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Sea Micro launches low-power, high core count servers
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:22 am
by complacent
Linky here.,
This sounds like a cool (no pun intended) way to cram more cores into a rack.
We offered up some details on SeaMicro in January that we had gleaned from various sources, including a patent filing, but SeaMicro CEO Andrew Feldman has formally launched the company and sent us all the information. Here’s what SeaMicro has done with its box: popped 512 x 1.6 GHz Intel x86 CPUs on a rack, which equates to 2,048 CPUs per rack with 1 Terabyte of DRAM, a 1.28 Terabit networking fabric and up to 64 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports, or 16 10GigE ports. Customers can add up to 64 solid-state drives for storage and the whole box takes up 10 rack units and consumes less than 2 kilowatts of power.
I'm interested to see some more, sounds pretty cool.
Re: Sea Micro launches low-power, high core count servers
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:58 pm
by Sabre
complacent wrote:which equates to 2,048 CPUs per rack with 1 Terabyte of DRAM, a 1.28 Terabit networking fabric... whole box takes up 10 rack units and consumes less than 2 kilowatts of power.
Very interesting indeed! Between things like this and GPU's, the amount of power that the average user has is going to sky rocket in the next few years. Take a look at the upcoming Bulldozer architecture from AMD as well. They are making some very interesting changes to the CPU!
Re: Sea Micro launches low-power, high core count servers
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:36 pm
by Sabre
Picture of said beast:
Re: Sea Micro launches low-power, high core count servers
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:55 am
by Mr Kleen
that picture makes me want a slice of pizza for some reason.
Re: Sea Micro launches low-power, high core count servers
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:19 am
by PGT
8kw per 42U rack isn't trivial
Re: Sea Micro launches low-power, high core count servers
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:49 am
by Sabre
PGT wrote:8kw per 42U rack isn't trivial
But neither is the computing power! Come on dude, I know your place can handle it!
Re: Sea Micro launches low-power, high core count servers
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:45 am
by complacent
Sabre wrote:PGT wrote:8kw per 42U rack isn't trivial
But neither is the computing power! Come on dude, I know your place can handle it!
That was my thought. Look at the core/kw count... I thought it looked pretty solid.