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PowerLinux Trends and Directions

Jeff Scheel ([email protected])IBM, PowerLinux Chief Architect

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IBM Systems Technical University – Amsterdam | The Netherlands | 23-26 April 2013

Agenda

Highlights from 2012

Outlook for 2013

Wrap-up



Agenda


Outlook for 2013

Wrap-up



2012 was the “Year of PowerLinuxTM”



IBM PowerLinux servers and solutions

IBM InfoSphere BigInsights & Streams

Powered by

Open Source Infrastructure Services

Big Data Analytics

Industry Application Solutions

• New workloads emerging from Open Source projects

• Existing industry applications transitioning to Linux

• Workloads standardizing on Linux and x86 servers

Virtualization & Management

IBM Flex System p24LIBM Flex System p24L

PowerLinux Compute Node PowerLinux Compute Node

Flex Systems Manager

IBM PowerLinux 7R2IBM PowerLinux 7R2

2U Rack Server2U Rack Server

NEW!NEW! IBM PowerLinux 7R1 IBM PowerLinux 7R1

2U Rack Server2U Rack Server

Up to 33% lower solution cost for

virtualized infrastructure

• Target workloads not addressable by AIX and i

• Deliver smarter solutions built on Linux & Open Source

Provide compelling value vs. VMware and x86

40% greater reliability for business critical industry applications

Less than ½ the time to sort a terabyte

of data

http://hadoop.apache.org/




IBM PowerLinux Strategic Solutions

Big Data Analytics

Gain new insights through big data Apache Hadoop analytics

projects running IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and

Streams on PowerLinux servers

Improve service delivery economics by deploying open source

infrastructure applications for web apps, email, networking and file/print

with PowerLinux and PowerVM

Deliver new services faster by deploying systems and OEM solutions tailored for specific

industry applications based on PowerLinux

Open Source Infrastructure

Services

Industry Application

Solutions

PowerLinux optimized systems tuned for Big Data

PowerLinux optimized systems tuned for Industry Solutions

PowerLinux optimized systems tuned for virtualized Open Source

Infrastructure applications

IBM InfoSphere

BigInsightsPowered by

IBM InfoSphere Streams




IBM PowerLinux Big Data Solutions

IBM InfoSphere BigInsights for Hadoop-based Analytics

Data-in-Motion

Analyze streaming data with multiple data types

Respond to millions of events per second as they happen

Data-at-Rest

Enterprise-ready, out-of-the-box Hadoop-based solution

Analyze massive variety & volume of all data types

Explore data to understand potential value to business

IBM InfoSphere Streams for Low-Latency

Analytics

PowerLinux rack servers

Management Node

Data Nodes


OR

Flex System Compute Node

Open Source Apache Hadoop

Data-at-Rest

Open source framework for distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers

Updated to run on PowerLinux and leverage Power7 architecture

Used in Watson



PowerLinux platform enables faster and more economical delivery of ISV or OEM services

PowerVM for IBM PowerLinux

IBM PowerLinux 7R2

ISV or OEM Applications ISV or OEM Database

Network Memory Disk CPU

PowerLinux Platform Benefits

•Single, virtualized platform for ISV application footprint

•Increase application performance vs. X86

•Even less ongoing expenses, leverage IBM programs

•IBM - single source for hardware support

•Reduce non-application support requests, resolve issues quicker

•Minimal up front costs

IBM Flex System p24L

Network Memory Disk CPU Network Memory Disk CPU



IBM PowerLinux Open Source Infrastructure ServicesDeployment is simple:

Pick your Linux IBM PowerLinux servers come with a choice of Linux (RHEL or

SLES) and PowerVM; pick your preferred Linux release

Order virtualization preinstalled Select PowerVM preinstall option at time of order

Customize your server for your needs Set up the number of virtual machines you need for your

infrastructure services

Install with ease Use the IBM Installation Toolkit to simplify the install of Linux and

your open source workload applications The Simple Set Up feature steps you though the configuration of

your infrastructure services– Web server, Mail server, File & print server, Network server

Factory pre-load of PowerVM

Setup for VMs and virtual I/O server

RHEL 5 or 6 SLES 11

LPAR1 LPAR2 LPAR3 LPAR4 LPAR...

Plug-in, configure install parameters & connect to Simplified Setup Tool



IBM Tools YUM Repository for PowerLinux

Provides a single access point for:

–RAS & DLPAR Tools

–Power SDK–Advance

Toolchain–Updates to

Simplified Setup Tool

Enables automatic update notification

Download the configuration RPM from this URL:http://www-304.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/yum.html

http://www-304.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/yum.html



PowerLinux SDK bundles tools for application porting

All in one place: the best tooling for Linux on POWER development

Give it a try and let us know how it goes:http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/sdklop.html

Available as:– ISO image– RPM packages– YUM packages

IBM Java VM 1.6 included!!!

What's new in 1.2.0?

● IBM Eclipse SDK 3.8.0● C/C++ Development Tools 8.1.0● Eclipse Linux Tools 1.1.0● CPI analysis tool● New Integrated bug report● Migration advisor quick fixes

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/sdklop.html



2012 Collateral for PowerLinux For porting applications to PowerLinux, leverage Porting to PowerLinux

For best practices of tuning Java, reference Java Performance on POWER7

For performance tuning best practices, read the PowerLinux community wiki page Best Practices for Performance

To learn how to build Hadoop for PowerLinux, see the Build Open Hadoop for POWER wiki page

For documentation on how to leverage PowerVM effectively with SAP, see the SAP on PowerLinux Reference Architecture or the IBM Blueprint SAP 2-tier Sales and Distribution Tunings for Linux on POWER7

For a list of PowerLinux community experts and their contacts, see the Meet the Experts wiki page

For a step-by-step setup guide of virtualized solutions, see the IBM Open Source Infrastructure Services Guides in the PowerLinux wiki.

For information on PowerLinux applications, reference the HOWTO wiki page on Locating Applications for PowerLinux.

For details on HOWTO obtain evaluation copies of RHEL and SLES, see the new wiki article Linux Evaluation Copies.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Porting%20to%20Linux%20on%20Power

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/Java+Performance+on+POWER7

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Performance%20Rocks%20-%20Best%20Practices

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Build%20Open%20Hadoop%20for%20Power

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/new_sap_on_powerlinux_reference_architecture_available7?lang=en

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/liaai/saptuning/saptuningstart.htm


https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Meet%20the%20Experts

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/IBM%20PowerLinux%20Open%20Source%20Infrastructure%20Services%20Guides

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Locating%20Applications%20for%20PowerLinux

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Linux%20Evaluation%20Copies



Agenda


Outlook for 2013

Wrap-up



Power 720

Power 730

Power 710

Power 740

Power 750

PowerLinuxTM 7R2

PowerLinuxTM 7R1

Power 760

Power 770Power 780

Power 795

Industry standard Linux Red Hat and SUSE versions consistent with x86 64 Support available simultaneously with other platforms

Optimized to exploit workload advantages of POWER7+ and PowerVM Virtualization, Performance, POWER7+ RAS

Broadest choice of Linux servers Entry and mid-range servers and up to 32-socket Power 795 Linux only: PowerLinux 7R1/7R2 & Flex System p24L New POWER7+ support

IBM Flex System p460

IBM Flex System p260

IBM Flex System p24L

Virtualization & Mgmt.

