Enterprise power systems transition to power7 technology

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Enterprise Power Systems
Transition to POWER7 technology
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Agenda
Introductions
Jim McGuire, IBM Client Executive – Lockheed Martin Account
Tom Lambert, IBM Hardware Sales Leader – Lockheed Martin Account
Larry Mills, IBM IT Architect – Lockheed Martin Account
Bill Linn, IBM Power Technical Specialist – Lockheed Martin Account
Jeff Fier, IBM Computational Scientist
Marc West (on phone), IBM HPC Sales
Power 7 Introduction – focus on 32 way and higher systems
Power 7 750/755
Power 7 770
Power 7 780
IBM HPC solutions
Open Discussion on Lockheed Martin’s MM3D Application Server

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IBM Power Systems continues to grow…
gaining market share and outselling HP and Sun
 Industry’s most popular UNIX
enterprise servers
 Sustained performance leadership
 Leadership virtualization with
PowerVM
 Innovative modular flexibility
 Application availability through
Live Partition Mobility
 Non-disruptive growth with CoD
 Broad application support through
AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and Lx86

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IBM POWER Processor Roadmap
- 3 Year Revolution
- 18 month “+” evolution
20042001 2007 2010
POWER4/4+
 Dual Core
 Chip Multi Processing
 Distributed Switch
 Shared L2
 Dynamic LPARs (32)
180nm,
POWER5/5+
Dual Core & Quad Core
Md
Enhanced Scaling
2 Thread SMT
Distributed Switch +
Core Parallelism +
FP Performance +
Memory bandwidth +
130nm, 90nm
POWER6/6+
 Dual Core
 High Frequencies
 Virtualization +
 Memory Subsystem +
 Altivec
 Instruction Retry
 Dyn Energy Mgmt
 2 Thread SMT +
 Protection Keys
 65nm
POWER7/7+
 4,6,8 Core
 32MB On-Chip eDRAM
 Power Optimized Cores
 Mem Subsystem ++
 4 Thread SMT++
 Reliability +
 VSM & VSX
 Protection Keys+
 45nm, 32nm
POWER8
Future
First Dual Core
in Industry
Hardware
Virtualization
for Unix & Linux
Fastest
Processor
In Industry
Most
POWERful &
Scalable
Processor in
Industry
IBM is the leader
in Processor
and Server
design
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POWER7 Processor Chip
Physical Design:
567mm2
Technology: 45nm
lithography, Cu, SOI, eDRAM
1.2B transistors
 Equivalent function of 2.7B
 eDRAM efficiency
* Statements regarding SMP servers
do not imply that IBM will introduce a
system with this capability.
Features:
Eight processor cores
 12 execution units per core
 4 Way SMT per core
 32 Threads per chip
 256KB L2 per core
32MB on chip eDRAM shared L3
Dual DDR3 Memory Controllers
 100GB/s Memory bandwidth per chip
sustained
Scalability up to 32 Sockets
 360GB/s SMP bandwidth/chip
 20,000 coherent operations in flight
Two I/O Mezzanine (GX++)
System Buses
Binary Compatibility with POWER6

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POWER7 Core
64-bit Power ISA Architecture v2.06
Out of Order Execution
Wider Dispatch & Issue Capability
 6 Wide Dispatch (2 branches per group)
 8 Wide issue
12 Execution Units
• 2 Fixed Point Units
• 2 Load Store Units also do Simple FX ops
• 4 Double Precision Floating Point Units
• 1 Vector Unit
• 1 Branch
• 1 Condition Register
• 1 Decimal Floating Point Unit
Units include distributed Recovery Function
Cache Design:
• L1 32KB 4-way set associative I-Cache
• L1 32KB 8-way set associative D-Cache
• L1 cache latency reduced from 4 to 2 cycles
• L2 256KB 8-way associative (i & d combined)
• Tightly coupled to core. 8 cycles away
AddBoxes
256KB L2
IFU
CRU/BRU
ISU
DFU
FXU
VSX
FPU
LSU

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The Competition
Nehalem-EP (Xeon 5570) for 2 socket servers
45nm, 269mm2, 4 cores, 8MB cache
Westmere-EP (Xeon 5680) for 2 socket servers
Nehalem-EX (Xeon 7560) for up to 8 socket servers
Tukwila (Itanium 9350)

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Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
L3 Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Memory Controller Fabric Controller
Fundamental
Computer
Architecture
POWER7 (Intel Nehalem)
8 cores
X
4w SMT
(8 core 2w SMT)
32MB L3
EDRAM
(24MB SRAM)
360GB/s
(103GB/s)
105GB/s
Memory BW
(32GB/s)
3.86 Ghz
(2.26 Ghz)
7 8B SMP interconnect buses8 DDR3 buffered memory channels
980GB/s
Cache BW

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Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
L3 Cache
Core
L1
I-cache
L1
D-cache
L2
Cache
Memory Controller Fabric Controller
Fundamental
Computer
Architecture
POWER7 Edge
2X cores
in SMT
1.3X larger
L3 Cache
3.5X IO
B/W
3.3X Larger
Memory B/W
1.7X higher
frequency
7 8B SMP interconnect buses8 DDR3 buffered memory channels
980GB/s
Cache BW

