5 Networks, and Arm, all premier
members of the Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project, have
collaborated to develop the first real-world use case example built
on the OPI framework, which will be shown in the Arm booth (B14)
this week at the OCP Global Summit.
This initial demo paves the way for using the OPI framework to
offload key infrastructure management services like security, load
balancing, and API gateways from the host CPU to the DPU. This will
lower cloud and data center operator's TCO and increase their
general compute capacity by freeing up CPU cores for more user
applications.
Formed in 2022 by the Linux Foundation, OPI's mission is
to foster a community-driven, standards-based open ecosystem
for next-generation architectures and frameworks based on DPU
technologies. OPI is designed to facilitate the simplification
of network, storage and security APIs within applications to enable
more portable and performant applications in the cloud and data
center across DevOps, SecOps and NetOps.
Specifically, the demo use case is an F5 NGINX container acting
as a proxy for traffic destined to a workload running on either the
DPU host or on separate hosts. The NGINX container is running in a
single node OpenShift installation on the Arm®
Neoverse™-based Marvell OCTEON 10 DPU.
"The Open Programmable Infrastructure project is excited to
showcase its first real-world use case for an OPI-enabled DPU, with
a demonstration running on an Arm-based Marvell OCTEON 10 DPU,"
said Paul Pindell, chair of the OPI
Outreach Working Group. "OPI can now start using this use case
within our testing lab infrastructure used for our Continuous
Integration/Continuous Delivery workflows against example DPUs from
multiple OPI member vendors."
"Applications are increasingly important to our customers'
ongoing digital transformation efforts. Along the way, the need to
make them more reliable, cheaper, and secure to operate is critical
to their future needs and their bottom line. F5 believes that DPU
technologies hold the key to reaching all three of these outcomes
for our customers," said Joel Moses,
CTO of platforms & systems at F5, and OPI board
member. "This OPI technology demonstration directly points out
what Marvell's DPU can do towards
achieving these aims, with notably increased web application
security, performance, and reliability supplied by running our
industry-leading NGINX. We are pleased to work with
Marvell and Arm to demonstrate
this first OPI use case."
"Marvell's participation in OPI
is driven by our belief in enabling more use cases for DPUs to
support high-speed network compute and network capabilities
required by AI and 5G," said Cary
Ussery, vice president, platforms and software, Compute and
Custom Business Unit, at Marvell.
"Marvell is committed to
collaborating with key players, like F5, to drive the ecosystem
forward. In addition, this highlights the need for more processing
in the DPU using the power of the Arm Neoverse N2 cores on the
OCTEON 10 family of DPUs."
"Arm's collaboration with Marvell and F5 to showcase the first OPI use
case on an Arm-based DPU demonstrates the flexibility and
versatility of the Neoverse N2 platform, and the effectiveness of
leveraging Arm's pervasive software ecosystem," said Eddie Ramirez, vice president of go-to-market,
Infrastructure Line of Business, at Arm. "OPI is an important
project to drive the standardization and innovation of DPU
technologies across the industry, and we are happy to be part of
it."
The 2023 OCP Global Summit takes place October 17-19, 2023, at the San Jose Convention Center. Visit Marvell at booth B13, Arm at booth B14, and
the Linux Foundation at booth C37.
About Marvell
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technology companies for over 25 years, we move, store, process and
secure the world's data with semiconductor solutions designed for
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process of deep collaboration and transparency, we're ultimately
changing the way tomorrow's enterprise, cloud, automotive, and
carrier architectures transform—for the better.
About F5
F5 is a multi-cloud application services and
security company committed to bringing a better digital world to
life. F5 partners with the world's largest, most advanced
organizations to secure and optimize every app and API anywhere—on
premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to
provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers
and continuously stay ahead of threats. For more information, go to
f5.com. (NASDAQ: FFIV)
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