NewPower7+

Power7+

Power7+

PowerLinux supports all IBM Power System servers

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



Benefit Feature

Innovative New Workloads Linux / Open Source

FlexibleVirtualizationConsolidationCapacity on Demand

RobustPOWER7+ PerformanceRASSecurity

New devices & delivery models

Ultimate Platform for Compute intensive workloads

Data Explosion

Transaction Processing

Addressing client needs on a smarter planet

Why Power Systems run Linux



What POWER7+ brings to LinuxCategory

POWER7+ vs. POWER7

Benefit

Processor technology

• 32 nm vs. 45nm

Superior performance to Intel Sandy Bridge for clock speed sensitive workloads (SPECint, Big Data, etc.)

L3 cache• 10 MB vs. 4 MB per

core

Superior performance to Intel Sandy Bridge for thread intensive and transactional workloads (Java, SAP, Big Data, etc.)

Virtualization• 20 VMs vs. 10 VMs

per core

Lower cost per workload with more efficient virtualization vs. VMware

Memory DIMM capacity

• 64GB vs. 32GB max• 2x memory / system

Superior throughput and faster response for memory intensive workloads (virtualization, Big Data)

Hardware accelerators

• RNG (SOD)• Encryption (SOD)• Memory compression

(SOD)• FPGA (via POCs)

Efficient memory utilization, lower cost

Superior performance (Big Data)

RAS

• Self-healing capability for L3 cache functions

• Processor re-initialization

Better availability, robustness for business critical workloads WebSphere, SAP and Industry Apps.

Energy•Enhanced energy power gating

More energy efficiency for scale-out workloads (Big Data, Web Apps)

RHEL 6 SLES 11 SP2

Power 750

Power 780

PS Blades

IBM Pure System

p260 & p460

Power 795

Power 770

Power 710/730

Power 760

New POWER7+

New POWER7+

New POWER7+

Power 720/740

New POWER7+

POWER7+

POWER7+




PowerLinux provides the same Linux with more featuresIndustry standard Linux

Support Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise Linux versions consistent with x86_64

POWER support available simultaneously with other platforms

List of packages nearly identical, with logical deviates – e.g. bootloader

Packages at same version/level – including kernel and device driversLeverage same opens source system solutions whenever possible

Collaborate with communities to support POWER when needed

Contribute bug fixes back to communities when needed

Work with Linux vendors to integrate, test, deliver and maintain POWER products

Tuned to the taskPowerLinux servers exploit workload optimized advantages of POWER architecture

Power7: optimize workload performance for platform, e.g. kernel, toolchain, libraries

PowerVM: support unique features, e.g. DLPAR, AMS, Micro-partitions

RAS: extend Linux RAS capabilities, e.g. EEH, platform error logging

PowerLinux is industry standard, tuned to the taskMore powerful than x86 Linux, more scalable than VMware, and more reliable than Windows.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/index.html



PowerLinux IS SLES and RHELSUSE and Red Hat Enterprise versions supporting POWER7®:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11• Full support of POWER7 (native mode)• Earliest supported release: SLES 11 base• Last update: SP2 GA February 2012

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10* • Enabled for POWER7 in P6-compatibility mode• Earliest supported release: SP3• Last update: SP4 GA April 2011

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 • Full support of POWER7 (native mode)• Earliest supported release: RHEL 6 base• Last update: U4 GA February 2013

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5*• Enabled for POWER7 in P6-compatibility mode• Earliest supported release: U5• Last update: U9 GA January 2013

* SLES 10 and RHEL 5 will not be supported on POWER7+ systems



IBM PowerLinux has Linux “release parity”Today

20072004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Standard Release Support Extended Release Support Self-support Release/updateSee for more details:●Red Hat lifecycle information - https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/●SUSE lifecycle information - http://support.novell.com/inc/lifecycle/linux.html

SLES 9 (9/04)

RHEL 4 (2/05)

SLES 10 (7/06)

SLES 11 (3/09)

RHEL 6 (11/10)

RHEL 5 (3/07)

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

http://support.novell.com/inc/lifecycle/linux.html




PowerLinux supports key PowerVM features

Supported features/functions documented in InfoCenter article, Supported features for Linux on Power Systems serversNotes: (1) IBM working in community now. RHEL and SLES schedules TBD., (2) Unlikely before 2015

Feature9 SP4 10 SP4 11 SP2 4.9 5.8 6.4

Micro-partitions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Dynamic LPAR Processors Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Dynamic LPAR Memory Add Add Yes Add Add Yes

Dynamic LPAR I/O Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Virtual Ethernet & SCSI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Virtual LAN Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

VIOS Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

IBM i Hosted Virtual I/O Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Active Memory Sharing & De-dupe No No Yes No No Yes

Active Memory Expansion No No No (1) No No No (1)

NPIV (Shared Fibre-Channel) No Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Virtual Tape No Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Live Partition Mobility No Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Partition Suspend/Resume No No Yes No Yes Yes

Linux Containers No No Yes No No Yes

Application Mobility No No No (2) No No No (2)

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/liaam/supportedfeaturesforlinuxonpowersystemsservers.htm

http://www.suse.com/us/index.html



PCI-e (opt disk)

Drawer

PowerVM for IBM PowerLinuxTM

ISD VMControl for PowerLinuxTM

IBM® Platform Computing™

Flex System p24L

compute node

EXP24S

DASD Drawer

Big Data Analytics

Application Services

Industry Application Solutions

Servers• Linux only• Comparable pricing to x86

IBM PureFlexTM SystemPowerLinuxTM 7R2 / 7R1

Systems Software• Comparable pricing to x86

Strategic Solutions

1,600+2,500+

ISV Applications & IBM Software

Open Source Applications Applications

& Solutions• Optimized for PowerLinux•Deliver new services faster•With higher quality•And superior economics

• Web servers• Java appl. servers• Networking• Database• Development tools• Management tools

InfoSphere

BigInsights

Powered by

InfoSphere Streams

3

NewPower7+

NewReleases

More Applications

New WebSphere

SolutionNew Platform

Computing

SDK Installation Toolkit

New POWER7+ servers, solutions, and applications – 2/2013






IBM PowerLinuxTM 7R1 / 7R2

Robust and reliable One or two sockets, highly efficient 2U rack Up to eight POWER7+ cores per socket 256 GB memory per socket, 512 GB max.

Scalable and efficient PowerVM™ exploiting integrated hypervisor More workloads and throughput per server

– Up to 20 VMs per core and 320 total VMs

Unparalleled performance meets superior economics

Up to 41% lower virtualized solution costComparable component pricing to x86 Linux

– Server, virtualization software and Linux OS

• Linux only POWER7+• 2U rack, one or two socket

Virtualization & Mgmt.

