SeaMicro in the News
There’s a reason Apple is willing to take years of heat over the working conditions inside the Chinese plants building all those iPhones, iPads, and Macs. China is cheaper.
The Dells and the HPs and the Ciscos find it cheaper too. Long ago, they moved away from building servers and networking gear in the U.S., outsourcing almost everything to manufacturers in Asia. After a while, even the giants of the web went to Taiwan and China. Google and Facebook cut the Dells and the HPs out of the equation, going straight to Asian firms who could help them design a new breed of server suited to running a massive online operation — and, yes, build them for less.
To read the original Wired article, click here.
Reducing power and space is a pressing issue in corporate computer rooms, with some hardware makers adopting chips used in mobile devices to build what the industry is calling “micro servers.” SeaMicro, which helped invent the category, just broadened it.
The Silicon Valley startup on Tuesday announced plans to begin offering new machines that use a variety of Intel’s Xeon chips for servers, where its other systems use the Atom chips found in portable PCs called netbooks. That shift, the company says, allows customers to use its machines for an array of new tasks that could not be addressed before, such as running Web databases rather than simply serving up Web pages.
To read the original Wall Street Journal article, click here.
SeaMicro, the startup that has built a business in the low-power microserver market, said it has now integrated Intel’s workhorse Xeon chip inside its boxes. SeaMicro, which crams hundreds of Intel’s low-power Atom-based chips inside its specialty servers for smaller workloads, has gradually proven to Intel and the rest of the market how strong the demand is for low-power architectures. Intel eventually designed a specialty Atom chip just for SeaMicro that gave it the capabilities that data center customers were looking for. Today it goes further.
To read the original GigaOm article, click here.
The startup best known for shaking up the server market by building systems with an alternative to Intel’s high-powered Xeon processors has found a new chip for its products: Intel’s high-powered Xeon processor.
Think of it less as a capitulation, than as an acknowledgment of market realities. After all, Xeon rules the server world. The Atom processors were designed for netbooks, not servers. And while SeaMicro still expects to sell a lot of these ultra-low-power Atom machines in the year ahead, “we will definitely sell more Xeon,” says SeaMicro CEO Andrew Feldman.
That’s because customers are simply more comfortable buying servers that include a server chip. “Atom is newer as a server opportunity and it’s slower to be adopted,” Feldman says.
To read the original Wired article, click here.
SeaMicro Extends the Benefits of Micro Servers to All Segments of the Scale Out Data Center Market in Collaboration With Intel and Samsung Semiconductor
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/31/12 -- SeaMicro, in cooperation with Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., today announced the widespread availability of the first fabric-based Intel(R) Xeon(R) micro server, the SeaMicro SM10000-XE(TM). (See companion release for details.) The addition of the quad-core Intel(R) Xeon(R)-based SM10000-XE to the SM10000(TM) family makes SeaMicro the first and only company able to bring the massive benefits of microservers to all segments of the scale out data center market.
To read the original Bloomberg article, click here.
SeaMicro Tuesday announced a new microserver that incorporates 256 Xeon processor cores to enable faster delivery of data for Internet-based activities such as social media or search.
The SM10000-XE server is a 10U rack server with 64 quad-core Intel E3-1260L processors that run at a clock speed of 2.4GHz. The server is designed to provide faster response to Internet queries by speeding dynamic Web applications and tasks such as extraction of information from databases.
The new server is an upgrade from SeaMicro's SM10000-64HD, which launched last year with 384 dual-core Atom low-power netbook chips. The new server's Xeon processors have "heavyweight" cores that can deliver a better performance than Atom cores, said Andrew Feldman [CQ], CEO of SeaMicro.
To read the original PC World article, click here.
Startup SeaMicro first packed lots of low-end Atom processors into servers to save power and space. Now Intel's beefy Xeon server chips are also getting the low-power treatment.
SeaMicro today announced its SM 10000-XE server, which it claims is the most energy-efficient Xeon server ever built. It consumes one half the power of a server with comparable computing muscle, takes one third of the space, and increases the available bandwidth twelve times, the company said.
The company is one of few companies that have taken a radical approach to server design by using arrays of less powerful processors, called "wimpy nodes." Competitor Calxera, for example, builds efficient servers using an ARM chip normally used in cell phones.
