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IBM Power Systems: Open innovation to put data to workBarbara Koch
Vice President Power Systems
06. Mai 2014
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What if you had the innovation to…
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Deliver insights
Support mobile big data apps with
Experience IBM Watson™ technology
Achieve more than twice the throughput at
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The Power Systems Strategy
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Leadership and innovation to support today’s core business applications and next-generation solutions with strong financial benefits, industry leading support and a highly skilled and vibrant ecosystem
Next Gen Apps Big Data &
Analytics
Power Charter
Open Platform
for Choice OpenPOWER Consortium
Innovation that Matters
Client Value Community Engagement
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POWER8 delivers insights 82x fasterRunning Cognos BI reports and analytics on POWER8 with DB2 with BLU Acceleration versus Ivy Bridge with a traditional database
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• DB2 with BLU Acceleration on POWER8 for Cognos BI is ‘Fast on Fast on Fast!’
• Real world Cognos BI Telco workload• 60 concurrent users running 70%/25%/5% split of simple,
intermediate and complex reports
• First processer designed for Big Data with massive parallelism and bandwidth for real-time results• 18x more throughput for simple reports• 40x more throughput for intermediate reports• 747x better throughput for complex reports
• Additional information available in The Edison Group paper at https://www.ibm.com/services/forms/signup.do?source=stg-web&S_PKG=ov23147
DynamicQuery Compatible
Query
DynamicCubes
Based on IBM internal tests as of April 17, 2014 comparing IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration on Power with a comparably tuned competitor row store database server on x86 executing a materially identical 2.6TB BI workload in a controlled laboratory environment. Test measured 60 concurrent user report throughput executing identical Cognos report workloads. Competitor configuration: HP DL380p, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, Competitor row-store database, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Database) and HP DL380p, 16 cores, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). IBM configuration: IBM S824, 24 cores, 256GB RAM, DB2 10.5, AIX 7.1 TL2 (Database) and IBM S822L, 16 of 20 cores activated, 384GB RAM, Cognos 10.2.1.1, SuSE Linux 11SP3 (Cognos). Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual workload, configuration, applications, queries and other variables in a production environment.
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Creating a pipeline of ecosystem innovation with the OpenPOWER Foundation
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Creating a pipeline of ecosystem innovation
Creates an open ecosystem based on the IBM POWER® architecture
Enables industry innovation across the software and hardware stack
Provides flexibility to build servers ideally suited to the Power architecture
Platinum Members
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members and growing
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OpenPOWER: Growing Fast!
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Boards/Systems
I/O, Storage, Acceleration
Chip/SOC
System/Software/Services
100+ inquiries and active dialogues underway
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Fostering open innovation for cloud based applications with Linux and Power Systems
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Estimated >95% x86/Linux applications written in C/C++ will require no source code change, only a recompile
Moving Linux apps to Power has never been easier
Well-written Java applications written in scripting or interpretive languages will run as is
>95%Require no source code change
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Designed for Big Data
Superior Cloud Economics
Open Innovation Platform
Open Innovation to put data to work
Introducing…A NEW GENERATION OF IBM Power Systems
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Processors flexible, fast execution of analytics
algorithms
Memory large, fast workspace to maximize
business insight
Data Bandwidth bring massive amounts of information to
compute resources in real-time
4X threads per core vs. x86
4Xmemory bandwidth vs. x86
2.4X more I/O bandwidth than POWER7
Optimized for a broad range of data and analytics:Industry Solutions
5XFaster
Designed for Big Data: optimized Big Data & Analytics performance
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POWER52004
POWER62007
POWER72010
POWER7+2012
130nm SOI 65nm SOI 45nm SOIeDRAM
32nm SOIeDRAM
2SMT2
2SMT2
8SMT4
8SMT4
1.9MB36MB
8MB32MB
2 + 32MBNone
2 + 80MBNone
15GB/s3GB/s
30GB/s10GB/s
100GB/s20GB/s
100GB/s20GB/s
Technology
ComputeCores
ThreadsCachingOn-chipOff-chip
BandwidthSust. Mem.
Peak I/O
POWER8
22nm SOIeDRAM
12SMT8
6 + 96MB128MB
230GB/s48GB/s
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Core
L2
Core
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Core
L2
Core
L2
Core
L2
Core
L2
Core
L2
Core
L2
Core
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Core
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Core
L2
L3 Cache & Chip Interconnect
8M L3Region
Mem. Ctrl.Mem. Ctrl.
