ibm symp14 referentin_barbara koch_power_8 launch bk

© 2014 IBM Corporation

IBM Power Systems: Open innovation to put data to workBarbara Koch

Vice President Power Systems

06. Mai 2014


What if you had the innovation to…

2

Deliver insights

Support mobile big data apps with

Experience IBM Watson™ technology

Achieve more than twice the throughput at

12 32


The Power Systems Strategy

3

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


POWER8 delivers insights 82x fasterRunning Cognos BI reports and analytics on POWER8 with DB2 with BLU Acceleration versus Ivy Bridge with a traditional database

4

• 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.

https://www.ibm.com/services/forms/signup.do?source=stg-web&S_PKG=ov23147


Creating a pipeline of ecosystem innovation with the OpenPOWER Foundation

5 5

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

5

members and growing


OpenPOWER: Growing Fast!

6

Boards/Systems

I/O, Storage, Acceleration

Chip/SOC

System/Software/Services

100+ inquiries and active dialogues underway

© 2014 IBM Corporation7

Google Shows Off Hardware Design Using IBM Chips


Fostering open innovation for cloud based applications with Linux and Power Systems

8

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

+


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


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


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

IBM Confidential


Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

L3 Cache & Chip Interconnect

8M L3Region

Mem. Ctrl.Mem. Ctrl.

SMP Links

Accelerators

SMP LinksPC

Ie

POWER8 Highlights


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


POWER8 Processor: Game-changing innovation that accelerates big data & analytics

14

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


Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) Overview

15

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…


Power Systems: Open innovation to put data to work

16

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


New Power Systems Scale-out servers deliver superior economics & security for the cloud

17

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


Power Systems have capabilities to scale out or scale up

18

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


Bringing together industry leading capabilities for the best, enterprise-class infrastructure with virtualization and cloud technology

19

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


Power Enterprise Pools with Mobile and Elastic COD delivers both flexibility and economic efficiency

20

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


Power Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL): Deploy Linux solutions quickly at lower cost and with enterprise class reliability and security.

21

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


POWER8 Enterprise Systems - Statements of Direction

22

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)


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


Open innovation to put data to work

24


This new era is reshaping the IT landscape and creating new market dynamics

25

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


Bringing the broad Linux ecosystem to Linux on Power

26

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++

© 2014 IBM Corporation272004 2007 2010 2014

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


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

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/


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


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


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


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


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

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/le_tera.pdf


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

http://www.sil-usa.com/pub_papers/QR2012A672.pdf


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


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


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%



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


Ivy Bridge Configuration 69 2-socket x86 servers Xeon E5-2697 v2 processor 24 cores per server, 2


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


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%



Power Integrated Facility for Linux

37

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


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

ibm symp14 referentin_barbara koch_power_8 launch bk

Business

ibm db2

ibm configuration

ibm corporation power8

ibm corporation openpower

ibm power architecture

ibm s822l

ibm s824

ibm chips