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PowerLinux Trends and Directions

Jeff Scheel – IBM PowerLinux Chief Engineer

October 2013

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PowerLinux Trends & Directions (pOX603)

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Agenda

Year in reviewLooking forwardWrapup



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Year in review



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2011 was The year of “Thinking PowerLinux”

2012 was The year of PowerLinux

2013 is The year of PowerLinux 'WOW!'



5

Linux supports all Power Systems servers

Power 720

Power 730

Power 710

Power 740

Power 750

PowerLinuxTM 7R2

PowerLinuxTM 7R1

Power 760

Power 770

Power 780Power 795

Industry standard Linux Red Hat and SUSE versions consistent with x86 64 Support available simultaneously with other platforms

Optimized to exploit workload advantages of POWER7+ and PowerVM

Virtualization, Performance, POWER7+ RAS

Broadest choice of Linux servers Entry and mid-range servers and up to 32-socket Power 795 Linux only: PowerLinux 7R1/7R2 & Flex System p24L New POWER7+ support

IBM Flex System p460

IBM Flex System p260

IBM Flex System p24L

Virtualization & Mgmt.

PowerLinuxTM 7R4

2013 provided POWER7+ refreshes to all systems but 795



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PowerLinux IS RHEL and SLESSUSE and Red Hat Enterprise versions supporting POWER7:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11• Full support of POWER7 (native mode)• Earliest supported release: SLES 11 base• Last update: SP3 GA July 2013

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10* • Enabled for POWER7 in P6-compatibility mode• Earliest supported release: SP3• Last update: SP4 GA April 2011

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 • Full support of POWER7 (native mode)• Earliest supported release: RHEL 6 base• Last update: U4 GA February 2013

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5*• Enabled for POWER7 in P6-compatibility mode• Earliest supported release: U5• Last update: U9 GA January 2013

* SLES 10 and RHEL 5 will not be supported on POWER7+ systems

➢Built from the same source as x86➢Delivered on the same schedule as x86➢Supported at the same time as x86



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POWER7+ Processors & ArchitectureDeliver up to 40% more performance, ideal for data

and real-time business analytics workloadsDeliver up to 40% more performance, ideal for data

and real-time business analytics workloads

Greater Scalability and Flexibility20 Virtual Machines per coreElastic Capacity on Demand

Faster Performance10 MB L3 Cacheup to 4.4 GHz POWER7+ processorsMemory Compression Accelerator Random number generatorEnhanced Single Precision Floating Point performanceEnhanced GX system bus

Better AvailabilitySelf-healing capability for L3 Cache functionsDynamic processor fabric bus repairProcessor re-initializationHardware encryption support

More Energy EfficientDelivering 5x more performance per wattEnhanced energy / power gating

Linux exploitation underwaySLES 11 SP3 exploits RNG and EncryptionNo RHEL exploitation yetAccelerators being enabled in Fedora 20 will have compression

accelerator. Enterprise distros to follow.

POWER7+ 32 nm

SMP Fabric

SMP Fabric

L3 Cache L3 Cache

L3 Cache L3 Cache

Core

L2

Core

L2

GX

Bus

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Core

L2

Acc

Eng

Power Bus

Core

L2

MC

MC



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Linux leadership SAP SD 2-Tier performance for 2-processor servers with POWER7+

Delivering robust performance for Linux

based SAP SD Solutions

IBM PowerLinux

7R2Beats all x86 16-core Linux

or Windowsresults

The performance and robustness of POWER7+ with the economics Linux 22% better than best published 16-core Linux Xeon result on the latest

SAP SD 2-Tier benchmark (ERP 6.0 _EHP5) with 16-core, 4.22 GHz PowerLinux 7R2

(1) IBM PowerLinux 7R2 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 16 cores / 64 threads, POWER7+ 4.22 GHz, 256 GB memory, 8,016 SD benchmark users, running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 and DB2® 10, dialog resp.: 0.98s, line items/hour: 876,000, Dialog steps/hour: 2,628,000 SAPS: 43,800, DB time (dialog/ update): .020s/.018s, CPU utilization: 99%, Certification #: certification number not available at press time and can be found at sap.com/benchmark. Results valid as of 02/05/2013. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.

