IBM BladeCenter® QS21
August 29th, 2007
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Contents
 Cell/B.E.™ technology is gaining traction
 The Cell/B.E. processor
 IBM BladeCenter QS21 and SDK 3.0
 Industries and workloads
 Other offerings
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From chip to production-ready system in 2 years
Cell/B.E. solutions for High Performance Computing
Cell/B.E. technology is gaining market acceptance
SDK 2.0 (beta)
SDK 1.1 (beta)
SDK 1.0 (beta)
• Linux® OS
• C compiler
Revealed first
Cell/B.E.
specs
Announced
commercialization of IBM
Cell/B.E. system
BladeCenter QS21
and
IBM SDK for
Multicore
Acceleration 3.0
announced
Introduced the first
Cell/B.E. based system
BladeCenter QS20
2007
2006
2005
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Announced
Cell/B.E.
processor
commercialization
with Sony
• GNU toolchain
• Performance
enhancements
• Linux® OS
• C compiler
• IDE
• Library
enhancements
• GNU toolchain
• Performance
enhancements
• Linux updates
• XL C/C++
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Building a Cell/B.E. ecosystem
 Customer solution enablement
– IBM is working with 24 customers to enable and optimize key applications for Cell/B.E. technology
– IBM is working with 30 ISVs/Partners to enable and optimize key products for Cell/B.E.
technology
 Tools and library enablement on Cell/B.E.
– Over 10 code libraries have been ported for Cell/B.E.
– Over 5 ISV products are running on Cell/B.E.
 Cell/B.E. advanced programmer education
– IBM has trained 1231 advanced programmers to take advantage of Cell/B.E. technology
– Including programmers from 210 ISVs
– Over 70 universities from around the world have signed on to learn and teach Cell/B.E.
programming concepts
RapidMind™ is a multi-core software platform that simplifies the
development of high-performing applications… Over 300 developers
are using RapidMind today to create applications for the Cell/B.E.
Processor
Michael McCool, RapidMind, Founder and Chief Scientist
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Cell/B.E. solutions offer breakthrough results
Industry
Application Area
Potential Business Breakthrough
Defense
Nuclear arsenal
stewardship
Can help provide dramatic reduction in
compute time and power consumption via Cell
B.E.-based hybrid computing system
Petroleum
exploration
Seismic migration
analysis
Order of magnitude improvement in analysis
fidelity has the potential to provide greater
accuracy and efficiency
Financial services
Options and
derivatives pricing
Enables fast decisions on financial market
trading actions to help you maintain a
sustained competitive advantage
… and many more:
Over 65 customers have installed IBM Cell/B.E. processor-based systems
*For more information about the “Roadrunner” hybrid supercomputer at Los
Alamos National Laboratory, read the press release here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20210.wss
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Cell/B.E. processor benefits
Cell Broadband Engine Architecture combines a general-purpose Power Architecture™ core of modest
performance with streamlined processing elements which greatly accelerates computationally intense
workloads such as analytics, multimedia and vector processing.
 Sets a new performance standard
– Supercomputer attributes with high performance floating point
capabilities
– Efficient computation per watt
– Outstanding bandwidth capability
 Designed for flexibility
– Wide variety of application domains
First Generation Cell/B.E. processor

90 nm
– Cell can cover a wide range of application space with its
capabilities in

241M transistors

235mm2
– floating point operations, integer operations
– data streaming / throughput support
– real-time support
– Exploits C/C++, Fortran programming models
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9 cores, 10 threads

>200 GFlops (SP)
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>20 GFlops (DP)
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Up to 25 GB/s memory B/W
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Up to 75 GB/s I/O B/W
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>300 GB/s EIB
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Top frequency >4GHz
 Enhanced security capability
– Virtual trusted computing environment for security
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(observed in lab)
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Cell/B.E. processor highlights
 Cell/B.E. is 64-bit Power ArchitectureTM
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Path for OS, legacy apps, and SW development
 Cell/B.E. is a streaming architecture
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128+ concurrent transactions to memory per
processor
 Cell/B.E. is an efficient architecture
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200+ GFlops (SP) for 85Watts
 Cell/B.E. is a real-time architecture
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Resource allocation, and replacement
management
 Cell/B.E. is a security-enabled
architecture
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SPUs individually programmable as secure
processors
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Cell/B.E. performance summary
The Cell/B.E processor with its PPU and 8 SPUs, can perform about an order of magnitude better than
traditional single-core GPPs for media and other applications that can take advantage of its SIMD capability