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“Mainframe-class”, a term used by Intel to describe processor
enhancements, is derived from the IBM innovations that built the
legendary RAS mainframes provide
RAS Feature POWER7™ SPARC Integrity Xeon
Live Partition Mobility No No
Live Application Mobility No No No
Partition Availability priority No No No
OS independent First Failure Data Capture No No No
Memory Keys No No No
Processor Instruction Retry No No
Alternate Processor Recovery No No No
Dynamic Processor Deallocation No
Dynamic Processor Sparing No
Chipkill
Survives Double Memory Failures
Selective Memory Mirroring
Redundant Memory
Extended Error Handling No No No
#1,2,3 - See “POWER6 RAS” in backup; See the following URLs for addition
details:http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/systems/power/availability.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/systems/power/virtualization.html
The same people who develop mainframes develop Power Systems

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0.008
0.316
0.010
1.000
0.006
0.542
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
NormalizedCosmicSoftErrorSensitivity
Linpack Bzip2 SpecJbb
Benchmark Exerciser
Soft Error Rate Comparison (Cosmic)
Rate of system crashes, measured with proton beam
IBM's p7 chip
Competitor's chip
Alpha Particle Emission Testing
IBM’s SOI SRAM cells 9x more robust than bulk SRAM cells*
IBM’s SOI latches are 6x more robust than bulk latches*
P7 is IBM’s 4th
POWER generation where emission testing was part of the design
process to go beyond baseline technology advantages
* Statements based on comparisons of IBM’s 65nm SIO and bulk technologies.

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Power Systems with AIX deliver 99.997% uptime
- 54% of IT executives and managers say that they require 99.99%
or better availability for their applications
Power Systems with AIX®
 Best availability of UNIX,
Linux®
, Windows choices
 Only 15 minutes of
downtime per year
 Best reliability
 No severe outages
 Best serviceability
 Systems with Call
Home have 1/3 the
unscheduled repair
actions
Source: ITIC 2009 Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey Results, July 7, 2009
Minutes of downtime per year
0
15
30
45
60
75
90
AIX / Pow er Solaris /
SPARC
HP-UX /
PA_RISC
HP-UX /
Integrity
SuSE on x86 RHEL on x
Power Systems have 2/3 the number of incidents
as other UNIX systems and < 1/2 the incidents of
x86 systems
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
Incidentsperyear
Tier 1 Incidents 0.42 0.8 0.78 0.59 0.65
Tier 2 Incidents 0.34 0.475 0.68 0.49 0.48
Tier 3 incidents 0 0.195 0.395 0.1 0.14
Power
Linux on
x86
Windows
on x86
Solaris on
SPARC
HP-UX on
Itanium

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Security
PowerVM has never had a single reported security
vulnerability.
Source: National Vulnerability Database, http://nvd.nist.gov/
119
61
22
2 1 0
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Number of reported
security vulnerabilities
VMWare Xen KVM Sun LDoms Hyper-V PowerVM

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POWER7 Has Clear Performance Leadership On Major Workloads
PER SOCKET vs. Best Published (4/18/2010) Intel Offering
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
NormalizedUnits
SAP SD SpecIntRate SpecFPrate SpecJbb2005 TPCC
POWER 7
Nehalem-EX
Nehalem-EP
Westmere-EP
Itanium
* Source: http://www.spec.org/ IBM p570 POWER6 results to be submitted on 5/21/07: All other results as of 04/27/07;
** Source: www.tpc.org/ IBM p570 POWER6 result to be submitted on5/21/07; All other results as of 04/27/07
See next page for full detail

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POWER 7 Workload Optimization
 Intelligent threads pick ST/SMT2/SMT4 mode of operation
 Automatic, dynamic movement of thread vs. throughput performance across 2x range
 Intelligent Cache technology optimizes cache utilization flowing it from core to core
 Turbo Core Mode enables max core performance for databases
 Active Cores have a 2X increase in L3 Cache size per core
 Chips run at increased frequency 3.86 vs 4.14Ghz
 Provides up to 1.5X per core to core performance gain over P6.
Unused
core
SMT4 SMT2 SMT1
CorePer
Thread
1
1
Thread
1
Thread
2
1.56Thread
1
Thread
2
Thread
3
Thread
4
2.27
Max core Mode
Throughput Orientation
incredible parallelization
SMT4 SMT1SMT2
Thread1
1.19
Thread1
1.92
Thread2
Thread
1
Thread
2
Thread
3
Thread
4
2.84
Turbo Core Mode
max per core performance
for databases
20-25% per
core gain

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POWER 7 Dominates Intel’s Offerings
POWER 7 vs.
Nehalem-EX
(Xeon 7560)
POWER 7 vs.
Westmere-EP
(Xeon 5680)
POWER 7 vs.
Nehalem-EP
(Xeon 5570)
POWER 7 vs.
Tukwila
(Itanium 9350)
Core Count = 1.33x 2x 2x
Micro-Architecture ++ ++ ++ ++++
Frequency 1.7x 1.16x 1.3x 2.25x
# of Threads / Core 2x 2x 2x 2x
(+ SMT vs. HMT)
Cache 1.33x
(+ DRAM
advantage)
2.67x
(+ DRAM
advantage)
4x
(+ DRAM
advantage)
1.1x
(+ DRAM
advantage)
Memory Bandwidth 3x 5x 5x 3x
SMP Bandwidth 3.5x
(+coherency
advantage)
7x
(+coherency
advantage)
7x
(+coherency
advantage)
3.5x
(+coherency
advantage)
Max Glueless SMP 4x
(32 vs. 8)
16x
(32 vs. 2)
16x
(32 vs. 2)
4x
(32 vs. 8)