High performance, efficient servers ideal for running multiple, industry standard Linux workloads, virtualized with PowerVMTM, to deliver superior economics

Operating Systems

PowerLinux 7R1 1 socket: 4-core @ 3.6 GHz

1 socket: 6 or 8-core @ 4.2 GHz

PowerLinux 7R2 2 sockets: 8-core @ 3.6 GHz 2 sockets: 8-core @ 4.2 GHz




New IBM PowerLinux 7R2 pricing comparison ($US)

New PowerLinux 7R2 pricing is anchored directly to comparable Sandy Bridge systems with VMware running Linux


* Based on US pricing for PowerLinux 7R2 announced on 2/05/2013 matching configuration table below. Source: dell.com, hp.com, vmware.com: 1/15/13

Server model Dell R720 HP Proliant DL380p G8 IBM PowerLinux 7R2

Processor / cores Two 2.9 GHz , E5-2690, Sandy Bridge, 8-core processors Two 4.2 GHz POWER7+, 8-core

Configuration 32 GB memory, 2 x 147GB HDD, 10 Gb two port Same memory, HDD, NIC

Server list price*-3-year warranty, on-site

$10,483 $11,946 $11,628

Virtualization- OTC + 3yr. 9x5 SWMA

$9,374VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.1


$7,840 PowerVM for IBM PowerLinux

Linux OS list price - RHEL, 2 sockets, unlimited guests, 9x5, 3 yr. sub./ supp.

$5,697Red Hat subscription and Red

Hat support

$5,697Red Hat subscription and Red

Hat support

$4,489Red Hat subscription and IBM

support

Total list price: Server/Virtualization/Linux $25,554 $26,568 $23,957

Compare prices online

NewPower7+

$21,485

(64GB, 1 Gb four port, 2 x 300GB, RHEL subscription only)

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/powerlinux/opensource_browse.html

http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USSMBPublicStore-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewParametricSearch-OfferPaging?SearchCategoryUUID=.o8Q7hacfswAAAE1A3ITSTR8&PageNumber=2

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r720/fs



56% 18%

Leadership Java performance Leadership integer performance

47%

23%

Leadership Big Data performance

Leadership SAP performance Less than half

the time as x86

servers*

22% more users than

best Linux

Leadership workload performance vs. Intel x86



$34,491

$17,250

$10,872

$8,547$8,544

$23,256

$8,960$6,048$5,698$3,280

$0

$20,000

$40,000

$60,000

$80,000

HP Proliant DL380 G8, 16-core IBM PowerLinux 7R2, 16-core

Hardware Virtualization OTC Virtualization Supp. Linux Subscrip. Linux Supp.

41% lower TCA* 2

IBM PowerLinux 7R2

2 socket, 16-coreIBM POWER7+

4.2 GHz

PowerVM 2.2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

IBM PowerLinux 7R2HP DL380p G8

3

HP DL380p G82 socket, 16-core

Intel Xeon E5-26902.9 GHz

VMware vSphereEnterprise 5.1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

* The IBM PowerLinux 7R2 servers were configured with SMT4 enabled. The HP DL380p G8 servers were configured with Intel Hyperthreading enabled. Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual configuration, applications, and other variables in a production environment. Public Internet pricing was used for the x86-based solution. IBM eConfig was used for the IBM solution. Customers should not adapt any performance numbers to their own environments as system performance standards. Users of this document should verify the applicable data for their specific environment.

PowerVM

PowerVM

- Three HP DL 380p G8s with VMware = Two PowerLinux 7R2s with PowerVM - 65% better virtualized workload performance - less IBM servers required

SPECint benchmark

results

Average sustained utilization Effective virtualized

performance

# systems for equivalent

performance*Benchmark 1,000’s of IBM Client

IT Optim. Studies

HP DL 380p 693 100%35%(x86)

243 3 x 243 = 729

IBM PowerLinux 852 100%47%

(Power)400 2 x 400 = 800

Performance Ratio (IBM:x86)

1.23 1 1.34 1.65 1.1

$79,704 $47,242TCA List Save $32,462

NewPower7+

41% lower TCA for virtualized workloads



What’s New– New solution enabling rapid, robust mobile application development – Quickly develop and deploy apps for iPhone, Android and

Blackberry– Lightweight, fast, flexible & simplified WebSphere based Application

Server for developing and running Mobile, Web & OSGI applications

Client Benefits– Harnesses the strength of IBM’s hardware and software to provide a

complete, optimized runtime environment– Improve profitability by reducing time to market through accelerated

application development– Increases Developer productivity through decreased restart times,

smaller foot print, support for Eclipse and RAD tooling and simplified configuration

– Lower TCO through decreased resource requirements (more efficient virtualization, less memory, less disk) and reduced developer cost

Features / Business Value– Provides a high value, secure, reliable platform for Websphere

Mobile and Web Applications at much lower TCA than x86 servers– WebSphere workloads are optimized to run on Power

Our lightweight Java Platform that leverages

the unparalleled performance of Power

Systems and the capabilities and cost

effectiveness of Linux

IBM Solution for Websphere Mobile and Web Applications on PowerLinux

Learn More: : http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/powerlinux

http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/powerlinux/







What’s New–IBM Platform Symphony, the market leading scheduling engine

with high-performance, mission-critical reliability and extreme scalability is now available on PowerLinux to compliment big data workloads

Client Benefits–Increase competitive advantage with improved application

throughput for faster time to results–Run Hadoop and non-Hadoop applications on a shared cluster

for better system utilization

–Leverage productivity tools for analytics and data connectivity • Text analytics, BigSheets, BigSQL, data-warehouse and

database connectors

–Enhanced performance with Platform Symphony low latency scheduler

Features / Business Value–Lower cost via sharing and increased utilization –Accelerated results through higher performance

–Accelerate “near real-time” compute and big data applications–Higher productivity for developers and administrators

Enhanced productivity for big data solutions on

PowerLinux with Platform Symphony


InfoSphere BigInsights

Learn More: ibm.com/platformcomputing and IBM Platform Computing (sales kit)

IBM Platform Symphony on PowerLinux

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/platformcomputing/products/hpc/info.platform.com/WP_Acceleratingparalelprocessingwhilesimplifyingheterogeneousenvironmentmanagement.html

http://w3.ibm.com/sales/support/ShowDoc.wss?docid=49918USEN&infotype=SK&infosubtype=S0&node=doctype,S0%7Cdoctype,SLK





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New: IBM Platform Cluster Manager– Advanced Edition: Create, flex and manage multiple analytics and technical computing clusters within a shared, multi-tenant cloud

environment– Standard Edition: Quickly provision, run, manage and monitor a technical computing cluster with unprecedented ease

Updated: IBM Platform LSF– Powerful workload management for demanding, distributed compute intensive environments.– Comprehensive set of intelligent, policy-driven scheduling features for optimizing utilization of resources and application performance.