Type
Algorithm
3.2 GHz GPP ****
3.2 GHz Cell/B.E.
Processor
Comparison
Factor
HPC
Matrix Multiplication (S.P.)
22 Gflops* (3GHz Woodcrest)
200 GFlops* (8SPEs)
9x
Linpack (S.P.)
22 GFlops*** (3GHz Woodcrest)
156 GFlops* (8SPEs)
7x
Earthquake prediction
552 sec* (3GHz Woodcrest)
59 sec* (8 SPEs)
9x
Molecular Dynamics Sim.
318 sec* (3GHz Woodcrest)
32 sec* (8 SPEs)
10x
BlackScholes (S.P.)
9.3 MBOPS* (3GHz Woodcrest)
330 MBOPS* (8 SPEs)
35x
BlackScholes (D.P.)
8.5 MBOPS* (3GHz Woodcrest)
34.8 MBOPS* (8 SPEs)
4x
Medical Imaging
3D Image Reconstruction
98.7 sec* (3GHz Woodcrest)
5.47 sec* (8 SPEs)
18x
Graphics
Transform-light
170 MVPS* (G5/VMX)
256 MVPS* (per SPE)
12x
TRE
1 fps* (G5/VMX)
30 fps* (Cell/B.E.)
30x
AES encryp. 128-bit key
1.03 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)
2.06Gbps** (per SPE)
16x
AES decryp. 128-bit key
1.04 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)
1.5Gbps** (per SPE)
11x
TDES
0.12 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)
0.16 Gbps** (per SPE)
10x
DES
0.43 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)
0.49 Gbps** (per SPE)
9x
SHA-1
0.85 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)
1.98 Gbps** (per SPE)
18x
mpeg2 decoder (CIF)
mpeg2 decoder (SDTV)
mpeg2 decoder (HDTV)
---354 fps (3.2GHz Pentium4)
----
1267 fps* (per SPE)
365 fps** (per SPE)
73 fps* (per SPE)
-8x
--
FSS
Security
Video
processing
Notes: * Hardware measurement , ** Simulation results, *** assume Linpack efficiency same as MatMult **** code not optimized for multi-core or its SIMD
MBOPS: Million Blackscholes opertaions per sec; MVPS (Million Vertex per Sec); fps: frames per sec
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Cell/B.E. – performance summary
 Cell/B.E. performance is about an order of magnitude better than GPP for
media and certain applications that can take advantage of its SIMD capability
– Performance of its simple PPE is comparable to a traditional GPP performance
– Each SPE is able to perform mostly the same as, or better than, a GPP running at the same
frequency
– Key performance advantage comes from its eight de-coupled SPE engines with dedicated
resources including large register files and DMA channels
 Cell/B.E. can cover a wide range of application space with its capabilities in
–
–
–
–
Floating-point operations
Integer operations
Data streaming / throughput support
Real-time support
 Cell/B.E. micro-architecture features are exposed to not only its compilers
but also its applications
– Performance gains from tuning compilers and applications can be significant
– Tools/simulators are provided to assist in performance optimization efforts
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IBM BladeCenter QS21
 QS21 is the RIGHT choice for streaming
and/or single-precision floating point
workloads
– Signal processing, image processing
applications
 QS21 is OPEN – based on Power
Architecture and running Linux® OS
 QS21 is EASY to deploy and to integrate
into the existing IT infrastructure and/or
workloads:
– Co-exist and complement all other Blade
servers offerings (Intel®, AMD®, POWER®)
– Ready to scale out and deploy in production
environments
 QS21 is GREEN – 1.05 GFLOPS per
watt.