(2) (2) Cisco UCS B200 M3: two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark; SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 16 cores / 32 threads, Intel Xeon E5-2690 processor 2.90 GHz, 256 GB memory, 6,530 SD benchmark users, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and Sybase ASE 15.7, Certification #: 2013001

22% more users than

best Linux

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/index.html

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/



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PowerLinux has leadership performance on Java

Sources: http://www.spec.org, http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html

3,837,707

2,811,9582,760,858

1,877,2641,584,567

0

400,000

800,000

1,200,000

1,600,000

2,000,000

2,400,000

2,800,000

3,200,000

3,600,000

4,000,000

4-socketPOWER7+

4-socket SandyBridge

4-socketWestmere-EX

2-socketPOWER7+


SPECjbb2005

36%

18%

39%

➢4-socket Power 7+ 39% better than best Westmere for non-virtualized Java workload➢4-socket Power 7+ 36% better than best Sandy Bridge for non-virtualized Java workload➢2-socket Power 7+ 18% better than best Sandy Bridge for non-virtualized Java workload

http://www.spec.org/

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html



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PowerLinuxTM

7R2PowerLinux

TM

7R1•1-socket, 2U•POWER7+ processor•Up to 8 cores•256 GB memory•Linux only

•2-socket, 2U•POWER7+ processor•Up to 16 cores•512 GB memory•Linux only

•4-socket, 5U•Up to 32 POWER7+ cores•1 TB memory•Hot-swap PCI adapters•Linux only

PowerLinuxTM

7R4

Power 770

IFL

Power 780

IFL

Power 795

IFL

PowerLinux ITEs

1, 2 and 4-socket

Power Enterprise IFLs

PureFlex

PureFlex

Customers value initial cost of acquisition

Customers value enterprise class

features, robustness Customers value

integrated infrastructure

NewStatement

ofDirection

New Linux on Power Systems Offering Portfolio for July 30th




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TCA pricing of Power vs. Intel x86 for Linux is comparable

PowerLinux 7R4 vs. HP DL580 G7(Comparable 4-socket server w/ virtualization & Red Hat)

PowerLinux 7R1 vs. Dell R720(Comparable 1-socket server w/ virtualization & Red Hat)

PowerLinux 7R2 vs. HP DL380 G8(Comparable 2-socket server w/ virtualization & Red Hat)

Power IFLs vs. Intel x86 scale out

8-cores 16-cores

32-cores



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Operating systems: SLES 11 SP2 and RHEL 6.4 or laterSystem Software:PowerVM for PowerLinux included

Launch Date: July 30, 2013

GA Date: August 23, 2013

* 3 additional processor offerings will be provided via i-Listed RPQs 8A2129, 8A2130, 8A2131 available on 7/30/13.

PowerLinux 7R1 PowerLinux 7R2 PowerLinux 7R4Planar/ Form factor 1 Socket/ 2U 2 Socket/ 2U 4 Socket/5U

Processor Offerings (SCM)

4-Core @ 3.6 GHz 6-Core @ 4.2 GHz 8-Core @ 4.2 GHz

16-Core @ 3.6 GHz 16-Core @ 4.2 GHz 32-core @ 3.5GHz*

DDR3 Memory features4 / 8 / 16 / 32 GB DIMMs

32GB to 256B

4 / 8 / 16 / 32 GB DIMMs

32GB to 512GB

8/16/32 GB

32GB to 1024GBMax Disk Drives ( sys unit +i/O drawer )/ storage

270/243TB ( L1T ) 378/ 340TB ( L2T ) 1320/ 1,171 TB

Max. PCIe 12XI/O drdw N/A 2 ( L2T ) 4

Max. PCI slots ( system unit + 12X I/O drwrs )

5 PCIe 5 + 20 PCIe ( L2T) 6 + 40 PCIe

GX++ Slots One Two TwoIntergrated Ethernet Required Quad Port 10/100/1000 in PCIe 4x slot 4 @1Gbps or 2 @10GbpsI/O Drawer N/A Up to TWO 12x-Attach I/O Up to Four 12x-Attach I/OMax Logical Partition