Client Benefits– Reduce costs by consolidating resource silos and increasing utilization up to 100%– Minimize complexity of heterogeneous environments by simplifying management and use of multiple apps, users and locations– Reduce risk with complete, integrated Technical Computing solutions with one source of support

Features / Business Value– Optimize high-performance workloads and resources– Build and manage clusters, grids and HPC clouds

Learn More: ibm.com/platformcomputing (website) and IBM Platform Computing (sales kit)


Other IBM Platform Computing Products on PowerLinux

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/platformcomputing/products/hpc/info.platform.com/WP_Acceleratingparalelprocessingwhilesimplifyingheterogeneousenvironmentmanagement.html

http://w3.ibm.com/sales/support/ShowDoc.wss?docid=49918USEN&infotype=SK&infosubtype=S0&node=doctype,S0%7Cdoctype,SLK




Introducing the updated PowerLinux SDK

Available as:– ISO image– RPM packages– YUM packages

IBM Java VM 1.6 included!!!All in one place: the best tooling for Linux on POWER development

Give it a try and let us know how it goes:http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/sdklop.html

What's new in 1.3.0?

● IBM Eclipse SDK 4.2.0●Updated CTD, PTP, Linux Tools

● Enhance Migration and Source Code Advisors, added quick fixes● FDPR 5.6.1-9● CPI analysis tool with drill down● New integrated bug report

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/sdklop.html



Advance PowerLinux Collateral

For deep details on the most recent POWER processors, read the POWER7 and POWER7+ Optimization and Tuning Guide

For an example of recent optimizations of an open source package, see the Porting Story #1

For a highly optimized package for shared memory IPC,see the Shared Persistent Heap Data Environment project on github

For tips on using the SDK to analyze code, read the Empirical Performance Analysis using the IBM SDK for PowerLinux and Deeper Empirical Analysis wiki pages

To leverage libhuge to optimize memory access, see the libhuge short and simple article

For detailed information on the POWER processor packaging modules and their impacts on memory access, see the POWER7+ SCM and DCM systems wiki page

To follow along in the memory access tuning study, subscribeto the Untangling Memory Access wiki article

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248079.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Porting%20Story%20%231

https://github.com/IBM/sphde

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Empirical%20Performance%20Analysis%20using%20the%20IBM%20SDK%20for%20PowerLinux

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Deeper%20Empirical%20Analysis

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/libhuge%20short%20and%20simple

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/POWER7_%20SCM%20and%20DCM%20systems

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Untangling%20memory%20access%20measurements



Check out the IBM Information Center for Linux for technical information about Linux on IBM® Power Systems™ servers.

Find information about:✔ Supported features and distros for PowerLinux servers

✔ IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux 5.3

✔ IBM SDK for PowerLinux 1.0

✔ Open source workloads

✔ Virtualization for PowerLinux servers

✔ Service and productivity tools

Translated for severalnational languages

Send feedback or askquestions on any PowerLinux

topic

Go to http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp



..and?



Power Linux has a clear priorities moving forward Exploit Power Systems platform with Linux and other open source projects

– Enable the next generation of Power Systems and processors

Grow Power Linux Ecosystem– Leverage The Power Linux developerWorks community for documentation, social

networking, and support of customers and developers– Engage community distributions to enable quick time-to-market for new technology– Continue to make physical and/or virtual systems available to developers/ISVs

Reduce Power Linux “time-to-value” for customers, ISVs, Business Partners– Simplified Setup Tool for easy-setup, quick tuning of common solutions

– SDK for application development, porting, tuning

– Blueprints, whitepapers, videos, TPL collateral

Focus Power Linux solutions on the strategic solutions– Virtualized Open Source Infrastructure Services– Big Data– Watson exploitation/productization– Open source Clouds– Others as identified



2013 continues ecosystem/community focus

Open Source Lab

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/%20

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC

http://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/pub/systems/vlp/index

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/sdklop.html

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/installtools/home.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl

http://twitter.com/#!/@thinkpowerlinux



Active Memory Expansion for PowerLinux is coming

POWER7+ advantage (hardware-assisted compression)Expand memory beyond physical limitsMore effective server consolidationRun more application workload / users per partitionRun more partitions and more workload per server

PowerLinux exploitation code underway in Fedora 18. Enterprise distribution adoption expected starting in 2013.

Expandmemory

True memory

Truememory

True memory

True memory

True memory

True memory

Expandmemory

Expandmemory

Expandmemory

Effectively up to 100% more

memory

Expandmemory

Expandmemory



Power Linux is tracking a rich set of emerging open source technologies

Established–Grub2 (now used in Fedora 17)–Eclipse framework–Helgrind, Valgrind–Linux Tools Project–SRIOV

Maturing–Hadoop–KVM, OpenStack

Emerging–User-space checkpoint/restart–LLVM–OpenJDK–V8 and other Javascript engines–Transcendent memory (tmem, cleancache, frontswap, zcache)–Transactional memory



Agenda

Highlights of 2012

Outlook for 2013

Wrap-up



Learn more about PowerLinuxPower Systems Linux

Portal(Product Information)

www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/

@thinkpowerlinux

The PowerLinux Community(developerWorks)

www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/

plus.google.com/communities/100156952249293416679

http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/


http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/


http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/


http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/%20




Join the PowerLinux community today!

Join us today at www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/

The Power Linux community organizes and grows our PowerLinux ecosystem through:

✔Blogs of recent news✔Message board for Q&A✔Wiki pages for the latest information✔Links to other projects and channels

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl



...your starting place for everything...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl



...and my personal favorite page...Quick Links!!!

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Quick%20Links

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Quick%20Links



Summary

➢ 2012 was a great year with IBM PowerLinux Servers delivering TCA-competitive prices with Power System value-add features.

➢ In 2013, IBM delivered the second generation of TCA competive servers with the POWER7+ model.

➢ PowerLinux continues to deliver customer value on top of the POWER systems value-add through new solutions (WebSphere Mobile and Platform LSF) and updates to existing solutions (BigInsights and Streams).

➢ IBM has our eyes are other emerging technologies and plans to bring them to PowerLinux.

What can you do with PowerLinux?



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Any performance data contained in this document was determined in a controlled environment. Actual results may vary significantly and are dependent on many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Some measurements quoted in this document may have been made on development-level systems. There is no guarantee these measurements will be the same on generally-available systems. Some measurements quoted in this document may have been estimated through extrapolation. Users of this document should verify the applicable data for their specific environment.

