AMDs SeaMicro Technology: The Data Center Computer Platform

AMD'S SEAMICRO TECHNOLOGY The Data Center Computer Platform

Andrew Feldman

September 10, 2012

| SeaMicro | Sept 10, 2012

REVOLUTIONIZING DATA CENTER ECONOMICS

Solve the data center’s most important

problems: power, space and bandwidth

Servers that use 1/4 the power, take 1/6 the

space, and deliver 16x the bandwidth of

today’s best in class servers

Plug and play x86: requires no

modifications to software


SEAMICRO HAS DEFINED INNOVATION IN THE SERVER MARKET

Invented the micro server

First to bring small core servers to market

First to use super computing fabric

First to use single socket large cores

Achieve millions of hours production deployment

June 2010

Launch SM10000

• Redefines the server market

• Most energy efficient server

ever built

Feb 2011

Launch SM10000-64

• Adds 64 bit capabilities

• Doubles OS

addressable memory

• Reduces best in class

power draw by 25%

July 2011

Launch SM10000-64HD

• Builds on the

SM10000-64 foundation

• 1.5 X compute density

• Further reduces best in class

power draw by up to 20%

January 2012

Launch SM10000-XE

• The most energy efficient Xeon®

server every built

• Based on Freedom™ ASIC

• 2nd generation Freedom super

compute Fabric


YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE


TODAYS ANNOUNCEMENTS

A New Server Platform: the SeaMicro SM15000™

– Optimized for big data and cloud

– Combines best in class energy efficiency,

density and bandwidth

– Fully virtualized storage enables the Freedom

Fabric to extend outside the chassis

– Enables a single SM15000 to support 5

petabytes of storage

New compute card (motherboard) with AMD

Opteron™ processor with new “Piledriver” core

New Compute Card with Intel®

“Ivy Bridge” processor


THE DATA CENTER OF THE PAST AND PRESENT

Past

Pointed at Employees

Few Users

Present

Pointed at Customers

Millions of Users

Complex Work Simple Compute

Small Data Big Data

Easy to Schedule; Compute Resources Fully Occupied

Bursty Traffic; Servers Often in Low Utilization/Idle

Simple Traffic Patterns (North-South)

Complex Traffic Patterns (East-West)


SERVERS FAILED TO ADAPT, CREATING THE

POWER AND SPACE ISSUES

Failed to see compute, storage and networking

as intertwined pieces of a single solution

Traditional servers: Too big, too power hungry,

insufficient bandwidth

Storage an afterthought

– Capacity—Big data needs big storage

– Flexibility in compute to storage ratio

– Utilization—storage is expensive, disks

must be fully utilize


DIRECT ATTACHED STORAGE MODEL

PROS

Simple to deploy

Inexpensive

No learning curve

CONS

Poor utilization

Inflexible

Does not scale

Cannot share

SERVER

SERVER


…LED TO ENTERPRISE STORAGE MARKET

PROS

Shared storage

Scalable

Efficient utilization

High performance

CONS

Very expensive

Specialized skill needed

Complex

HBA HBA HBA

SERVER SERVER SERVER

NAS

NAS

SERVER

$$S $$

TCP/IP

SWITCH

SAN

$$S FC

SWITCH


SAN/NAS HAS FAILED TO DELIVER ON ITS PROMISE

PROMISE REALITY

Reduced hardware acquisition

costs with increased utilization

Less complexity with

consistent management

Better performance

Low utilization (20%-40%)

means high infrastructure costs

Vendor heterogeneity

increases complexity

Limited workload sharing and

application islands


IN THE PAST SAN BENEFITS + DAS PRICING WAS A PIPEDREAM


NOW IT’S A REALITY: SAN FUNCTIONALITY, DAS PRICING

ADVANTAGES

DAS cost and simplicity

Limitless compute:

storage combinations

Enterprise utilization

and scale

No special skills or

software required

SM 15K

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its

Up to 5PB

Storage

S1

S2

S3

Freedom Fabric

Server 3

Server 2

Server 1


ENTER THE SM15000 AND FABRIC STORAGE

“A BIG DATA CLUSTER IN 10 RACK UNIT BOX”

64 compute card slots

– Supporting large and small core

processors of any instruction set

Freedom supercompute Fabric

– Now supports 5 petabytes of storage

– 1,408 disks HDD/SSD

– Thousands of cores can share the storage

Industry leading energy efficiency, density

and bandwidth

Runs off the shelf OS, hypervisors

Creating the industry’s premier compute +

storage cluster


SECRET SAUCE:

THE FREEDOM FABRIC EXTENDS OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