( 20 per core )160 320 640

Redundant Power/Cooling Option/Standard Standard/Standard Standard/Standard

Integrated split backplane No No Yes

EnergyScale Yes

Warranty 3 years 3 years3 years

(via 1 + 2 similar to Power 750)

Power Systems Linux-only Servers: 7R1/7R2/7R4



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New Linux SWG and ISV Apps for Analytics, Database Cognos BI for Business Analytics EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server Open source-based database, enterprise performance, security

Built-in Oracle compatibility and database migration toolkit Dramatically lower TCO (< 1/10th the cost of Oracle !)

New Linux System for data intense and Java workloads IBM PowerLinux 7R4

Similar to Watson, built on 4-socket Power 750+ running Linux Java Application Workhorse with WebSphere Uncompromising Linux Database Server for Choice

DB2 and Informix for clients standardizing on Linux Premier Analytics Engine for Linux

Next Gen Applications Big Data & Analytics


Cognitive computingCognitive computing Open Platform for Choice

Open Platform for Choice

Statement of Direction• Dedicated Linux workload capacity for Power 770, 780, 795

Linux Announcements from July 2013: More choice for clients by delivering next generation apps on an open platform



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$100,722

$252,814

$0

$50,000

$100,000

$150,000

$200,000

$250,000

$300,000

PowerLinux 7R4 SPARC T5-2

Total 3-yr TCO

$51,755

$20,000

$62,874

$76,000

$0

$20,000

$40,000

$60,000

$80,000

$100,000

$120,000

$140,000

PowerLinux 7R4 SPARC T5-2

Total TCA

SW TCA

HW TCA

EnterpriseDB vs. OracleCompelling savings with open technology database on PowerLinux 7R4

EnterpriseDB $5,000 / socket 4 sockets Annual subscrip. No discount 94% lower

software TCA

Oracle EE $47,500 / core 32 cores 22% / yr SWMA 90% discount 447% higher

software TCO

94% lower total TCA

vs. SPARC w/ Oracle

151%

lower 3-year TCO vs.

SPARC w/ Oracle

Compelling savings with EnterpriseDB on PowerLinux 7R4



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Power IFL: Addressing Client Needs in the Changing Landscape

Private Cloud

Co-Location

QOS

Simplified Ops

Policy Group1Policy Group1 Policy Group 2Policy Group 2

Power IFL

Messaging ESB

Security Services

File Services

CUoD Activations: 4 cores32 GB memory4 PowerVM EE licenses

Announced 10/7 on Power 770, 780 & 795



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• Big Data: InfoSphere BigInsights, InfoSphere Streams

• Data services: DB2®, Informix, InfoSphere™

• Business application middleware: WebSphere Application Server, WAS Liberty Profile, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Commerce, …

• Infrastructure services: WebSphere MQSeries®, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, DB2 Connect™, FTP, NFS, DNS, Firewall, Proxy

• Development and test: e.g. of WebSphere®/Java or HPC applications – WAS Liberty Profile, Rational® ClearCase/Quality Manager/Team Concert, IBM XL C/C++, XL Fortran, ESSL (optimized math subroutine libraries for POWER7+)

• Mobile – Worklight, WAS Liberty Profile, IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator

• Social: WebSphere Portal, IBM Web Content Manager

• Enterprise Content Management: IBM Web Content Manager, WebSphere Portal

• High Availability, Security: Tivoli® System Automation for Multiplatforms, IBM Security Identity Manager

Source: IBM Market Intelligence Mar2012 Percentage of survey respondents

140+ SWG Products available for Linux on Power today and growing each month.

SWG Apps available for Linux on Power by Usage



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How are we selling PowerLinux to Partners, Customers, etc?



