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This stuff is awesome for mass computation and clustering of intense CPU applications, but with only 4GB of RAM per blade there seems to be some applications limitations.

Regardless, SeaMicro is a great pickup for AMD. They've been getting their asses absolutely handed to them in the server space. Hopefully this gets them competitive again.

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Actually, CPU intensive applications are a bad fit for seamicro products. Basically, the cpus in their blades suck, and the entire architecture is designed to favor io-heavy, jumpy (so not fit for GPU), but easily partitionable loads. Basically, web servers.

with AMD, they will be able to better integrate the cpu cores with their IO systems -- Intel was unwilling to let them fiddle around with Atom IP. I expect that there will be some kind of custom-fit Bobcat-derived cpu products for the web server market. Very low price tag, but also very low cost to build.

I don't think it'll be low-cost at all. Not the sticker price, anyhow -- they'll be selling it in terms of computations per watt-meter^2.

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