POWER7 Tech Talk
Presented to
Central PA Power Users Group
by
Domenic Simonetti
Solutions Architect
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May
2010
IBM Power Systems
Agenda
POWER7 Processor
POWER7 Servers
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POWER 750
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POWER 755
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POWER 770
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POWER 780
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POWER Blades
Performance/Competition
Active Memory Expansion
Related Announcements
Upgrades
Q&A
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IBM Power Systems
Customers are Moving to Higher Value
…as shown by the largest shift of customer spending in UNIX History
UNIX Server Rolling Four Quarter Average Revenue Share
POWER6
POWER5™
Live Partition
Mobility
Micro-Partitioning
POWER4™
Dynamic LPARs
Source: IDC Quarterly Server Tracker Q309 release, November 2009
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POWER7 System Highlights
Balance System Design
 Cache, Memory, and IO
POWER7 Processor Technology
 6th Implementation of multi-core design
 On chip L2 & L3 caches
POWER7 System Architecture
 Blades to High End offerings
 Enhances memory implementation
 PCIe, SAS / SATA
Built in Virtualization
 Memory Expansion
 VM Control
Green Technologies
 Processor Nap & Sleep Mode
 Memory Power Down support
 Aggressive Power Save / Capping Modes
Availability
 Processor Instruction Retry
 Alternate Process Recovery
 Concurrent Add & Services
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550
560
570/16
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IBM Power Systems
Power your Planet
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Workload-Optimizing Systems
AIX - the future of UNIX
Total integration with i
Scalable Linux ready
for x86 consolidation
Virtualization without Limits
 Drive over 90% utilization
Dynamic Energy Optimization
 70-90% energy cost reduction
 Dynamically scale per demand
 EnergyScale™ technologies
Resiliency without Downtime
 Roadmap to continuous
Management with
Automation
 VMControl to manage
availability
 High availability systems &
scaling
virtualization
 Automation to reduce task time
Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.
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POWER7 Processor
POWER7
Processor
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IBM Power Systems
IBM POWER Processor Roadmap
3 Year Revolution
18 month “+” evolution
POWER8
POWER7/7+
POWER6/6+
POWER5/5+
POWER4/4+
Hardware
Virtualization
First Dual Core for Unix & Linux
Dual Core & Quad Core Md
in Industry
Enhanced Scaling
 Dual Core
 Chip Multi Processing
 Distributed Switch
 Shared L2
 Dynamic LPARs (32)
180nm,
2001
2 Thread SMT
Distributed Switch +
Core Parallelism +
FP Performance +
Memory bandwidth +
130nm, 90nm
2004
Fastest
Processor
In Industry
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Dual Core
High Frequencies
Virtualization +
Memory Subsystem +
Altivec
Instruction Retry
Dyn Energy Mgmt
2 Thread SMT +
Protection Keys
65nm
2007
Most
POWERful &
Scalable
Processor in
Industry
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IBM is the leader
in Processor
and Server
design
4,6,8 Core
32MB On-Chip eDRAM
Power Optimized Cores
Mem Subsystem ++
4 Thread SMT++
Reliability +
VSM & VSX
Protection Keys+
45nm, 32nm
2010
Future
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IBM Power Systems
Transition from POWER6
POWER7
Cores:
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8 Intelligent Cores / chip (socket)
4 and 6 Intelligent Cores available on some models
12 execution units per core
Out of order execution
4 Way SMT per core
32 threads per chip
L1 – 32 KB I Cache / 32 KB D Cache per core
L2 – 256 KB per core
Chip:
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Core
L2
Core
L2
Core
L2
Core
L2
L3 Cache
eDRAM
 32MB Intelligent L3 Cache on chip
Memory:
 Dual DDR3 Controllers
 100 GB/s sustained Memory bandwidth / chip
Scalability:
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Up to 32 Sockets
360 GB/s peak SMP bandwidth / chip
590 GB/s peak I/O bandwidth / chip
Up to 20,000 coherent operations in flight
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L2
L2
L2
L2
Core
Core
Core
Core
Memory Interface
Energy:
 Aggressive processor Nap & Sleep modes
 10% “Over clock” when thermals are good
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Memory Channel Bandwidth Evolution
POWER5
POWER6
POWER7
Memory Performance:
2x DIMM
Memory Performance:
4x DIMM
Memory Performance:
6x DIMM
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DDR2 @ 553 MHz
Effective Bandwidth:
1.1 GB/s
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DDR2 @ 553 / 667 MHz
Effective Bandwidth:
2.6 GB/sec
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DDR3 @ 1066 MHz
Effective Bandwidth:
6.4 GB/sec
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IBM Power Systems
Multi-Threading Evolution
Single thread Out of Order
S80 HW Multi-thread
FX0
FX1
FP0
FP1
LS0
LS1
BR
CRL
X
FX0
FX1
FP0
FP1
LS0
LS1
BR
CRL
X
POWER5 2 Way SMT
POWER7 4 Way SMT
FX0
FX1
FP0
FP1
LS0
LS1
BR
CRL
X
FX0
FX1
FP0
FP1
LS0
LS1
BR
CRL
X
No Thread
Executing
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Thread 0
Executing
Thread 2
Executing
Thread 1
Executing
Thread 3
Executing
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IBM Power Systems
POWER7 TurboCore Mode
 TurboCore Chips: 4 available cores
Power POWER7
780 TurboCore
Chip Chip
 Aggregation of L3 Caches of unused cores.
 TurboCore chips have a 2X the L3 Cache
per Chip available
4 TurboCore Chips
L3 = 32 MB
 Performance gain over POWER6.
Provides up to 1.5X per core to core
P
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Core
Core
Core
Core
L2
L2
L2
L2
G
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32 MB
L3 Cache
 Chips run at higher frequency:
