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.
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.
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.
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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.
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