SeaMicro explained

SeaMicro, Inc.
Industry:Data center, Rack Storage Hardware
Foundation:2007
Founder:Gary Lauterbach
Andrew Feldman
Anil Rao
Location City:Santa Clara, CA
Location Country:United States
Key People:Dhiraj Malik
Services:Computer data storage
Parent:AMD

SeaMicro, Inc. was a subsidiary of AMD that specialized in the ultra-dense computer server industry.[1] It ceased operations on 16 April 2015.[2]

History

In July 2007, Andrew Feldman,[3] 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.[4] [5] In 2012, SeaMicro was acquired by AMD for $334 million.[6] 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.[7] In 2013, SeaMicro AMD collaborated with Verizon Communications to power their new cloud services.[8] 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.[9] A more recent model, The SeaMicro SM15000 was also designed to support Citrix Xen Servers, VMware ESXi software, and both Linux and Microsoft Windows Operating systems. Specifications of newer versions have reached computing benchmarks of 5 petabytes of storage, 64 CPUs, a 1,000 Virtual machine capacity, and 1.28 Tb/s of bandwidth.[10] [11] 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.[12] [13]

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Form 10-K. Sec.gov.
  2. Web site: SeaMicro . 2013-09-29 . 2013-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131003100808/http://www.seamicro.com/ . dead .
  3. Web site: SeaMicro's Andrew Feldman on Pulling the Thread in Entrepreneurship. Techcrunch.com. 22 January 2014 .
  4. Web site: SeaMicro raises $20M for power-efficient servers. Venturebeat.com. 8 June 2011.
  5. Web site: Stanford Login - Stale Request. Login.stanford.edu. 29 June 2022.
  6. Web site: AMD to buy SeaMicro for $334 mln in server move. 29 February 2012. 29 June 2022. Reuters.com.
  7. News: AMD's SeaMicro Servers Accelerate Leading-edge Biomolecular Research to Provide High-performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Munich . Press release . June 13, 2013 . AMD . September 30, 2013 .
  8. Web site: AMD's SeaMicro: 'We're the mystery vendor behind Verizon's cloud'. The Register.
  9. Web site: AMD SeaMicro SM10000-XE Micro Server Achieves Red Hat Certification | Reuters. . 22 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140222214510/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/26/idUS107632+26-Jun-2012+MW20120626 . 29 June 2022. 2014-02-22 .
  10. Web site: Archived copy . 2014-05-06 . 2013-11-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131110160148/http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/AMD%20SeaMicro%20Overview.pdf . dead .
  11. Web site: Archived copy . 2013-09-29 . 2013-10-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131002040850/http://seamicro.com/sites/default/files/RedHat.pdf . dead .
  12. Web site: AMD previews Piledriver, Ivy Bridge SeaMicro microservers. The Register.
  13. Web site: Archived copy . 2014-02-12 . 2013-04-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130420225446/http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/SM_TO01_64_v2.7.pdf . dead .
  14. Web site: GigaOM: Green:Net 2011: Announcing Our 10 Big Ideas Winners | SeaMicro . 2014-03-11 . 2012-11-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121101050435/http://www.seamicro.com/node/182 . dead .
  15. Web site: Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal: Business Journal honors Energy Award winners | SeaMicro . 2014-03-11 . 2012-11-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121101050410/http://www.seamicro.com/node/184 . dead .
  16. Web site: Electronic Design Announces 2011 Best Electronic Design Award Winners . 2014-03-11 . 2012-02-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120217143327/http://electronicdesign.com/article/news/Electronic-Design-Announces-2011-Best-Electronic-Design-Award-Winners-.aspx . dead .
  17. Web site: Platts 2011 Global Energy Awards--Winners . 2014-03-11 . 2012-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121219183342/http://geaweb.platts.com/Winners.aspx?xmlFile=Winners2011.xml . dead .

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