Power reduction of unused cores.
 With “Reboot”, System can be reconfigured
to 8 core mode.
ASM Menus
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L2
L2
L2
L2
Core
Core
Core
Core
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Memory Interface
TurboCores
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Unused
Core
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POWER7 Multi-Threading Options
TurboCore Option
50% of the available cores active
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3
2.5
2.5
2
2
1.5
1.5
1
1
0.5
0.5
0
0
SMT4
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Standard Option
All cores active
SMT2
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Single
SMT4
SMT2
Single
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POWER7
Servers
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Power Systems Portfolio
Power 780
Consistency
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Binary compatibility
Mainframe-inspired reliability
Advanced Virtualization
AIX, Linux and IBM i OS
Power 595
Power 770
Power 570
Complete flexibility for workload
Power 750
deployment
Power 550
Power 700
701 & 702
Power 520
JS Blades
Power 755
Power 575
HPC
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IBM Power Systems
Power is the Innovation that will Deliver Business Advantages
Leadership Performance and Energy Efficiency
 Industry leading performance with POWER7 processors
Power 750 Express: 1- to 4-socket; 6- or 8-cores per socket
 ENERGY STAR-qualified
Meets EPA guidelines for energy efficiency
 Workload-optimizing capabilities improve performance
Power 750 Express
Intelligent Threads optimization, Intelligent Cache sharing,
Active Memory Expansion and 320 virtual machines in 2010
 Intelligent Energy capabilities that balances
performance and efficiency:
Frequency boost for increased performance or reduction
during low demand for energy reduction
>3X increased performance per watt
 Ease of Ownership
Popular, ready to run ‘Edition’ configurations
Light Path Diagnostics
Customer Setup
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IBM Power Systems
Power 750 System
8233-E8B
4U
Depth: 28.8”
POWER7 Architecture
6 Cores @ 3.3 GHz
8 Cores @ 3. 0, 3.3, 3.55 GHz
Max: 4 Sockets
DDR3 Memory
Up to 512 GB
System Unit SAS SFF
Bays
Up to 8 Drives (HDD or SSD)
73 / 146 / 300GB @ 15k (2.4 TB)
(Opt: cache & RAID-5/6)
System Unit
IO Expansion Slots
PCIe x8: 3 Slots (2 shared)
PCI-X DDR: 2 Slots
1 GX+ & Opt 1 GX++ 12X cards
Integrated SAS / SATA
System Unit
Integrated Ports
3 USB, 2 Serial, 2 HMC
Integrated Virtual Ethernet
Quad 10/100/1000
Optional: Dual 10 Gb
System Unit Media Bays
1 Slim-line DVD & 1 Half Height
IO Drawers w/ PCI slots
PCIe = 4 Max: PCI-X = Max 8
Cluster
12X SDR / DDR (IB technology)
Redundant Power and
Cooling
Yes (AC or DC Power)
Single phase 240 VAC or -48 VDC
Certification (SoD)
NEBS / ETSI for harsh environments
EnergyScale
Active Thermal Power Management
Dynamic Energy Save & Capping
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IBM Power Systems
750 CPW & rPerf Details
6-core
POWER6
rPerf
3.3 GHz
#8335
CPW
rPerf
6-core
37200
70.07
12-core
69200
134.54
18-core
94900
193.40
24-core
135300
252.26
550 (8) 4.7Ghz
68.20
550 (8) 5.0GHz
78.60
560 (16) 3.6GHz
100.30
8-core
44600
81.24
570 (16) 4.4GHz
127.32
16-core
82600
155.99
570 (16) 5.0GHz
141.21
24-core
122500
224.23
595 (32) 4.2GHz
266.51
32-core
158300
292.47
595 (64) 4.2GHz
479.89
595 (32) 5.0GHz
307.12
8-core
47800
86.99
595 (64) 5.0GHz
553.01
16-core
88700
167.01
24-core
129700
140.08
32-core
168800
313.15
181000
331.06
8-core
8-core
3.0 GHz
3.3 GHz
#8334
#8332
8-core 3.55 GHz #8336
32-core
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Power 750 vs Power 550 / 560
Performance* / K BTU
Performance* / KW
70
180
160
60
140
50
120
100
40
80
30
60
20
40
20
> 406% Improvement
0
10
> 421% Improvement
0
Power 750
Power 550
Power 560
Power 750
Power 550
Power 560
* Calculated on rPerf, CPW results siimilar
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Power 755
4-Socket HPC System
Power 755
POWER7 Architecture
4 Processor Sockets = 32 Cores
8 Core @ 3.3 GHz
DDR3 Memory
128 GB / 256 GB, 32 DIMM Slots
System Unit
SAS SFF Bays
Up to 8 disk or SSD
73 / 146 / 300GB @ 15K (up to 2.4TB)
System Unit
Expansion
PCIe x8: 3 Slots (1 shared)
PCI-X DDR: 2 Slots
GX++ Bus
Integrated Ports
3 USB, 2 Serial, 2 HMC
Integrated Ethernet
Quad 1Gb Copper
(Opt: Dual 10Gb Copper or Fiber)
System Unit Media
Bay
1 DVD-RAM ( No supported tape bay )
Cluster
Up to 64 nodes
Ethernet or IB-DDR
Redundant Power
Yes (AC or DC Power)
Single phase 240vac or -48 VDC
Certifications (SoD)
NEBS / ETSI for harsh environments
EnergyScale
Active Thermal Power Management
Dynamic Energy Save & Capping
4U x 28.8” depth
Up to 8.4 TFlops per Rack
( 10 nodes per Rack )
5.3 / 6.1
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RHEL / SLES
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Power 755 vs. 750 Offering Structures
Feature
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750
755
Processors
32-core @ 3.3 GHz
8 / 16 / 24 / 32-core @ 3.55 GHz
6 / 12 / 18 / 24-core @ 3.3 GHz
8 / 16 / 24 / 32-core @ 3.0 GHz
Memory
128GB - 256GB
4GB & 8GB DIMMS
8 - 512GB
4GB, 8GB, 16GB DIMMS
GX slot support
Yes – IB clustering
Yes
I/O Drawer support
No
Yes
DASD Backplane
No Split Backplane
Split Backplane support
Integrated Ethernet
Quad GbE or Dual 10GbE
Quad GbE or Dual 10GbE
Virtualization
No PowerVM support
PowerVM Std and Ent
System unit SFF
Bays and drives
8 SFF SAS HDD / SDD
10k and 15K SFF drives
8 SFF SAS HDD / SDD
10k and 15K SFF drives
Optional Integrated RAID
Internal Tape
No
Yes
Performance Metric
TFLOPS
rPerf
Operating System
AIX, Linux
No H/W Raid Cards
AIX, IBM i, Linux
H/W Raid Cards
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Power 770
Power 770
Processor Technology
4U x 32 inches Depth
L3 Cache
Redundant Power &
Cooling
Redundant Server
Processor
Redundant Clock
