World’s Greenest SeaMicro x86 Intel Atom Based Server



SeaMicro on Monday announced a low-power server that includes 256 of Intel’s latest Atom N570 dual-core processors.
Touted as being the world’s most-energy efficient 64-bit x86 server, the new SM10000-64 server is comprised of no less than 256 Intel Atom N570 dual-core processors, combined with SeaMicro’s proprietary server architecture.

World’s Greenest SeaMicro x86 Intel Atom Based Server

Published 3 days ago in Media Servers, NAS Servers
SeaMicro on Monday announced a low-power server that includes 256 of Intel’s latest Atom N570 dual-core processors.
Touted as being the world’s most-energy efficient 64-bit x86 server, the new SM10000-64 server is comprised of no less than 256 Intel Atom N570 dual-core processors, combined with SeaMicro’s proprietary server architecture.

The result is actually quite impressive, the server featuring 512 1.66 GHz x86 cores in a 10 rack unit-tall (17.5 inches) system, that’s not only extremely compact, but also quite energy-efficient, given the fact that the Atom CPUs are quite famous for their low-power requirements.

Optimized for 64-bit Internet data center environments, the SM10000-64 delivers more compute per unit power and more compute per unit space than any x86 system ever built.

The SM10000-64 is also the industry leader in bandwidth per unit compute. SeaMicro’s 1.28 terabit/second supercomputer style fabric enables the SM10000-64 to deliver five times more bandwidth per unit compute than do traditional servers.
This allows applications that require extensive server to server communication such as Hadoop to run more quickly by keeping network bottlenecks from inhibiting application performance.

Naturally, such an efficient (both in terms of computing power and power-requirements) server solution doesn’t come cheap, the list price for a base configuration being set at a whopping US$148,000.
 
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