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Follow UsSUNNYVALE, USA: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced SeaMicro SM15000 server meant for cloud and big data environments
AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server features Freedom Fabric Storage, which along with Freedom Supercompute Fabric technology enables it to connect directly to disk arrays, enabling a single ten rack unit (17.5 inch tall) system with 64 servers to support more than five petabytes of storage.
AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 system supports Intel Xeon Processor E3-1260L (Sandy Bridge). In November, AMD will come with Opteron processors featuring 'Piledriver core, as well as Intel's Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 (Ivy Bridge).
"Historically, server architecture has focused on the processor, while storage and networking were afterthoughts. However, increasingly, cloud and big data customers have sought a solution in which storage, networking and compute are in balance and are shared. In a legacy server, storage is a captive resource for an individual processor, limiting the ability of disks to be shared across multiple processors, causing massive data replication and necessitating the purchase of expensive storage area networking or network attached storage equipment," said Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager, Data Center Server Solutions group, AMD.
The fabric technology is optimized to work with central processor units (CPUs) that have both large and small cores, as well as x86 and non-x86 CPUs. The Supercompute Fabric can create a 1.28 terabits-per-second fabric that ties together 64 of the power-optimized mini-motherboards.
"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 center compute and storage landscape," he added.
AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server will be available with 64 compute cards, each holding a new custom-designed single-socket octal core 2.0/2.3/2.8 GHz AMD Opteron processor based on the "Piledriver" core, for a total of 512 heavy-weight cores per system or 2,048 cores per rack.
Each AMD Opteron processor can support 64 gigabytes of DRAM, enabling a single system to handle more than four terabytes of DRAM and over 16 terabytes of DRAM per rack. AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 system will also be available with a quad core 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 (Ivy Bridge) for 256 2.5 GHz cores in a ten rack unit system or 1,024 cores in a standard rack.
Each processor supports up to 32 gigabytes of memory so a single SeaMicro SM15000 system can deliver up to two terabytes of DRAM and up to eight terabytes of DRAM per rack.
AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server also contains 16 fabric extender slots, each of which can connect to three different Freedom Fabric Storage arrays with different capacities:
FS 5084-L is an ultra-dense capacity-optimized storage system. It supports up to 84 SAS/SATA 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch drives in 5 rack units for up to 336 terabytes of capacity per-array and over five petabytes per SeaMicro SM15000 system;
FS 2012-L is a capacity-optimized storage system. It supports up to 12 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch drives in 2 rack units for up to 48 terabytes of capacity per-array or up to 768 terabytes of capacity per SeaMicro SM15000 system;
FS 2024-S is a performance-optimized storage system. It supports up to 24 2.5 inch drives in 2 rack units for up to 24 terabytes of capacity per-array or up to 384 terabytes of capacity per SM15000 system.