SMP Links
Accelerators
SMP LinksPC
Ie
POWER8 Highlights
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12 Cores per Socket
Significantly Strengthened Cores8 threads per core (SMT8)Wider fetch/dispatch/issue of instructions Doubled highly utilized execution units
Larger Caches
2 integrated memory controllers
~ 25% memory latency improvement via on-chip fastpath interconnect
Integrated SMP Interconnect w/ improved “Flatness” 2-Hop fabric topology
Integrated IO Subsystem On-chip PCIe controller
Fine Grained Power Management On-chip Power Management Controller & Power gating
POWER8 Highlights
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POWER8 Processor: Game-changing innovation that accelerates big data & analytics
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Smart, simplified attach for accelerators:
GPUs, flash memory, networking
Connects directly to processor, sharing the
same address space
Improves performance, reduces latency, and
provides more workload for your dollar
Smart Acceleration enabled by CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) Technology
CAPI enables innovation from the OpenPOWER Foundation
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Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) Overview
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CAPP PCIe
POWER8 Processor
FPGA
Fun
ction n
Fun
ction 0
Fun
ction 1
Fun
ction 2
CAPI
IBM Supplied POWER Service Layer
Typical I/O Model Flow
Flow with a Coherent ModelShared Mem.
Notify AcceleratorAcceleration
Shared MemoryCompletion
DD CallCopy or PinSource Data
MMIO NotifyAccelerator
AccelerationPoll / Int
CompletionCopy or Unpin
Result DataRet. From DDCompletion
Advantages of Coherent Attachment Over I/O Attachment• Virtual Addressing & Data Caching
– Shared Memory– Lower latency for highly
referenced data
• Easier, Natural Programming Model– Traditional thread level
programming– Long latency of I/O typically
requires restructuring of application
• Enables Apps Not Possible on I/O– Pointer chasing, etc…
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Power Systems: Open innovation to put data to work
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Power Systems S822LPower Systems
S812L
Power Systems S822
1 & 2 Sockets
Power Systems S814
Power Systems S824
Power Systems S824L
•1-socket, 2U•POWER8 processor•Linux only•CAPI support (1)•2H14
•2-socket, 2U•POWER8 processor•Up to 24 cores•1 TB memory•9 PCI Gen3 slot•Linux only•CAPI support (2)•PowerVM & PowerKVM
•2-socket, 2U•Up to 20 cores•1 TB memory•9 PCIe Gen 3•AIX & Linux•CAPI support (2)•PowerVM
•1-socket, 4U•Up to 8 cores•512 GB memory•7 PCIe Gen 3•AIX, IBM i, Linux•CAPI support (1)•PowerVM
•2-socket, 4U•Up to 24 cores•1 TB memory•11 PCIe Gen 3•AIX, IBM i, Linux•CAPI support (2)•PowerVM
•2-socket, 4U•Up to 24 cores•Linux•NVIDIA GPU•2H14
+ POWER8 roll-out is leading with scale-out (1-2S) systems
+ Expanded Linux focus: Ubuntu, KVM, and Open Stack
+ Scale-up POWER8 (>2S) systems will be rolled ot over time
+ PCI Gen3 right out of POWER8 processor
+ OpenPOWER Innovations
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New Power Systems Scale-out servers deliver superior economics & security for the cloud
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Speed & Agilityto capture value from new
workloads
Economic Advantages that scale to meet business
needs
Security to protect critical systems and data
2X performance vs x861
Built-in Encrypt / decrypt engine
Price for performance advantages to scale out as your business grows and confidently move more data applications to the cloud
Utilization outperforming industry standards
65% Guaranteedvs. industry average of 30–40%
58% Lower costs of
acquisition2
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Power Systems have capabilities to scale out or scale up
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Scale out or scale up with Power Systems
Power Scale-Out Systems
Power Enterprise Systems
Two-Step Process to upgrade to POWER8
Power Enterprise Pools Migration
System Upgrade
Purchase additional IBM POWER7+ capacity today and transition to POWER8 tomorrow
Take advantage of these capabilities today Power Enterprise Pools Power Integrated Facility for Linux Capacity on Demand
Power Enterprise Systems Heritage of high utilization, performance and scalability Designed for the most mission-critical applications Delivering economic benefits for workload consolidation Statement of Direction for POWER8
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Bringing together industry leading capabilities for the best, enterprise-class infrastructure with virtualization and cloud technology
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Introducing Power Enterprise Pools for deploying the most flexible and efficient Enterprise Private Cloud
Enterprise-class systems: leadership performance,
resilience & resource sharing
Enterprise-class systems: leadership performance,
resilience & resource sharing
Enterprise-class Virtualization &
Cloud Mgmt
Enterprise-class Virtualization &
Cloud Mgmt
Flexible, efficient workload deployment with
Elastic COD & Power IFLs
Flexible, efficient workload deployment with
Elastic COD & Power IFLs
Power Enterprise Poolwith Mobile COD delivers unprecedented flexibility
Power Enterprise Poolwith Mobile COD delivers unprecedented flexibility
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Power Enterprise Pools with Mobile and Elastic COD delivers both flexibility and economic efficiency
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64c Active
64c Active
64 Inactive
64 Inactive
64c Active
System being
Maintained
64c Active
64c Active
64 Inactive
64 Inactive
Activate 64c for Maint.