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Special notices



Backup



IBM InfoSphere BigInsights for Hadoop-based Analytics

Data-at-motion

Analyze streaming data with multiple data types

Respond to millions of events per second as they happen

Data-at-rest

Enterprise-ready, out-of-the-box Hadoop-based solution

Analyze massive variety & volume of all data types

Explore data to understand potential value to business

IBM InfoSphere Streams for Low-Latency

Analytics


Management Node

Data Nodes


OR

Flex System Compute Node

Open Source Apache Hadoop

Data-at-rest

Open source framework for distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers

Updated to run on PowerLinux and leverage Power7 architecture

Used in Watson

NewReleases

IBM PowerLinux Big Data Solutions






PowerLinux Data NodeIBM PowerLinux 7R22 sockets Power7+, 3.6 or 4.2 GHz CPUData: 29 x 900Gb SAS HDDs, JBOD I/O ExpOS: 1 x 300Gb SAS HDD96GB DDR3 RDIMMs

PowerLinux Management Node(JobTracker, NameNode, Console)IBM PowerLinux 7R22 sockets Power7+, 3.6 or 4.2 GHz CPUOS: 6 x 600GB SAS HDD, mirroredDVD drive128GB DDR3 RDIMMs

1GbE, 10GbE Switches1GbE: IBM RackSwitch G8052

– 48 × 1 GbE RJ45 ports, four 10 GbE SFP+ ports– Low 130 W power rating and variable speed fans to reduce

power consumption

10GbE: IBM RackSwitch G8264– Optimized for applications requiring high bandwidth and low

latency– Up to 64 1 Gb/10 Gb SFP+ ports, four 40 Gb QSFP+ports, 1.28

Tbps non-blocking throughput

PowerLinux Big Data Cluster Components

PowerLinux Data Node Storage19” SAS (6Gb/s) Disk Drawer24 SFF (2.5”) SAS disk drive baysSupports SAS-1 (3 Gb/s)900GB HDDsOne group of 24 drives, Two groups of 12 drives, or Four groups of 6 drives




Value Configuration

Processor: 2 x Power7 3.55 GHz 8 core

Memory Base: 64GB – 8 x 8GB

Disk (OS): 1 x 300GB 2.5”

Disk (data): 26TB, 29 x 900GB SAS 2.5”

HDD controller: 3Gb JBOB Controller

Hardware storage protection: None (JBOD)

User space*: 6.5TB w/900GB drives

Network: 1GbE switch w/4 10GbE uplinks (IBM G8052)

Enterprise Configuration

Processor: 2 x Power7+ 3.6 GHz 8 core

Memory Base: 64GB – 8 x 8GB

Disk (OS): 1 x 300GB (mirrored) 2.5”


HDD controller: 3Gb Controllers

Hardware storage protection: RAID5 11+P, RAID6 10+P+Q (business critical)


Network: Redundant switches

Performance Configuration

Processor: 2 x Power7+ 4.2 GHz 8 core

Memory Base: 72GB – 6 x 8GB + 6 x 4GB, 96GB – 12 x 8GB, 256 GB – 16 x 16GB

Disk (OS): 1 x 300GB 2.5”


HDD controller: 3Gb JBOD Controllers

Hardware storage protection: None (JBOD)


Network: 10GbE switch w/4 40GbE uplinks (IBM G8264/G8316)

•Note: These examples are based on a standard sizing and will vary significantly for specific customer requirements. Consult your business partner and/or IBM Techline for sizing assistance.•Refer to IBM PowerLinux Big Data Solutions Reference Architecture for further information on how to plan and implement your big data infrastructure on IBM PowerLinux servers to achieve your business needs

Configurations to match the needs of your Hadoop solution

* Assumes 3 copies of data, uncompressed, 25% capacity reserved for map/reduce intermediate files

Cluster sizes vary from 10 to 1000+ nodes10 node cluster pricing starts at $235K

IBM PowerLinux Big Data Solution for Apache Hadoop

https://w3-connections.ibm.com/communities/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=fe796fc0-98ec-4724-b984-bfbb05bebba8






Server list price* $6,206 $6,995

Virtualization- OTC + 3yr. 9x5 SWMA


$3,920PowerVM for IBM PowerLinux

Linux OS list price - RHEL, 1-2 sockets, unlimited guests, 9x5, 3 yr. sub./ supp.

$5,697Red Hat subscription and Red Hat support

$4,489Red Hat subscription and IBM support

Total list price: Server/Virtualization/Linux $16,590 $15,404



New IBM PowerLinux 7R1 pricing comparison – $ US

Server model Dell R720 IBM PowerLinux 7R1

Processor / cores One 2.9 GHz , E5-2690, Sandy Bridge, 8-core proc. One 4.2 GHz POWER7+, 8-core

# of sockets (processors) 32 GB memory, 2 x 147GB HDD, 1 Gb four port Same memory, HDD, NIC

NewPower7+

* Based on US pricing for PowerLinux 7R1 matching configuration table below. Source: dell.com, hp.com, vmware.com: 1/15/13

Compare prices online $13,764

(32GB, 1 Gb four port, 2 x 300GB, RHEL subscription only)

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r720/fs

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/powerlinux/opensource_browse.html



All available or enabling for PowerLinux servers

Open Source IBM Software ISV Partner or LDP

PowerLinux middleware, database and tools portfolio* Choose to deploy Open Source or commercial middleware, database or tools

Middleware for Web Serving,

Java Apps

Database and Big Data

Management Tools (HA,

Cluster, Backup, Storage, etc.)

DB2, Informix

InfoSphere

Netweaver

Networking, Email, File/Print,

Directory

Development Tools

Steeleye





1,205,289

1,877,284 1,877,284

1,584,570

0

400,000

800,000

1,200,000

1,600,000

2,000,000

POWER7 POWER7+ POWER7+ Sandy Bridge

SPECjbb_2005

Leadership Java performance on PowerLinux with POWER7+- 56% better than current POWER7 running Linux- 18% better than best Sandy Bridge for non-virtualized Java workload

56% 18%

Sources: http://www.spec.org, http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html




578

852 852

693

0

200

400

600

800

POWER7 POWER7+ POWER7+ Sandy Bridge

SPECint_rate

Leadership integer performance on PowerLinux w/ POWER7+- 47% better than current POWER7 running Linux- 23% better than best Sandy Bridge for non-virtualized integer workload

47% 23%

Sources: http://www.spec.org , http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html




Delivering robust performance for Linux

based SAP SD Solutions

Linux leadership SAP SD 2-Tier performance for 2-processor servers

IBM PowerLinux

7R2Beats all x86 16-core Linux

or Windowsresults

The performance and robustness of POWER7+ with the economics Linux

22% better than best published 16-core Linux Xeon result on the latestSAP SD 2-Tier benchmark (ERP 6.0 _EHP5) with 16-core, 4.22 GHz PowerLinux 7R2

(1) IBM PowerLinux 7R2 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+ 4.22 GHz, 256 GB memory, 8,016 SD benchmark users, running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 and DB2® 10, dialog resp.: 0.98s, line items/hour: 876,000, Dialog steps/hour: 2,628,000 SAPS: 43,800, DB time (dialog/ update): .020s/.018s, CPU utilization: 99%, Certification #: certification number not available at press time and can be found at sap.com/benchmark. Results valid as of 02/05/2013. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.

(2) (2) Cisco UCS B200 M3: two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark; SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 16 cores / 32 threads, Intel Xeon E5-2690 processor 2.90 GHz, 256 GB memory, 6,530 SD benchmark users, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and Sybase ASE 15.7, Certification #: 2013001

22% more users than

best Linux


http://www.suse.com/us/index.html




SAP deployments on Power Linux:– Provide up to higher resource utilization

• 70% utilization with PowerVM on Power Linux • 34% average utilization on existing servers

– less downtime

– Reduce costs up to per 100 users / year

• Lower IT infrastructure costs (s/w, h/w, energy)• Increased user and IT staff productivity

PowerVM delivers faster SAP deployments– More flexibility to dynamically manage resources– Quicker deployments, more automation

“… our entire billing, help desk management, CRM, inventory, all those areas - the entire shop for us - is on SAP," he said. "It is extremely critical — 90% of our mission-critical operations are run either directly through SAP or association with SAP.“

Key findings of IDC survey of organizations* who consolidated SAP landscapes to PowerLinux

Annual benefits per 100 users

* The IDC survey included 10 organizations with 350 to 5,000 employees located in geographies worldwide.

75%

$25K

2x

Source: IDC, December 2010

Consolidating SAP Applications for ImprovedOperational Costs: Looking at SAP and Linux

Running on IBM Power Systems

SAP on PowerLinux customer survey results

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&htmlfid=POL03076USEN





Virtualization features PowerVM for IBM PowerLinux4

VMware vSphere 5.1 – Enterprise1

Server platforms supportedPowerLinux 7R1 or 7R2IBM Flex System p24L

x86-64 based servers

Guest operating systems supported Linux Linux, Windows, Solaris and

others

Memory - dynamically add or remove Yes

Add – YesRemove - No

Virtual CPUs - dynamically add or remove Yes

Add – YesRemove – No OS support

Virtual CPUs per VMOnly limited by # cores

7R1: 32 7R2: 64 795: 1,024

Limited to 32 per socket

Secure hypervisor (zero reported vulnerabilities)

Yes (h/w based) No (s/w based)

License + 3 year, 9x5 SWMA

$7,840 3

(2-sockets / 16 cores)

$9,374 2

(2-socket / 64 vCPU license)

16%

PowerVM for IBM PowerLinuxTM vs. VMware - $ US Superior capabilities and value – dynamically add or remove resources and save 16%

1VMware edition comparisons: www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/compare-editions.html 2VMware pricing: www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/pricing.html 3Based on US pricing for PowerVM for PowerLinux as of 01/23/20134PowerVM for PowerLinux is functionally equivalent to PowerVM Enterprise Edition & is only available for Linux only, PowerLinux servers.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/pricing.html



http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/compare-editions.html

http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/pricing.html




IBM PowerLinux 7R1 One socket – 2U

IBM PowerLinux 7R2 Two socket – 2U

PowerLinux 7R1 PowerLinux 7R2

POWER7+ Processor Offerings

4-core 3.6 GHz 6-core 4.2 GHz 8-core 4.2 GHz

2 x 8-core 3.6 GHz

2 x 8-core 4.2 GHz

Planar One Socket Two Socket

DDR3 Memory features

8 / 16 / 32 / 64GB8GB to 256GB

8 / 16 / 32 / 64GB

8GB to 512GB

OS Support Linux RHEL 6, SLES 11 SP2

DASD / Bays Up to 6 HDD or SSD

PCIe Gen2 Expansion Slots

Five x8 low profile One x4 low profile (Ethernet Adapter)

Integrated SAS/SATA Cntrl

Standard: RAID 0, 1, & 10 Optional: RAID 5 & 6

GX++ Slots One Two / Shared

Ethernet Quad 10/100/1000 Media Bays 1 Slim-line & 1 Half Height ( Optional )IO Drawers No Yes / Max: 2Storage Drawer Max = 4 Max = 14

Power requirement 100V to 240V AC 200V to 240V AC

Redundant Power & Cooling Optional Standard

EnergyScaleActive Thermal Power ManagementDynamic Energy Save & Capping

Warranty 3 Years

NewPower7+

IBM PowerLinux Rack Server Features

New




PowerLinux 7R1 PowerLinux 7R2

8246-L1D 8246-L1T 8246-L2D 8246-L2T

Operating System

2U Storage Drawer (EXP24S, f/c EL1S or 5887)

n/a Yes n/a Yes

4U PCI-e Expansion Drawer (10 PCIe or 10 PCIe + 18 SFFs)

n/a n/a n/a Yes

POWER7+ Architecture 4-core @ 3.6 GHz, 6-core or 8-core @ 4.2 GHz

8-core 3.6 GHz8-core 4.2 GHz

Planar One Socket Two Socket

DDR3 Memory8 / 16 / 32 / 64 GB options

32GB to 256 GB8 / 16 / 32 / 64 GB options

32GB to 512 GB

12X I/O loop, PCI-e drawers n/a, no I/O expansion n/a Yes (max of 2)

Base Ethernet 4-port, 1 gigabit

SAS SFF Bays Up to 6 HDD or SSD

PCIe Gen2 Slots 5 PCIe x8 Gen2 Low Profile, plus x4 Gen2 slot for LAN adapter

Integrated SAS/SATA Yes / RAID 0/10 std (RAID 5/6 opt)

GX++ Slots One Two (One shared)Integrated Ports 3 USB, 2 Serial, 2 HMC

DVD bay 1 slim-line

Tape/RDX bay 1 Half Height (Optional)

Virtualization Mgmt. IVM / HMC

Red. Power, Cooling Yes, default configuration Yes

EnergyScale Thermal Power Management Device (TPMD)

Warranty 3 Years

PowerLinux Rack Servers

NewPower7+



POWER7+ Processors & ArchitectureDeliver up to 40% more performance, ideal for data

and real-time business analytics workloadsDeliver up to 40% more performance, ideal for data

and real-time business analytics workloads

Greater Scalability and Flexibility20 Virtual Machines per coreElastic Capacity on Demand

Faster Performance10 MB L3 Cacheup to 4.4 GHz POWER7+ processorsMemory Compression Accelerator Random number generatorEnhanced Single Precision Floating Point performanceEnhanced GX system bus

Better AvailabilitySelf-healing capability for L3 Cache functionsDynamic processor fabric bus repairProcessor re-initializationHardware encryption support

More Energy EfficientDelivering 5x more performance per wattEnhanced energy / power gating

Linux exploitation underwaySLES 11 and RHEL 6 will run as POWER7 processorsAccelerators being enabled in Fedora 18Enterprise distributions to follow

POWER7+ 32 nm

SMP Fabric

SMP Fabric

L3 Cache L3 Cache

L3 Cache L3 Cache

Core

L2

Core

L2

GX

Bus

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Acc

Eng

Power Bus

Core

L2

MC

MC



IBM provides complete Linux solutions

WebSphere® Tivoli® Lotus®Information Management

Rational®

IBM System x IBM Power Systems IBM System z

IBM Global Services

IBM Systems Software

IBM Global

Financing

• ImplementationSupport services

• Subscriptions

• Enterprise-readyCommon acrossplatforms

• Manage complexenvironments

• Simplification

• Tier 1 Linux support for all IBM Systems

• Match workloadneeds to platformcapabilities

• OS managementskills common across platforms

• Increase flexibility• Petabyte-scale

storage solutions

Linux provides common benefits across all IBM platforms

Security• Policy-based security• Common criteria certification• Very rapid time to fix if

vulnerabilities are discovered

Supported platforms• Wristwatches to mainframes• Broadest range of supported

virtualization environments• Can optimize by workload

Scalability• Ongoing innovation in both

scale out and scale up• Platform support provides

flexibility in consolidation

Skills• Linux skills widespread• OS management skills

applicable across platforms

IBM Systems Storage



PowerLinux differentiates with virtualization, performance, and RAS

Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)•Enterprise Hardware

•Redundant fans, blowers, power supplies, regulators, service processors, system clocks•Hot swap fans, blowers, regulators, disk, I/O adapters•Dynamic processor sparing•Memory sparing•Chipkill memory with dynamic bit steering•Dynamic system clock failover

