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Why IBM Power Systems for Linux Solution

IBM PowerLinux

Next Generation Application Server

Thitiphat Phimsen

Advisory IT Specialist

Systems and Technology Group, IBM Thailand

Agenda

• IBM Power System and Linux

• What Makes Power a Better Choice for Running Linux Than x86

– Industry Leading Performance

– The Best Virtualization for Open system

– Superior RAS on Linux

• Linux on Power Ecosystem

• Linux Distributions on Power

• Summary

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2004 2001 2007 2010

POWER4/4+ 180 / 130 nm

POWER5/5+ 130 / 90 nm

POWER6/6+ 65/65 nm

POWER7/7+ 45/32 nm

Now

Hardware Virtualization

for Unix & Linux

Fastest Processor

In Industry

Most POWER

Full & Scalable

Processor in

Industry

5.0 GHz

Power Hypervisor

a new beginning of

Virtualization

First Dual Core

in Industry

- 3 Year Revolution

- 18 month “+” Evolution

POWER Processor Technology Roadmap

Platinum Member Top 5 (out of 30) Contributors to Linux Community

Enabling IBM products

2005–2006 Application and data serving

Mainstream for IBM

2010… Next-generation workloads

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

Making Linux better

1999–2004 Edge and web infrastructure

Core to the IBM business

2007–2009 Business-critical workloads

More than $1B investment in Linux since 2001

IBM Innovation Centers and

Linux Technology Centers

are staffed and ready for ISVs and the Linux Community

IBM has been a leader in the cultivation and evolution of Linux

as a competitive choice for clients for more than a decade.

IBM – Linux Heritage

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New IBM Power Systems Linux Center for developers,

clients and partners opened in Montpellier, France.

Joining similar centers in Asia and North America, the

Montpellier center is an immediate result of a larger initiative

by IBM to commit $1 billion towards Linux ecosystem

growth on IBM's Power Systems line of servers.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41926.wss

IBM Power Systems

Invests $1 billion dollars in solutions for Linux and open source workloads, adding to prior investments

by IBM during the last decade on a wide range of open initiatives.

In addition, we’re expanding our Linux on Power development cloud, which will give Linux developers

who want to prototype applications easy access to Power.

Additional $1 Billion Investment

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Boards/Systems

I/O, Storage, Acceleration

Chip/SOC

System/Software/Services

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OpenPOWER will enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies may use

POWER for custom open servers and components for Linux based cloud data centers. OpenPOWER

ecosystem partners can optimize the interactions of server building blocks – microprocessors, networking, I/O

& other components – to tune performance.

The OpenPOWER Foundation Open & Collaborative Innovation Growing Fast

What Makes Power a Better Choice

for Running Linux Than x86

Industry Leading Performance The Best Virtualization for Open system

Superior RAS on Linux

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More Cores

12 processor cores per socket (50% more than

before) that deliver better per core performance

What this means Enjoy better scale up performance, and more

throughput per scale out server node.

More Threads

SMT8 – 8 dynamic threads per core, supporting

SMT1, 2, 4, & 8 modes dynamically across VMs

What this means You choose – Deploy VM’s in the optimal SMT

mode based on application needs.

More Cache

At 100MB, 3X the on-chip cache as POWER7 –

plus 128MB of new off-chip cache as well

What this means Memory-intensive applications (like database) will

perform better as memory latency is reduced

More Bandwidth

2.3X our prior gen to memory, and 2.4X our prior

gen to I/O.

What this means Data-hungry applications (like big data &

analytics) will respond twice as fast and scale

more efficiently.

Industry Best Practice

Industry Leading

Industry Leading

Industry Leading

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POWER8 – Continued Leadership

CAPI

Open interface allows PCIe3 devices to

participate in operations at memory speed

without risk.

What this means Gain orders of magnitude application

performance with PCI card technology w/o hiring

specialized skills

Transactional Memory

Borrowed from the mainframe, this technology

speeds up memory writes by reducing contention.

What this means A feature that improved OLTP database

performance by 45% on System z is now

available on Power.

Native PCIe

Integrating PCIe Gen 3 into the processor boosts

performance by eliminating logic overhead.

What this means I/O intensive data applications will run faster due

to high bandwidth, low latency communications.