Concurrent Add Support
Concurrent Service
System Unit
Processors
DDR3 Memory (Buffered)
SAS/SSD SFF Bays
DVD-RAM Media Bays
Maint Coverage: 9 x 5
SAS / SATA Controller
PCIe bays
GX++ Slots (12X DDR)
Integrated Ethernet
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6 Cores @ 3.55 GHz
8 Cores @ 3.1 GHz
USB
12X I/O Drawers w/ PCI
slots
On Chip
Yes
Yes / Two Enclosure minimum
Yes / Two Enclosure minimum
Yes
Yes
Single Enclosure
4 Enclosures
Up to 2 Sockets
8 Sockets
Up to 512 GB
6
1 Slim-line
2/1
6 PCIe
2
Std: Quad 1Gb
Opt: Dual 10Gb +
Dual 1 Gb
3
Max: 4 PCIe, 8 PCIX
Up to 2 TB
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4 Slim-line
8/4
24 PCIe
8
Std: Four Quad 1Gb
Opt: Four x Dual 10Gb +
Dual 1 Gb
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Max: 16© 2010
PCIe,
32 PCI-X
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IBM Power Systems
Power 780
Power 780
Processor Technology
L3 Cache
Yes
Redundant Server Processor
Yes / Two Enclosure minimum
System Unit
Processors
DDR3 Memory (Buffered)
PowerCare Support
SAS/SSD SFF Bays (CEC)
DVD-RAM Media Bays
SAS / SATA Controller
PCIe (CEC)
GX++ Slots (12X DDR)
Integrated Ethernet
USB
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Redundant Power & Cooling
Redundant Clock
Concurrent Add Support
Concurrent Service
Maint Coverage
24 X 7
4 Cores @ 4.14 GHz
8 Cores @ 3.86 GHz
On Chip
12X I/O Drawers w/ PCI slots
Yes / Two Enclosure minimum
Yes
Yes
Single Enclosure
4 Enclosures
2 Sockets
8 Sockets
Up to 512 GB
Up to 2 TB
6
1 Slim-line
2/1
6 PCIe
2
Std: Quad 1Gb
Opt: Dual 10Gb +
Dual 1 Gb
3
Max: 4 PCIe, 8 PCI-X
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4 Slim-line
8/4
24 PCIe
8
Std: Four Quad 1Gb
Opt: Four x Dual 10Gb +
Dual 1 Gb
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770 and 780 CPW & rPerf Details
770
POWER6
12-core 3.5 GHz
#4980
CPW
rPerf
12-core
73100
140.75
24-core
99000
261.19
rPerf
550 (8) 4.7Ghz
68.20
36-core
131050
377.28
550 (8) 5.0GHz
78.60
48-core
248550
493.37
560 (16) 3.6GHz
100.30
570 (16) 4.4GHz
127.32
16-core 3.1 GHz
#4981
570 (16) 5.0GHz
141.21
16-core
88800
165.30
595 (32) 4.2GHz
266.51
32-core
155850
306.74
595 (64) 4.2GHz
479.89
48-core
229800
443.06
595 (32) 5.0GHz
307.12
64-core
292700
579.39
595 (64) 5.0GHz
553.01
CPW
rPerf
16-core
105200
195.45
32-core
177400
362.70
48-core
265200
523.89
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64-core
343050
780
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3.86 GHz
#4982
780 TurboCore mode values not shown
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Power 770 & 780 vs Power 570 Differences
Power 570
Up to 8 sockets, Up to 32 Cores
Up to 8 Sockets, Up to 64 cores
Up to 768 GB Memory
Up to 2 TB Memory ( Initial GA will be 1 TB)
DDR2 DIMMS
DDR3 DIMMS
Six 3.5” SAS Bays / Enclosure
Six SFF SAS Bays / Enclosure
4 PCIe & 2 PCI-X slots per Enclosure
6 PCIe slots per Enclosure
No write cache or RAID-5/6 support
Write cache & RAID-5/6 support
Single integrated DASD / Media Cntlr
Three integrated DASD / Media Controllers
Optional Split Backplane
No Power & Management Thermal
Clock Cold Failover
ECC with bit steer
Concurrent Drawer Maint restrictions
Concurrent Drawer Add cable restrictions
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Standard Split backplane
Optional Tri-Split Backplane
Power & Thermal management
TPMD support
Clock Hot Failover
ECC with DRAM sparing
No Restrictions ( 4Q / 2010 )
No Restrictions
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IBM Power Systems Comparisons
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Power 750
Power 770
Power 780
Power 595
Nodes
One
Up to four
Up to four
Up to eight
Cores (single system
image)
6, 12, 18, 24 or
8, 16, 24, 32
4 – 64
4 – 64
8 – 64
Upgradeable to 256
Frequency
3.0, 3.3, 3.55 GHz
3.1, 3.5 GHz
3.8, 4.1 GHz
4.2, 5.0 GHz
SMP buses
4 byte
8 byte
8 byte
8 byte
System memory
Up to 512 GB
Up to 2 TB*
Up to 2 TB*
Up to 4 TB
Memory per core
16 or 21 GB
32 or 42 GB
32 or 64 GB
64 GB
Memory Bandwidth
(peak)
273 GB/s
1088 GB/s
1088 GB/s
1376 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
per core (peak)
8.5 GB/s
17 or 22 GB/s
17 or 34 GB/s
21.5 GB/s
Memory controllers
1 per processor
2 per processor
2 per processor
2 per processor
I/O Bandwidth (peak)
30 GB/s
236 GB/s
236 GB/s
640 GB/s
I/O Bandwidth per
core (peak)
0.9GB/s
3.6 or 4.9 GB/s
3.6 or 7.3 GB/s
10 GB/s
I/O loops
Up to 2
Up to 8
Up to 8
Up to 32
Total disk drives
Up to 576
Up to 1200
Up to 1200
Up to 2640
rPerf per core
Up to 11
Up to 11
Up to 13
Up to 10.8
Maximum LPARs
Up to 320*
RAS
Standard
Up to 640*
Enhanced Memory
Dynamic FSP &
clocks
Up to 640*
Enhanced Memory
Dynamic FSP &
clocks
Up to 254
Enhanced Memory
Dynamic FSP &
clocks
Warranty
9x5
9x5
24 x 7
24 x 7
PowerCare
Power
your planet.
No
No
Yes
* Planned availability in 4Q 2010
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Standard
Optional
Not available
Move Up to Enterprise Class RAS
RAS Item
Power 750
Power 770
Power 780
Redundant / Hot Swap Fans & Blowers
Hot Swap DASD / Media / PCI Adapters
Concurrent Firmware Update
Redundant / Hot Swap Power Supplies
Dual disk controllers (split backplane)
Processor Instruction Retry
Alternate Processor Recovery
Storage Keys
PowerVM™/Live Partition Mobility/Live Application Mobility
Redundant Service Processors
*
*
Redundant System Clocks
*
*
Hot-node Add / Cold-node Repair
*
*
Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add
*
*
Dynamic Service Processor and System Clock Failover
*
*
Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add for all nodes**
*
*
Redundant / Hot Swap Power Regulators
Dynamic Processor Sparing
Memory Sparing
Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair
POWER7 Enhanced Memory
Hot GX Adapter Repair
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** Planned for 4Q 2010
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IBM Power Systems
POWER7 systems are over twice as good as POWER6 systems!

