Are Converged Network Adaptors Suffocating The Virtual Machine? SeaMicro’s Secret Server Changes Computing Economics. SeaMicro, a stealthy server company based in Santa Clara, Calif., today scored $9.3 million from the Department of Energy as part of a program to encourage data center efficiency. It’s built a box that contains 512 Atom CPUs, a petabyte of storage, and costs less than $100,000, which it hopes to use to exploit the growing gap in computing workloads that the major server and chip vendors have ignored.
From low-power mobile chips to incredibly fast, high-performance silicon, what one executive at Dell called “the dynamic range” of computing has widened. But right now the industry only provides computer users with chips congregated at each end, and nothing for users in between. For web-based companies such as Yahoo, Facebook, and others serving up fairly simple web pages and storing relatively tiny files of user information, the incredible horsepower offered by today’s high-end chips is too much. It’s the equivalent of using a nuclear bomb to take out a car. IBM Wants Linux' KVM To Compete With VMware - Plug Into The Clou. Vastsky xen summit20100428. Virtual Switch Policies. Xrm xensummit. Open vSwitch.