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PowerLinux wins and reference examples

Online Auto Maint. Scheduling

High speed train signal processing

SAP HostingComp. Fluid Dynamics

Online Retailer

IDC for Mobile Apps

Big Data Collaboration

Financial Trading

Secure Data Backup

Big Data for National Security

Smartphone Apps

Big Data Analytics (blue)

Java / WebSphere Applications (black)

Industry Application Solutions (green)

WAS J2EE apps - Linux & AIX

Local ISVPublic Safety

CAMP Solutions

Java Apps, Big Data, Local ISVs, Cloud

Online Banking

SUNGARDFinancial Systems

Learn more about how Linux solutions on Power can help your businesshttp://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/powerlinux/index.html

Big Data Collab.

Online Shopping

Mobile Customer Billing Records Analysis

Case Study for the Univ of Hamburg Case Study for IT Informatik Case Study for Kwik Fit Case Study for Golf Digest (internal SSI) Case Study for Pneuhage

Case Study for City of Frankfurt Housing Case Study for Energen Video for NCSU – Smarter Computing Video for NCSU – Big Data

Infrastruct. Services Linux & AIX

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/powerlinux/index.html

http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=AB&infotype=PM&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&htmlfid=POC03088USEN&attachment=POC03088USEN.PDF



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tlVlx3qBhU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BO0s51XOpE





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OpenPOWER Consortium: Comprehensive focus on choice and Power Ecosystem

Collaborative innovation for highly advanced servers, subsystems, components

Produce open hardware, software, firmware and tools

Leverage complementary skills and investment to enhance Power ecosystem

Provide alternative architectures

Become operational this year

OpenPOWERConsortium

OpenPOWERConsortium

Deployment on premise or via cloud; seamless upgrades enabled via OpenStack

Simplified management spanning platform, virtualization and cloud environments

Consistent management experience across racks, blades and PureFlex

Open Management

Open Management

Open Applications

and Tools

Open Applications

and Tools

Access to industry innovation from a broad development community around Open Source

Optimize popular scripting languages & open development tools for Linux on Power

Contribute innovation to Linux, KVM and OpenStack for enhanced enterprise capability

JavaScript



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The latest announce: Another $1B for PowerLinux

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/ibm-and-linux-the-next-billion-dollars-7000020757/

...IBM has been moving towards making Linux more important on its flagship Unix/AIX Power Systems over the last year. In May 2012, IBM

introduced its first Linux-only Power Systems, the Power 7 rack and blade

servers. Then, this year, IBM introduced a new high-end Power Linux system, 7R4 server. This was quickly followed by IBM

porting Linux's native virtualization, KVM, to Power and IBM, Google, and Nvidia

founding the OpenPower Consortium to open up the Power chip family to other

vendors. ...

On September 17, IBM will announce at LinuxCon 2013 that

it will invest $1 billion in new Linux and open-source

technologies for its Power Systems servers....

http://www.zdnet.com/ibm-and-linux-the-next-billion-dollars-7000020757/



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Year in review



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Looking forward



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PowerLinux general priorities

1.Exploit Power Systems platform with Linux and other open source projects– Support the Red Hat and SUSE roadmaps– Enable the next generation of Power Systems and processors

2.Grow Power Linux Ecosystem– Leverage The PowerLinux developerWorks community for documentation, social

networking, and support of customers and developers– Exploit Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn channels for information flow– Engage community distributions to enable quick time-to-market for new technology– Continue to make physical and/or virtual systems available to developers/ISVs

3.Reduce PowerLinux “time-to-value” for customers, ISVs, Business Partners– Simplified Setup Tool for easy-setup, quick tuning of common solutions– SDK for application development, porting, tuning– Blueprints, whitepapers, videos, TPL collateral

4.Focus Power Linux solutions on the strategic solutions– Virtualized Application Services– Big Data– Watson exploitation/productization– Opensource clouds– Others as identified



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IBM PowerLinux has Linux “release parity”Today

20072004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Standard Release Support Extended Release Support Self-support Release/updateSee for more details:Red Hat lifecycle information - https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/SUSE lifecycle information - http://support.novell.com/inc/lifecycle/linux.html

SLES 9 (9/04)

RHEL 4 (2/05)

SLES 10 (7/06)

RHEL 6 (11/10)

RHEL 5 (3/07)

SLES 11 (3/09)

Distributor release cadence suggests both vendors should have major releases on the horizon.



