AMD SeaMicro SM15000 Micro Server Chassis Able to Get 5PB Capacity

Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc. announced the availability of three innovations.

The
first is a new chassis, AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000
server, which extends fabric-based computing across racks and aisles of the
data center to connect to massive disk arrays supporting over five PB of
storage capacity.

In addition, the company is
announcing a new generation of compute cards for its micro servers based on AMD
Opteron and Intel Corp.‘s Xeon Ivy Bridge processors.

"We continue to drive innovation to
meet the changing needs of the data center. The rise of virtualization, cloud
computing, and big data require a new generation of compute in which networking
and storage are equal partners in the solution. This does not fit the mold of
traditional servers," said Andrew Feldman, GM and corporate VP of the Data
Center Server Solutions group, AMD. "We are at the beginning of a new wave
of computing that requires data centers to become pools of computing and
storage resources with the flexibility to expand in both dimensions. The
SM15000 system removes the constraints of traditional servers and allows data
centers to expand compute, networking and storage independently. By supporting
the newest generation of processors, the SM15000 server will continue our
tradition of being the highest-density, and most power efficient micro server
in the market."

The SeaMicro SM15000 micro server, with
its patented Freedom Fabric, enables the disaggregation of data center infrastructure.
In combination with the newest generation of processors from AMD and Intel, it
provides high performance-per-watt, hig compute density and hig storage
density, as well high bandwidth-per-unit compute.

Micro servers are dense, efficient
systems in which the compute, storage, and networking are linked by a fabric
which enables them to share common infrastructure components. AMD pioneered
this technology

SeaMicro SM15000 server supports
the
following configurations
for large core processor capabilities:

• 64 Opteron octal core 2.0/2.3/2.8 GHz
  processors based on the new Piledriver core, supporting up to 64GB of DRAM per
  processor – 512 cores and more than 4TB of DRAM per system;
• 64 Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 (Ivy Bridge
  ) 2.5/3.1 GHz quad core, hyper-threaded processors supporting up to 32GB of
  DRAM per processor – 256 cores and about 2TB of DRAM per system;
• Over 5PB of maximum storage with three
  different Freedom Fabric Storage arrays.

With the new Opteron processor, SeaMicro
SM15000 provides 512 cores in a ten rack unit system with more than 4TB of DRAM
and supports up to 5PB of Freedom Fabric Storage. Since it is is ten rack units
tall, a one-rack, four-system cluster provides 2,024 cores, 16TB of DRAM, and
is capable of supporting 20PB of storage. The new and previously unannounced
Opteron processor is a custom designed octal core 2.3 GHz part based on the new
Piledriver core, and supports up to 64GB of DRAM per CPU.

SeaMicro SM15000 server supports the latest generation of Xeon processors based on the
Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. The Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 is a 2.5/3.1 GHz
quad core processor that supports 32GB of DRAM. A SeaMicro SM15000 server
configured with 64 Intel Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 CPUs provides 256 cores and
2TB of DRAM.

"AMD is building on its
architectural advantages," said Charles King, president and principal
analyst at Pund-IT. "The foundational innovations, particularly around the
Freedom Fabric, should allow the company to develop best-in-class solutions,
change processors and extend their vision to innovative storage solutions. In
many ways, this marks the true test of the value of the Freedom Fabric
technology. If this new generation of processors delivers on its promises, AMD
will qualify as a leader in time to market, innovation and vision."

SeaMicro SM15000 system is a ten rack
unit
(17.5 inch) tall system is comprised of:

• 64 slots for compute cards – supporting
  up to 512 heavy weight cores, 10Gb of bandwidth to each processor;
• Up to 4TB of DDR3 DRAM, 64GB per
  processor;
• Up to 64 SATA SSDs or HDDs within the
  system;
• Freedom Fabric Storage with capacity up
  to 1,408 SSDs or HDDs;
• Up to 16 10GbE links or up to 64 1GbE
  uplinks.

Additional benefits include:

• Energy efficiency, density, and
  bandwidth per compute unit;
• Runs off-the-shelf OSs including
  Windows, Linux and Red Hat;
• Supports VMware and Citrix XenServer
  hypervisors;
• Simplifies data center infrastructure by
  eliminating top-of-rack switching, load balancing and console servers;
• Eliminates costly error prone cabling.

Availability
SeaMicro SM15000 system
with the Xeon Processor E3-1260L (Sandy Bridge microarchitecture) is available
in the U.S. and in select international regions. Configurations based on the
Opteron processor and Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 (Ivy Bridge microarchitecture)
will be available in November 2012.