SeaMicro reveals greener servers

As the cloud becomes more pervasive, driving everything from social networking to mobile apps, the computers that power it must guzzle more and more energy, Technology Review reports.

Start-up company SeaMicro, chip maker Intel, and electronics giant Samsung have unveiled a new computer design that could make the data centres that power cloud services dramatically more efficient.

According to The Inquirer, SeaMicro claims the SM10000 is the most efficient Xeon-based system in the world, consuming half the power required by traditional server designs.

Designed for high-performance tasks such as database and application servers, the SM10000 builds on the company's previous line of Atom-powered servers.

SeaMicro will use Intel Xeon processors in a “micro server”, in partnership with Intel and Samsung, Venture Beat reports.

Previously, SeaMicro used low-cost, low-power Atom microprocessors in its micro servers.

The SeaMicro server shown today replaces 500 servers from five years ago. One rack of servers replaces 50 from five years ago, Feldman said.