To read the original CNet article, click here.
SeaMicro, which has been selling low-power microservers running on Intel's Atom processors, is now rolling out its newest system powered by Xeon processors.
At a press event Jan. 31, SeaMicro CEO Andrew Feldman unveiled the SM10000-XE, a Xeon-based system with the same unique designed introduced by the company in 2010 that officials say will offer the same performance as 32 dual-socket servers, while consuming half the power and a third of the space. Combined with SeaMicro's current Atom-based servers, the SM1000-XE will enable businesses to run low-power, high-performing microservers throughout their environments.
To read the original eWeek article, click here.
SeaMicro on Tuesday announced a new microserver that incorporates 256 Xeon processor cores to enable faster delivery of data for Internet-based activities such as social media or search.
The SM10000-XE server is a 10U rack server with 64 quad-core Intel E3-1260L processors that run at a clock speed of 2.4GHz. The server is designed to provide faster response to Internet queries by speeding dynamic Web applications and tasks such as extraction of information from databases.
The new server is an upgrade from SeaMicro's SM10000-64HD, which launched last year with 384 dual-core Atom low-power netbook chips. The new server's Xeon processors have "heavyweight" cores that can deliver a better performance than Atom cores, said Andrew Feldman [CQ], CEO of SeaMicro.
To read the original IDG article, click here.
SeaMicro has partnered with both Samsung and Intel to introduce what is being touted as the “first” fabric-based Intel Xeon micro server, the SeaMicro SM10000-XE.
The SM10000-XE is said to be so powerful that it replaces 500 comparable machines from five years ago, according to SeaMicro reps.
Micro servers like this one are designed for fulfilling data center needs — particularly by reducing power and space with machines that use only a fourth of the power consumption and one-sixth the space compared to the previous generation of servers.
To read the original ZDNet article, click here.
SeaMicro on Tuesday announced a new microserver that incorporates 256 Xeon processor cores to enable faster delivery of data for Internet-based activities such as social media or search.
The SM10000-XE server is a 10U rack server with 64 quad-core Intel E3-1260L processors that run at a clock speed of 2.4GHz. The server is designed to provide faster response to Internet queries by speeding dynamic Web applications and tasks such as extraction of information from databases.
To read the original Network World article, click here.
SeaMicro, Intel, and Samsung have teamed up to bring you something very dense and powerful. No, not Jersey Shore extras for the data center, just a really dense Xeon server.
The short story is that you can now take a SeaMicro SM10000 chassis, pull out one of the 12 core Atom cards, and plug a Xeon card in. Instead of 12 wimpy cores with 24GB of memory, you get 4 beefy 2.4GHz Xeon iSomethingmeaningless cores with 32GB of DDR3. To make things better, when you go from 768 cores per 10U chassis to 256 bigger ones, you can do it one card at a time, plug and play, mix and match.
To read the original Semi Accurate article, click here.
Gary Lauterbach says that Google racked its servers like hot bread at a bakery.
The year was 2001. Lauterbach was the chief microprocessor architect at Sun Microsystems, and two of his old Sun pals, Eric Schmidt and Wayne Rosing, had just joined Google. One afternoon, Lauterbach and another Sun bigwig, Jim Mitchell, walked to Google’s Palo Alto, California, office to see the server room. Even then, Google used a very different kind of server. According to Lauterbach, dirt-cheap motherboards were slotted into what looked like bread racks. These “bread rack servers” — as Lauterbach and others still call them — had no cases. They just sat on the racks, exposed to the open air.
To read the original Wired article, click here.
In Silicon Valley, where startups race to create the latest smart-phone application, game or social network, SeaMicro Inc. is thriving by focusing on a more mundane task: building servers.
The company is designing computers that require less space and power than conventional machines yet perform just as well. The idea is to fill a gap left by Hewlett-Packard and Dell, which have curtailed research and development, SeaMicro Chief Executive Officer Andrew Feldman said.
To read the original SF Gate article, click here.
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.
To read the original Register UK article, click here.
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.
To read the original NYT (GigaOM) article, click here.
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.
To read the original WSJ article, click here.
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.
To read the original Inquirer article, click here.
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.
To read the original eWeek article, click here.
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.