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Power is the innovation that will fuel the growth
The future of UNIX provides virtualization without limits and exponential ROI
 Virtualization without Limits
increases flexibility and reduces
costs
 Workload-optimizing systems
improve service levels with
assured performance
 Consolidation that delivers
exponential ROI
 Dynamic Energy Optimization that
balances performance and
efficiency
 Resiliency without Downtime

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IBM Power 755 Server
High Performance Computing with POWER7
Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet

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Weather & Environmental models
Focus Application Areas for IBM Power HPC Systems
Medical and Life Sciences
Basic Research
Engineering / Scientific and emerging
technologies
Predicting the
path of the
next hurricane
Modeling
the Human
Brain
Discoverin
g the
secrets of
the
Universe
Tomorrow’s
technologies
today
BRINGING OUR STRENGTH TO BEAR

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HPC Market Opportunity
Source: IDC Worldwide Technical Computing Server 2009 – 2013 Forecast Update – March, 2009
IDC Segment Definitions
SuperComputing: Systems configured for large problems and high throughput, >$500K
Divisional: Systems for throughput environments, $250K>ASP>$499K
Departmental: Systems for throughput environments, $100K<$250K
Workgroup: Systems for throughput environments, ASP<$100K
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
$M
2010 2011 2012 2013
Revenue Opportunity
Supercomputer
Divisional
Departmental
Workgroup

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Power 755 Market Opportunity
HPC has been traditional strength
for Power Architecture™:
 Blue Gene®/P debuted at #2 in
Nov, 2007 with 5 systems in the
TOP500
 Power® 575 debuted at #18 in
June, 2008 with 7 POWER6™
systems in the TOP500
 Cell/BE debuted at #1 in June, 2008
with 3 Cell/BE systems in the
TOP500
Power 755 targets broader market
opportunity in Divisional and
Departmental Computing
segments
Source: IDC Worldwide Technical Computing Server 2009 – 2013 Forecast Update – March, 2009
$1,871
$3,840
$1,378
$2,757
$0
$2,000
$4,000
$6,000
$8,000
$10,000
$12,000
$14,000
($M)
2010

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Power Systems HPC Roadmap
Power 755, Blue Gene, Power 575
Mid Range Departmental & Divisional Systems
Extreme Scaling
Mid to High-end Capability
2010 20122011
Blue Gene/Q
Power 575 (POWER6™)
Blue Gene/P
POWER7 (P7 IH)
Power 755
Power 755
For information only – subject to change without notice

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Performance per node
• 2X improvement in Single Instruction Multiple Data
(SIMD) acceleration
− Full AltiVec™ (VMX) instruction set support
− Extended VSX instruction set
• Up to 8.4 TFlops per Rack (10 nodes per Rack)
• Cluster Interconnect
− 2-Port InfiniBand 12X DDR
• IBM HPC software stack
• Boost frequency for better performance &
performance/watt
IBM Power 755
IBM Power 755
(8236-E8C)
4-socket, 4U server
8-core POWER7 processors
 32-core 3.3GHz configuration
Up to 256GB of memory
Up to 64 clustered nodes
Energy Star-qualified
GA: 2/19/2010

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1.7 Times
More floating point operations per watt performed by the
Power 755 compared to Sun Blade X6440*
1.55 Times
More performance than Sun X6270 Blades with Intel’s fastest
Xeon X5570 processor on NAMD molecular dynamics
simulation
The fastest, most energy efficient 4-socket system on the planet
* Based on Little Green500. http://www.green500.org
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Power 755 boosts NAMD performance over Sun X6275
- Xeon X5570 results
• The Power 755 increases performance by over 55% on NAMD’s molecular
dynamics simulations.
IBM Power 755
61.9% 65.0%
55.9%
-10%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
%FasterthanSunx6275
16-c 64-c 128-c
Number of Physical Cores
NAMD V2.7 b1 Benchmark - STMV
All results are current as of 2/8/2010. IBM Power 7555 with POWER7; 4/32c/32t; 1 -4 nodes results: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html
SUN X6275 with Intel Xeon X5570; 4p/16c/16t 1 – 8 nodes results: http://blogs.sun.com/BestPerf/entry/sun_blade_6048_and_sun1
Four Power 755 nodes versus eight X6275 nodes

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Power 755 delivers superior SPECint_rate2006
performance compared to 4-socket HP x86 servers
Pow er 750 - 3.3GHz HP DL585 G6 -
2.8GHz
HP DL580 G5 -
2.66GHz
Performance
SPECint_rate2006
• 2.4X more performance than HP DL585 G6
IBM Power 755

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Power 755 delivers superior SPECfp_rate2006
performance compared to 4-socket HP x86 servers
• 5X more performance than HP DL580 G5
IBM Power 755
Pow er 750 - 3.3GHz HP DL585 G6 - 2.8GHz HP DL580 G5 - 2.66GHz
Performance
SPECfp_rate2006

