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Server maker SeaMicro teamed up with Intel and Samsung to release what the companies say is the world’s first fabric-based Intel Xeon micro server.
The system, launched into general availability in Tuesday, packs 64 quad-core 2.4GHz Xeon processors into a 10U chassis, boosting drastically compute power per both watt of data center power and square inch of raised floor.
Commenting on the launch, SeaMicro CEO Andrew Feldman did not mince words, saying the new SM10000-XE server was the lowest-power, highest-density and highest-bandwidth Xeon-based server ever built.
“SeaMicro now brings the benefits of micro servers—efficiency and massive density—to small and larger-core workloads and to all parts of the scale out data center,” he said.
SeaMicro’s Freedom Supercompute Fabric enables multiple Freedom ASIC’s to work together, creating a 1.28 terabit-per-second fabric that ties together 64 mini-motherboards. It does this at low latency, low power and with high bandwith.
Energy savings start at the chip. The system uses Xeon E3-1260L, Intel’s most efficient quad-core Xeon processor.
Samsung’s contribution was its Green DDR3 memory, a DRAM solution designed specifically for high-density energy-efficient servers. The memory chip uses more than 70% less power than 1Gb 1.5V 50nm class DDR3.
The system saves energy further by using SeaMicro’s new TIO (Turn It Off) technology, which turns off unneeded CPU and chipset functions.
SeaMicro shrunk the computer’s size and energy consumption by using its I/O virtualization technology, which eliminates all components from the motherboard except the CPU, DRAM and the ASIC.
In base configuration, SeaMicro offers SM10000-XE at US$138,000.
More specs of the SM10000-XE: