SeaMicro

In July 2007, Andrew Feldman,[3] Gary Lauterbach[4][5] 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.[6][7] In 2012, SeaMicro was acquired by AMD for $334 million.[8] SeaMicro servers are used in data centers, such as for the Gene Center at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for scientific research.[9] In 2013, SeaMicro AMD collaborated with Verizon Communications to power their new cloud services.[10] It has powered Verizon to introduce fine-grained server configuration options that allow for more flexibility in instance-sizing by letting administrators select a processor speed between 500 MHz and 2 GHz and scale DRAM up and down in 512 MB increments.

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.[11] A more recent model, The SeaMicro SM15000 is also designed to support Citrix Xen Servers, VMware ESXi software and both GNU-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.[12][13] In addition, the 10U Rack Unit provides a total 2,048 CPU cores, 16 TBs of RAM and data is transferred through a custom "Freedom Fabric" for supercomputers unique to SeaMicro microservers.[14][15]

• GigaOM: GreenNet 2011: 10 Big Ideas Winners[16]

• Silicon Valley/ San Jose Journal: Best Emerging Cleantech Company 2011[17]

• 2011 Best Electronic Design Winners: Computer Category[18]

• Platts: 2011 Rising Star award[19]

• 2014 Silver Edison Award[20]

• SeaMicro Official Website
• Architectural tradeoffs in the Sea Micro SM 10000 Server - Talk given at Stanford University by SeaMicro founder & CTO, Gary Lauterbach. (video archive)