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Power 755 Rack w/ 8 Nodes (6.8TF) and 76.8 TB
(Usable)

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Power 755 Cluster w/ 34 Nodes (28.7 TF) & 326.4TB
(Usable)

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Scaling
64 nodes (32 Cores/node)
54 TFlops
Operating
Systems
AIX 6.1 H
Linux
HPC Stack Levels
xCAT v2.3.x
GPFS v3.3
PESSL v3.3
LL v4.1
PE v5.2.x
ESSL
Beta (GA 06/2010)
ESSL v5.1
Compilers
GA Levels
XLF v13.1
VAC/C++ v11.1
Power 755 HPC Cluster Node Support
IB-DDR
Interconnect
Up to 10 Nodes per Rack

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Power 755 – Performance and Energy Efficiency
Power 755 targets the growing Divisional and
Departmental HPC Segments
 Weather
 Reservoir modeling
 Financial Services
 Selected Computational Chemistry/Molecular Dynamics
Power 755 offers leadership performance
 1.7X greater floating point operations per watt performed
by the IBM Power 755 compared to Sun Blade X6440
 1.55X better NAMD performance than Sun Blade X6275
 Greater than 2.9X SPECfp_rate2006 versus HP DL580
and DL585
Power 755 compared to Power 575 delivers:
 40% better performance per node
 1/3rd less power consumption per node
 37% less floor space for a 64 node configuration

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Power your planet.
Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.

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POWER7 Vector/Scalar Unit
64 Entry Vector/Scalar Register
File
 128-bit wide registers
 Used for 32b/64b scalar as well as
4x32B/2x64b SIMD instructions
Four floating-point execution units
 Each FP unit capable of single or double
precision
 Each FP unit can complete a multiply-add
instruction per cycle (2FLOPS)
 Maximum throughput 2 FLOPS x 4 =
8FLOPS/cycle
 Each FPU can also execute FP divide and
sqrt
Floating Point Operations are
ANSI/IEEE standard 754-1985
Compliant

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IBM Power 770 with POWER7 processors
Enhancing the industry’s most popular mid-range server with
more performance, energy efficiency and scalability
Modular scalability
Upgrades from POWER6
Capacity on Demand
Live Partition Mobility
PowerVM
Energy Efficiency
IBM extends performance leadership with POWER7
 Multi-core delivers more total system AND per core performance
Over 4x total system aggregate throughput than 16 core 570’s
More performance per core than the 5.0 GHz 570 system
 Similar portfolio of modular, scalable offerings as POWER6
New workload optimizing features expand flexibility
 Intelligent Threads™ utilize more threads when workloads benefit
 Active Memory Expansion™ provides more effective memory
The Roadmap to Continuous Availability
 Redundant system clocks with dynamic fail-over
 Hot-node Repair available for all nodes*
 Upgrades available for POWER6 570 systems (9117-MMA)
Increased Energy Control and Automation
 Over 3X improvement in performance per watt
 Dynamic Energy Optimization maximizes performance or energy
efficiency as thermal conditions and policy allow
* Hot Node Repair planned for 4Q 2010

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IBM Power 780 with POWER7 processors
A new option for growth supporting the highest performance
per core and per system with enterprise class features
Extreme scalability
TurboCore flexibility
Capacity on Demand
PowerCare Service
PowerVM
IBM extends performance leadership EVEN MORE
 Multi-core delivers more total system AND per core performance
Over 4.8X total system aggregate throughput than the 5.0 GHz
16 core 570 system
Over 2X the performance per core than today’s 32 core 570
New workload optimizing features expand flexibility
TurboCore™ for max per core performance for databases
 Intelligent Threads™ utilize more threads when workloads benefit
 Active Memory Expansion™ provides more effective memory
Enterprise Features
24 x 7 standard warranty
PowerCare included with every system
 Upgrades available for POWER6 570 systems (9117-MMA)
The Roadmap for Continuous Availability
 Redundant system clocks with dynamic fail-over
 Hot-node Repair available for all nodes*
* Hot Node Repair planned for 4Q 2010

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POWER7 Innovations available with Power Modular
Systems
Technology / Performance for Faster ROI
Options for 4-cores, 6 cores, & 8 cores per socket
Support for up to 2 TB*
DDR3 memory per system
Dual memory controllers for increased memory bandwidth
 Frequency boost for increased performance
 eDRAM technology for on-chip L3 cache
Workload Optimizing Features for Added Flexibility
Exclusive new TurboCore mode available with Power 780
 Intelligent Threads (SMT-4) for additional capacity
 Active Memory ExpansionTM
for increased effective memory
Integrated split back plane for dedicated partition support
Integrated, separate media controller for partition flexibility
Availability Features for Today’s 24 X 7 Workloads
 Integrated RAID support
Redundant clock failover
Hot Node Repair for all nodes**
Hot Repair for GX adapters
 GX++ support for pureScale availability
Dynamic Energy Optimization for Increased Efficiency
 Enhanced TPMD chip for thermal/energy monitoring and control
 Frequency reduction during low demand for energy reduction
 SFF SAS drives for increased energy efficiency
* Large DIMM planned for 4Q 2010
** Hot Node Repair planned for 4Q 2010