Based on patented IO/Virtualization and Freedom Fabric

Storage technology

Extends the Freedom Fabric outside the system enclosure

– Configure up to 5 petabytes of storage to single SM15000

– Accessible by all CPUs in the system

– Full flexibility in the ratio of compute to storage

– Massive resiliency and redundancy

– Creating the industry’s premier compute + storage cluster

Massive density and low power, now with best in class

external storage

– Acts like an advanced SAN at a fraction of the price

– Ideal for big data like Hadoop and cloud environments


SM15000 LEADS THE INDUSTRY IN STORAGE CAPACITY

5 PETABYTE CLUSTER COMPARISON

6 Racks

112 2 RU Dual Socket Octal Core “Sandy Bridge”

Servers each w/12 3.5” SATA/SAS Disks

224 OS/Big Data SW Licenses

12 10GbE Switches

6 Terminal Servers

224 Power Cables, 248 Networking cables

40 KW

2 Racks (1/3 the space)

1 SM 15000 + 16 Freedom Fabric Storage

Enclosures

64 OS/Big Data SW Licenses

38 power cords. 32 Fabric Extender Cables

20 KW

1/2 the Price


A NEW GENERATION OF COMPUTE IN THE SM15000 INNOVATION COMBINE WITH INDUSTRY LEADING EXECUTION

Opteron processor-based solutions for big data and the

cloud

– Only single socket server supporting 64 GB

of DRAM

– High density, power efficiency, plus the DRAM

needed for heavily virtualized environments

Most efficient Intel Xeon Ivy/Sandy Bridge server

ever built

– Improved on our own record

– Built the most efficient Xeon server ever–by 27%


SM15000: 512 OPTERON "Piledriver" CORES IN 10 RU OPTERON PROCESSORS BASED ON THE NEW PILE DRIVER CORE

64 sockets, each with a new Octal core Opteron

processor: 64-bit, x86, 2.0/2.3/2.8 GHz

512 cores in 10 RU; 2,048 cores in a rack

DRAM: 64GB/socket; 4 terabytes/system,

– Industry leading DRAM density: 400 GB/RU


10 GigE bandwidth to each socket

16 x 10GbE uplinks

Supports 1,408 drives, linking up to 5 petabytes of

fabric storage

Runs standard OS including Windows, Linux and

VMware and Citrix hypervisors


SM10000-XE2: 256 XEON "Ivy Bridge" CORES IN 10 RU INTEL™ XEON PROCESSORS BASED ON IVY BRIDGE MICROARCHITECTURE

64 sockets, each with a quad core Intel Xeon

Ivy Bridge E3-1265Lv2 CPU: 64-bit, x86, 2.5/ 3.1GHz

256 cores in 10 RU; 1,024 cores in a rack

DRAM: 32GB/socket; 2 terabytes DRAM/system


– 10 GigE bandwidth to each socket

– Links up to 5 petabytes of fabric storage

16 x 10GbE uplinks

Runs standard OS including Windows, Linux and

supports VMware, Citrix


COMPARISON SM15000 WITH IVY BRIDGE AND WITH OPTERON

SM15000 with AMD Opteron

“Piledriver” cores

SM15000 with Intel Xeon “Ivy

Bridge” cores

Cores/System 512 256

Cores/Rack 2,024 1,024

DRAM/Socket 64 GB 32 GB

DRAM/System 4,096 GB 2,048 GB

DRAM/Rack 16,384 GB 8,192 GB

Freedom Fabric Bandwidth 1.28 Terabits 1.28 Terabits

Storage Capacity 5 Petabytes 5 Petabytes


The Data Center As A System: The SM15000 Beyond the Piecemeal

A Simple Solution For a Complex Problem

Data center is an integrated system & solutions must contemplate entire set of requirements

– compute, storage, connectivity as well as space, power efficiency

SM15000 brings together, compute, massive storage, fabric based connectivity

– Enables support 1,408 disks (HDD/SSD), more than 5 petabytes of storage

– Extends the Freedom Fabric to outside the chassis

– Benefits of a SAN, price of direct attached storage, premier compute + storage cluster

Freedom Fabric provides only fabric linking all brands of CPUs, instruction sets

– Next generation octal core Opteron based on the new “Piledriver” core

Supports 512 cores and 4 terabytes of DRAM in 10 rack units

– Next generation quad core Xeon based on the “Ivy Bridge” microarchitecture

Supports 256 cores and 2 terabytes of DRAM, in 10 rack units


SEAMICRO CONTINUES TO DEFINE INNOVATION REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY FACILITATES RAPID INNOVATION

June 2010

SM10000

Most energy efficient

server ever built

Feb 2011

SM10000-64

Reduces best in

class power draw

by 25% + 64-bit

support

July 2011

SM10000-64HD

1.5x compute density

Reduce power draw

by 20%

January 2012

SM10000-XE

Most energy efficient large

core server

Freedom™ super

compute fabric

September 2012

Fabric Storage

Opteron and Ivy Bridge

Most energy efficient large

core server

Highest density

storage solution


THANK YOU

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