•Concurrent firmware update•PCI bus Enhanced Error Handling (EEH)•Service Focal Point software•NVRAM-based error logging

Virtualization•Dedicated and shared cpus and I/O•Micro-partitioning•Dynamic LPAR cpu, memory, I/O•Virtual I/O Server for storage

•Virtual SCSI•Virtual CD•Virtual Tape

•Virtual LAN•N-port ID Virtualization (NPIV)•Active memory sharing & data de-duplicatoin (memory overcommit)•Live Partition Mobility•Partition Suspend/Resume

Performance•POWER7 Processor

•8 cores per chip•4-way SMT•VSX with 128-bit double precision floating point•Embedded L3 cache

•Turbocore Modes•Capacity Upgrade on Demand

•Try-and-buy•Processors and memory•Dynamic activation

•Solid state disk•Flexible large pages for applications•Outstanding Linux benchmarks•Advanced Toolchain from IBM

Virtualization & Management



Additional collateral for PowerLinux

For more best practices of using VMControl, see the IBM Blueprint Managing Linux On Power virtual appliances using IBM Systems Director VMControl:http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/topic/liaai/vmcontrol/liaaivmcontrolstart.htm

For more best practices for Linux Active Memory Sharing, see the IBM Blueprint Moving partitions into an Active Memory Sharing (AMS) environment and tracking performance on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11:http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/topic/liaai/ams/liaaiamsmoving.htm

For SAP on Linux for Power tuning best practices, see the IBM Blueprint SAP 2-tier Sales and Distribution Tunings for Linux on POWER7:http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/liaai/saptuning/saptuningstart.htm

For tuning Sybase IQ, see the Configuring Linux Servers for Sybase IQ in an BI Environment IBM InfoCenter arcticle:http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/performance/tuneforsybase/tuneforsybasestart.htm

For migrations from x86 to Linux for Power, see the Best Practices for Migrating Linux/x86 Applications to IBM Power Systems whitepaper: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&htmlfid=POW03053USEN&attachment=POW03053USEN.PDF

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/topic/liaai/vmcontrol/liaaivmcontrolstart.htm

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/topic/liaai/ams/liaaiamsmoving.htm


http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/performance/tuneforsybase/tuneforsybasestart.htm

http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&htmlfid=POW03053USEN&attachment=POW03053USEN.PDF



PowerVM editions support Linux

PowerVM Editions offer a unified virtualization

solution for all Power workloads

PowerVM Express Edition– Evaluations, pilots, PoCs– Single-server projects

PowerVM Standard Edition– Production deployments– Server consolidation

PowerVM Enterprise Edition– Multi-server deployments– Cloud infrastructure

PowerVM Editions Express Standard Enterprise

Concurrent VMs 2 per server

10 per core(up to 1000)

10 per core(up to 1000)

Virtual I/O Server

Suspend/Resume

Shared Processor Pools

Shared Storage Pools

Thin Provisioning

Live Partition Mobility

Active Memory Sharing



VMControl Editions Fully Support PowerLinux as of V2.3

MANAGE MANAGE Discover resourcesDiscover resourcesMonitor healthMonitor healthManage virtual serversManage virtual servers

SIMPLIFYSIMPLIFYManage virtual server imagesManage virtual server imagesSimplify image deploymentSimplify image deploymentAutomate resource provisioningAutomate resource provisioning

OPTIMIZEOPTIMIZE

Virtual Resource Pooling Virtual Resource Pooling

Automation and PlacementAutomation and PlacementDynamically move workloadsDynamically move workloads

Increasing management simplicity

Increasing business alignment

VMControl Express Edition VMControl Express Edition for lifecycle managementfor lifecycle management

VMControl Enterprise Edition VMControl Enterprise Edition for for workload managementworkload management

VMControl Standard Edition VMControl Standard Edition for rapid for rapid deploymentdeployment



PowerVM holds inherent advantages over VMware in all aspects that clients value most

Client Needs PowerVM VMware vSphere 5

High PerformanceBuilt-in hypervisor means all

industry-leading Power Systems benchmarks are fully virtualized

Degrades x86 workload performance significantly compared to ‘bare metal’

Elastic ScalabilityScales linearly to support the

most demanding mission-critical enterprise workloads

Imposes resource constraints that limit virtualization to small/medium workloads

Extreme FlexibilityDynamically reallocates CPU,

memory, storage and I/O without impacting workloads

Limited ‘hot-add’ only of CPU and memory, with risk of

workload failures

Maximum SecurityEmbedded in Power Systems

firmware and protected by secure access controls and encryption

Downloaded software exposes more attack surfaces, with

many published vulnerabilities

Platform IntegrationDesigned and integrated with

industry-leading POWER processor architecture for optimal

virtualization/cloud solutions

Third-party add-on software utility, developed in isolation from processor or systems



The Latest POWER7+ Linux Publishes are on www.ibm.com

See the IBM Power Systems Performance Reports web page for more details


http://www.ibm.com/




PowerLinux benefits from POWER7 reliability, availability features

Fabric Bus Interface to other Chips and Nodes

ECC protected Node hot add /repair

Core Recovery Leverage speculative execution resources to

enable recovery Error detection in GPRs FPRs VSR, flushed

and retried Stacked latches to improve SER

Alternate Processor Recovery Partition isolation for core checkstops

L3 eDRAM ECC protected SUE handling Line delete Spare rows and columns

GX IO Bus ECC protected Hot add

InfiniBand® Interface Redundant paths

IO Hub

PCIBridge

PCI Adapter

64 Byte ECC on Memory Corrects full chip kill on X8 dimms Spare X8 devices implemented

Dual memory chip failures do not cause outage Selective memory mirror capability to recover

partition from dimm failures HW assisted scrubbing SUE handling Dynamic sparing on channel interface PowerVM Hypervisor protected from full dimm

failures

OSC0 OSC1Dynamic Oscillator

Failover

BUF

BUF

BUF

BUF

X8 Dimms

Fabric Interface



PowerLinux provides additional RAS features

Examples include:

PCI bus error detection and recovery– Implemented by EEH (Extended I/O Error Handling) on Power

• In the kernel and device drivers; no userspace tools needed– Autonomic detection and recovery for most errors

Platform error logging and analysis– Platforms provides the OS with notifications of failures (hardware failures,

firmware/hypervisor issues, etc.)– These events are received and logged to servicelog.– Certain failures also handled

• Predictive CPU failures will cause the failing CPU to be taken offline (a.k.a. CPU Gard)• EPOW (Environmental and Power events), such as a switch to UPS power, a fan failure,

or a thermal condition, may shut down the system• Platform dumps (FSP dumps, PHYP dumps, etc.) may be generated by the platform for

future analysis



IBM collaborates extensively with the community

Linux Kernel & Subsystem Development

•Kernel Base Architecture Support•GNU•Security•Systems Management•RAS•Virtualization•Special Projects•Filesystems, and more...