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IBM BladeCenter QS21
 Core electronics
– Dual 3.2GHz Cel/B.E. Processor Configuration
Memory
1GB
Memory
1GB
(18x XDR)
(18x XDR)
– 2GB XDRAM (1GB per processor)
Rambus XIO
– Dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) controllers
– Single-wide blade (uses 1 BladeCenter H slot)
Cell/
B.E.
– InfiniBand™ 4x channel adapters / (optional)
– Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand HCA Expansion
Card for BladeCenter (32R1760)
Rambus FlexIO ™
 BC Chassis Configuration
– Standard IBM BladeCenter H
– Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand Switch Module
for BladeCenter (32R1756)
PCI
4x
USB
2.0
 Peak performance
– Up to 460 GFLOPS per blade
– Up to 6.4 TFLOPS (peak) in a single BladeCenter
chassis
– Up to 25.7 TFLOPS in a standard 42U rack
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Flash, RTC
& NVRAM
South
Bridge
SPI
– Max. 14 QS21 per chassis
– External IB switches required for IB option
South
Bridge
DD
DD
RR
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USB to
BC-H mid plane
2 UART, SPI
PCI-X
PCI-E x16
PCI-E x8
HSC:
2x PCI-E
x16
HSDC
Optional IB
2 port
IB x4 HCA
IB-4x to
BC-H high speed
fabric/mid plane
2x
1GbE
Legacy Con
DD
DD
RR
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– Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) daughter card
(39Y9190) / (optional)
– 2 Gigabit Ethernet switches
Cell/
B.E.
GbE to
BC-H mid plane
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IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration and related tools
The IBM SDK is a complete tools package that simplifies programming on IBM BladeCenter QS 21
Eclipse™-based IDE
Simulator
IBM XL C/C++ compiler*
Optimized compiler for use in creating Cell/B.E. optimized applications. Offers:
* improved performance * automatic overlay support * SPE code generation
XLC compiler is
a
complementary
product to SDK
GNU tool chain
Performance
Tools
Libraries and frameworks
Accelerated
Library
Framework (ALF)
Data
Communication
and
Synchronization
(DaCS)
Basic Linear
Algebra
Subroutines (BLAS)
Standardized
SIMD math
libraries
*XL C/C++ compiler single source is available in beta, dual source is planned to GA on 10/19/07 with an announce on 10/16/07
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IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration value
 Designed to be highly reliable, simple
to acquire and easy to use
– Complete, integrated kit
– Production-ready tools from IBM
– IBM warranty and support
 Based on industry standards to ease
the transition to the Cell/B.E.
– Eclipse-based Integrated Development
Environment
– Standard, base libraries
– Third-party libraries can be plugged in
 Designed to make it easy to port and
optimize applications for the QS21
– Performance tuning tools to help optimize
algorithms without re-writing the entire
application
– Tools designed to help you partition an
application across a hybrid Cell/B.E. and x86
platform
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Optimize code for the
BladeCenter QS21 with the IBM
SDK for Multicore Acceleration
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SDK 3.0 capabilities and features
 Product-level tested
 Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.1*
support
 Platform support
 Programmer productivity – development
– Eclipse IDE plug-ins
– Dual source XLC , Dual Source XLF – Fortran (beta),
Single Source XLC (beta)
– QS21 – Production Support
– Cell/B.E. and Hybrid HPC software sample code
– Cell/B.E. Linux Enhancements
– Enhanced GNU toolchain support
– IPMI support
– I/O attached DDR2 Memory allocator /
mapper and swap-space support
– IBM PowerExecutive™ Support
– GNU Fortran for PPE & SPE
– GNU ADA (GNAT) for PPE
– gcc autovectorization and performance
enhancements
 Programmer productivity – performance  Programmer productivity - runtime
– Product Level ALF and DaCs for Cell/B.E.
tools
– VPA – Visual Performance Analyzer
– Hybrid DaCS/ALF (Prototype)
– PDT – Performance Debugging Tool
– Productization of combined ppe/spe gdb debugger
– PDT Reporter: Lock Analyzer & Trace Analysis
Tools
– SPE-side Software Managed Cache (from iRT
technology)
– CodeAnalyzer
 Market segment library enablement
– FDPR-Pro for Cell/B.E.
