owf14 - plenary session : thibaud besson, ibm power systems specialist
DESCRIPTION
IBM POWER8 processor is the fastest available on the market, redefining Open Source performance. With this amazing processor, IBM and members of the OpenPower Foundation design innovative and cost-effective systems, delivering the infrastructure of choice for the most demanding workloads, in terms of throughput, scalability and reliability. In this talk in english, Thibaud Besson will browse the key characteristics of Power Systems, why they are the most relevant for today's challenges, both from a technical and economical standpoint. Finally, we will review the possibilities you have to get your hands on one of these outstanding plateforms for your Open Source applications.TRANSCRIPT
Why Linux on POWER is a game changer ?
Thibaud Besson – IBM FranceIBM Power Systems Specialist
My challenges for today
● Cover Linux on Power in 15 minuts
● Be relevant to every one of you at least once in the presentation
● Inspire discovery of Linux on Power
Don't be too busy to innovate
Don't be too busy to innovate
Imagine : What if you could...
● Reduce server sprawl ?
● Gain competitive advantage with faster insights ?
● Host more users ?
● Reduce sofware costs ?
● Gain market shares ?
Achieve your business goals with IBM POWER8
2x core performance vs x86: Reduce HW/SW costs
1 TB of memory per socket: Consolidate massively
4x Memory Bandwidth vs x86: Accelerate access to data
8 threads / core: Increase throughput & users
Transactionnal Memory: Improve Java performance
> 70 % utilisation rates: Fully exploit your hardware
Open Source KVM, OpenStack: Capitalize on your skills
Up to TWICE the performance per core across key workloadscompared to the top 5 Intel vendors
POWER S8242s/24c/192t
IBM POWER8
Oracle Sun X4-2 2s/24c/48t
Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge
Java SPECjEnterprise2010
(EjOPS)2x Performance
ERP – SAP 2-Tier (Users)
1.9x Performance
POWER S8242s/24c/192t
IBM POWER8
Dell PowerEdge T620
2s/36c/72tIntel Xeon Haswell
SPECint_rate20061.8x Performance
SPECfp_rate20062.1x Performance
1) Results are based on best published results on Xeon E5-2697 v2 and E5-2699 v3 from the top 5 Intel system vendors (HP, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu).2) Dell PowerEdge R730, on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors/36 cores/72 threads, Intel Xeon
Processor 2699v3; 2.30 GHz, 256 GB memory; 16,500 SD benchmark users, running RHEL 7 and SAP ASE 16; Certification # 2014033. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark. 3) 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, Certification # 2014016. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark All results valid as of October 3, 2014
4) SPECjEnterprise2010 results are valid as of 9//8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/jEnterprise2010/results/ 5) SPECcpu2006 results are submitted as of 9/8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/cpu2006/results/
AIX LoP (RHEL)
POWER S8242s/24c/192t
IBM POWER8
AIX LoP (RHEL)
Nearly Equal Performance with both
AIX and LINUX on POWER8
Nearly Equal Performance with both
AIX and LINUX on POWER8
Dell PowerEdge T620
2s/36c/72tIntel Xeon Haswell
IBM POWER S824AIX / DB2
4p/24c/192t
Dell PowerEdge R730
E5-2699 v3RHEL / SAP ASE
2p/36c/72t
Nearly Equal Performance with both
AIX and LINUX on POWER8
Nearly Equal Performance with both
AIX and LINUX on POWER8
RHEL7.0 & 6.5 BE
1 SOCKET10 or 12 coresMax 512 GB
POWER8 Scale-Out offering
S822LS812L S822 S814 S824S824L
7.16.1
2 SOCKETS20 or 24 cores
Max 1 To
2 SOCKETS6,12, 10 or 20 cores
Max 1 To
1 SOCKET4, 6 or 8 coresMax 512 Go
2 SOCKETS20 or 24 cores
Max 1 To
2 SOCKETSDe 6 à 24 cores
Max 2 To
7.27.1
SLES 11 SP3 BESLES 12 LE
14.10 LE
BE/LE
BE BE
BE/LE
BE BE BE
RHEL7.0 & 6.5 BE
1 SOCKET10 ou 12 coeurs
Max 512 Go
Power Systems - POWER8 Enterprise Offerings
E870S812L S8144 SOCKETS per node
4 or 4,2 GHz1 or 2 nodes
From 32 to 80 cores installedFrom 8 to 80 cores activated
Max 4 TB of memoryMaximum 800 VMs
SLES 11 SP3 BE
E880
RAS – Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
● Fully redundant
● Advanced RAS features
● Active Memory Mirroring
4 SOCKETS per node4,35 GHz
1 or 2 nodes in 20141 or 4 nodes in 2015
From 32 to 192 cores installedFrom 8 to 192 cores activated
Max 16 TB of memoryMaximum 1000 VMs
Advanced features
● Dedicated cores for Linux « IFL », 70 PVU
● Capacity on Demand cores and memory
● Capacity upgrade on demand cores and memory
● Power Enterprise Processor Pools
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CAPI – an open invitation to innovate on POWER
PPC Core
CA
PP
PCIe
FPGA
IBM Supplied PSL
POWER8 Processor
Memory (Coherent)
Coherent Attached Processor Proxy (CAPP) in processor
Coherency protocol tunneled over standard PCIe
Enables attached device to be a peer to the processorEnables device to use same effective address as application running in processor
Eliminates the cumbersome I/O Device Driver requirements
Smart, simplified attach for accelerators: flash memory, networking & FPGAs
Improves performance, reduces latency, and provides more workload for your
dollar
Leveraged by emerging applications built on Linux
CAPI Development Platform enables
innovators to create entirely new classes
of IT solutions
Too good to be true ? Myths busting on IBM POWER servers
Myth n°1 : are IBM POWER servers expensive ?
● Ask the real question: how much do I pay to run my workloads ?
● Linux-only IBM POWER servers are at the same price as Intel same configuration
● Cores are 2x more powerful
● Hypervisor is very efficient
● You can do more with less : more VM, more users, more batches, etc.
● Open Source & Community-supported distributions / applications available
Myth n°2 : virtualization is different on POWER
● KVM runs on POWER
● POWER servers are fully OpenStack compliant
● Ubuntu Juju / Chef / etc. runs on Linux on Power
● MSPs are introducing POWER in their cloud
MAAS
Myth n°3 – POWER Architecture is proprietary and closed
POWER8 chip
POWER8 core
August 2013
+60 members and counting !
Boards / Systems
I/O / Storage / Acceleration
Chip / SOC
System / Software / Services
Implementation / HPC / Research
24:1 server consolidation
Up to 3xlower TCA
The issue: • Scale-out x86 servers with limited memory size • Costly and complex Infrastructure
Load Balancer
500GB Cache Node
WWW
500GB Cache Node500GB Cache
Node500GB Cache Node1U x86 server (24)
512 GB memory
24U
Power S822L/S812LUbuntu 14.10
FlashSystem 8402TB to 40 TB Flash
WWW
4U
The solution :• POWER8 server hosting Redis•Connection to FlashSystem via CAPI
Solve your cost and response time issues withthe IBM Data Engine for NoSQL - Power Solution Edition
How to get your hands on this amazing technology ?
● Try it if you already have one POWER system
● Linux on Power VMs available in public clouds
● IBM PartnerWorld web site offers access to VMs
● IBM / Business Partners can lend servers for test purposes
● Linux Technology Centers : PSSC Montpellier for Proof of Concept / benchmarking
Open Innovation to Put Data to Work
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