SeaMicro, Inc. was a subsidiary of
AMD that specialized in the ultra-dense computer server industry. It ceased operations on 16 April 2015.
History
In July 2007, Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, and Anil Rao founded SeaMicro. Series A investments from
Crosslink Capital and
Draper Fisher Jurvetson closed in December 2007.
Khosla Ventures led the series B investment round in 2009. In 2012, SeaMicro was acquired by AMD for $334 million. The application of MicroSea servers were most prominent in
data centers, such as the Gene Center at
the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for scientific research. In 2013, SeaMicro AMD collaborated with
Verizon Communications to power their new cloud services. It has empowered Verizon to introduce fine-grained server configuration options that allow for more flexibility in instance-sizing by allowing administrators to select a processor speed between 500 MHz and 2 GHz and to scale DRAM up and down in 512 MB increments.
Products
The first product from SeaMicro was the SM10000, along with the SM10000-XE, which achieved
Red Hat Certification in 2011 when operating on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A more recent model, The SeaMicro SM15000 was also designed to support
Citrix Xen Servers,
VMware ESXi software, and both
Linux
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and
Microsoft Windows
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Operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...
s. Specifications of newer versions have reached
computing benchmarks of 5
petabytes of storage, 64
CPUs, a 1,000
Virtual machine
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capacity, and 1.28
Tb/s of
bandwidth. Another product of interest is the
10U Rack Unit, which can provide a total of 2,048
CPU cores, and 16
TBs of
RAM and data is transferred through a custom "Freedom Fabric" for supercomputers unique to SeaMicro microservers.
Awards
* GigaOM: GreenNet 2011: 10 Big Ideas Winners
* Silicon Valley/ San Jose Journal: Best Emerging Cleantech Company 2011
* 2011 Best Electronic Design Winners: Computer Category
* Platts: 2011 Rising Star award
References
External links
*
Architectural tradeoffs in the Sea Micro SM 10000 Server- Talk given at
Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
by SeaMicro founder & CTO, Gary Lauterbach.
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