SeaMicro’s Secret Server Changes Computing Economics

GigaOM (Jan 6 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. SeaMicro, a stealthy server company based in Santa Clara, Calif., today scored $9.3 million from the Department of Energy as part of a program to encourage data center efficiency. It’s built a box that contains 512 Atom CPUs, a petabyte of storage, and costs less than $100,000, which it hopes to use to exploit the growing gap in computing workloads that the major server and chip vendors have ignored. From low-power mobile chips to incredibly fast, high-performance silicon, what one executive at Dell called “the dynamic range” of computing has widened. But right now the industry only provides computer users with chips congregated at each end, and nothing for users in between. (Read Full Article)

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