Twice the performance:
Power 780 32-core performance per core is over twice
the Power 570 32-core

Twice the scaling:
Power 770 and 780 both offer twice the number of cores
as the largest Power 570

Twice the capacity:
Power 770 and 780 offer more than twice (~3 times) the
throughput of the largest Power 570

Twice the memory:
- Over twice the physical memory of the Power 570
- Active Memory ExpansionTM enables up to twice the
effective memory compared to what is physically
installed

Twice the energy efficiency:
Power 770 & 780 offer over twice the performance per
watt (up to 3 times) than the most efficient Power 570

Twice the cores for the same price:
Buy twice the cores with the Power 770 and pay less
than a comparable POWER6 based Power 570
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POWER7
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PS700/701/702
POWER7 Architecture
4 Cores @ 3.0 GHz PS700
8 Cores @ 3.0GHz PS701
16 Cores @ 3.0GHz PS702
DDR3 Memory
64GB/128GB/256GB
PS700/PS701/PS702
Internal Disk
0-2 SFF DASD
PCIe Slots
2/2/4
Integrated SAS / SATA
Yes
System Unit
Integrated Ports
3 USB, 2 Serial, 2 HMC
Integrated Virtual Ethernet
Quad Gigabit
Optional: Dual 10 Gb
EnergyScale
Active Thermal Power Management
Dynamic Energy Save & Capping
Description
rPerf
CPW
8406-70Y PS700 4-cores 3.0GHz
45.13
21,000
8406-71Y PS701 8-cores 3.0GHz
81.24
42,000
8406-72Y PS702 16-cores 3.0GHz
154.36
76,300
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IBM Power Systems
IBM BladeCenter PS700/701/702 Express
Smart BladeCenter Solutions with Power Blades
• Performance and Energy Efficiency
• Smart choices to minimize complexity, improve efficiency and scale easily
• Single-wide 4 or 8-core or Double-wide 16-core
• Elegantly simple scalability
• Intelligent Threads
• Utilizes more threads when workloads benefit
• Intelligent energy optimization with EnergyScale Technology
• Boosts frequency for more performance
• High Performance Computing acceleration (AltiVec SIMD acceleration)
• Execute up to eight single-precision or double-precision floating point operations
 4, 8 or 16 cores
per clock cycle per core
 Single or Double Wide
• Flexibility and Choice
 3.0GHz POWER7
• Supports AIX, i and Linux operating systems
 Up to 256GB of Memory
• Consolidate all three on a single platform
• Supports multiple BladeCenter chassis
• Investment Protection
• IBM BladeCenter's innovative, open design with support for Open Fabric Manager
What’s your
requirement?
 Highly Virtualized environments with demanding Commercial workload performance
 Infrastructure Consolidation and Application Serving
 Replace traditional rack & tower based servers with blades
.
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IBM Power Systems
New Power Blades are better
than Sun CMT blades in
every important performance
category
Relative Performance
5.00
4.00
3.00
2.00
1.00
0.00
Specjbb2005
Power 702
 2.4x to >3.0x better performance per blade, per
core, and per socket
 2.2x to >3.9x better performance per rack unit
SPECint_rate2006
Sun T6340
Relative Performance Density
4.00
3.00
 1.6x to 3.0x better performance per Watt
2.00
1.00
0.00
Specjbb2005
Power 702
SPECint_rate2006
Sun T6340
Relative Energy Efficiency
3.00
2.50
2.00
1.50
1.00
0.50
0.00
Specjbb2005
See substantiation chart for sources & benchmark detail
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Power 702
SPECint_rate2006
Sun T6340
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IBM Power Systems
Power Blades run faster and cost less than other
UNIX blades
Reinforces why Power Blades are the most popular blades for UNIX
2 socket blade performance comparison
POWER7 based blades vs Itanium 9300 based blades
 Comparison to HP BL860c i2
– PS702 has > 3X performance
600
500
400
300
200
– PS702 P/P is even better
100
0
SPECint_rate2006
SPECfp_rate2006
PS702
BL660c i2
Estimated HW Price/Performance for benchmark configurations
Lower is better
The Intel Itanium is tottering towards death, analyst
reckons
C Shanti | Thu 26th Nov 2009, 10:56 am
http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/44828-the-intelitanium-is-tottering-towards-death-analyst-reckons
A report from senior analyst Jon Peddie suggests that Intel's 64
bit flagship microprocessor, the Itanium, is dead in the water.
300
200
100
0
So is it a turkey?
SPECint_rate2006
SPECfp_rate2006
PS702 BL660c i2
See substantiation chart for sources & benchmark detail
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IBM Power Systems
IBM Power Blades Deliver Lower TCA than HP x86 blade solution
At equal capacity for a full BladeCenter H Chassis with 7 two socket (16-core)
PS702 blades compared to a full HP C7000 Blade Chassis with 16 two socket (12core) HP BL460c G6 blades leveraging the higher utilization and virtualization
efficiency capabilities of Power Blades.
39% lower TCA with 56% less blades
HP Solution
IBM Solution
US$347,271
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US$213,053
See Lower TCA chart for sources and substantiation
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IBM Power Systems
BladeCenter PS Blade Overview
Enhances most popular blades for UNIX* with 3 New Offerings!
IBM BladeCenter PS700 Express
IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express
IBM BladeCenter PS702 Express
POWER7
4-Core (1 Socket x 4 Cores per blade)
Single Wide
POWER7
8-core (1 Socket x 8 Cores per blade)
Single Wide
POWER7
16-core (1 Socket x 8 Cores per blade)
Double Wide
4GB to 64GB DDR3 (Chipkill)
4GB@1066MHz, 8GB@800MHz
4GB to 128GB DDR3 (Chipkill)
4GB@1066MHz, 8GB@800MHz
4GB to 256GB DDR3 (Chipkill)
4GB@1066MHz, 8GB@800MHz
0-2 SAS disk
0-1 SAS disk
0-2 SAS disk
1 PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card
1 PCI-E CFFh ExpansionCard
1 PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card
1 PCI-E CFFh ExpansionCard
2 PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card
2 PCI-E CFFh ExpansionCard
Integrated Features
Keyboard, Video and Mouse
Dual Port 1Gb Ethernet
SAS Controller
USB
Keyboard, Video and Mouse
Dual Port 1Gb Ethernet
SAS Controller
USB
Keyboard, Video and Mouse
Quad Port 1Gb Ethernet
SAS Controller
USB
Scalability Support
No
Yes – Factory or Customer Upgrade
Yes – Factory or Customer Upgrade
Fibre Support
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Redundant Power
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Redundant Cooling
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)
Service Processor