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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
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 68
Performance Per Core Performance Per Watt
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.
POWER6HP
Superdome
Sun
M9000
POWER7 POWER6HP
Superdome
Sun
M9000
POWER7

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Why TurboCore?
TurboCore mode extends per core performance
 Clock speed increases from 3.8 to 4.1 GHz
 L3 cache doubles from 4 MB per core to 8 MB per core
 Memory bandwidth per core doubles
 I/O bandwidth per core doubles
 Physical memory per core doubles
TurboCore mode provides the best option for minimizing software costs
 Provides over 2X the rPerf per core as the POWER6 32 core 570
TurboCore mode allows clients choice and minimizes risk
 Clients purchase the system with identical components
 Clients choose the mode they wish to run
 Clients can change the mode at any time
TurboCore mode eases the transition to highly parallel multi-core systems
 Start with TurboCore mode when transitioning from POWER6 systems
 Turn off and grow system when application environment is ready to leverage greater levels of parallel
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What is TurboCore?
Technology
 Four of the eight cores and L2 cache are turned off
 Shared L3 cache is now doubled for remaining cores
 Remaining cores run at 4.1 GHz frequency
 Remaining cores share memory and I/O bandwidth
 Provides up to 22% per core performance gain
compared to having all eight cores turned on
 Unused cores are powered off to improve energy
efficiency
Implementation
 3.8 GHz processors are purchased with Power 780
system as needed
 Required number of activations are purchased with
Power 780 system
 System is configured by user for TurboCore mode
operations
 System is powered on and cores are made available in
TurboCore mode (up to 4 cores per processor)
 System can be reconfigured by user with a reboot
 The entire system is either in TurboCore mode or
MaxCore mode Unused
Core
TurboCore
Cores
P7
Core
L2
P7
Core
L2
Memory Interface
P7
Core
L2
P7
Core
L2
P7
Core
L2
P7
Core
L2
P7
Core
L2
P7
Core
L2
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POWER7 TurboCore Example
Unused
Core
TurboCore
Cores
Single Node Power 780 system (TurboCore
mode)
One processor feature #4982 (0 of 16)
Two POWER7 processors
64 MB internal L3 cache
System is configured for TurboCore mode
8 POWER7 cores @ 4.1 GHz available
Up to 8 CoD processor core activation features #5469
Best performance per core configuration
Single Node Power 780 system (MaxCore mode)
One processor feature #4982 (0 of 16)
Two POWER7 processors
64 MB internal L3 cache
System is configured for MaxCore mode
16 POWER7 cores @ 3.8 GHz available
Up to 16 CoD processor core activation features #5469
Best total system capacity configuration
X X
X X
X X
X X

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POWER7 TurboCore Pricing Example
Unused
Core
TurboCore
Cores
Single Node Power 780 system
System configured for TurboCore mode
Eight cores are made available @ 4.1 GHz
One processor feature #4982 (0 of 16) @ $6.00
Eight CoD activation features #5469 @ $1.00 each
1 x $6.00 + 8 x $1.00 = $14.00
$14.00 / 8 = $1.75 per core
X X
X X
X X
X X
Single Node Power 780 system
System configured for MaxCore mode
Sixteen cores are made available @ 3.8 GHz
One processor feature #4982 (0 of 16) @ $6.00
16 CoD activation features #5469 @ $1.00 each
1 x $6.00 = 16 x $1.00 = $22.00
$22.00 / 16 = $1.375 per core
Pricing examples are for illustrative purposes only and do not reflect actual pricing

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Designed with the capacity for consolidation
=4X memory
per core than HP SD
>15X memory bandwidth
per core than HP SD
>5.4X I/O bandwidth
per core than HP SD
You can use the
tremendous capacity of
the IBM Power™ 780 to
run challenging
applications in every
virtual server.
System data for HP from the HP Superdome Datasheet available at www.hp.com. System data for Sun from the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Datasheet available at www.sun.com. Both are current as of 1/27/2010
Memory
per core
Memory bandwidth
per core
I/O bandwidth
per core
Capacity per core relative to the Power 780
IBM Power 780 HP SuperDome Sun M9000
Cores 32 128 256
Memory (GB) 2,048 2,048 4096
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s) 1,088 273 737
I/O Bandwidth (GB/s) 236 173 234
Memory (GB) per core 64 16 16
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s) per core 34 2.13 2.88
I/O Bandwidth (GB/s) per core 7.3 1.35 0.91
PerCorePerSystem

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Save up to 93% in annual energy costs!
By consolidating nine 64-core HP Superdomes into ONE Power 780 system
--Reduce floor space required by 91%
--Reduce processing cores by 88%
One Power 780
(@ 75% utilization)
576 total cores @ 1.6 GHz
9 HP Superdomes
(@ 25% utilization)
64 total cores @ 3.8 GHz
Only 1 Rack – 7.6 sq. ft of floor space
Up to $139k in energy savings per year!
See Power 780 comparisons in backup for full substantiation details.

