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SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-stop-there dept.

1sockchuck writes "Stealthy startup SeaMicro has unveiled its new low-power server, which incorporates 512 Intel Atom CPUs, a load balancer and interconnection fabric into a 10u server. SeaMicro, which received a $9.3 million government grant from DOE to develop its technology, says its server uses less than 2 kilowatts of energy — suggesting that a single rack with four SeaMicro units and 2,048 CPUs could draw just 8 kilowatts of power. Check out the technical overview, plus additional coverage from Wired, GigaOm and VentureBeat."

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  1. What's the "bang for the buck"? by TeXMaster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The question is, how good is the performance for, say, intensive numerical computations? Is the gigaflop per watt convenient?

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    1. Re:What's the "bang for the buck"? by jandrese · · Score: 3, Insightful

      But traditional web servers aren't CPU bound, they're IO bound at high connection rates. It might help if you need to do a whole lot of https traffic, but even then this smells of overkill. If you're really planning to use this as a webserver, I'd be a whole lot more interested in the IO backplane and the available IO ports to the server.

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  2. Re:Imagine a beowulf cluster of... by CAIMLAS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would seem that the 'beowulf cluster' is starting to fall out of style, doesn't it? :P We're getting to the point where such concepts are as quaint as a "Cray supercomputer" were just a couple years ago.

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  3. Operating system not mentioned? by dragisha · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or it's only me who can't find it?

    "No changes to software" or something like that.... And only tons of RFC* and "funny acronyms"... What software needs no change?

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  4. Re:Imagine a beowulf cluster of... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clusters are still very much alive. They're cheap to build and give you a lot of computing power to play with. If anyone mentions Beowulf when describing them, however, it's a good clue that they have no idea what they are talking about.

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  5. Re:Vitual center by sleeping143 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the more important element here is the performance/energy consumption ratio. Atoms might be slow, but they're not so slow that their minuscule power consumption can't make up for it.

  6. Re:Vitual center by BitZtream · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thats funny cause I have a Intel D410 Mobo that runs a couple virtual box instances on top of FreeBSD.

    Virtualization of the x86 existed before Intel added special support for it.

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