PowerKVM

KVM, the open-source virtualization solution, can

be used to manage Linux-only systems.

What this means Data centers can now standardize their clouds

with a single open-source virtualization

technology.

Industry Innovation

Innovation Extended

Innovation On Power

Innovation On Power

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POWER8 – Continued Leadership

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POWER8 Has Significant Cache Hierarchy Advantages

Across the Board

More 2.6x

L3 Cache

Highlights Features - Dedicated, or Share resource

- Dynamic Resources Allocation

(Add / Removes on the Fly)

- Workload Mobility

- Virtual I/O Servers

- 20 VMs per Core

- Capacity on Demand

The Best Virtualization for Open systems

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• p260 (half-wide PureFlex ITE)

– 26,260 Checkers

– 6,100 FIR bits

• Power 740

– 37,720 Checkers

– 5,800 FIR bits

• Power 770 (one drawer)

– 39,800 Checkers

– 6,500 FIR bits

• Power 795 (max configuration)

– 598,000 Checkers

– 96,000 FIR bits

The largest x86 based servers have a

maximum of 5,000 checkers

Checkers:

Built-in HW error diagnostic probes to identify error

conditions

FIR: (Fault Isolation Register)

Error data from the checkers are collected and stored

here. The service processor monitors the contents.

Service Processor – Checkers and Fault Isolation

Registers Provide the Foundation for Higher Availability

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IBM develops, tests, integrates the entire stack – I/O drawers / memory management unit

– Processors and all chips in CEC

– Hypervisor (PowerVM) and VIOS

– Device drivers, PCI adapters

– Operating system (AIX, System i, Linux)

– Middleware and Clustering software (PowerHA SystemMirror, System Pools)

– Management Software (IBM Systems Director)

Firmware

x86 Processor RAS

What is

Missing?

Memory POWER

CPU

Firmware

AIX, IBM i, Linux

I/O

Drawer

Drivers

Power Stack - Integrated RAS

Memory

IBM Middleware

PowerHA

IBM Systems Director

LPARs / Workloads

PowerVM

x86

CPU

RA

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Power RAS Involves More than Just the Processor

• Almost five 9’s availability, the gold standard • 67% of corporations now require a minimum of

99.99% uptime or better for mission critical hardware, operating systems and main line of business (LOB) applications

• AIX on Power consistently has the least amount of downtime in ITIC studies for several years

• Industry leading availability for all workloads, including SAP

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Power delivers industry

leading 99.997+%

availability

Source: ITIC 2013 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Survey, ITIC, (All rights reserved); January 2013.

High availability is a key requirement for DB workloads, the

Power platform delivers

Choosen system architecture defines overall

operation efficiency as well as system security.

Different virtualization technologies will lead to

more or less equipment on the data center floor,

total cost (HW, SW, admin) and to a higher or

lower carbon footprint.

Systems Management overhead is largely

impacted by the number af patches required.

Source: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search

Virtualize everything ? It depends on your Security

Linux on Power Ecosystem

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OPEN Commercial

InfoSphere

BigInsights

Platform

Symphony

Linux on Power ecosystem

NEW. A storage-dense integrated big data platform optimized to simplify & accelerate unstructured big data analytics.

Ann Apr 28th, GA Apr 28th

1Based on STG Performance testing comparing to Cloudera/HP published benchmark 2 CLAIMS: Solitaire Interglobal Paper - Power Boost Your Big Data Analytics Strategy – http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/solutions/assets/bigdata-analytics.html?LNK=wf

Integrated platform solution for Hadoop ready for analytics

software

+

7R2 servers DCS3700

Powered by

Speed Matters Higher ingest rates delivers 37%

faster insights than competitive

Hadoop solutions with 31% fewer

data nodes 1

Availability Matters Better reliability and resiliency with

73% fewer outages and 92% fewer

performance problems over x86. 2

IBM Solution for Hadoop – Power Systems

NEW. Flexible for complete deployment of warehouse and analytics applications, available for POWER8-based scale-out servers, with pre-configured analytics software1 ready to deploy.

Ann Apr 28th, GA Jun 13th

1Includes options for pre-installed DB2 AWSE or DB2 EWSE, Cognos BI, SPSS Modeler, SPSS Collaboration & Decision Support, Analytical Decision Management or InfoSphere DataStage licenses ready for activation. Registration of valid IBM SWG licenses required prior to server shipment with selected options. Pre-load of Power hardware and software is not available in Greater China Group, Thailand, and Korea.