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Work continues on AME for PowerLinux...kernel enabled with zswapFedora 20 will have first phase of AME enabled with zswap. Enterprise distros to follow.



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The POWER8 processor is coming

See the Hot Chips – POWER8 discussed article in the PowerLinux developerWorks community for more details

Larger Caching Structures vs. POWER7 • 2x L1 data cache (64 KB)• 2x outstanding data cache

misses• 4x translation Cache

Wider Load/Store• 32B 64B L2 to L1 data bus• 2x data cache to execution

dataflow

Enhanced Prefetch• Instruction speculation

awareness• Data prefetch depth awareness• Adaptive bandwidth awareness• Topology awareness

Execution Improvementvs. POWER7• 8 cores 12 cores• SMT4 SMT8• 8 dispatch, 10 issue• 16 execution pipes• Larger Issue queues• Larger global completion,

Load/Store reorder• Improved branch prediction• Improved unaligned storage

access

Core Performance vs . POWER7~1.6x Single Thread

~2x Max SMT

Accelerators• Crypto & memory expansion• Transactional Memory • VMM assist • Data Move / VM Mobility

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/hot_chips_power8_discussed?lang=en

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32



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New GNU tools available in Advanced Toolchain

More details at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/ibm_advance_toolchain_for_powerlinux_7_0_0_released?lang=en

POWER8 already enabled in the latest FSF

toolchain

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Power Systems is delivering industry standard Linux Open and Collaborative.....enabling a new conversation

http://ibm.e-press.com.cn/wio/v/id/7277638


Faster cube load*

Faster Database Query*

Faster with Dynamic Cube aggregates

* Based on beta testing – not yet quantified for public use

80x80x

20x20x

18x18x

DynamicQuery

CompatibleQuery

DynamicCubes

DynamicCubesDynamic

QueryCompatible

Query

DynamicCubes

DynamicCubesDynamic

QueryCompatible

Query

DynamicCubes

DynamicCubesDynamic

QueryCompatible

Query

DynamicCubes

DynamicCubes

DB2 on Power for SAP is 3x faster and reduces cost (Link) DB2 on Power for SAP is 3x faster and reduces cost (Link)

DB2 with BLU Acceleration to speed decisions (Link) DB2 with BLU Acceleration to speed decisions (Link)

Power Ecosystem Partners

Power Ecosystem Partners



Cognitive computingCognitive computing Open Platform for Choice


OpenPOWER Consortium

IBM InfoSphere BigInsights

Powered by

North Carolina State University equipping students, businesses with Big Data skills (Video link)

North Carolina State University equipping students, businesses with Big Data skills (Video link)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qma5TMpxtCYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qma5TMpxtCY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qma5TMpxtCYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qma5TMpxtCY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQdgpbDmtZ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQdgpbDmtZ8



http://hadoop.apache.org/



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Watson was the beginning of what’s possible with Linux on Power


OpenPOWER Consortium



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PowerLinux is tracking a rich set of emerging technologies

Established– Grub2 (now used in Fedora 17, will be in openSUSE 13.1)– Eclipse framework– Helgrind, Valgrind– Linux Tools Project– SRIOV

Maturing– Hadoop– KVM– OpenStack

Emerging– User-space checkpoint/restart– LLVM– OpenJDK– Transcendent memory (tmem, cleancache, frontswap, zcache)– Transactional memory– V8 and other Javascript engines– Node.js, MongoDB, MariaDB



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PowerLinux will enable open source virtualization with KVM in 2014

Firmware

Linux-based KVMPowerVM

IBM Mgmt SW

Director /VMControl(PowerVM)

Existing Stack Additional New Stack

Hypervisor /Firmware

Sys MgmtSoftware

Smart CloudSmart Cloud CloudSoftware

OperatingSystem

XCAT

Preliminary KVM details:a) Virtualizes selected systems – entry models, Linux-onlyb) Extends Power virtualization to lightweight, x86-like solutionsc) Executes directly on hardware, not nested virtualization in an LPARd) Supports system “migration” to PowerVM via early boot-time selections

