SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market

Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by JoachimSchipper on Monday February 28, 2011 @05:15AM (#2270779)

Reading between the lines: does this thing have the same issues with I/O that virtual machines tend to have? (That doesn't make it useless, of course...)

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Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by pyre on Monday February 28, 2011 @05:50AM (#2270839)

Here's the original article on VentureBeat: http://venturebeat.com/2010/06/13/seamicro-drops-an-atom-bom...

A few points:

* Interestingly, they use the same image at the beginning of that article and this one. They also seemed to re-use a lot of the original article text in this one.

* Most people were quick to point out that Intel's Atom processors don't support ECC RAM, and at the scale we're talking about here, RAM errors statistically will be common.

* From the article:

  Full told, SeaMicro eliminates 90 percent of the
  components from a system board. SeaMicro calls this
  CPU/IO virtualization.

The HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1429628

What seems to be the original announcement (HN submission 2 months before original VentureBeat article): http://gigaom.com/2010/01/06/seamicros-secret-server-changes...

HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070705

{edit} The gigaom article was 4 months before the original VentureBeat one (8 months ago vs 1 year ago). For some reason I was doing the date math in my head in base10 (i.e. 1 year = 10 months). Maybe it's time for bed.

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Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by lemming on Monday February 28, 2011 @07:51AM (#2271036)

Here's some discussion on SeaMicro's original cluster-in-a-box offering from the ever-excellent James Hamilton: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/06/14/SeaMicroReleases...

Lack of ECC support will be the killer here, I think - it would be great to see an ARM based alternative.

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