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IBM z13 Hardware Innovation
Matthias R. Bangert
Executive IT-Specialist
IBM z Systems, Europe
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The market is moving, forcing businesses
to transform
Explosion in
transaction growth
Analytics is
moving to real time
Hybrid cloud is the
new standard
driven by mobility
and the Internet of
Things
to capture new
opportunities at the
point of impact
for delivering service,
agility, trust and
efficiency
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Introducing the z13
Removing constraints on growth through innovation
Better Economics,
Flexibility and Efficiency
Greater Workload
Performance, Capacity
and Scale in the same
energy footprint
zKVM and GDPS virtual appliance
for Linux on IBM z Systems opens
the door for more Linux
40% more configurable cores
(up to 141 vs 101)
Standalone zBX support for more
flexibility
New built in vector facility
(SIMD) for faster mathematical
computation
3+ x more memory to reduce
latency (10 TB vs 3 TB)
Resilient and Secure Growth
New multithreading (SMT2) to
expand IFL (Linux) and zIIP
capacity
Designed for Highest level of Security
(PR/SM EAL5+)
40% more logical partitions to
securely host more cloud
tenants (85 vs 60)
Next Generation Hardware Cryptography
Best ever System z RAS with enhanced
integrated sparing
New resilient IO Infrastructure
addresses Skills, Complexity, Cost
and Availability
Price Performance gains for
Linux, zIIP, mobile and new SW
workloads
Investment protection with full
upgradeability from z196 and
zEC12
z13: An innovative, intelligent and integrated system that provides a trusted
foundation for sustainable growth today and in the future
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Performance delivered through
multiple dimensions
Hardware/
software
integration
leads to richer
optimization
• 40% more total capacity
• 2X performance boost for cryptographic coprocessors
• 50-80% more bandwidth per I/O domain
• 2X increase in channel speed
• 3X increase in memory
• 2X increase in cache
• Lower cloud cost
• Faster fraud detection
• More scale for mobile transactions
• Faster data sharing between systems
• Less exposure to regulatory penalties
• Faster decision making with data-in-memory
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Integrated system design
Up to 141 cores
on a CPC
Up to 25 cores for
offload system
processing
I/O and coprocessors bring
RAS, cost savings and added
compute power to workloads
Plus up to 320
POWER® cores:
I/O and Coprocessors
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Plus up to 322
RAS cores
24 SAPs
1 IFP
• Share up to 141 processors
with up to 85 LPARS
• Configure the processors as
CPs, IFLs, zIIPs, or ICFs
320 I/O
RAS cores
2 Spares
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Designed for transaction processing and data serving
Substantial economies of scale with simultaneous
multi-threading delivering more throughput for Linux and
zIIP-eligible workloads
Cognos® on Linux under z/VM® could see up to 60%
increase in throughput with SMT on a z13 IFL1
Larger caches to optimize data serving environments
Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) improves
performance of mathematical operations and string processing.
Up to 2X improved cryptographic performance with
enhanced Central Processor Assist for Cryptographic
Functions (CPACF)
Compress more data helping to save disk space and
cut data transfer time with improved on chip hardware compression
1
Better and faster memory management and execution time
with new hardware instructions and functional facilities to optimize compilers
New 8-core Processor Design in 22nm Silicon Technology with wider
instruction pipeline
Results are based on
internal lab
measurements on a 4
core configuration on a
single Linux guest
running under z/VM and
accessing DB2 on z/OS.
Results may vary
significantly depending
on the workload and
other factors.
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Fully Populated Drawer
Mem DIMMs
Mem
Mem
Mem
Node 0
Node 1
GX Bus
2x PCIe
PU
PU
GX Bus
PU
2x PCIe
GX Bus
PU
2x PCIe
PSI
X-Bus
GX Bus
2x PCIe
PU
PU
S-Bus
SC
SC
PU
2x PCIe
Mem
To other
drawers
To other
drawers
Physical node: (Two per drawer)
Node 1
Node 0
Drawer
Node 1
Node 0
Drawer
Node 1
Node 0
Drawer
Node 1
Node 0
Drawer
Chips
– Three PU chips (with up to 8 active cores each)
– One SC chip (480 MB L4 cache)
RAIM Memory
– Three Memory Controllers: One per CP Chip
– Five DDR3 DIMM slots per Controller: 15 total per logical node
– Populated DIMM slots: 20 or 25 per drawer
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GX Bus
A-Bus
Mem
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2x PCIe
X-Bus
A-Bus

GX Bus
z13 Drawer
Structure and
Interconnect
SC and CP Chip Interconnects
– X-bus: SC and CPs to each other (intra node)
– S-bus: SC to SC chip in the (intra drawer)
– A-bus: SC to SC chips in the remote drawers (intra box)
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SIMD Exploitation
Integer
Ops
FloatingPoint Ops
String
Ops
Mathematical
Optimization
FP, String,
Int
String, Int
Large
Matrix
Math
Compute Intensity
Predictive IT
Analytics
Adv
Security/
Crypto
Large
String
Ops
Security/
Crypto
Algorithms
Traditional IT
Analytics
Small
Compress
Competitive
Algorithms
What will happen
next?