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POWER7 continues to deliver more
Performance per Watt
POWER4™
p670
1.1 GHz
rPerf: 24.46
KWatts: 6.71
POWER4+™
p670
1.5 GHz
rPerf: 46.79
KWatts: 6.71
POWER5™
p5-570
1.65 GHz
rPerf: 68.4
KWatts: 5.2
POWER5+™
p570
1.9 GHz
rPerf: 85.20
KWatts: 5.2
POWER6™
Power 570
4.7 GHz
rPerf: 134.35
KWatts: 5.6
POWER6™
Power 570
4.2 GHz
rPerf: 193.25
KWatts: 5.6
POWER7™
Power 780
3.8 GHz
rPerf: 685.09
KWatts: 6.4
rPerfperKWatt
>3X increase in performance per watt over POWER6+
>30X increase in performance per watt since POWER4
>10 years of changing the UNIX landscape

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Go Green and Save with IBM EnergyScale Technology
Manage your energy costs as never before
 IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ for POWER exploits POWER7
processor-based EnergyScale™ technology to help you reduce energy consumption
>3X improvement in performance per
watt over POWER6 570
TPMD chip in every 770/780 system for
monitoring and controlling thermal
output and energy efficiency
Dynamic Energy Optimization reduces
energy usage up to 50% when
workload or policy allows

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Growth you don’t have to wait on @ $16/day!
Enterprise Power Systems offer Capacity on Demand
for growth, flexibility and availability
Growth
• Start your system with as few as four cores
• Grow to 64 cores without disruption
Most importantly, grow when you want to: quickly
and without disruption to your operation
Flexibility
• Activate resources in increments of one core and one GB memory
• Chose between permanent activations (purchase) or temporary activations
(by the day or by the minute)
• Prices start as low as $8 per day (per core) and $1 per day (per GB)
Try out that new application today for as little as $16*
($8 for one core and $8 for 8 GB memory for one day)
Availability
• Inactive resources are used for processor and memory sparing
• Inactive resources can be used for free trials of new applications
• Inactive resources can be used with temporary activations for emergency backup
http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohd
eedoh/flickr-finds/flickr-finds-
diy-growth-chart-040628
* US list price at announce for Power 770 with 3.1 GHz processors and AIX

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Move up to Enterprise Class Features
Power 750
Power 770
IBM Installed
Two dedicated high speed
GX++ adapter slots
Six dedicated PCI
Express adapter slots
Up to 32 GB POWER7
memory per core
Up to 16 GB standard
memory per core
Five PCI adapter slots (two PCI X and
three PCI Express - two shared)
One high speed GX++ adapter and one standard GX
adapter slots shared with two PCI Express slots
Integrated split backplane support
and dedicated media controller
Client Installed
Capacity on Demand
processors start at four cores

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Power Systems Commercial Portfolio – Enterprise and
Express
BladeCenter
Power 750/755
Express
Power 770
Power 520
Express
Power 595 Enterprise systems
• Extreme Performance and Scalability
• Highest memory and I/O bandwidths
• Capacity on Demand
• Hot-node Add & Repair
• Greatest Redundancy
• POWER7 Memory
• System Upgrades
• CE setup & service
• Granularity of capacity
Express systems
• Choice – AIX, i, and/or Linux
• Flexibility – Rack, Tower, Blades
• Industrial Strength Virtualization
Power 780

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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 * *
Redundant / Hot Swap Power Regulators
Dynamic Processor Sparing
Memory Sparing
Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair
Hot-node Add / Cold-node Repair * *
Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add * *
POWER7 Enhanced Memory
Dynamic Service Processor and System Clock Failover * *
Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add for all nodes** * *
Hot GX Adapter Repair
Move up to enterprise class RAS
Optional
Standard
Not available
* Requires two or more nodes
** Planned for 4Q 2010

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Two really are better than one!
 Availability with two nodes
• Redundant service processors with dynamic failover
• Redundant system clocks with dynamic failover
• Additional inactive processors for sparing
• Additional inactive memory for sparing
• Allows for continued use if one node fails
• Hot-node Repair available
 Performance with two nodes
• More memory bandwidth
• More I/O bandwidth
• Easier growth with CoD
• Use for balancing workload from other systems
• Dynamic Energy Optimization assists in maintaining energy efficiency
 High-availability with two systems
• Use two systems with PowerHA SystemMirror for high-availability
• Use Live Partition Mobility for workload balancing and availability during
service or upgrades
x2 2

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“…we would have a disk
go bad on a Friday night.
No one would have known
it had happened except
for the fact that Electronic
Service Agent™
called out
and we got a call back
from IBM alerting us to
the problem. That
protection alone, the risk
prevention factor, makes
the product hugely
valuable to us."
Hang up your phone and let
your systems do the talking
Benefits:
 System contacts IBM Support for you
 Immediately uploads error logs
 Faster diagnosis and time to repair
 Improved availability for your systems
 Customized maintenance information
 End to end, automated, closed loop support
process
 Complimentary installation for P6 570 and P6 595
Features:
 Automatic reporting for your IBM Systems
 Secure, encrypted transmission to IBM Support
 Inventory at your fingertips
 Enables IBM Electronic Services
 Built into the HMC, AIX and IBM i for easy
installation
Nick Gimben,
Sr. Systems Admin,
Fossil Inc.
Power = Support + Automation

