SeaMicro

SeaMicro, Inc.
Industry Data center, Rack Storage Hardware
Founded 2007
Founder Gary Lauterbach
Andrew Feldman
Anil Rao
Defunct 2015
Headquarters Santa Clara, CA, United States
Key people
 Dhiraj Malik
Services Computer data storage
Parent Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Website www.seamicro.com

SeaMicro, Inc. was a subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices (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[4][5] 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.[6][7] In 2012, SeaMicro was acquired by AMD for $334 million.[8] SeaMicro servers are used in data centers, such as for the Gene Center at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for scientific research.[9] In 2013, SeaMicro AMD collaborated with Verizon Communications to power their new cloud services.[10] It has powered Verizon to introduce fine-grained server configuration options that allow for more flexibility in instance-sizing by letting administrators select a processor speed between 500 MHz and 2 GHz and 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.[11] A more recent model, The SeaMicro SM15000 is also designed to support Citrix Xen Servers, VMware ESXi software and both GNU-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.[12][13] In addition, the 10U Rack Unit provides a total 2,048 CPU cores, 16 TBs of RAM and data is transferred through a custom "Freedom Fabric" for supercomputers unique to SeaMicro microservers.[14][15] Additional certifications for SeaMicro products include OpenStack Cloud Computing for the Rackspace Private Cloud.

Additional Products include:

Awards

GigaOM: GreenNet 2011: 10 Big Ideas Winners[16]

Silicon Valley/ San Jose Journal: Best Emerging Cleantech Company 2011[17]

2011 Best Electronic Design Winners: Computer Category[18]

Platts: 2011 Rising Star award[19]

2014 Silver Edison Award[20]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312513069422/d486815d10k.htm
  2. ↑ http://seamicro.com
  3. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/22/seamicros-andrew-feldman-on-pulling-the-thread-in-entrepreneurship/
  4. ↑ UltraSPARC III
  5. ↑ Sum addressed decoder
  6. ↑ http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/07/seamicro-raises-20m-for-power-efficient-servers/
  7. ↑ https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/cases/detail1.asp?Document_ID=3508
  8. ↑ http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/amd-idINDEE81S0N520120229
  9. ↑ "AMD’s SeaMicro Servers Accelerate Leading-edge Biomolecular Research to Provide High-performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Munich". Press release (AMD). June 13, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  10. ↑ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/07/seamicro_claims_verizon_cloud_underlay/
  11. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/26/idUS107632+26-Jun-2012+MW20120626
  12. ↑ http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/AMD%20SeaMicro%20Overview.pdf
  13. ↑ http://seamicro.com/sites/default/files/RedHat.pdf
  14. ↑ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/amd_seamicro_microserver_upgrade_storage/
  15. ↑ http://seamicro.com/sites/default/files/SM_TO01_64_v2.7.pdf
  16. ↑ http://www.seamicro.com/node/182
  17. ↑ http://www.seamicro.com/node/184
  18. ↑ http://electronicdesign.com/article/news/Electronic-Design-Announces-2011-Best-Electronic-Design-Award-Winners-.aspx
  19. ↑ http://geaweb.platts.com/Winners.aspx?xmlFile=Winners2011.xml
  20. ↑ http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amds-revolutionary-2014may01.aspx

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