Active - Active Planned Maintenance Resource Balancing
64c Active
32 Inactive
32c Active
32c Active
96Inactive
Periodic Demand Peaks
Multi-system infrastructure providing a highly available and flexible IT environment to support clients’ most demanding business resiliency objectives
Clients purchase the capacity needed and may allocate & rebalance virtual processor and memory resources within the capacity pool
Elastic On/Off Processor and memory enables clients to address periodic spikes in demand
Live Partition Mobility enables clients to migrate running workloads between systems to enable continuous availability
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Power Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL): Deploy Linux solutions quickly at lower cost and with enterprise class reliability and security.
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Deploy enterprise-class, secure private cloud for Linux consolidation for Applications and Databases
Streamlined, secure access to data and applications
Infrastructure services that have high QOS needs
Simplify Operations by aligning policy groups to the business process
Private Cloud
Co-Location
Quality of Service
Simplified Operations
Policy Group1Policy Group1 Policy Group 2Policy Group 2
Power IFL
Messaging ESB
Security Services File Services
Virtualized
Linux system
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POWER8 Enterprise Systems - Statements of Direction
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IBM plans to… • … bring POWER8 capability to the full Power Systems
portfolio, with the intent to deliver the most scalable, highest performing enterprise-class Power System with an advanced version of the POWER8 processor.
• … to provide upgrade paths from the current POWER7+ Power 770 and 780 servers to enterprise-class POWER8 processor-based servers.
• … preserve client investment in Power Systems by enabling POWER8 processor-based Power systems to interoperate and share Mobile Capacity on Demand (COD) resources with POWER7/7+ processor-based Power systems in a single Power Enterprise Pool
POWER8 Enterprise Systems
• Architectural strengths of Power 795
• Modularity & efficiencies of Power 770/780
• Performance and innovation of POWER8
• Greater Scalability & Reliability
• Increased Efficiency (Space, Energy)
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Leverage POWER6 / POWER7 Compatibility ModesLPAR Migrate between POWER6 / POWER7 / POWER8 Servers
Can not move POWER8 Mode partitions to POWER6 or POWER7 systems.