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What’s in it for me?
High availability
Secure, 24x7 proactive monitoring: downtime
avoidance
Less personnel time gathering information and
reporting problems
Accurate fixes
Faster on-site response with parts, location, and
problem information
Automatic sending of system logs for problem
determination and resolution
Enables proactive tools
My Notifications: customized, proactive
recommendations
Performance Management: manage system capacity
My Systems: compare firmware levels across your
datacenter

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“We recently completed an
analysis of ESA on
POWER6 processor-based
Power 595 systems.
One finding was dramatic:
clients who didn’t
activate ESA account for 70
percent of unexpected
machine outages.”
Ross Mauri
General Manager
IBM Power Systems

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“ESA and Call Home follow
the industry norms for
protecting data during
network transport by using
the Transport Layer Security
(TLS) protocol. It also
protects Call Home / IBM
Support accounts by
generating unique passwords
for these accounts.
Call Home uses protected
channels (e.g. TLS, VPN) to
transfer data from the HMC
to IBM Support. The
channels provide
confidentiality and integrity
protection of the data sent
between the two entities.”
Proven Security
No customer business data transmitted to IBM
Connectivity Methods
 Internet, VPN, Dial-up
 Proxy & authenticating firewall support
Security Protocols
 https (SSL and TLS) 128 bit encryption; uses
keys, certificates and tokens
Secure storage
 System information stored in secure database
behind 2 firewalls accessible by you with a
protected password
Accessible only by authorized IBM Support
Representatives
Atsec Information Security Corp.
Oct 2008 assessment
Did you know?
3,344 banks worldwide use
Electronic Service Agent…
because it’s secure.
•11 million+ secure
transactions per month
•300 million+ total
transactions

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Power 750 Power 755 Power 770 Power 780
Nodes One One Up to four Up to four
Cores
(single system image)
6, 12, 18, 24 or
8, 16, 24, 32
32 4 – 64 4 – 64
Frequency
3.0, 3.3, 3.55
GHz
3.3 GHz 3.1, 3.5 GHz 3.8, 4.1 GHz
SMP buses 4 byte 4 byte 8 byte 8 byte
System memory Up to 512 GB Up to 256GB Up to 2 TB* Up to 2 TB*
Memory per core 16 or 21 GB 8GB 32 or 42 GB 32 or 64 GB
Memory Bandwidth (peak) 273 GB/s 273 GB/s 1088 GB/s 1088 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth per core
(peak)
8.5 GB/s 8.5 GB/s 17 or 22 GB/s 17 or 34 GB/s
Memory controllers 1 per processor 1 per processor 2 per processor 2 per processor
I/O Bandwidth (peak) 30 GB/s 30 GB/s 236 GB/s 236 GB/s
I/O Bandwidth per core
(peak)
0.9GB/s 0.9GB/s 3.6 or 4.9 GB/s 3.6 or 7.3 GB/s
rPerf per core Up to 11 Up to 11 Up to 11 Up to 13
Maximum LPARs Up to 320* 1 Up to 640* Up to 640*
RAS Standard Standard
P7 Enhanced
Memory
Dynamic FSP &
clocks
P7 Enhanced
Memory
Dynamic FSP &
clocks
Warranty 9 x 5 9 x 5 9 x 5 24 x 7
PowerCare No No No Yes
IBM Power Systems Comparisons
* Planned availability in 4Q 2010

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POWER7 High-end Server
Massive throughput, performance and scalability in a
new POWER7 high-end system with up to 256
POWER7 processors and support for up to 1,000
partitions
Large-scale consolidation of energy-wasting, under-
utilized servers onto an energy-efficient high-end
POWER7 system running AIX, i and/or Linux
applications
Improve infrastructure resilience – Enterprise Power
Systems & Software are engineered to deliver the
highest levels of Power Architecture™ reliability,
availability & serviceability
Enable rapid service delivery – Industry-leading
virtualization and Capacity on Demand for processors
and memory help provide seamless, non-disruptive
growth
Upgrades from Power 595 will enable clients to leverage
their investment in POWER6 systems to deploy
POWER7 performance, scalability and efficiency within
their enterprise
Delivering extraordinary scalability, performance and availability for
Data Centers with the most demanding Unix, Linux and i applications

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Power is the innovation that will fuel the growth in
2010
Power is effortlessly balancing hundreds of
workloads
Power is operating at over 90% utilization
Power is Management with Automation
Power is Intelligent Energy Optimization
Power is Virtualization without Limits
Power is Resiliency without Downtime

