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Network processing vendor Azul Systems has launched the latest generation of its Java appliances. The appliances are built with the new 48 core Vega 2 processor, the first systems offer up to 192 cores in a relatively small 5U system. A 768 core system with up to 788GB of RAM will be released next year.

Apart from the fact that Azul had wheeled out a new processor architecture and microcode, Vega 2 systems will not require any new application development Azul is claiming a record score for the SPECjbb2005 benchmark. Other figures suggest that a large-scale data mining application could have more than a 300 per cent power saving over the equivalent x86 server farm—and in less than half the rack space.

"We urgently needed to ensure service levels on a massive scale that we simply could not achieve with traditional servers," said Clive Selley, chief information officer at BT Wholesale. He also expects to see significant cost savings over traditional infrastructure implementations, especially in cooling and power requirements.

Azul, has also made known that the BT Group has selected Azul Compute Appliances to achieve the scalability it needs to support a new B2B gateway for the UK telecom industry. The Azul technology aims to help BT ensure guaranteed quality of service to UK communications providers who use the Equivalence Management Platform (EMP) to interact with Openreach, the division of BT created as part of telecom deregulation, as per a statement issued by the company.

The Openreach system will be the B2B gateway. Azul Compute Appliances will also support the BT Wholesale gateway that interfaces with the EMP, as well as other business-critical Java applications, the company said.

"BT is taking advantage of proven disruptive technology from Azul to ensure it can continue to deliver on its commitments under the telecom strategic review," said Scott Sellers, chief operating officer and co-founder of Azul Systems.

"We urgently needed to ensure service levels on a scale that we simply could not achieve with traditional servers," said Clive Selley, CIO BT Wholesale.

Further, Azul will not let the legal warfare with Sun Microsystems stop innovation with its Compute Appliance servers, which offload Java workloads from general purpose servers. ChipEDA, a provider of EDA tools and services, has made known that Azul, licensed the ChipMason Design Flow and its vRAute technology to integrate its 48 core, Vega 2 processor.

"By selecting ChipEDA's hierarchical design flow, we were able to achieve design closure while cutting implementation costs," said Paul Koike, Sr. Director, Silicon Engineering at Azul Systems.

"ChipEDA's hierarchical layout re-use flow in conjunction with their global route capability, made the problem of integrating a very large chip, with timing goals manageable by a small design team, allowing us to achieve timing closure", Paul continued.

"ChipEDA's hierarchical design flow with built in timing closure and layout re-use enables our customers to build an entire product line around a core technology in record time with minimal resources", said Fuad Abu Nofal (Founder and Principal Engineer).

"By adopting ChipMason, Azul Systems was able to increase their functionality on chip and their timing goals, while keeping design costs and schedule under control," Fuad added.

Further, Azul unwrapped its newest chip the 48-core Vega2. It is the successor to last year's Vega1. This Java processor triples performance from the year-old part and has an added feature set.

On the other hand, BEA, has ported the entire portfolio of Java software to the Vega based machines, so you have a set of applications at your finger tips, the company claims. Since Java is portable theoretically you can put an Azul box on almost any machine and offload the Java processing to it.