FSP1 (IPMI, SOL)
FSP1 (IPMI, SOL)
FSP1 (IPMI, SOL)
IBM PowerVM (optional Editions)
IBM PowerVM (optional Editions)
IBM PowerVM (optional Editions)
IBM Director and CSM
IBM EnergyScale Technology
IBM Director and CSM
IBM EnergyScale Technology
IBM Director and CSM
IBM EnergyScale Technology
AIX, i, Linux
AIX, i, Linux
AIX, i, Linux
BCE, BCH*, BCHT, BCT, BCS*
BCH*, BCHT, BCS*
BCH*, BCHT, BCS*
* In Power Systems Channel
* In Power Systems Channel
* In Power Systems Channel
Architecture
Memory
DASD / Bays
Expansion Card Slots
Virtualization
Systems Management
OS Support
BladeCenter Chassis
Support
* IDC 4Q2009 Server Tracker RISC/Itanium blades
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IBM Power Systems
Performance &
Virtualization
versus the
competition
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IBM Power Systems
Power Systems Virtualization for Oracle
– Tier Consolidation & Virtualization –
Dynamically Resizable
6
Cores
3
24 3
Cores
CoresCores
8
Cores
11Core
Cores
Virtual
I/O
CUoD
Server
Partition
Int Virt
Linux
Manager
PowerVM’s
Oracle10g
Oracle11g
Oracle 11g
AIX
V5.3
Linux
Oracle 9i
Tier Consolidation
AIX
V5.3
Oracle9i
Oracle 10g
Oracle 10g
Linux
Oracle 10g
Storage
Sharing
Ethernet
Sharing
8
Cores
Oracle 11g
Server
Partition
Int Virt
Linux
Manager
16
Cores
PowerVM’s
WebSphere
WebSphere
WebSphere
WebSphere
WebSphere
1 Core
Cores
Virtual
I/O
Storage
Sharing
Ethernet
Sharing
Virtual LAN
POWER Hypervisor
ISV Pricing on Power 64 core system
Network
Oracle EE: 38 cores
WebSphere: 1920 PVUs
Do not pay for VIO server or CUoD cores
Power your planet.
Network
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Virtual Network WebSphere to Oracle works at memory speeds
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IBM Power Systems
Live Partition Mobility On Oracle Workloads
Reduce impact of planned outages, relocate workloads to enable growth, provision new
technology with no disruption to service
LPAR-1 LPAR-2
LPAR-3 LPAR-4
VIOS
VIOS
Migration
Controller
Migration
Controller
Oracle
P
P
P
Oracle
Def 1
P
P P P
LPAR-1 LPAR-2 LPAR-3 LPAR-4
P P P
P P
Def 2
P P P
Def 3
AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel
Def 4
P
P
P PP PP
P P P
PP PP PP
P P P
AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Ethernet
Partition Mobility Requires:
• POWER6
• AIX 5.3 / 6.1 or Linux
• All resources must be “Virtualized”
•No real resources
• SAN storage environment
•SAN Boot, temp space, same network
Power your planet.
SAN
Boot
Data
Partition Mobility Steps
Validation
Copy memory pages
Host to target systems
Transfer
Turn off Host resources
Activate Target resources
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The number of Oracle licenses needed does not change before and after the migration
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IBM Power Systems
Customer Shared Pool
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IBM Power Systems
More SAP performance than any 8-socket system in the
industry
Comparable to a 128-core, 32-socket Sun M9000
15,600
SAP users on SAP SD 2 Tier
Power 750 Express with DB2
8-core
Sun Fire X4270
Xeon 5500
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48-core 48-core
24-core
32-core
32-core
128-core
HP DL585 Sun T5440 Power 750 HP DL785 Sun x4640 Sun M9000
AMD
AMD
AMD
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2-sockets
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4-sockets
8-sockets
Best SAP 2-Tier Results for 2, 4 , 8 and 16 sockets.
See SAP Benchmarks chart for detail or SAP website
http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx
32-sockets
IBM Power Systems
The most energy efficient 4-socket system on the planet
The first Energy Star certified RISC system
Power 750
Most energy efficient systems
Performance Per Watt
Itanium
HP rx6600
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SPARC Sun
T5440
x86
POWER7
HP DL585 Power 750
with PowerVM
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IBM Power Systems
Power 750 Delivers Superior Performance than HP Integrity
Entry, Midrange and High End Servers
• More than 10X performance than 4-socket HP Integrity rx6600
server
• 28% better performance than 64-core HP Integrity Superdome
IBM Power 750 Express
Performance
32 cores
64 cores
32 cores
8 cores
Power 750 HP rx6600
Power your planet.
16 cores
HP rx7640 HP rx8640
HP
Superdome
© 2010 IBM Corporation
See Power 750 Performance and Efficiency compared to HP Integrity servers for substantiation detail.
Source: SPECiint_rate2006. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org.
IBM Power Systems
POWER7 means more SAP Throughput
 SD 2-Tier ERP tests* show on Power 750 show new levels of
throughput
– Over 7X better per processor throughput than Sun SPARC M9000
– Over 3X better per processor throughput than Sun SPARC T5440
– Over 3X better per processor throughput than HP ProLiant DL585 G6
IBM Power 750 Express
– Over 2X better per processor throughput than Sun X4270
Users per processor/socket
Benchmark
4000
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Pow er 750
SUN M9000
SUN x4270
HP DL585 G6
SUN T5440
3900
3900
272
Power 750
SUN M9000
1180
SUN T5440
1900
SUN x4270
1166
HP DL585 G6
S1
*IBM Power 750 certification number not available at press time and can be found at sap.com/benchmarks. IBM Power System 750, 4p / 32–c / 128 – t, POWER7, 3.55 GHz, 256 GB memory, 15,600
SD users, dialog resp.: 0.98s, line items/hour: 1,704,330, Dialog steps/hour: 5,113,000, SAPS: 85,220, DB time (dialog/ update):0.015s / 0.028s, CPU utilization: 99%, OS: AIX 6.1, DB2 9.7: SUN
M9000 32p / 128-c / 256-t, 1024 GB memory, 17430 SD users, SPARC VII QC, 2.88 GHz, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, cert#: 2009038; SUN T5540, 4p / 32-c / 256 –t, 256 GB memory, 4720 SD users,
UltraSPARC T2 plus OC, 1.6 GHz, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g , cert# 2009026-1; SUN X4270, 2p / 8-c / 16-t, 256 GB memory, 3800 SD users, Xeon X5570 QC, 2.93 GHz, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, cert#:
2009033, HP DL585 G6, 4p / 24-c / 24-t, 64 GB memory, 4665 SD users, AMD Opteron 8439 SE, 2.8 GHz, Windows Server 2008 EE, , SQL Server 2008, cert#: 2009025. All results are 2-tier, SAP EHP
4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode) and valid as of 2/9/2010.
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IBM Power Systems
Consolidate HP Integrity rx7640 and 71 Proliant DL380 G5
Linux Servers onto One Power 750 server