Expanding the Open SourceEcosystem

•Apache & Apache Projects•Eclipse•Mozilla Firefox•OpenOffice.org•PHP•Samba, and more...

Foster and Protect the Ecosystem

•Software Freedom Law Center•Free Software Foundation (FSF)•Open Invention Network, and more...

Promoting Open Standards & Community Collaboration

•The Linux Foundation•Linux Standards Base•Common Criteria certification•Open Software Initiative, and more...

has been an active participant since 1999 is one of the leading commercial contributors to Linux Power contributes greatly to Linux innovation

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/whowriteslinux.pdf

Who Has Contributed to Linux?(2005 – 2009)

MakeLinux Better

Linux asa Tier 1 OS

Collaborationwith clients

Grow LinuxWorkloads

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/whowriteslinux.pdf



Power is the most reliable platform among UNIX, Linux on Intel and Windows according to ITIC Survery

*Source: ITIC 2009 Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey Results, July 7, 2009. Fully paper is available at ibm.com/aix

Open Source Linux x86

HP UX 11/ HP Integrity

HP UX 11/ PA RISC

Sun Solaris / SPARC

IBM AIX POWER

Apple MAC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux x86

Windows Server 2008 x86

Windows Server 2003 x86

Downtime (Hours per Year)

IBM quality of service 99.997% uptime*

2.3X better than next UNIX

>10X better than x86-based platforms

54% of IT executives and managers say that they require 99.99% or better

availability for their applications

http://itic-corp.com/blog/2009/07/itic-2009-global-server-hardware-server-os-reliability-survey-results/



Linux benefits from POWER Platform RAS



Source: POWER7® System RAS: Key Aspects of Power Systems™ Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability

Available online: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&htmlfid=POW03056USEN&attachment=POW03056USEN.PDF

Footnotes:

http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&htmlfid=POW03056USEN&attachment=POW03056USEN.PDF



ITIC Survey also says Linux has excellent RAS

✔Reliability (Serious Incidents)➢ Stock Linux on par with OEM Unix, but trails AIX➢ RHEL and SLES had less than 1 Tier 3 incident per year.

✔Availability (Down Time)➢ Custom SLES Linux can achieve results similar to AIX best-of-

breed➢ Stock Enterprise Linux significantly better than Windows,

approaching UNIX

✔Serviceability (Patch Time)➢ Stock SLES close to AIX best-of-breed times➢ Customization of Linux increases patch time

Source: Network World, dated July 14, 2009, reports on the 2009 ITIC Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey Results



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Additional comments on ITIC survey

The Linux servers used in the survey were almost exclusively x86

It's difficult to quantify the value of the Power hardware platform on AIX RAS

PowerLinux RAS results should outperform the survery Linux servers due to the Power hardware RAS capabilities



IBM Linux Advanced Toolchain offers the latest open compilers and optimized libraries for POWER

The Advance Toolchain is an IBM supported standalone POWER open source toolchain.

•Provides a collection of system libraries and tools tuned for POWER application development.•Requires minimum dependencies on system libraries.•Has the latest available toolchain packages – gcc, glibc, gdb, oprofile and more.

Delivers better performance than the Linux distribution toolchains

•Version 3.0 will have improved P7 support (5/2010)•Version 5.0 contains stable versions of latest FSF tools

Leverages the full potential of Power systems on Linux by providing optimized libraries for all supported IBM POWER platforms.Download from this URL

•ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/at05/

Standard IBM Linux support includes use of the Advanced Toolchain

•http://www-03.ibm.com/services/supline/products/sl2ci162.html#a2

Performance benefit documentation•http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/Advance+Toolchain+performance+improvements

ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/at05/

http://www-03.ibm.com/services/supline/products/sl2ci162.html#a2

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/Advance+Toolchain+performance+improvements



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A full list of U.S. trademarks owned by IBM may be found at: http://www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.

Adobe, the Adobe logo, PostScript, and the PostScript logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States, and/or other countries.AltiVec is a trademark of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.AMD Opteron is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.InfiniBand, InfiniBand Trade Association and the InfiniBand design marks are trademarks and/or service marks of the InfiniBand Trade Association. Intel, Intel logo, Intel Inside, Intel Inside logo, Intel Centrino, Intel Centrino logo, Celeron, Intel Xeon, Intel SpeedStep, Itanium, and Pentium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.IT Infrastructure Library is a registered trademark of the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency which is now part of the Office of Government Commerce.Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates.Linear Tape-Open, LTO, the LTO Logo, Ultrium, and the Ultrium logo are trademarks of HP, IBM Corp. and Quantum in the U.S. and other countries.The registered trademark Linux® is used pursuant to a sublicense from LMI, the exclusive licensee of Linus Torvalds, owner of the mark on a world-wide basis.Microsoft, Windows and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries or both.NetBench is a registered trademark of Ziff Davis Media in the United States, other countries or both.SPECint, SPECfp, SPECjbb, SPECweb, SPECjAppServer, SPEC OMP, SPECviewperf, SPECapc, SPEChpc, SPECjvm, SPECmail, SPECimap and SPECsfs are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp (SPEC).The Power Architecture and Power.org wordmarks and the Power and Power.org logos and related marks are trademarks and service marks licensed by Power.org.TPC-C and TPC-H are trademarks of the Transaction Performance Processing Council (TPPC).UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States, other countries or both.

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Revised December 2, 2010

Special notices (cont.)



The IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer systems. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider conducting application oriented testing. For additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html .

All performance measurements were made with AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of AIX were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2006, LINPACK, and Technical Computing benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX 5L and Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of these compilers were used: XL C for AIX v11.1, XL C/C++ for AIX v11.1, XL FORTRAN for AIX v13.1, XL C/C++ for Linux v11.1, and XL FORTRAN for Linux v13.1.

For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

TPC http://www.tpc.org SPEC http://www.spec.org LINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf Pro/E http://www.proe.com GPC http://www.spec.org/gpc VolanoMark http://www.volano.com STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ SAP http://www.sap.com/benchmark/ Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/ Baan http://www.ssaglobal.com Fluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm TOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/ Ideas International http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html Storage Performance Council http://www.storageperformance.org/results

Revised December 2, 2010

Notes on benchmarks and values

http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html

http://www.tpc.org/

http://www.spec.org/

http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf

http://www.proe.com/

http://www.spec.org/gpc

http://www.volano.com/

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/

http://www.sap.com/benchmark/

http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/

http://www.ssaglobal.com/

http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm

http://www.top500.org/

http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html

http://www.storageperformance.org/results

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