SeaMicro in the News
SeaMicro, the upstart maker of Atom-based microservers, has a new salesperson: server rival Dell.
The companies have not made a formal announcement, but Armando Acosta, product manager for Dell's PowerEdge C cloudy infrastructure server line, confirms that the companies signed a reseller agreement back in May and Dell is starting to peddle the SeaMicro boxes now. "It's strictly a reseller agreement, which is why we didn't make a big deal about it," Acosta tells El Reg.
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Look, Ma! Six servers on a board.
SeaMicro, the company building low-power specialty servers for web companies, has managed to increase the amount of computing power under its hood by 50 percent while decreasing the power consumption of its machines by a quarter in its third-generation product. The latest box comes a mere four months after the company has released its second-generation hardware with a specially designed Intel chip.
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Venture capitalists have abandoned hardware and semiconductor start-ups amid the rising valuations and shrinking costs that come with building Internet and software companies.
But building hardware to help Web-scale data centers save power is one of the few bright spots that’s still capturing investors’ attention.
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SERVER VENDOR Seamicro has bunged 384 dual core Intel Atom 1.66GHz chips into a 10U server.
Seamicro, a firm that makes low-power servers, announced that its 10U SM10000-64HD now packs 384 dual core Intel Atom chips running at 1.66GHz, beating its previous density record of 256 chips in the same physical footprint. Seamicro claims that the 10U rack server can replace 60 traditional servers, four network switches and terminal servers and a load balancer.
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SeaMicro is rolling out the SM10000-64 HD, the third Atom-based system for the server vendor in the last year.
SeaMicro is continuing its rapid cadence of new low-power servers powered by Intel’s Atom chips, rolling out its third such server in less than a year.
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For the third time in nine months, SeaMicro is announcing a new line of servers that can pack an awful lot of computing power in a sixth of the usual space and a quarter of the electricity.
To read the original Venture Beat article, click here.
The SM10000-64 HD, released on Monday, is the third generation of servers produced by the company, following on from the 512-core SM10000-64 and the 256-core SM10000.
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Pushing the boundary of high-density computing, SeaMicro today introduced a new version of its next-generation server that packs 768 Intel Atom cores into a 10u chassis. The SM10000-64HD (high-density) extends SeaMicro’s mission to develop servers with improved energy efficiency that can pack more computing power into every square foot of data center space.
To read the original Data Center Knowledge article, click here.
SeaMicro has upped the core counts of their servers from silly to stupidly high. With a simple board upgrade, they have pushed the limits from 512 cores in 10U to 768.
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SeaMicro has crammed 768 Atom processor cores into its latest low-power SM10000-64HD server in an effort to provide a quick response time to Web transactions while saving energy.
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SeaMicro is launching its second Atom-based server, the SM10000-64-HD, as it ups the ante on power sipping performance.
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Are low-power Atom servers more efficient than cloud computing platforms in crunching large datasets? That’s the case for eHarmony, which is now using servers from SeaMicro to power the data analysis for its singles matching service. The dating site had previously used the Amazon cloud computing platform to perform nightly data-crunching using Apache Hadoop.
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Low-power server maker SeaMicro has raised another $20 million in funding, according to a filing. A SeaMicro spokesperson tells me the company has now raised $60 million total from venture capitalists and strategic partners, and the company will use the funds to “continue to support our rapid growth, add engineers and engineering resources, expand our sales organization both domestically and internationally and build out our marketing organizations.”
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When the Mozilla Corporation rolled out Firefox 4, the browser wasn’t the only new technology making its debut. The launch was powered by new servers from SeaMicro that use about a quarter of the power and space of most commercial servers.
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SeaMicro Chief Executive Andrew Feldman had good news to share with his team earlier this year. The 75-person computer maker in Santa Clara, Calif. was moving to new digs with more space. Feldman’s crew had just one burning question: “Is it near Fry’s?”
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The developers behind Tic Tac-sized light bulbs powerful enough to illuminate a sidewalk, a solar project used to extract oil and other cleantech innovations took center stage Tuesday night at the inaugural Bay Area Energy Awards.
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The GigaOM Network is very excited to announce the startups we’ve selected to be the 10 Big Ideas winners for Green:Net 2011. These are companies that are some of the most innovative in the digital energy space, and have novel “Big Ideas” for how to use information technology — from software to the web to computing to mobile networks — to fight climate change.
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Once upon a time, servers had to offer nothing more than raw computing power. Everything else was a secondary consideration, including the consumption of electricity. It didn't matter if there was no need for all that computing power. The rule of thumb was always to buy a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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The startup's announcement shows what can be done with a lot of simple CPUs, but what they are doing still may be overkill.
SeaMicro Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has announced the SM10000-64, a 10U rack server consisting of 256 low-end dual-core Intel Atom N570 processors. It is touted as delivering the same performance as 45 high-end quad-core processors, while consuming a quarter of the power.
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SEAMICRO IS UPDATING their Atom based server system with several much needed features, all of which stem from a new Atom SKU. These new updates simplify, speed, and add headroom to the 512-core rack mount SM10000 box.
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