Synapse Design recently announced its Cloud hardware platform based on a Freescale T4240 network processor and natively running OpenStack Icehouse.
The cloud hardware platform is a configurable design targeted at medium to high performance cloud appliance storage and compute markets.
According to Synapse, the implementation provides 50% lower power for the same compute performance while enabling increased networking throughput with advanced hardware techniques. Deploying this solution at scale will save power when compared to competing architectures with equivalent compute performance.
The Synapse Design platform is configurable, with the initial reference platform having 24 processing threads, four 10GbE channels, eight 1GbE channels and supporting 96TB of SSD storage with currently available drive technology. Compute and storage instantiations with a large variety of configurations can be enabled easily and a variety of host and drive side interfaces are available.