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Enterprise Power Systems
Transition to POWER7 technology
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…the next generation
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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
32nm, 240mm2, 6 cores, 12MB cache
Nehalem-EX (Xeon 7560) for up to 8 socket servers
45nm, 684mm2, 8 cores, 24MB cache
Tukwila (Itanium 9350)
65nm, 700mm2, 4 cores, 30MB cache
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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
IBM Power 755
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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
• 3.4X more performance than HP DL580 G5
IBM Power 755
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Power 755 delivers superior SPECfp_rate2006
performance compared to 4-socket HP x86 servers
• 2.9X more performance than HP DL585 G6
• 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
computing
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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
G
X
S
M
P
F
A
B
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I
C
P
O
W
E
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B
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L3 Cache
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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
www.sun.com.
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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.
TPC http://www.tpc.org
SPEC http://www.spec.org
LINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf
Pro/E http://www.proe.com
GPC http://www.spec.org/gpc
VolanoMark http://www.volano.com
STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/
SAP http://www.sap.com/benchmark/
Oracle 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
Revised March 12, 2009
Notes on benchmarks and values
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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
Notes de l'éditeur POWER7 will deliver new features and functions to the Power family of Processors
The enhancements include:
Additional core density
On chip cache using the energy saving technology developed in IBM Research
Energy efficient core
New on chip memory controller technology providing support for DDR3 memory. The memory will deliver more than 3X memory bandwidth of the POWER6 chip
Support for both single and dual precision SIMD processing
Support for additional Storage Protection Keys
Let’s take a closer look now at the POWER7 Chip.
POWER7 is fabricated in IBMs 45nm Silicon on insulator technology using copper interconnect and embedded dram for the L3.
The chip is 567mm square and contains 1.2B transistors.
However if you consider each EDRAM cell has the function of a 6T SRAM cell the chip actually has the equivalent function of a 2.7B transistors chip.
The chip as you can see has 8 processor cores each with 12 execution unit capable of running 4 way SMT. I’ll share some core details in a few slide.
To feed the processor cores: We have two memory controllers one on each side of the chip. Each memory controller supports 4 channels of DDR3 memory. Combined these 8 channels provided 100GBs sustained memory bandwidth.
On the top and bottom of the chip are our seven 8 byte multi-processor links providing 360GB/s bandwidth to make balanced SMP systems scalable to 32 sockets.
Next let’s take a closer look at the POWER7 core.
The smaller P7 core provides additional performance over our previous generation Power6 core by:
Having a shorter wider pipeline with better utilization leveraging SMT4 and Out of order execution
The net is higher performance even with a smaller core in equivalent technology thus saving power.
Taking a look at the chip floor plan you can see.
Two fixed point pipelines.
The two LSU pipes, The load store pipes are also capable executing simple fixed point instructions.
FPU pipelines capable of 4 double precision multiply add operations per cycle or 8 flops/cycle. This unit also handles vector instructions.
The instruction fetch unit which also executes branch and condition register instructions.
The decimal floating point unit
&lt; A widened Instruction sequencing unit capable of dispatching 6 instructions per cycle including 2 branches and issuing up to 8 instructions per cycle.
&lt;click&gt; In POWER7 we took advantage of the out of order execution to switch from a dedicated recovery unit to a distributed one using the flush and refetch capability in the OOO machine.
The core caches on Power7 have been improved by making the L1 instruction and data cache 32KB and reducing the access time from 4 to 2 cycles and backing them with a 256KB L2 cache integrated with the core to be only 8 cycles away.
EP – cut backs
EX – enterprise
ITF will die
Itanic
Our RAS results are better because we start with a full systems view. We have very challenging for each element of RAS and we measure our systems performance. as we approach a new generation of Power, we attack those elements which have had the greatest impact on reliability, availability, or serviceability. we can do this because we design the HW, firmware and OS together.
Just as an example, look at the way we address processor execution errors. before an instruction executes, we save status information about the processor. if the instruction fails for any reason, we reload that status and retry the instruction using Processor Intstruction Retry. Most of the time, the instruction will work because most problems are intermittent caused by events like bombardment of the chip by alpha particles flipping a bit. This kind of event becomes more common as we make technology denser and the size of the alpha particles becomes larger relative to the distance between bits in execution reguisters. Some of the time, retry doesn’t work on the processor because it has a hard failure. In that case, if another processor is available, we use Alternate Processor Recovery andload the status into the other processor and try there to avoid any application outage. Hardware Instruction Retry requires cooperation between HW and firmware. Alternate Processor Recovery requires the additional cooperation of the OS. We develop all of them so we include that cooperation. Itanium and x86 systems have neither.
We have similar features throughout the system. As you can see in the chart above, if Xeon does get all the RAS features itanium has, it will be an improvement, but it will still leave Xeon based systems well behind Power systems.
Now let’s look at reliability, availability, and serviceability. A recent survey (independent - not vender funded) of 400 IT users worldwide by ITIC showed that the combination of AIX and Power Systems provides the best result in each of these categories.
Our availability is 99.997% - 2 ½ times the next best UNIX alternative and 10 times better than Windows on x86.
54% of IT execs surveyed say they need 99.99% availability or better. With these kind of results it is no wonder that more and more of them are choosing Power systems. Note that Solaris on SPARC has better availability than Linux on x86. If your client moves to x86, they will be taking a step backward.
To really put balanced performance into perspective, however, we have placed four of the leading performance results on this one chart. The telling statistic, however, is that regardless of workload, POWER7 technology performs. This means that regardless of your workload, POWER7 systems can deliver industry leading performance for your business. This means that you no longer have to buy specialized systems for different workloads. This means that you can feel safe in consolidating multiple workloads onto the p770, knowing that you will get the best possible performance for each of your applications
Virtualization without Limits increases flexibility and reduces costs:
Expanded system capability teamed with PowerVM’s performance, scalability and flexibility
Workload-optimizing systems improve service levels with assured performance:
PowerVM, Intelligent Threads and TurboCore mode enable you to optimize the performance of your workloads in a virtualized environment
Consolidation that delivers exponential ROI:
Industry’s leading performance, scalability and virtualization now unbounded with DB2 pureScale
Dynamic Energy Optimization that balances performance and efficiency:
&gt;3X increased performance per watt, new EnergyScale features integrated with Active Energy Manager
Resiliency without Downtime:
Non-disruptive application upgrades from POWER6 and the improvements to the road for Continuous Availability
Good morning. This morning I am going to take you through a presentation that cover the POWER7 Express rack and tower roll out. With a focus on the products being announced in Feb.. I will talk about how there positioned and how they compared to legacy Power products as well as competitive servers.
There will be a session with Patrick O’rourke tomorrow morning that will go into technical detail on all POWER7 offering and features.
Ian…FAST flash
The Power 755 is a 4 socket, 4U rack-optimized server supporting 8-core POWER7 processors and up to 256GB of memory. The Power 755 is a high performance compute node targeted at small to mid-size clusters. It delivers better than 3X improvement in power than current power offerings.
POWER7 processors support AltiVec™ instruction set and extended VSX SIMD (single instruction multiple data) acceleration which can execute up to eight single-precision or double-precision floating point operations per clock cycle per core to improve fine-grained parallelism and accelerate data processing.
IBM HPC software stack has the development tools, libraries, file systems and system management software necessary to administer a Power 755 server cluster.
There will be a HPC technical session on the Power 755 on Wed..