AIX 7.1
AIX 6.1
AIX 5.3
POWER7POWER6/6+
AIX 7.1
AIX 6.1
AIX 5.3
AIX 7.1
AIX 6.1
AIX 5.3
AIX 7.1
AIX 6.1
POWER8
AIX 7.1
AIX 6.1
AIX 7.1
AIX 6.1
AIX 7.1
AIX 6.1
AIX 5.3 IBM i 7.2 IBM i 7.2
Linux Linux Linux LinuxLinux
POWER6 / POWER7 / POWER8 Partition Mobility
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This new era is reshaping the IT landscape and creating new market dynamics
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Mobile
Internet of Things
Cloud
40% of peoplesocialize more online than they do face-to-face
300x growthof digital content
between 2005-2020
57% of companiesusing cloud to drive competitive and cost advantages
80% of all datais unstructured and growing 15x the rate of structured data
63% of peopleexpect to be doing more shopping on
their mobile devices over the next couple of years
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Bringing the broad Linux ecosystem to Linux on Power
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Simple migration of ALL Linux Workloads to Power Systems
NO CHANGESFor most well written x86/Linux
applications written in scripting or interpretive languages
Leveraging Open Collaboration Across the Stack
Software Defined Environment
Expanding the Ecosystem
SIMPLE RECOMPILEFor an estimated >95% x86/Linux
applications written in C/C++
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POWER7/7+45/32 nm
POWER8
Eight Cores On-Chip eDRAM Power-Optimized Cores Memory Subsystem ++ SMT++ Reliability + VSM & VSX Protection Keys+
POWER6/6+65/65 nm
Dual Core High Frequencies Virtualization + Memory Subsystem + Altivec Instruction Retry Dynamic Energy Mgmt SMT + Protection Keys
POWER5/5+130/90 nm
Dual Core Enhanced Scaling SMT Distributed Switch + Core Parallelism + FP Performance + Memory Bandwidth
+ Virtualization
More Cores SMT+++ Reliability ++ FPGA Support Transactional
Memory PCIe Acceleration
200+ systems in test
POWER9Extreme Analytics
OptimizationExtreme Big Data
OptimizationOn-chip accelerators
Power Processor Technology Roadmap
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Delivering value UNIX, Linux and IBM i environments
• For small-to-midsize DB and analytics applications• ERP and other Core business applications• Consolidation and virtualization of UNIX, IBM i and x86 Linux workloads• PowerVM: the industries highest performing, most secure
and scalable virtualization technology • OpenStack-based Cloud Management
* SOD for future support
POWER8 Systems
Power S822
Power S824
1 or 2 sockets6, 8, 10 or 12 cores/socket
Up to 1 TB of Memory
Power S814
Built on open technology with innovation to put data to workDesigned for Data• Over 2X the performance / core vs. x86 in target workloads• Industry’s largest Cache and Memory and I/O Bandwidth• Greater capacity for demanding data / analytic applications • Industry leading RAS (Built-in RAID, Hot Plug PCIe Gen 3)
Enhanced for superior cloud economics and efficiency • Guaranteed utilization, Cloud/Virtualization mgmt built on OpenStack • Designed to increase efficiency and flexibility to run the most demanding workloads in the cloud
with greater resiliency (e.g., High performance, split backplane; SR-IOV capable I/O*)
Enabling open innovation• Extendable with CAPI (Coherent Application Processor Interface)*
Power Scale out Systems with choice of UNIX, Linux and IBM i
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POWER7
I/OBridge
GXBus
PCIe G2
PCIDevice
PCIe G3
PCIDevice
Native PCIe Gen 3 Support• Direct processor integration• Replaces proprietary GX/Bridge• Low latency• Gen3 x16 bandwidth (16 Gb/s)
POWER8
IBM Confidential
POWER8 Integrated PCI Gen 3
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Attach TMS Flash to POWER8 via CAPI coherent Attach Issues Read/Write Commands from applications to eliminate 97% of code pathlength Saves 20-30 Cores per 1M IOPs
Pin buffers, Translate, Map DMA, Start I/O
Application
LVM
Disk & Adapter DD
Read/WriteSyscall
strategy() iodone()
FileSystem
strategy() iodone()
Interrupt, unmap, unpin,Iodone scheduling
< 500Instructions < 500Instructions
ApplicationPosix Async
I/O Style API
User Library
Shared Memory Work Queue
aio_read()aio_write()
20K Instructions 20K Instructions
CAPI Attached Flash Optimization
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This is an IBM internal study designed to replicate a typical IBM customer workload usage in the marketplace. The results were obtained under laboratory conditions, and not in an actual customer environment. IBM's internal workload studies are not benchmark applications, nor are they based on any benchmark standard. As such, customer applications, differences in the stack deployed, and other systems variations or testing conditions may produce different results and may vary based on actual configuration, applications, specific queries and other variables in a production environment. Prices, where applicable, are based on published US list prices for both IBM and competitor, and the cost calculation compares the cost per request for the 3yr life of the machine. 3 year total cost of acquisition comparisons are based on similar expected hardware, software, service & support offerings
183,800 User Interactions per second
WebSphere on platformDatabase off platform
$3.09 per UI per sec
DB2
Power S824
AIX
WAS
2S/24 Core POWER8 (3.525 GHz)
PowerVM
HP - ProLiant DL380p Gen8
6 VMs
DB2
2S/24 Core Ivy Bridge-EP (2.7 GHz)
85,939
WebSphere on platformDatabase off platform
$5.84 VMware ESXi
User Interactions per second
per UI per sec
8 VMs
RHEL
WAS
AIX
WAS
AIX
WAS
AIX
WAS
RHEL
WAS
RHEL
WAS
RHEL
WAS
AIX …..