2 Projected results from testing currently underway. Test completion targeted for mid-April 2014. 3 POWER7+ server results compared to Intel SandyBridge running SPSS Collaboration and Decision Support. See speaker notes for comparison details.

Integrated solution pre-configured with Cognos BI and/or SPSS and/or BLU

Acceleration

Collaboration and Deployment Services

Analytical Decision

ManagementModeler

IBM SPSS

Collaboration and Deployment Services

Analytical Decision

ManagementModeler

IBM SPSS

DynamicQuery

CompatibleQuery

DynamicCubes

DynamicCubes

DynamicQuery

CompatibleQuery

DynamicCubes

DynamicCubes

Speed Matters Accelerates complex Cognos

queries and reports up to 2X faster

than comparable x86 server

solutions 2

Availability Matters Delivers 80% faster scoring results

for predictive recommended actions

to decision-makers 3

IBM Solution for Analytics – Power Systems Edition

IBM Power

Systems Solution

Edition for Scale

Out Cloud

Open source Linux

solution for scale-out

clouds services

Flexibility, agility and

interoperability with open

source virtualization and

cloud management

Accelerated insights for

big data and compute

intensive Cloud services

Features

• Fast time to value with pre-built, pre-installed

cloud platform

• Flexible 1 or 2 socket scale-out form factor

• Simplified management stack

• Choice of RedHat, SUSE or Ubuntu Linux

• PowerKVM hypervisor

• SmartCloud Entry ―Next‖ with OpenStack

• Built on POWER8 technology for optimized

performance for databases, analytics, Java,

and web 2.0 services

Open source Linux solution for scale-out

clouds services

IBM Power Systems Solution Edition for Scale Out Cloud

Our direction

SoftLayer is integrating Power Systems into its cloud infrastructure

• Watson on Power in Softlayer demonstrated at Impact conference in April

• Other services will be offered in 2014

• Then bare metal deployments

Power Systems for Dynamic and Hybrid Cloud

Simpler to get up and running with PowerVM Integrated

Virtualization Manager and automate most day-to-day tasks

Simpler and more efficient operation with a single system for

multiple virtual application and database servers

Realize greater throughput per server with applications that

exploit POWER multi-threading and performance

Exploit resiliency and security provided by POWER and

PowerVM for mission critical industry applications

ISVs and OEMs can differentiate versus default x86 solutions

used by competitors

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Why PowerLinux for Industry Application Solutions

Linux Distributions on Power

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Linux Distributions on Power

PowerVC – built on OpenStack

• Active Directory for simpler integration with clients existing centers

• Shared Storage Pool support

• Support for the new PowerKVM and PowerVM

PowerVM – major usability simplification

•Wizard guides & One Touch VIOS integrated deployment

•GUI design using new UI technology, modern interaction

•System and Partition Templates: starter / capture / deploy

•Performance dashboard: capacity metrics, trends

•Use-case driven APIs to enable Cloud Solutions

PowerKVM – open source Linux virtualization

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) Linux virtualization

Processor and memory sharing workload consolidation

Seamless transition for existing Linux admins to adopt Power Linux

Virtualization without any training

Micro-Threading providing

greater scheduling granularity vs x86 virtualization

Client Choices for Virtualization Management

Summary

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Linux on Power Systems combines the unparalleled performance

of Power with the capabilities and cost effectiveness of Linux

IBM Power Systems are

the ultimate systems for today’s

compute-intensive workloads,

delivering:

• Dynamic efficiency, with intelligent,

workload-based resource allocation

• Business analytics—optimized

for big data and compute-intensive

applications

• Enhanced compliance through

automated, policy-based security

Linux is a robust and uniquely

extensible operating system

built on open source

innovation,

delivering:

• Significant cost savings

• Uncompromising stability & security

• Industry-leading flexibility and

performance

• Rich opportunities for innovation and

enabling of new workloads

Linux on Power Systems

integrates these two powerful

technologies to deliver the

highest levels of:

• Efficiency

• Availability

• Security

• Reliability

• Scalability

• Cost savings

The New POWER8 Scale-out servers The Innovation to Put Data to Work