SeaMicro

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]

SeaMicro, Inc.
IndustryData center, Rack Storage Hardware
Founded2007
FounderGary Lauterbach
Andrew Feldman
Anil Rao
Defunct16 April 2015 (2015-04-16)
Headquarters
Santa Clara, CA
,
United States
Key people
Dhiraj Malik
ServicesComputer data storage
ParentAdvanced Micro Devices
Websitewww.seamicro.com

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]

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]

References
  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312513069422/d486815d10k.htm
  2. http://seamicro.com
  3. https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/22/seamicros-andrew-feldman-on-pulling-the-thread-in-entrepreneurship/
  4. UltraSPARC III
  5. Sum addressed decoder
  6. https://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. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/07/seamicro_claims_verizon_cloud_underlay/
  11. https://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. https://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. https://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amds-revolutionary-2014may01.aspx
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