…..
2.1x Faster
47% Lower cost
per UI per sec
Web Application
Online Banking Workload v3.6
Both Servers configured to achieve maximum throughput
NO trade-offs: 2x Throughput at Half the Cost of x86POWER8 Delivers Over TWICE the Throughput Relative to Ivy Bridge-EP at 47% Lower Cost for an Online Banking Workload
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Over 2x better, 24 core performance than nearest x86 competitive results
Up to 2x greater performance than previous POWER generation
Exploiting more cores, more threads and L3 cache than past POWER platforms
2x
(1.0) IBM Power System S824 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 96 threads, POWER8; 3.52GHz, 512 GB memory, 21,212 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, dialog response: 0.98 seconds, line items/hour: 2,317,330, dialog steps/hour: 6.952,000 SAPS: 115,870 database response time (dialog/update): 0.011 sec / 0.019sec, CPU utilization: 99%, Certification #: * Results valid as of 3/24/14. * Certification # 2014016. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1) Fujitsu RX300 S8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697 processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.240 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 SE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013024
(1.2) Cisco UCS c240 M3 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24c ores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697 processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.045 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 DE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013038
(1.3) HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697 processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.025 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 DE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013025
(2.1 IBM Flex System p270 Compute Node on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 96 threads, POWER7+; 3.4GHz, 256 GB memory, 12.528 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10 .5 Certification #: 3012019 Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1)IBM Flex System p260 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 16 cores / 64 threads, POWER7+; 4.1GHz, 256 GB memory, 10,000 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10, Certification #: 2012035
Transaction Processing Workload – SAP S&D 2-tier ERP 6IBM Power System S824 with DB2 10.5 vs.. Competition
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POWER8 S822L will deliver over 2x the performance of the best published x86 system
… and continues to offer far superior RAS
POWER8 exploits additional cores, more threads, larger caches, memory bandwidth
Terasort is a popular benchmark to measure the performance of a Hadoop solution
Sorts a large dataset (10 TB) in parallel Exercises the Map-reduced framework and
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
IBM Analytics Stack: IBM Power System S822L; 24 cores / 192 threads, POWER8; 3.0GHz, 512 GB memory, RHEL 6.5, InfoSphere BigInsights 3.0
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/le_tera.pdf
2x2x
POWER8 delivers 2x performance on Big Data / HadoopTerasort benchmark on a POWER8 doubles the system capacity of the best x86 published result
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System Performance Utilization Guarantee
When a Client acquires a POWER8 one or two-socket server and the Client runs eligible workloads, IBM guarantees the system will perform as warranted with a System Utilization Rate of up to 65%.
Should the Client not be able to achieve 65% system utilization rate, assuming there is sufficient work to drive the machine to 65% utilization, IBM will assist with the attainment of 65% system
utilization rate, at no additional cost.
System Performance Utilization
IBM has designed these POWER8 systems to operate at industry-leading levels of efficiency, guaranteeing the system will perform as warranted while at a sustained 65% utilization -- a rate higher than common competitive platform utilization levels
The IBM POWER8 one or two-socket server (the “POWER8 Server”) must be purchased from IBM or an authorized IBM Business Partner prior to December 31, 2014, provided that the combined transaction price (not including taxes and fees) of the POWER8 Server purchased with other IBM hardware, IBM software, IBM maintenance, and IBM services must be US $150,000 or greater. Eligible workloads are AIX, Linux, or IBM i workloads, or any combination of the three, on PowerVM. Guarantee Period - ninety (90) calendar days following the Date of Installation of the Eligible Machine. System Performance Guarantee Requirements - Client implements each of the requirements set forth in the “POWER8 Performance Guarantee Requirements. Common x86 utilization levels assessed by 3rd party analysis.
