SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server

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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Re:Other options (in 10U, 240 opteron cores can fi

[Hurricane78]

No it isn’t. Because as a poster above mentioned, and as we all should know by now, Atom is a power consumption scam and is designed as one.
When you look at an Atom mainboard, what you think is the CPU, because of the cooler, is the north bridge. And what you think is the north bridge, because of its smallness, is the Atom CPU.
They simply shifted features to the north bridge, so they could trick you into believing the whole system would be more efficient, by giving you small consumption numbers for the CPU.
The joke is, that even those numbers are still about 5 times that of a equivalent ARM CPU. Which does not need the large NB.

So the point here is eyewash, and to sell you a delusion.
But I did not expect better from the convicted criminal that Intel is. (Look up the lawsuits yourself, in case you lived in a cave and missed the /. articles. [Especially the ones around anticompetitive behavior. Specifically against AMD when the Athlon came out. I personally suffered from this.])