AMD's SeaMicro SM15000

[Sabre]

Toms IT Pro

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 brings together compute, networking and storage in a single 10 rack, energy-efficient system. This server provides 64 sockets for AMD Opteron ("Piledriver"), Intel Xeon E3-1260L ("Sandy Bridge") and E3-1265Lv2 ("Ivy Bridge") processors, or 256 sockets for Intel's Atom N570 processors. This server also supports up to 4 terabytes of RAM, up to sixteen 10 GbE uplinks or up to sixty-four 1 GbE uplinks. The server even links 160 gigabits of I/O networking, and more than five petabytes of storage with a 1.28 terabyte high-performance supercompute fabric, called Freedom Fabric.

More info here: http://www.seamicro.com/sm15000

Pretty damn intersting! That's a decent amount of power in that space.

[complacent]

stuff is getting so dense now. i've been following the open compute blog for a long time. it's neat to see the changes just in the last two years. oem's will have to either adapt or suffer the losses.

[PGT]

Verizon's new cloud platform dispenses with what was considered dense (Cisco UCS) and is going with this AMD stuff. Combined with a move to Xen and away from VMWare, it should be interesting to see how the market reacts. Likely to undercut Amazon by 30-50% on price and the platform has virtual networking inherent to the design.

http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-co ... /240162359

[Sabre]

It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out!!!

[Raven]

A server with Atom processors? Even with 256 of them, I can't really see the point.

[ElZorro]

All depends on what your requirements are. The faster you crunch the more power your processor needs and your cooling needs. There is a crossing point for lots of low power processors vs a few high power processors.