Boston Release Worlds First Commercially Available "ARM® as a Service" in Conjunction with Ellexus and Calxeda
Summary
Frogmore, United Kingdom, March 07, 2013 --( Breeze is a novel technology for tracing programs as they run in order to monitor file dependencies and environment settings.“There is tremendous demand for easy access to ARM server technology, so the time is ripe for AaaS,” says Karl Freund, VP Marketing, Calxeda, Inc. “We are thrilled to see Boston and Ellexus stand up this service to provide cloud-based access to engineers to build and optimize their server codes for ARM.” Boston’s "ARM-as-a-Service" delivers dedicated physical quad-core nodes as opposed to virtual CPUs like the majority of conventional cloud offerings.There are also a range of training videos and professional services available for users looking to fast-track their migration to ARM,” says Boston’s Head of HPC, David Power.Built specifically to assist in migrating and porting applications from X86 to ARM, Boston have teamed up with software developers Ellexus for their product Breeze, a choice of product also made by ARM to profile and troubleshoot applications on their own HPC cluster.Breeze is a novel technology for tracing programs as they run in order to monitor file dependencies and environment settings.Breeze helps IT managers, tool vendors and users to communicate and solve problems more quickly.“We’ve been working with ARM for 18 months and we are now extremely excited to be partnering up with one of the stand-out front-runners in the ARM-based server ecosystem, Boston Ltd. We understand the hardware constraints that many software developers will face in trying to enter the ARM environment and Boston’s cloud offering provides a fantastic opportunity for those wanting to future-proof their applications as more and more users move over to ARM technology,” says Dr. Rosemary Francis, Managing Director of Ellexus Ltd.Boston’s ARM-based servers, the industry renowned Viridis Microservers, are built on ultra-low power System-on-Chips from US-based hardware manufacturer, Calxeda.
