AMD claims new server approach will ‘transform’ data centres
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AMD has launched the SeaMicro SM15000 server, said to combine high density, power efficiency and bandwidth with a new storage technology approach. The concept allows one rack to contain thousands of cores and to address petabytes of storage.
"Historically, server architecture has focused on the processor, while storage and networking were afterthoughts. But increasingly, cloud and big data customers have sought a solution in which storage, networking and compute are in balance and are shared," said Andrew Feldman, general manager of AMD's Data Center Server Solutions group. "AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server enables companies, for the first time, to share massive amounts of storage across hundreds of efficient computing nodes in an exceptionally dense form factor. We believe that this will transform the data centre compute and storage landscape."
AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server will be available with 64 compute cards, each holding a custom designed single socket Opteron processor with eight Piledriver cores running at 2, 2.3 or 2.8GHz. This provides 512 cores per system or 2048 cores per rack. Each processor can support 64Gbyte of dram, equating to more than 16Tbyte of dram per rack. The system will also be available with a quad core 2.5GHz Intel Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 (Ivy Bridge). In this format, the system will include 256 cores in a 10 rack unit or 1024 cores in a standard rack. Each processor supports up to 32Gbyte of memory, or 8Tbyte of dram per rack.
The SM15000 system initially features Intel Xeon Processor E3-1260L (Sandy Bridge) processors, but a version to be released in November will include the next generation of AMD Opteron processors with the Piledriver core. Support will also be extended to the recently announced Ivy Bridge processor from Intel.
