AMCC Conducts RAID 6 Performance Shootout at LinuxWorld Expo; SATA RAID Leader Demonstrates Massively Scalable Linux System, High Performance RAID 6 Protection.SAN FRANCISCO -- Today at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is a conference and trade show that focuses on open source and Linux solutions in the information technology sector. The show is owned and managed by IDG World Expo, a business unit of International Data Group (IDG). , Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC) is a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power Architecture (including a Power Architecture license), optical transport and storage solutions. (AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) ) (NASDAQ-GS:AMCC) is demonstrating how its 3ware(R) RAID technology greatly enhances the performance and scalability of Linux storage environments. Visitors to AMCC booth 212 will see demonstrations of new storage technologies, including RAID 6 protection against dual drive failure. The RAID 6 performance demonstration will feature AMCC's upcoming SATA II RAID controller technology based on its eighth-generation StorSwitch(TM) switch fabric architecture, designed to significantly improve performance, availability and scalability by offloading data I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output from the host. Featuring native PCI Express, 3Gb/s SATA II and AMCC's breakthrough parallel XOR (eXclusive OR) A Boolean logic operation that is widely used in cryptography as well as in generating parity bits for error checking and fault tolerance. XOR compares two input bits and generates one output bit. The logic is simple. If the bits are the same, the result is 0. RAID 6 algorithm, AMCC's next-generation controller technology reduces the RAID 6 write performance penalty commonly found in other controllers to less than 10%, producing sustained throughput speeds more than 70% faster than competing RAID 6 controllers. "Our performance demonstration will give LinuxWorld attendees a good idea as to what they can expect when we release our next generation 3ware SATA II RAID controller," said Scott Cleland, director of marketing, AMCC Storage. "AMCC is able to achieve higher performance levels because it designs its own storage processors, built for serial storage applications which are used in Linux environments." The performance shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. will pit 8-port versions of AMCC's next generation technology against a competing SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. RAID controller and a SAS-based RAID controller. The SATA controllers will run with 7200rpm RAID Edition drives from Western Digital, while the SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. controller will run with 10,000rpm SAS hard drives. All will be running xdd, an I/O benchmarking tool. For AMCC's high-density scalability demonstration, the company is teaming with leading storage and blade server chassis provider Advanced Industrial Computer, Inc. (AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. ) to feature a 24TB SATA II system featuring four AMCC 3ware 9550SX controllers and 48 drives in a single unit. Gene Lee, corporate vice president of AIC, City of Industry, California-based storage and server enclosure manufacturer, says, "AMCC 3ware has a long history of providing top performance, high capacity RAID for Linux environments. With the new SFF (Small Form Factor) Refers to a device that is smaller than others in its field. For example, a miniature display on a cellphone is an SFF device because displays can be extremely large on monitors and TVs by comparison. See form factor. 8087 backplane connection, AIC and AMCC are leading the way in storage design, working to ensure proper system cooling as well as efficient space utilization for massively scalable serial storage environments." "These technology demonstrations support our storage roadmap that we announced in May," added Cleland. "This preview of AMCC 3ware RAID 6 and native PCI Express demonstrate how AMCC storage technologies will enhance Linux networks, enabling a new level of performance and scaling. We are also showing the pathway for SATA drives being utilized in dense, capacity-rich environments, enabling cost-effective, massively-scalable storage networks that deliver high performance." About AMCC AMCC blends systems and software expertise to provide the essential building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of data worldwide. The #1 high-port count Serial ATA RAID controller line, AMCC's 3ware(R) family of SATA RAID storage solutions deliver cost-effective, high-performance, high-capacity storage for enterprises and consumers worldwide in applications such as disk-to-disk backup, near-line storage, network-attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ), video, and high-performance computing. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with offices throughout the world. For more information, visit http://www.3ware.com or http://www.amcc.com. 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Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release, are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products may not be successfully or timely developed, completed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , and in the Company's other SEC filings. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. AMCC, 3ware, and StorSwitch are trademarks or registered trademarks of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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