– Highly optimized libFFT (binary only)
– Hybrid Code Analyzer
– Highly optimized SIMD Math Libraries
– Hybrid System Performance and Tracing Facility
– Highly Optimized BLAS, Monte Carlo Random Number
Generator
– Cell/B.E. Security Technology (prototype/preview)
*Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 is scheduled for availability on 10/26/07
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Supported software
 OS Support
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1*
 Application Development and Enablement
– IBM SDK for Multi-core Acceleration
– IBM XL C/C++ compiler for PPU/SPU
 Links
– Cell/B.E. software website
– http://www.ibm.com/technology/cell/software.html
– Cell/B.E. resource center
– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/
– Cell/B.E. forum at developerWorks®
– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=739&cat=46
*Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 is scheduled for availability on 10/26/07
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Applications well-suited for Cell/B.E. systems
 Data Manipulation
 Floating-point Intensive Applications
– Digital media
– Image processing
 Pattern Matching
– Video processing
– Bioinformatics
– Visualization of output
– String manipulation (search engine)
– Compression / decompression
– Encryption / decryption
– DSP
– Audio processing, language translation
 Graphics
– Audio processing, language translation
– Filtering and pruning
 Offload Engines
– Transformation from different domains (time vs.
space; 2D vs. 3D, viewpoint transformation)
– TCP/IP
– Lighting
– XML
– Ray-tracing / ray-casting
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– Parsing, transformation, and translation (XSLT)
– Compiler for gaming applications
– Network security and intrusion
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Industry workloads well-suited to Cell/B.E. technology
EDA
Financial
markets
Seismic
A&D
Medical
Imaging
Digital Video Media &
Surveillance Entertainment
Focused Common Workload Characteristics/Requirements
Real-time Analytics
Processing of Data
Information Synthesis
Analysis
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Visualization
Presentation of Data
Modeling, Simulation,
Image processing, Rendering
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Digital content creation for digital media companies
Cell/B.E. solutions enable Media and Entertainment companies to produce the
next generation of animated feature films, games, and advertising content.
You need:
IBM solutions can help deliver:
– Speed to market
– Lower costs of production
– An open and flexible solution based on
standards
– Better visual effects
– Scalability and reliability
– More realistic simulation
– Lower total cost of ownership and
improved ROI
– Performance advantage
– 1080p Ray-traced images computed in ms.
– 1080p Ambient Occlusion images computed
in seconds.
– Image processing – up to 50x of GPP
Solution elements
Systems
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–
BladeCenter QS21
Cluster 1350
IBM IntelliStation®
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21
Storage
– IBM System Storage™ DS4000 family
– LTO™ tape drives, etc.
Software
– IBM SDK 3.0
– IBM iRT scalable real-time ray tracer
– RapidMind development tools
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Digital content creation for industrial sector
Cell/B.E. solutions enable automotive, aerospace, and consumer goods
companies to design next generation of products.
IBM solutions can help deliver:
You need:
– An open and flexible solution based on
standards
– Speed to market
– Lower costs of production
– Scalability and reliability
– Better visual effects
– Lower total cost of ownership and improved
ROI
– More realistic simulation
– Performance advantage
– 1080p Ray-traced images computed in ms.
– 1080p Ambient Occlusion images computed in
seconds.
– Image processing – up to 50x of GPP
Solution elements
Systems
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BladeCenter QS21
Cluster 1350
IntelliStation
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21
Storage
– DS4000 series, LTO, etc.
Software
– IBM SDK 3.0
– IBM iRT scalable real-time ray tracer
– RapidMind development tools
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Digital video surveillance
Cell/B.E. solutions deliver hardware and enablement for high-density, highly
scalable encoding, transcoding, and compositing for digital video surveillance.