POWER8 Performance Utilization Guarantee
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Source: Capacity based on IBM Sizing of typical SPECint_rate landscape and 3rd party analysis of system utilization.
Current Configuration 100 2-socket x86
servers Xeon X5690 processor 12 cores per server, 2
threads per core 3.46 GHz 1200 total cores
Ivy Bridge Configuration 69 2-socket x86 servers Xeon E5-2697 v2 processor 24 cores per server, 2
threads per core 2.8 GHz 1656 total cores
1.5X
increased
throughput
Per-core SW Costs INCREASE 34%!!!
Current x86
Platform
(circa 2011)
POWER8 DELIVERS EQUAL CAPACITY with
1/3 of the Servers (LOWER MANAGEMENT COSTS)
1/3 of the Cores (LOWER SW COSTS)
1/3 of the Space (LOWER INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS)
ALL for <50% of the x86 HW TCA
POWER8
Platform
(2014)
New x86
Platform
(2014)
Per-core SW Costs DECREASE up to 54%!!!
Power S822L Configuration 23 2-socket POWER8 servers POWER8 processor 24 cores per server, 8
threads per core 3.0 GHz 552 total cores
Intel: Reduce HW infrastructure in a virtualized environment but increase per-core SW costs…POWER8: Reduce HW infrastructure EVEN MORE and REDUCE per-core SW costs up to 54%
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Source: Capacity based on IBM Sizing of typical SPECint_rate landscape and 3rd party analysis of system utilization.
Current Configuration 100 2-socket x86
servers Xeon X5690 processor 12 cores per server, 2
threads per core 3.46 GHz 1200 total cores
Ivy Bridge Configuration 69 2-socket x86 servers Xeon E5-2697 v2 processor 24 cores per server, 2
threads per core 2.8 GHz 1656 total cores
1.5X
increased
throughput
Per-core SW Costs INCREASE 34%!!!
Current x86
Platform
(circa 2011)
POWER8 DELIVERS EQUAL CAPACITY with
1/3 of the Servers (LOWER MANAGEMENT COSTS)
1/3 of the Cores (LOWER SW COSTS)
1/3 of the Space (LOWER INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS)
ALL for <50% of the x86 HW TCA
POWER8
Platform
(2014)
New x86
Platform
(2014)
Per-core SW Costs DECREASE up to 54%!!!
Power S822L Configuration 23 2-socket POWER8 servers POWER8 processor 24 cores per server, 8
threads per core 3.0 GHz 552 total cores
Intel: Reduce HW infrastructure in a non-virtualized environment but increase per-core SW costs…POWER8: Reduce HW infrastructure EVEN MORE and REDUCE per-core SW costs up to 74%
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Power Integrated Facility for Linux
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Flexible, affordable, high-performance capacity for Linux applications
• Simplify operations and reduce complexity by co-locating applications on a more scalable and reliable server
• Streamline access to data and applications via secure, high-performance virtual networking
• Grow seamlessly and accelerate deployment of new applications and services
• Share bandwidth and instantly adjust system resources to maximize utilization and lower cost
• Reduce overhead by leveraging existing production and disaster recovery infrastructure
Power IFL
Virtual stack consisting of : 4 x CUoD core activations 32 GB CUoD memory activations 4 x PowerVM for PowerLinux
license entitlement Scales in increments of 4 cores
Available on Power 770, 780 & 795
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WWW
10Gb Uplink
POWER8 Server
Flash Array w/ up
to 40TB
Differentiated NoSQL
(POWER8 + CAPI Flash)
Infrastructure Attributes- 192 threads in 4U Server drawer
- 40 TB of memory based Flash per 4U Drawer- Shared Memory & Cache for dynamic tuning
- Elimination of I/O and Network Overhead- Cluster solution in a box
5X Cost Reduction with
equivalent performance
WWW
500GB Cache Node500GB
Cache Node500GB Cache Node500GB
Cache Node500GB Cache Node500GB
Cache Node
Backup Node
Load Balancer
Today’s NoSQLin memory (x86)
10Gb Uplink
Infrastructure Requirements- Large Distributed (Scale out)
- Large Memory per node- Networking Bandwidth Needs
- Load Balancing
Power CAPI-attached Flash model for NoSQL offers dramatic (24:1) density advantage
Differentiation of NoSQL’s on POWER8 w/CAPI: 5X cost reduction