(configurable)e) Runs without an HMC, IVM, or VIOSf) Embraces opensource clouds and other virtualization SW through standard interfaces

like oVirt (VDSM) and OpenStackg) Holds potential to reduce number of hypervisors in the datacenter



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KVM on Power Management Architecture

Power Platform

Firmware

Qemu

VM1RHEL

VM2SLES

LibvirtAPI & virsh CLI

Linux Kernel

KV

MH

ost

oVirt node Interface(VDSM)

ConsoleShell CLI

Linux UserspaceOpenstackEnd-node

componentsoVirt- engine

Openstackcontroller

XcatChef

PuppetCustom scripts

Kimchi

BrowserOr

Client

CLI / IPMIFSP

KVM

VM3Fedora



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Wrap-up



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Learn more about PowerLinux

The PowerLinux Community(developerWorks)

Power Systems Linux Portal

(Product Information)

www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/

www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/

@thinkpowerlinux plus.google.com/communities/100156952249293416679

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/

http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/

http://twitter.com/#!/@thinkpowerlinux


http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/

http://twitter.com/#!/@thinkpowerlinux

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl/%20




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Summary

2013 for PowerLinux has been a great yearPOWER7+ updates to Power Systems and IBM

PowerLinux serversNew solutions like EnterpriseDB4-socket 7R4 systemOpenPower ConsortiumCommitment of additional $1B to PowerLinuxIBM is now beginning to lead with PowerLinux!!!

2014 will be a busy yearNew Power Systems technologiesPreparing for the next major releases from Linux distros

(AME for PowerLinux)KVM on POWER with OpenStackFocus on emerging open source technologies



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Backup Sections


IBM PowerLinux 7R4 pricing comparison ($US)

* Based on US pricing for PowerLinux 7R4 announced matching configuration table below. Source: hp.com, vmware.com

Server Model HP Proliant DL560 G8 HP Proliant DL580 G7 IBM PowerLinux 7R4

Processor / Cores / Memory 4-socket / 2.7GHz / 32-core 4-socket / 2.4GHz / 40-core 4-socket / 3.5GHz / 32-core

Configuration 256GB RAM 256 GB RAM

Server list price*-3-year warranty, on-site $30,968 $33,321 $40,361

Virtualization- OTC + 3yr. 9x5 SWMA

$22,724VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.1


$15,680 PowerVM for IBM PowerLinux

Linux OS list price - RHEL, 2 sockets, unlimited guests, 9x5, 3 yr. sub./ supp.

$11,394Red Hat subscription and Red

Hat support


Hat support


Hat support

TCA(Total cost of acquisition)

$65,086 $67,439 $67,435

Comparable TCA

Linux on Intel x86 with VMware

Vs. Linux on Power7+

with PowerVM Westmere

HP ProLiant DL560 G8


IBM PowerLinux 7R4

$65,086 $67,439 $67,435






* Based on US pricing for PowerLinux 7R2 announced matching configuration table below. Source: hp.com, dell.com, vmware.com

Comparable TCA



with PowerVM

Dell PowerEdgeR720


IBM PowerLinux 7R2

$26,244 $27,707 $23,957

Server list price*-3-year warranty, on-site $10,483 $11,946 $11,628



$ 10,064

VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.1

$7,840 PowerVM for IBM PowerLinux

Linux OS list price - RHEL, 2 sockets, unlimited guests, 9x5, 3 yr. sub./ supp.


Hat support


Hat support

$4,489Red Hat subscription and IBM

support

Total list price: (Total cost of acquisition) $26,244 $27,707 $23,957

Server model Dell R720 HP Proliant DL380p G8

IBM PowerLinux 7R2

Processor / cores Two 2.9 GHz , E5-2690, Sandy Bridge, 8-core processors Two 4.2 GHz POWER7+, 8-core

Configuration 32 GB memory, 2 x 147GB HDD, 10 Gb two port Same memory, HDD, NIC






* Based on US pricing for PowerLinux 7R2 announced matching configuration table below. Source: hp.com, dell.com, vmware.com

Comparable TCA



with PowerVM

Dell PowerEdgeR720

IBM PowerLinux 7R1

$16,935 $15,404

Server list price* $6,206 $6,995


$5,032

VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.1

$3,920PowerVM for IBM PowerLinux

Linux OS list price - RHEL, 1-2 sockets, unlimited guests, 9x5, 3 yr. sub./ supp.