Utilize 3% of the previous energy
97% less space – 3+ racks to one Power 750
552 fewer cores reducing per core s/w licensing
Dramatically reduce network and power cabling complexity
HP Integrity rx7640
• 1.6GHz; 10U
• 2,128W
• SPECint_rate2006: 201
IBM Power 750 Express
71 X HP Proliant DL380 G5
• 3.0Ghz; 2U X 62 servers
• 1,193W; Total = 110,949W
• SPECint_rate2006: 36.2
Power your planet.
 3.55 GHz; 4U
 1,950W
 SPECint_rate2006: 1060
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IBM Power Systems
IBM Power 780 Delivers Performance with Efficiency
780 delivers over 3X the performance per core of HP Superdome and Sun M9000
780 delivers over 5.8X the performance per watt of HP Superdome and Sun
M9000
Performance Per Core
HP
Superdome
Sun
M9000
POWER6
Performance Per Watt
POWER7
HP
Superdome
Sun
M9000
POWER6
POWER7
System
Chip/Core/Thread
Date
SPECint_rate2006
Per core
Maximum energy
requirement
(WATTs)
Per KWatt
IBM Power 780 (3.8 GHz POWER7)
8/64/256
February 2010
2530
39.5
6,400
395
IBM Power 570 (4.2 GHz POWER6)
16/32/64
October 2008
832
26
5,600
148
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000
64/256/512
October 2009
2586
10.1
44,800
58
HP Integrity Superdome (1.6 GHz Itanium 2)
64/128/128
September 2006
1648
12.875
24,392
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Source: http://www.spec.org IBM results available at announcement. All other results as of 01/27/10. Not all results listed. Performance per KWatt is calculated by dividing the performance by the recommended maximum
power usage for site planning. This defines the requirement for the power infrastructure. Actual power used by the systems will be less than this value for all of the systems. For HP systems, this information is contained in the
QuickSpecs available through www.hp.com. For Sun systems, this information is available through the respective Site Planning Guides available through www.sun.com.
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IBM Power Systems
Power 750 Express delivers Best of Breed
eBS R12 Order To Cash performance
Delivers the best eBS R12 Order to Cash Medium 2-tier result.
Surpasses 55XX per system, per processor and per core results IBM Power 750 Express
64% higher per core and 23% overall against Nehalem 55XX
8-core system.
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Template Documentation
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All results use Oracle eBS R12 RUP 4 Payroll Batch Medium Kit and are current as of 2/8/2010. For more information go to http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/results.html
IBM Power Systems
Power 750 Express delivers Best of Breed
eBS R12 Payroll performance
IBM Power 750 Express
Delivers the best eBS R12 Payroll Medium 2-tier result
- Surpasses HP per system, per processor and per core
6 core Power 750 out performs HP’s 8 core DL380 G6
- 49% higher per core and 12% overall
Oracle eBS R12 Payroll Batch
257,143
250,000
229,885
IBM 750 6-core
HP DL380-G6 8-core
198,020
200,000
checks per hour
257,143
HP DL380-G5 8-core
150,000
114,943
100,000
78,534
42,857
50,000
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28,736
19,634
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0
System Performance
per processor
Template Documentation
per core
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IBM Power Systems
POWER Runs Virtualized Every Time, All the Time
• All Power systems run virtualized all
the time
• VMWare overhead is up to 20%
running OLTP applications
VMWare overhead
5
4
3
2
1
0
2 virtual cpu's
4 virtual cpu's
ESX
8 virtual cpu's
Native
Source: Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware®
vSphere™ a vailable at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_ESX40_Oracle-TPC-Ceval.pdf as of August 21, 2009
Relative virtualized performance per core
Database
SAP 2-tier SD
Power 780 TurboCore
Power your planet.
Integer
Power 750
Xeon 5500
Fltg Pt
Xeon 7400
© 2010 IBM Corporation
Run in a virtualized environment & the POWER
advantage grows!
IBM Power Systems
OverPOWERing Nehalem
More scalability
Up to 64 lightning fast cores
Avoid scaleout overhead
More performance per socket
Up to eight lightning fast cores
More performance per core
Lightning fast cores
More systems infrastructure – especially in
TurboCore mode
Up to 3.5 X the memory per core
Up to 7 X the memory bandwidth per core
Up to 3.5 X the L2 + L3 cache per core
Less virtualization overhead
Power your planet.
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IBM Power Systems
TPC-C POWER7 vs. Competition (per core results)
160000
140000
120000
POWER7
Nehalem-EX
Nehalem-EP
Itanium/2
Opteron
SPARC(Niagara)
100000
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
TPC-C/Core
Power your planet.
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www.tpc.org
IBM Power Systems
Active Memory
Expansion
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IBM Power Systems
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IBM Power Systems
Act Mem Exp – Turning a Partition On or Off
With HMC, check Active Memory
Expansion box and enter
true and max memory
memory expansion factor
To turn off expansion, unclick box
Partition IPL required to turn on or
off
Active Memory Expansion Modeled Statistics:
----------------------Modeled Expanded Memory Size :
8.00 GB
Expansion
Factor
--------1.21
1.31
1.41
1.51
1.61
True Memory
Modeled Size
-------------6.75 GB
6.25 GB
5.75 GB
5.50 GB
5.00 GB
Modeled Memory
Gain
----------------1.25 GB [ 19%]
1.75 GB [ 28%]
2.25 GB [ 39%]
2.50 GB [ 45%]
3.00 GB [ 60%]
CPU Usage
Estimate
----------0.00
0.20
0.35
0.58
1.46
Active Memory Expansion Recommendation:
--------------------The recommended AME configuration for this workload is to configure
the LPAR with a memory size of 5.50 GB and to configure a memory
expansion factor of 1.51. This will result in a memory expansion
of 45% from the LPAR's current memory size. With this
configuration, the estimated CPU usage due to Active Memory
Expansion is approximately 0.58 physical processors, and the
estimated overall peak CPU resource required for the LPAR is 3.72
physical processors.
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8.0 max
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IBM Power Systems
Sample SAP ERP Workload Test Results Details at
Constant Throughput: Single Partition (DB + AppServer)
12%
27%
46%
73%
111% 171%
True GB
14.25 12.70 11.25 9.75
8.25
6.75
5.25
Gained
GB
0
6.0
7.50
9.0
Total GB
14.25 14.25 14.25 14.25 14.25 14.25 14.25
1.55
3.0
4.50
Test configs held total memory constant at
