SeaMicro
{{Infobox company
| name = SeaMicro, Inc.
| logo = SeaMicro logo.svg
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| industry = Data center, Rack Storage Hardware
| fate =
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| foundation = 2007
| founder = Gary Lauterbach
Andrew Feldman
Anil Rao
| defunct = {{end date|2015|04|16}}
| location_city = Santa Clara, CA
| location_country = United States
| area_served =
| key_people = Dhiraj Malik
| products =
| services = Computer data storage
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| parent = AMD
| homepage = {{URL|www.seamicro.com}}
}}
SeaMicro, Inc. was a subsidiary of AMD that specialized in the ultra-dense computer server industry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312513069422/d486815d10k.htm|title = Form 10-K|website=Sec.gov}} It ceased operations on 16 April 2015.{{Cite web |url=http://seamicro.com/ |title=SeaMicro |access-date=2013-09-29 |archive-date=2013-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003100808/http://www.seamicro.com/ |url-status=dead }}
History
In July 2007, Andrew Feldman,{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/22/seamicros-andrew-feldman-on-pulling-the-thread-in-entrepreneurship/|title = SeaMicro's Andrew Feldman on Pulling the Thread in Entrepreneurship|website=Techcrunch.com| date=22 January 2014 }} Gary Lauterbach, 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.{{Cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2011/06/07/seamicro-raises-20m-for-power-efficient-servers/|title = SeaMicro raises $20M for power-efficient servers|website=Venturebeat.com|date = 8 June 2011}}{{Cite web|url=https://login.stanford.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO?execution=e1s1|title=Stanford Login - Stale Request|website=Login.stanford.edu|access-date=29 June 2022}} In 2012, SeaMicro was acquired by AMD for $334 million.{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/amd-idINDEE81S0N520120229|title=AMD to buy SeaMicro for $334 mln in server move|date=29 February 2012|access-date=29 June 2022|website=Reuters.com}} The application of MicroSea servers were most prominent in data centers, such as the Gene Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for scientific research.{{Cite news |title= AMD's SeaMicro Servers Accelerate Leading-edge Biomolecular Research to Provide High-performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Munich |work= Press release |date= June 13, 2013 |publisher= AMD |url= https://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/seamicro-servers-munich-2013jun13.aspx |access-date= September 30, 2013 }} In 2013, SeaMicro AMD collaborated with Verizon Communications to power their new cloud services.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/07/seamicro_claims_verizon_cloud_underlay/|title = AMD's SeaMicro: 'We're the mystery vendor behind Verizon's cloud'|website = The Register}} It has empowered Verizon to introduce fine-grained server configuration options that allow for more flexibility in instance-sizing by allowing administrators to select a processor speed between 500 MHz and 2 GHz and to 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/26/idUS107632+26-Jun-2012+MW20120626|title=AMD SeaMicro SM10000-XE Micro Server Achieves Red Hat Certification | Reuters|website=Reuters |date=22 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222214510/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/26/idUS107632+26-Jun-2012+MW20120626 |access-date=29 June 2022|archive-date=2014-02-22 }} A more recent model, The SeaMicro SM15000 was also designed to support Citrix Xen Servers, VMware ESXi software, and both 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/AMD%20SeaMicro%20Overview.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-05-06 |archive-date=2013-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110160148/http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/AMD%20SeaMicro%20Overview.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://seamicro.com/sites/default/files/RedHat.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-09-29 |archive-date=2013-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002040850/http://seamicro.com/sites/default/files/RedHat.pdf |url-status=dead }} Another product of interest is the 10U Rack Unit, which can provide a total of 2,048 CPU cores, and 16 TBs of RAM and data is transferred through a custom "Freedom Fabric" for supercomputers unique to SeaMicro microservers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/amd_seamicro_microserver_upgrade_storage/|title = AMD previews Piledriver, Ivy Bridge SeaMicro microservers|website = The Register}}{{Cite web |url=http://seamicro.com/sites/default/files/SM_TO01_64_v2.7.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-02-12 |archive-date=2013-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420225446/http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/SM_TO01_64_v2.7.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Awards
- GigaOM: GreenNet 2011: 10 Big Ideas Winners{{Cite web |url=http://www.seamicro.com/node/182 |title=GigaOM: Green:Net 2011: Announcing Our 10 Big Ideas Winners | SeaMicro |access-date=2014-03-11 |archive-date=2012-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101050435/http://www.seamicro.com/node/182 |url-status=dead }}
- Silicon Valley/ San Jose Journal: Best Emerging Cleantech Company 2011{{Cite web |url=http://www.seamicro.com/node/184 |title=Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal: Business Journal honors Energy Award winners | SeaMicro |access-date=2014-03-11 |archive-date=2012-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101050410/http://www.seamicro.com/node/184 |url-status=dead }}
- 2011 Best Electronic Design Winners: Computer Category{{Cite web |url=http://electronicdesign.com/article/news/Electronic-Design-Announces-2011-Best-Electronic-Design-Award-Winners-.aspx |title=Electronic Design Announces 2011 Best Electronic Design Award Winners |access-date=2014-03-11 |archive-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217143327/http://electronicdesign.com/article/news/Electronic-Design-Announces-2011-Best-Electronic-Design-Award-Winners-.aspx |url-status=dead }}
- Platts: 2011 Rising Star award{{Cite web |url=http://geaweb.platts.com/Winners.aspx?xmlFile=Winners2011.xml |title=Platts 2011 Global Energy Awards--Winners |access-date=2014-03-11 |archive-date=2012-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219183342/http://geaweb.platts.com/Winners.aspx?xmlFile=Winners2011.xml |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|name=SeaMicro Official Website|https://web.archive.org/web/20111005154335/http://www.seamicro.com/}}
- [http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100922.html Architectural tradeoffs in the Sea Micro SM 10000 Server] - Talk given at Stanford University by SeaMicro founder & CTO, Gary Lauterbach. ([http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=100922-ee380-300.asx video archive])
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