Business
IntelligenceReporting
Small
Matrix
Math
Traditional
Next Best Action
Data
Warehousing
(DW)
NextGeneration
DW
Large
Compress
Small Sort
Big Sort
Small
String
Ops
Big Scan
Data Intensity
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Simultaneous Multi Threading (SMT)
Two Threads,
One core
80
50
Why
only 50?
50
Well that‘s why !!!
Which approach is designed for the
highest volume of traffic?
Which road is faster?
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Application Serving – SSL Enabled Day Trader 3.0
2.62x improvement in throughput with IBM Java 8 and IBM z13
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More memory makes a difference
Enable totally new types of
applications
Perform faster table scans
with in memory data for faster
response time; reduce CPU by
avoiding IO, make possible
new types of analysis
Support modern memory
heavy computing languages
and architectures
Larger Java® heaps without an
increase in paging
Improves IBM MQSeries® V8
ability to manage increasing
messaging volumes generated
by today's mobile and cloud
applications
Accommodate growing
workloads without
changes to
applications to gain
benefits
Run sorts using large
memory to improve
elapsed times
Keep the entire Cognos
Dynamic Cubes end-toend application online for
faster decision making
Reduce need to fine tune
memory and leverage the
tuning capabilities in
DB2®, IMS™ and CICS®
DB2 Buffer Pool simulator tool available as a DB2 (V11) deliverable.
Provides an accurate benefit estimation of increasing buffer pool
size for DB2.
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Resilient and intelligent I/O
New FICON Express16S links reduce
latency for workloads such as DB2
Reduce up to 43% of DB2 write
operations with IBM zHyperWrite –
technology for DS8000® and z/OS for Metro
Mirror environment
First system to use a standards based
approach for enabling Forward Error
Correction for a complete end to end
solution
Clients with multi-site configurations can
expect I/O service time improvement when
writing data remotely which can benefit
GDPS or TPC-R HyperSwap®
Extend z/OS workload
management policies into SAN
fabric to manage the network
congestion
New Easy Tier ® API removes
requirement from
application/administrator to manage
hardware resources
Improved and predictable
performance for mission critical
environments
Optimized for enterprise-scale data from
multiple platforms and devices
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Specialty engines expand the use of the mainframe
While lowering the cost of ownership
zIIP*
IFLs and Enterprise
Linux Server
Coupling Facility
• Relieves central processors of
running specific workloads
• Special engine dedicated to Linux
workloads on z Systems servers
• CF allows multiple processors to
access the same data
• Optimized for strategic web based
applications with support for Java
and XML processing
• IT optimization and cloud
computing can deliver enhanced
economics
• New with z13 is support for 256
CHPIDs (2X available on zEC12)
• Focused on data and supporting
workloads can help connect,
manage, extend, and protect
data
• Attractively priced and supported
by the z/VM virtualization, the IBM
Wave virtualization management
and the Linux operating system
• New PCIe based short range
coupling links
zIIP and IFLs get throughput increase with simultaneous multithreading
* Supports 2:1 ratio for zIIP to CP
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Linux on z Systems means an
enterprise grade Linux solution
While “Linux is Linux”, z Systems server and
virtualization technologies provide an enhanced
Linux solution
Having an enterprise grade Linux
solution brings:
• IT simplicity to run hundreds of workloads on
one server
• Workload integration of new and existing
enterprise data and applications
• Virtualization management for easy and
flexible server provisioning
• High productivity through efficient life cycle
management
• High utilization of shared resources
Linux on z Systems provides security, availability, and
scalability to deploy and consolidate a variety of workloads
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Reinventing enterprise IT for digital business
Designed for data and transaction serving for the
mobile generation
Designed for integrating transactions and
analytics for insight at the point of impact
Designed for efficient and trusted
cloud services to transform the economics of IT
The trusted enterprise platform for
integrating Data, Transactions and Insight!
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