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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>In July 2007, Andrew Feldman,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Gary Lauterbach, and Anil Rao founded SeaMicro. Series A investments from <a href="/facts/Crosslink_Capital/wfmV3vPw">Crosslink Capital</a> and <a href="/facts/Draper_Fisher_Jurvetson/K93Iww1V">Draper Fisher Jurvetson</a> closed in December 2007. <a href="/facts/Khosla_Ventures/dp008vbo">Khosla Ventures</a> led the series B investment round in 2009.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> In 2012, SeaMicro was acquired by AMD for $334 million.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> The application of MicroSea servers were most prominent in <a href="/facts/Data_center/DS5wJY41">data centers</a>, such as the Gene Center at <a href="/facts/Ludwig_Maximilian_University_of_Munich/eJtBcjAE">the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich</a> for scientific research.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> In 2013, SeaMicro AMD collaborated with <a href="/facts/Verizon_Communications/8WkoRAUM">Verizon Communications</a> to power their new cloud services.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> It has empowered Verizon to introduce fine-grained server configuration options that allow for more flexibility in instance-sizing by allowing administrators to select a processor speed between 500 MHz and 2 GHz and to scale DRAM up and down in 512 MB increments. </p> <h2 id="products">Products</h2> <p>The first product from SeaMicro was the SM10000, along with the SM10000-XE, which achieved <a href="/facts/Red_Hat_Certification_Program/GwEyA7d1">Red Hat Certification</a> in 2011 when operating on <a href="/facts/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6Cekx2ed">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> A more recent model, The SeaMicro SM15000 was also designed to support <a href="/facts/Citrix/XffnyLER">Citrix</a> <a href="/facts/Xen/U5fq6ESl">Xen Servers</a>, <a href="/facts/VMware_ESXi/VQrtsQQg">VMware ESXi</a> software, and both <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a> and <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a> <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">Operating systems</a>. Specifications of newer versions have reached <a href="/facts/Benchmark_(computing)/XSS42cRe">computing benchmarks</a> of 5 <a href="/facts/Petabyte/BNHUp9Qq">petabytes</a> of storage, 64 <a href="/facts/Central_processing_unit/Jxp1bqMV">CPUs</a>, a 1,000 <a href="/facts/Virtual_machine/BLevU3sx">Virtual machine</a> capacity, and 1.28 <a href="/facts/Tb%2fs/Nv9VoT7T">Tb/s</a> of <a href="/facts/Bandwidth_(computing)/lY6Tb4gX">bandwidth</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> Another product of interest is the <a href="/facts/Rack_unit/Fh9hl0cc">10U Rack Unit</a>, which can provide a total of 2,048 <a href="/facts/Multi-core_processor/ABNb65hQ">CPU cores</a>, and 16 <a href="/facts/Terabyte/BNHUp9Qq">TBs</a> of <a href="/facts/Random-access_memory/DuD4bxh6">RAM</a> and data is transferred through a custom "Freedom Fabric" for supercomputers unique to SeaMicro microservers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li>GigaOM: GreenNet 2011: 10 Big Ideas Winners<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li> <li>Silicon Valley/ San Jose Journal: Best Emerging Cleantech Company 2011<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li> <li>2011 Best Electronic Design Winners: Computer Category<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></li> <li>Platts: 2011 Rising Star award<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111005154335/http://www.seamicro.com/">SeaMicro Official Website</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100922.html">Architectural tradeoffs in the Sea Micro SM 10000 Server</a> - Talk given at <a href="/facts/Stanford_University/JEQeF9z2">Stanford University</a> by SeaMicro founder & CTO, Gary Lauterbach. (<a href="http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=100922-ee380-300.asx">video archive</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Form 10-K". Sec.gov. <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312513069422/d486815d10k.htm" target="_blank">https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312513069422/d486815d10k.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"SeaMicro". Archived from the original on 2013-10-03. Retrieved 2013-09-29. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131003100808/http://www.seamicro.com/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20131003100808/http://www.seamicro.com/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"SeaMicro's Andrew Feldman on Pulling the Thread in Entrepreneurship". 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