14.25 GB, varying mix of real and gained
memory. Number cores constant at 4 cores.
Throughput
10 5 .0 0
Throughput (% Nominal)
% Expand 0%
10 0 .0 0
9 5 .0 0
9 0 .0 0
8 5 .0 0
8 0 .0 0
7 5 .0 0
0%
CPU Utilization
75% more memory for
1% additional CPU
60
60
61
61
61
46%
73%
111%
17 1%
Response Time
75
1.0
Response Time (s)
80
27%
Mem ory Expansion (%)
93
61
40
20
Minimal impact to response
time at 111% expansion
0 .8
0 .6
0 .4
0 .2
0 .0
0%
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12 %
111% more memory for
15% additional CPU
100
CPU Utilization (%)
No Impact on throughput at
111% memory expansion
12 %
27%
46%
73%
111%
17 1%
Mem ory Expansion (%)
0
Power your planet.
0%
12%
27%
46%
73%
Memory Expansion (%)
111%
171%
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Your results will vary depending on compressibility of
the data and available CPU resource
IBM Power Systems
Sample SAP ERP Workload, Single Partition
(DataBase + AppServer)
Without Active Memory Expansion
With Active Memory Expansion
Partition utilization
Partition utilization
 Memory: 100% (18 GB true)
 CPU: 88% (12 cores in LPAR) Note: Most of
 Memory: 100% (18 GB)
 CPU: 46% (12 cores in LPAR)
the CPU increase is due to additional work done on
server
Memory capacity is the bottle-neck
 CPU is under-utilized
 Handles 1000 simulated users
Higher throughput enabled with the same
amount of physical memory
 Gain 37% memory capacity
 Handles 1700 simulated users
Max Partition throughput: 99 tps
12-core POWER7 partition
18 GB Memory
18 GB true
.
0 GB expanded
+ 65%
Max Partition Throughput: 166 tps
12-core POWER7 partition
24.7 GB Memory
18 GB true
.
6.7 GB expanded
Expanded Memory
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Note: This is an illustrative scenario based on using a sample workload. This data
represents measured results in a controlled lab environment. Your results may vary.
IBM Power Systems
Active Memory Expansion – Client Deployment Steps
3
Planning Tool
60-Day Trial
Deploy into Production
A. One-time,
temporarily
enablement
B. Config LPAR based
on planning tool
C. Use AIX tools to
monitor Act Mem
Exp environment
D. Tune based on
actual results
A. Permanently enable
Active Memory
Expansion
B. Deploy workload into
production
C. Continue to monitor
workload using AIX
performance tools
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Estimated Results
Actual Results
App. Performance
CPU Utilization
A. Part of AIX 6.1 TL4
B. Calculates data
compressibility &
estimates CPU
overhead due to
Active Memory
Expansion
C. Provides initial
recommendations
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Memory Expansion
Memory Expansion
Performance
2
CPU Utilization
1
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Memory Expansion
Time
IBM Power Systems
POWER7
Related
Announcements
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IBM Power Systems
POWER7 Virtualization Support
Maintain 1 to 10 ratio for Physical cores to LPARs
 Power 750
 Power 755
 Power 770 / 78:
Up to 160 (320) LPARS
Not Supported
Up to 160 (640) LPARs
Active Memory Expansion
 Active Memory Expansion compresses in-memory data to fit more data
into memory
 Increases the effective amount of memory capacity for AIX partitions
 Managed by the OS and hypervisor
 OS compresses and decompress data based on memory accesses
 Is transparent to applications
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IBM Power Systems
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IBM Power Systems
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IBM Power Systems
AIX 6 Editions
AIX 6 is available in three different editions:
AIX 6 Standard Edition
Suitable for most UNIX workloads
Vertical scalability up to 64 cores
AIX 6 Enterprise Edition
AIX plus enterprise management
Includes AIX 6 Standard Edition plus
Systems Director Enterprise Edition and
the Workload Partitions Manager for AIX
Vertical scalability up to 64 cores
AIX Enterprise
Edition
AIX Standard
Edition
AIX 6 Express Edition
Lower priced edition targeted a low end servers and
AIX Express
Edition
consolidation of smaller workloads on larger servers
Includes all the functionality of AIX 6 Standard Edition
Vertical scalability is limited to 4 cores and 8GB of memory per core in a single
partition
Clients can use multiple AIX Express Edition partitions in a single larger server
Clients can mix multiple AIX editions in the same server
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Note: AIX V5.3 is only available in a Standard Edition
IBM Power Systems
AIX Enterprise Edition
AIX Enterprise Edition is a single offering that brings together AIX 6
with key service management capabilities that are designed to:
 Improve availability through access to relevant real-time information and
predictive monitoring to avoid future problems
 Enhance operational efficiency through visualization of resources and
centralized deployment and management of virtualized AIX environments
 Provide accurate assessment of system resource usage
AIX Enterprise Edition includes:
– AIX 6
– WPAR Manager V2.1
– Systems Director Enterprise Edition
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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IBM System Director 6.1.2
Active Energy Manager 4.2
VMControl 2.2 (including Image Management & System Pools)
Network Control 1.1
Transition Manager for HP® SIM
Service and Support Manager 6.1.2
IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.2
Agents: ITM for Energy Mgmt v6.2; VMControl Agent v2.2; Power System
Agents (CEC, AIX Premium, VIOS, HMC) v6.2.1; Systems Director Agent
TADDM v7.2
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IBM Power Systems
AIX Enterprise Edition Helps you Monitor and Repair
Power Server Systems
 Monitor resources to maintain system
availability
Platform and enterprise system monitoring
Proactive alerts
System pool monitoring
 Analyze system status to find the root cause of
problems more quickly
At-a-glance status of critical systems
Root cause analysis
Enhanced correlation
 Repair or prevent system faults to reduce
service downtime
Automated response and updates
Workload migration
Proactive notification
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IBM Power Systems
VMControl Editions: Added Value for PowerVM Clients
VMControl
Virtualization Capabilities
VMControl
Express Edition
Manage resources
VMControl
Standard Edition
VMControl
Enterprise Edition
Automate virtual images Optimize system pools
PowerVM
Create/manage virtual machines
(x86, PowerVM and z/VM)



