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Interesting... I've never been in a really big datacenter, so I'd like to see some (hopefully non-biased) reviews from somebody that does work in those places.

Interesting... I've never been in a really big datacenter, so I'd like to see some (hopefully non-biased) reviews from somebody that does work in those places. Would this really work well for the intended market? There are lots of startups over here that plan on massively serving webpages - would something like this (only cheaper :) ) make you reconsider using whatever cloud services you're currently using? Articles I found on Google: http://gigaom.com/2010/06/13/seamicros-low-power-server-finally-launches/ http://gigaom.com/2010/06/13/seamicros-low-power-server-fina... and the Wall Street Journal's take: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/06/14/seamicro-tries-to-rethink-the-internet-server/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/06/14/seamicro-tries-to-ret...

stcredzero 16y ago
There are lots of startups over here that plan on massively serving webpages Seamicro is using the same sort of lateral move that RISC made and that Transmeta attempted to apply: Could certain functions happen more efficiently if moved outside of the traditional 'box?' Could a datacenter provide a low-latency infrastructure for front-end web-servers while reducing their power and other expenses? I think there's a good chance this is already being done.
lsc 16y ago
what I see right now is that people are choosing fewer, higher speed, more expensive and more power hungry cores over more, slower, cheaper and more efficient cores. Anyone who uses Xeons instead of the new 8 or 12 core opterons has made this choice. Sure, the Xeons kick ass when it comes to single threaded performance, but as far as performance per watt or performance per dollar go, the new socket G34 opterons kick the shit out of the Xeons. For the cost of an 8 core Xeon, I can get a low power 8 core opteron, 32GiB ram, and a nice SuperServer to put it all in.
Andys 16y ago
Its a custom-designed niche product. It will be priced accordingly. You can tell from their "dollar savings" chart that they plan to claw back the money you save in price of the machine!

stcredzero 16y ago

There are lots of startups over here that plan on massively serving webpages Seamicro is using the same sort of lateral move that RISC made and that Transmeta attempted to apply: Could certain functions happen more efficiently if moved outside of the traditional 'box?' Could a datacenter provide a low-latency infrastructure for front-end web-servers while reducing their power and other expenses? I think there's a good chance this is already being done.

lsc 16y ago

what I see right now is that people are choosing fewer, higher speed, more expensive and more power hungry cores over more, slower, cheaper and more efficient cores. Anyone who uses Xeons instead of the new 8 or 12 core opterons has made this choice. Sure, the Xeons kick ass when it comes to single threaded performance, but as far as performance per watt or performance per dollar go, the new socket G34 opterons kick the shit out of the Xeons. For the cost of an 8 core Xeon, I can get a low power 8 core opteron, 32GiB ram, and a nice SuperServer to put it all in.

Andys 16y ago

Its a custom-designed niche product. It will be priced accordingly. You can tell from their "dollar savings" chart that they plan to claw back the money you save in price of the machine!