SeaMicro's New Energy-Efficient Server Has Intel's Atom N570 Chip

Server maker SeaMicro, Inc.has unveiled its new x 86 energy-efficient server -- the SM10000-64, that features the latest 64-bit Intel Atom N570 dual-core processors.

The SM10000-64, which SeaMicro claims is the world's most energy efficient 64-bit x86 server, helps reducing power and space by more than 75 percent without requiring any software modifications.

Optimized for 64-bit Internet data center environments, the SM10000-64 delivers more compute per unit power and more compute per unit space than any x86 system ever built, the company said in a statement.

The server runs on Intel's Atom N570 dual-core chip. Intel Atom is the brand name for a line of ultra-low-voltage x86 and x86-64 chips from Intel, and used mainly in netbooks, nettops, and Mobile Internet devices (MIDs).

Atom N570 is a dual core Atom chip for netbooks and offers a low power consumption. The processor supports 64-bit operating systems, 4 gigabytes of operating system addressable memory per socket, has a clock speed of 1.66 GHz . Moreover, N570 is the first low power Atom chip to support virtualization.

When used on a SeaMicro motherboard, and in conjunction with SeaMicro power management technology, the N570 uses, at peak utilization, less than one watt for each gigahertz of compute, SeaMicro said.

SeaMicro, founded in 2007, has priced its SM10000-64 server at $148,000 in the U.S.

California-based SeaMicro is backed by investors, including Khosla Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Crosslink Capital, has recently received the $9.3 million grant from Dept. of Energy, which SeaMicro says is the largest DOE grant given to a server company.

Following are the specifications of SM10000-64 server:

Processor
Total Number of Cores per System	512
Total No. of Processors per system	256
Cores per Processor	2
No. of Processors per Compute Card	4
No. of Compute Cards per system	64 Hot-serviceable
Processor Specification	Intel N570: 1.66 GHz, Dual Core, Dual Thread X86-64 Processor
Advanced Processor Features	Intel x86-64, VT-x, HT
Memory Capacity	4GB
Memory Type	SODIMM

Ethernet Uplink
Max. No. of Ethernet Interfaces ( 8 cards x 8 ports each card)	64
Min. No. of Ethernet Interfaces	8
Ethernet Interface Type	10/100/1000BaseT with RJ-45 ports
Max. No. of Ethernet Cards	8 Hot-swappable
No. of 1GB Ethernet Ports per Card	8

Storage
Max. No. of Physical Disks	64
Min. No. of Physical Disks	0
Max. No. of Storage Cards	8 Hot-swappable
No. of Physical Disks per Card	8
Type of Physical Disks	2.5 Hot-swappable HDD or SSD

Hard Disk Drive Options
Standard SATA	500GB
Enterprise SATA	500GB, 1TB
SATA Solid State Disk	80GB, 160GB or 256GB

Load Balancer
Layer 4 connections per second	500,000
Max. No. of concurrent connections	32,000,000
Layer 4 aggregate throughput	64 Gbps (Line Rate)
Maximum number of VIPs	64
Load Balancing Methods Round Robin Max Connections
Server Health Checks Layer 3 ping health check Layer 4 health checks for TCP ports URL based health check for HTTP ports

Physical Characteristics
Power Supply (AC)	3+1 Redundant 240V Single Phase
Management Console	Dual Redundant
Out-of-band Ethernet	10/100/1000BaseT
Cooling	Dual Redundant Fan Tray
Air Flow	Front to Rear
Dimensions (H x W x D)	17.5 (10RU) x 19 x 30

System Software
Embedded Management Industry-standard Command Line Interface IPMI 2.0 SNMP v1/v2c Syslog Telnet SSH v2 TFTP, FTP, SCP NTPv3 RADIUS/TACACS+ Authentication
Management RFC Compliance RFC768 UDP RFC793 TCP RFC854 Telnet RFC959 FTP RFC1350 TFTP RFC3164 Syslog
Integrated Terminal Server Telnet/SSH access by TCP port, IP address or server name
General IPv4 Protocols RFC791 IPv4 RFC792 ICMP RFC826 ARP RFC1027 Proxy ARP RFC1035 DNS (Client) RFC1519 CIDR RFC1542 BOOTP (PXE Client and Relay) RFC2131 DHCP (Server and Relay)
SNMP MIB Support RFC1213 MIB RFC1215 TRAP-MIB RFC2863 MIB SNMPv2 MIB SEAMICRO Enterprise MIB SEAMICRO TRAP MIB

Environmental
Operating Temperature	50° to 95°F (10° to 35°C)
Non-operating Temperature	-40° to 149°F (-40° to 65°C)
Operating Humidity	5 to 93% non-condensing
Non-operating Humidity	5 to 93% non-condensing

Warranty Information
Hardware	3 year