Virtual machine relocation



Capture/import, create/remove
standardized virtual images


Deploy standard virtual images


Maintain virtual images in a
centralized library


Create/remove system pools and
manage resources in system pools

Add/remove physical servers
within system pools

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More Easily Migrate Linux x86 Applications to Power
Run x86 Linux applications on Power alongside
your AIX, i and Linux on Power applications
Simplifies migration of Linux x86 applications enabling customers
to realize the energy and administration savings of consolidation
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Run most existing 32-bit x86 Linux applications with no application changes
Included with the purchase of PowerVM Editions
POWER6 blades through Power 595; POWER7 servers – outlook 2Q2010
developerWorks download: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/pave/
PowerVM™ Lx86
PowerVM
x86
x86 Linux
x86
Linux App
Linux
App
App
Linux
Linux
Linux
x86 Platforms
x86 Platforms
x86 Platforms
Install and Run
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No Porting

No Recompile

No changes
x86
Linux
App
PowerVM
Lx86
POWER
Linux
Application
Linux
AIX
Application
i
Application
AIX
IBM i
Power Systems Platform
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2009 – 2011 AIX TL Roadmap
10/2009
04/2010
AIX 5.3
10/2010
04/2011
10/2011
POWER7 Hardware Support
TL8
TL9
TL10
SP
SP
TL11
TL11 SP
TL12
AIX 6.1
TL1
TL2
TL3
SP
SP
TL4
TL4
SP
TL5
TL6
TL7
TL8
TL0
SP
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POWER7 Support
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AIX 7.1
TL1
TL2
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Source for full survey on : http://iticcorp.com/blog/2009/07/itic-2009-global-serverhardware-server-os-reliability-survey-results/
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IBM i Roadmap
2008
2009
IBM i 6.1
IBM i 6.1.1
2010
2011
2012
IBM i 7.1
IBM i Next
SOD
Strategy of a major new release of IBM i every two years
IBM i
‘06
‘07
V5R
2
‘08
‘09
‘10
‘11
‘12
‘13
‘14
‘15
‘16
IBM i
Upgrade
paths
V5R
3
5.4*
6.1*
7.1*
Service
*The projected date for the service of IBM i releases is based on current IBM planning assumptions. Note that it is IBM’s current practice to support an IBM i release until the next two releases have been
made available, plus twenty four months. This slide contains information about IBM’s plans and directions. Such plans are subject to change without notice.
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Partition Mobility
POWER6
POWER6+
POWER7
Binary Compatibility between POWER6 and POWER7
Leverage POWER6 / POWER6+ Compatibility Mode
Migrate partitions between POWER6 and POWER7 Servers
 Forward and Backward
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New DAT320 Tape Drive
Up to
100%
more
Up to
70%
faster
Up to
50%
less
DAT160
baseline
DAT320
Capacity
DAT320
Speed
DAT320
Energy
Only
30%
more
DAT320
Price
Placed in POWER7 750 (or POWER6 520/550) CEC HH bay
Available 19 Feb for Power 750, and 16 March for Power 520/550
Reads/writes DAT160, but does not read/write DAT72
Requires AIX 5.3, IBM i 6.1, SUSE 10, Red Hat 4.8 (or later)
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Price ratio based on USA actual and projected suggested list prices as of Jan 2010 and are subject to change without notice; reseller prices may vary.
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POWER7
Upgrades
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POWER7 System Upgrades – You Can Get there.
Upgrades from POWER6 and POWER6+
All existing Power 570 systems can upgrade to POWER7
POWER6+ 570/32
4.2 GHz
Power 780
3.8 GHz / 4.1 GHz
POWER6+ 570
9179-MHB
4.4, 5.0 GHz
POWER6 570
Power 770
3.5 GHz
3.5, 4,2, 4.7 GHz
9117-MMA
9117-MMB
 POWER6 upgrades to POWER7
 POWER6+ upgrades to POWER7
 Power 570/32 upgrades to POWER7
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I/O Upgrade Considerations
All the newer IBM I/O drawers (12X), disk, SSD and PCI adapters used on
POWER6 supported on POWER7 servers
May need to move 3.5-inch SAS drives and PCI-X adapters
Older I/O on POWER6 servers, but not on POWER7 servers
RIO/HSL I/O drawers
SCSI disk smaller than 69GB or SCSI drives slower than 15k rpm
QIC tape drives
IOPs and IOP-based PCI adapters (IBM i)
2749, 5702, 5712, 2757, 5581, 5591, 2790, 5580, 5590, 5704, 5761, 2787, 5760,
4801, 4805, 3709, 4746, 4812, 4813
Older LAN adapters: #5707, 1984, 5718, 1981, 5719, 1982
Older SCSI adapters: #5776, 5583, 5777
Telephony adapter: #6412
See planning web page www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/sod2.html
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Power SODs for Upgrades
Definition “upgrade” as a model change keeping same serial number
Power 595
SOD issued in 2009 & augmented 2010
Power 570
SOD issued in 2009
Upgrades announced Feb 2010, shipping June 2010
Built on unified structure, 9406-MMA must first convert to 9117-MMA
Power 575 and 560 and 550
SODs not issued
Power 520
SOD issued February 2010 with plans to be delivered in 2010
For Power 520 (8203-E4A) 2-core or 4-core servers
Insight: POWER5 520 to POWER6 520 upgrades did not have savings in the
hardware. Client savings were in easy license transfer (including IBM i),
documented upgrade procedures for upgrading, and perhaps easier
leasing/depreciation structure continuation
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All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
IBM
IBM Power
Power Systems
Systems
POWER7 High-End Statement of Direction
 IBM plans to deliver a new high-end server in 2010 with up
to 256 POWER7 processor cores
 Designed to operate within the same physical footprint and
energy envelope of the current 64-core Power 595 server.
 High-Voltage DC Power option
 IBM also plans to provide an upgrade path from the current
IBM Power 595 server with 12X I/O to the new POWER7
high-end server.
 Enterprises with multiple systems leveraging PowerVM Live
Partition Mobility may use this function to maintain
application availability during the upgrade process.
All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change
or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
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Power Solid State Drives (SSD) Update
Feb 2010
SSD support in Power 750, 755, 770, 780 system units
Dec 2009
HUGE price action
48% price reduction (plus 30% maintenance reduction)
Aligned SSD with memory price reduction
Some countries deferred price action to 2010
48%
Oct/Nov 2009
“Enterprise class vs. consumer SSD” white paper
IBM i analysis tool
SSD configuration & performance enhancements
AIX analysis paper by Dan Braden
#1 SCP-1 benchmark - 595 + 84 SSD
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