You need:
IBM solutions can help deliver:
– Encoders for analog cameras
– H.264 encoding
– Transcoding to save storage and
network costs
– Complete solutions based on BladeCenter
– Decoding acceleration to reduce
workstation costs and improve
robustness
– Close ties to Tivoli and Storage
– Better management and scalability
– Network-based surveillance
– High-density encoder solution
– Performance advantage
– High density: 288 encoders/chassis
– H.264 encoding (up to 2.5X
advantage over MPEG2)
– Standard definition (4CIF)
– Up to 30 fps (full motion)
Solution elements
Systems
– BladeCenter QS21
– BladeCenter H Chassis
Storage
– DS4000 series, LTO, etc.
Software
– System x 3455, x3550
– IBM SDK 3.0
– Frame grabber cards and enclosures
– Codec libraries
– Video distribution software
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Financial markets
Cell/B.E. solutions enable companies to harness real-time market data and highperformance analytics, understand risk in real time and drive larger trade volumes.
You need:
IBM solutions can help deliver:
– To address massive growth in
computational requirements due to
complex new financial instruments
– To comply with regulatory demands
– To address power, space and cooling
challenges
– To support in-house code enabled by
– Manageable Hybrid infrastructure
– Low latency data / compute engine
– Excellent performance per Watt
– Financial algorithm acceleration and
typical functions
– Monte Carlo-based option pricing – up to
40x of GPP
– Math libraries
– Grid middleware
Solution elements
Systems
– BladeCenter QS21
– BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21
Software
– IBM SDK 3.0
– IBM DAV
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Services
– Systems integration
– GBS derivatives consulting
– HPC trading systems design
– Cell/B.E. Implementation
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Electronic design automation
Cell/B.E. solutions enable an efficient hybrid architecture to accelerate EDA
applications and reduce total cost of ownership
You need:
IBM solutions can help deliver:
– Shorter production run times
– Significant run time acceleration
– Reduced cost of ownership
– Lower total cost of ownership
– Improved application results
– Scalability and reliability
– To provide realistic simulations
– Better simulation results
– Software from key ISVs
– Mercury Computer Systems
– Mentor Graphics
Solution elements
Systems
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–
–
–
BladeCenter QS21
Cluster 1350
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755
BladeCenter HS21 XM, LS21
Storage
– DS4000 series, N series, DDN
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Software
– IBM SDK 3.0
– Mercury Multicore Framework
– RTOS: Wind River® VxWorks®, Mentor
Graphics® Nucleus®
Services
– Custom board design
– Application porting
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Seismic processing
Cell/B.E. solutions enable petroleum companies to economically run complex
algorithms faster and more accurately than existing computing architectures.
You need:
IBM solutions can help deliver:
– Faster seismic imaging
– Increased shot accuracy
– Open and flexible solutions based on
standards
– Reduced cost of compute technology
– Scalability and reliability
– Lower total cost of ownership and improved
ROI
– Performance advantage
– PFA- FFT- 12x Woodcrest and 18x
Opteron
– IMA - 7.2x Woodcrest and 8.8x Opteron
Solution elements
Systems
–
–
–
–
–
BladeCenter QS21
Cluster 1350
IntelliStation
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21
Storage
– DS4000 series, LTO, etc.
Software
– IBM SDK 3.0
– FFT
Services
– Application porting
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Medical imaging
Cell/B.E. solutions enable dramatic performance and accuracy improvements
for medical imaging processing and analysis.
You need:
IBM solutions can help deliver:
– To enable increased usage of imaging for
medical treatment
– Higher computation power for faster image
processing
– 3D imaging capabilities
– Capabilities that enable enhanced image
analysis and treatment
– Increased quality of imaging
– Performance advantage -The Mayo
application running on a typical processor
configuration completed the registration of all
98 sets of images in approximately 7 hours.
The same application optimized for Cell/B.E.
the registration for all 98 sets of images in
just 516 seconds,
– Decreased processing time
Solution elements
Systems
– BladeCenter QS21
– Cluster 1350
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Software
– IBM SDK 3.0
Services
– Integrated storage
– Hardware Design
– BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21
– Cell/B.E. porting and education
– Algorithm Development
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Aerospace & defense and public sector
Cell/B.E. solutions enable A&D, government agencies and Universities to tap
into the high-performance capabilities of Cell/B.E. technology.
