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IBM Power Systems 12th January 2017

Presented by David SpurwayIBM Power Systems Product ManagerIBM Systems, UK and Ireland

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OpenPOWER drives industry innovation

The OpenPOWER Foundation creates an open ecosystem, using the POWER Architecture to share expertise, investment, and

server-class intellectual property to serve the evolving needs of customers.

Performance of leading POWER architecture Broadens the capability and performance of the POWER platform

Collaboration across multiple thought leadersCollaborative development model drives collective thought leadership, simultaneously across multiple disciplines

Open DevelopmentOpenPOWER enables greater innovation through both open software and open hardware

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OpenPOWER Open Interfaces

OpenPOWER open interfaces enable an unbeatable innovation pace

CAPI

NVLink40 GB/s

CAPI16 GB/s

POWER8Memory Interface Control

ServerClass

Memory

DMI

IBM andPartner Devices

GPU

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Workload Accelerators and Power

Field ProgrammableGate Array

GraphicsProcessingUnit

DescriptionReconfigurable hardware

Task customized, low latency, low power

1000s of simple cores

High bandwidth, floating point, and parallelism

ExampleUse Cases

Compression, encryption, high speed streaming, search, Monte Carlo simulations

Deep neural networks, speech recognition, chemistry, simulations, JAVA, Hadoop, graphics

Power ChipIntegration

Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) NVIDIA NVLink

*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.

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GPUs are like minions

The individual cores in a GPU are not very powerful

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/

But gather loads together, and remarkable things can happen!

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The Mythbusters explain GPUs – click image below!

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Power Systems and NVIDIA GPU Roadmap

NVIDIA GPU NVIDIA GPU with NVLink

2015

Power Chip Power Chipwith NVLink*

2016*

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80 GB/sPeak*

PCIe x1632 GB/s

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FPGAs are like Wolverine…

• Really good at doing one thing

• Only does one thing, just really fast

• Unlike Wolverine, can be reprogrammed to change what it does–This takes a particular set of skills,

which many of the OpenPOWER Foundation member have

• Can work alongside more general computational elements, and maybe other FPGAs–Like the X-Men!

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Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface

Non-CAPI

Off-ChipAccelerator

Core

Memory

PC

I

CAPI

FPGAw/CAPI

AcceleratorP8Core

Memory

PC

I

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Some LEGO and more family

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From Dragons to Dragen…

http://www.edicogenome.com/dragen/

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Edico Genome

https://www-304.ibm.com/events/tools/interconnect/2016ems/REST/presentations/PDF/InterConnect2016_7052.pdf

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IBM OpenPOWER Server with DRAGEN

https://www-304.ibm.com/events/tools/interconnect/2016ems/REST/presentations/PDF/InterConnect2016_7052.pdf

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DRAGEN Hybrid Cloud

https://www-304.ibm.com/events/tools/interconnect/2016ems/REST/presentations/PDF/InterConnect2016_7052.pdf

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Questions?David Spurway – IBM Power Systems Product ManagerEmail: david.spurway@uk.ibm.comPhone: 07717 892 896Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube

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Treasure Wild Ducks

"We are convinced that any business needs its wild ducks. And in IBMwe try not to tame them.“

• Some IBMers

• Some Customers–IBM Centennial Film Wild Ducks Celebrating 100 years of Visionary Clients

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbGcJiaUC-M

• http://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/wild-ducks-podcast/

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Thank you!David Spurway – IBM Power Systems Product ManagerEmail: david.spurway@uk.ibm.comPhone: 07717 892 896Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube