SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server

1sockchuck writes "Stealthy startup SeaMicro has unveiled its new low-power server, which incorporates 512 Intel Atom CPUs, a load balancer and interconnection fabric into a 10u server. SeaMicro, which received a $9.3 million government grant from DOE to develop its technology, says its server uses less than 2 kilowatts of energy — suggesting that a single rack with four SeaMicro units and 2,048 CPUs could draw just 8 kilowatts of power. Check out the technical overview, plus additional coverage from Wired, GigaOm and VentureBeat."

Vitual center

[steelcobra]

Wow. Just think how many servers you could run in VMWare on that. A hundred would be a decent functional number.

Am I the only one who....

[mark-t]

...misread the headline as saying that somebody had made a server out of only 512 atoms (as in the particle, not the cpu)?

Is Mr CmdrTaco high today?

[Anonymous Coward]

Before it was Fifth Grade Kindergardeners, now it's Atom/Molecule sized Intel Atom processors? :smoketheweed:

Imagine a beowulf cluster of...

[Chas]

Oh, wait. Nevermind.

For their next trick

[polaris20]

They're going to power a Ferrari out of 34.5 Vespa scooter engines.

Re:What's the "bang for the buck"?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Depends on your storage medium. A hogshead'sfull of class-6 SD cards will be nice and zippy. If your enterprise data pedlar stiffs you with a bunch of class-2s, it'll take a lot longer.

Disappointed

[Anonymous Coward]

Did anyone else get disappointed when after reading the summary, they found out it wasn't about nano-technology?

Re:For their next trick

[by (1706743)]

Or power a motorcycle with 24 chainsaw engines. [youtube.com]