$5,697Red Hat subscription and RH support

$4,489Red Hat subscription, IBM supp.

Total list price: (Total cost of acquisition)

$16,935 $15,404

Server model Dell R720

IBM PowerLinux 7R1

Processor / cores One 2.9 GHz , E5-2690, Sandy Bridge, 8-core proc. One 4.2 GHz POWER7+, 8-core

# of sockets (processors) 32 GB memory, 2 x 300GB HDD, 1 Gb 4-port Same memory, HDD, NIC





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PowerLinux 7R4 ( 8248-L4T )- High Performance, Open Technology Server for large scale, business critical Data Intense and Java application workloads

Java Application Workhorse– Run more virtualized Java workloads per server

on WebSphere and PowerVM with scale-up capacity to handle the most intense, demanding applications for mobile and web clients

Uncompromising Linux Database Server– Exploit the uncompromising performance and

scalability of proven POWER7+ for your most demanding, Open Source and commercial databases running on Linux

Premier Analytics Engine for Linux– Scale-up with the platform behind Watson to

provide a premier engine for analytics and datamarts with Cognos BI to complement your scale-out Hadoop clusters


Leadership Java performance on Power

- 4-socket Power 7+ 39% better than best Westmere for non-virtualized Java workload- 4-socket Power 7+ 36% better than best Sandy Bridge for non-virtualized Java workload

- 2-socket Power 7+ 18% better than best Sandy Bridge for non-virtualized Java Workload

Sources: http://www.spec.org, http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html

3,837,707

2,811,9582,760,858

1,877,2641,584,567

0

400,000

800,000

1,200,000

1,600,000

2,000,000

2,400,000

2,800,000

3,200,000

3,600,000

4,000,000

4-socketPOWER7+


4-socketWestmere-EX

2-socketPOWER7+


SPECjbb2005

36%

18%

39%


http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/reports/system_perf.html


Why PowerLinux for Java and WebSphere Applications- Fewer servers support same # workloads, clients do more for less at comparable TCA

IBM Linux Value-Add

IBM Installation ToolkitSDK for PowerLinux

Leadership workload performance •36% better Java performance than best 4-socket HP Sandy Bridge•39% better Java performance than best 40-core Westmere EX

Vastly superior virtualized workload throughput125% greater throughput from same # VMs running same workload Fewer servers support more workloads and greater throughput

Exploit more threads and larger on chip cache•POWER7+ has 4 threads per core vs. Intel’s 2 threads per core•POWER7+ has 2.5x larger cache – exploit Java “pre-fetch” tuning

Java apps exploit latest IBM JVM •Latest IBM JVM has been highly optimized for POWER7+

WebSphere Mobile and Web Application Solution•Quickly develop and deploy apps for iPhone, Android and Blackberry•Lightweight, fast, flexible & simplified WebSphere based Appl. Server

Industry leading

Java results

Smartphone AppsOnline Auto Maint. SchedulingOnline Shopping

PowerLinux Server

(1/2/4 socket)

Clo

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Next Generation Java Application

Server




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Notes on benchmarks and valuesThe 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, the latest versions of AIX were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2006, 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 for AIX v11.1, XL C/C++ for AIX v11.1, XL FORTRAN for AIX v13.1, XL C/C++ for Linux v11.1, and XL FORTRAN for Linux v13.1.

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, Siebel, PeopleSoft http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/ 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 December 2, 2010

http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html

http://www.tpc.org/


http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf

http://www.proe.com/

http://www.spec.org/gpc

http://www.volano.com/

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/

http://www.sap.com/benchmark/

http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/

http://www.ssaglobal.com/

http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm

http://www.top500.org/

http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html

http://www.storageperformance.org/results

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