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Backup

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IBM Power 780 comparisons
System Name Cores Chips
Cores /
Chip
Threads /
Core Peak Published Wattage
Performance
per watt
Performance
per core
IBM Power 780 64 8 8 4 2530 February 2010 6,400 395.31 39.53
HP Integrity Superdome 64 32 2 1 824 October 2006 12,196 67.56 12.88
HP Integrity Superdome 128 64 2 1 1648 September 2006 24,392 67.56 12.88
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 256 64 4 4 2586 October 2009 44,800 57.72 10.10
SPECint_rate2006 Results
Performance per watt is calculated by dividing the performance in the table above by the recommended maximum power
for site planning. Actual power used by the systems will be less than this value for all of the systems. The maximum power
requirement for the Power 780 is 6,400 Watts and is available at http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss - search
for Power 780.
Power consumption figures of 6400 W for the IBM Power 780, 12,196 W / 24,392 W for the HP Superdome and 44,800
W for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 were based on the maximum rates published by IBM, HP and Sun
Microsystems, respectively. The information for the HP Integrity Superdome is in “QuickSpecs HP Integrity Superdome
Servers 16- processor, 32-processor, and 64- processor Systems” available at www.hp.com. The information for the Sun
SPARC Enterprise M9000 is in the "Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide" available at
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IBM Power 780 comparisons
The virtualized system count and energy savings were derived from several factors:
A performance ratio factor was applied to the virtualization scenario based on SPECint_rate2006. The performance
factor is simply the SPECint_rate2006 result per core of the Power 780 divided by the per core result of the HP or
Sun system.
Power 780 (64-core, 8 chips, 8 cores per chip, 3.8 GHz) SPECint_rate2006 2,530 peak as of 2/8/2010. HP
Superdome (64-core, 32 chips, 2 cores per chip) 1.6 GHz, SPECint_rate2006 824 peak published October 2006.
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (256-core, 64 chips, 4 cores per chip) 2.88 GHz, SPECint_rate2006 2,586 peak
published October 2009. SPEC® results available at: www.spec.org
A virtualization factor of 3.157X was applied to the virtualization scenario using utilization assumptions derived from
an Alinean white paper on server consolidation. The tool assumes 19% utilization of existing servers and 60%
utilization of new servers. Source - www.ibm.com/services/us/cio/optimize/opt_wp_ibm_systemp.pdf.
Air conditioning power requirement estimated at 50% of system power requirement.
Energy cost of $.1031 per kWh is based on 2009 YTD US Average Retail price to commercial customers per US
DOE at http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_b.html as of 1/27/2010.
The reduction in floor space, power, cooling and software costs depends on the specific customer, environment,
application requirements, and the consolidation potential. Actual numbers of virtualized systems supported will
depend on workload levels for each replaced system.
System data for HP from the HP Superdome Datasheet and HP Integrity Superdome Server — specifications both
available at www.hp.com. System data for Sun from the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Tech Specs available at
www.sun.com. Data is current as of January 27, 2010.

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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, AIX
Version 4.3, AIX 5L or AIX 6 were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2006, SPEC2000, 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 Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++
Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux, and XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for
FORTRAN and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck & Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these
vendors. Other software packages like IBM ESSL for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.
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.
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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 Applications http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/
PeopleSoft - To get information on PeopleSoft benchmarks, contact PeopleSoft directly
Siebel http://www.siebel.com/crm/performance_benchmark/index.shtm
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
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Notes on HPC benchmarks and values
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, AIX
Version 4.3 or AIX 5L were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2000, 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 Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux,
and XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for FORTRAN and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck &
Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. Other software packages like IBM
ESSL for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.
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.
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
STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/
Fluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm
TOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/
AMBER http://amber.scripps.edu/
FLUENT http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/index.htm
GAMESS http://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamess
GAUSSIAN http://www.gaussian.com
ANSYS http://www.ansys.com/services/hardware-support-db.htm
Click on the "Benchmarks" icon on the left hand side frame to expand. Click on "Benchmark Results in a Table" icon for benchmark
results.
ABAQUS http://www.simulia.com/support/v68/v68_performance.php
ECLIPSE http://www.sis.slb.com/content/software/simulation/index.asp?seg=geoquest&
MM5 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/
MSC.NASTRAN http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/prod%5Fsupport/nastran/performance/v04_sngl.cfm
STAR-CD www.cd-adapco.com/products/STAR-CD/performance/320/index/html
NAMD http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd
HMMER http://hmmer.janelia.org/
http://powerdev.osuosl.org/project/hmmerAltivecGen2mod

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Notes on performance estimates
rPerf for AIX
rPerf (Relative Performance) is an estimate of commercial processing performance relative to other IBM UNIX
systems. It is derived from an IBM analytical model which uses characteristics from IBM internal workloads, TPC
and SPEC benchmarks. The rPerf model is not intended to represent any specific public benchmark results and
should not be reasonably used in that way. The model simulates some of the system operations such as CPU,
cache and memory. However, the model does not simulate disk or network I/O operations.
rPerf estimates are calculated based on systems with the latest levels of AIX and other pertinent software at the time
of system announcement. Actual performance will vary based on application and configuration specifics. The IBM
eServer pSeries 640 is the baseline reference system and has a value of 1.0. Although rPerf may be used to
approximate relative IBM UNIX commercial processing performance, actual system performance may vary and is
dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration.
Note that the rPerf methodology used for the POWER6 systems is identical to that used for the POWER5
systems. Variations in incremental system performance may be observed in commercial workloads due to
changes in the underlying system architecture.
All performance estimates are provided "AS IS" and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or implied by IBM.
Buyers should consult other sources of information, including system benchmarks, and application sizing guides to
evaluate the performance of a system they are considering buying. For additional information about rPerf, contact
your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller.
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CPW for IBM i
Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a relative measure of performance of processors running the IBM i
operating system. Performance in customer environments may vary. The value is based on maximum
configurations. More performance information is available in the Performance Capabilities Reference at:
www.ibm.com/systems/i/solutions/perfmgmt/resource.html

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