You need:
IBM solutions can help deliver:
– Real-time signal/image processing (radar,
satellite imagery, infrared, sonar)
– Computational Intensive Computing
– H/W Security
– Rapid Code Development
– Software libraries
–
–
–
–
High bandwidth capability
Scalability and reliability
Cell/B.E. security features
Performance advantage
– FFT 2D Complex up to 15x faster than
Intel® Xeon® 5100 series processor
(single core operation)
– 1024x1024 Matrix Multiplication up to
8.6x faster than Intel Xeon 5100 series
processor (single core operation)
Solution elements
Systems
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–
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–
BladeCenter QS21
Cluster 1350
IntelliStation
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21, LS20, LS21
Storage
Software
– IBM SDK 3.0
– IBM Cell/B.E. Math Library
– Gedae stream, image and signal programming
environment
– RapidMind development tools
– Wind River VxWorks RTOS and WorkBench Tools
– DS4000 series, LTO, etc.
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QS21 summary
Cell/B.E. solutions for your HPC challenges
 QS21 is the RIGHT choice for
– Selected workloads that are aligned with streaming
data and/or single-precision floating point
performance and 2GB of main memory.
– Signal processing, image processing applications
 QS21 is OPEN because it encourages any
and all clients to port, to experiment, and
to adopt this powerful computing solution:
– LINUX is the primary supported operating system…
but others can run
– IBM released thousand of pages of technical
documentation on Cell/B.E. architecture to the public
– IBM Cell/B.E. full system simulator (aka MAMBO) is
freely available to any and all
– The production, fully supported version of the IBM
SDK is available for purchase on Passport
Advantage® Online,
and a trial version is available for academics,
researchers and individual developers on
developerWorks.
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 QS21 is EASY to deploy and to
integrate into the existing IT
infrastructure and/or workloads:
– More scalable, programmable and reliable (ECC
on main memory) than exotic technologies like
graphics processing units (GPU), digital signal
processors (DSP) or field-programmable gate
arrays (FPGA).
– Co-exist and complement all other Blade servers
offerings (Intel, AMD, POWER)
– Excellent platform for porting and testing targeted
workloads/applications for Cell/B.E. systems (e.g.
it can be used to evaluate how much of any
workload/application should be ported to
Cell/B.E. systems and how much should remain
on traditional systems).
– Ready to scale out and deploy in production
environments
 QS21 is GREEN:
– At 1.05 GFLOPS per watt, it is a very power
efficient computing platform.
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IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration summary
 Designed to be highly reliable, simple to acquire and easy to use
– Complete, integrated kit
– Production-ready tools from IBM
– IBM warranty and support
 RHEL5.1 Enterprise support
 Based on industry standards to ease the transition to the Cell/B.E.
– Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment
– Standard, base libraries
– Third-party libraries can be plugged in
 Designed to make it easy to port and optimize applications for the QS21
– Performance tuning tools to help optimize algorithms without re-writing the entire application
– Tools designed to help you partition an application across a hybrid Cell/B.E. and x86 platform
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Additional offerings
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Cell/B.E. offerings
Industry Solutions
– Financial Markets
– Seismic
– Electronic Design Automation
– Digital Media
– Aerospace & Defense
– Digital Video Surveillance
– Medical Imaging
Enabling Software
– Cell/B.E Software Development Kit (SDK)
– Development Environment, Tools
– Libraries
– Simulator
– Third party software: Mercury Multicore Framework,
Cell/B.E. Engineering Services
– Cell/B.E. Architecture Education & Training
– Consulting
– Application Optimization & Migration Svcs
– Application Development Services
Wind River VxWorks, Mentor Nucleus, RapidMind
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Custom Hardware Solutions
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– Board level products
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– IBM System Storage
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manufacturing
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– Aids evaluation of the technology
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 Customized board and system capabilities:
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– Medical
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