NeoGen
06-16-2010, 04:32 AM
This is a totally new market for servers... clusters of low power, low performance processors that can take on the big ones in performance and power consumption!
SeaMicro is a Silicon Valley hardware startup that began work in July 2007 on a server that could gang together cheap, low-end processors like Atom in ways that would make sense for Web-centric server workloads. The result of that effort was unveiled today in the form of the SeaMicro SM10000, a datacenter server that squeezes 512 Atom processors into 10U of space and draws 2KW of power.
Full article here: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/06/server-based-on-512-atom-cpus-to-take-on-xeon-in-datacenters.ars
SeaMicro is a Silicon Valley hardware startup that began work in July 2007 on a server that could gang together cheap, low-end processors like Atom in ways that would make sense for Web-centric server workloads. The result of that effort was unveiled today in the form of the SeaMicro SM10000, a datacenter server that squeezes 512 Atom processors into 10U of space and draws 2KW of power.
Full article here: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/06/server-based-on-512-atom-cpus-to-take-on-xeon-in-datacenters.ars