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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
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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
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YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE
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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
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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)
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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
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DIRECT ATTACHED STORAGE MODEL
PROS
Simple to deploy
Inexpensive
No learning curve
CONS
Poor utilization
Inflexible
Does not scale
Cannot share
SERVER
SERVER
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…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
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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
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IN THE PAST SAN BENEFITS + DAS PRICING WAS A PIPEDREAM
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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
10
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un
its
Up to 5PB
Storage
S1
S2
S3
Freedom Fabric
Server 3
Server 2
Server 1
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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
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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
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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
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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%
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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
Freedom supercompute Fabric
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
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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
Freedom supercompute Fabric
– 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
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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
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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
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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
| SeaMicro | Sept 10, 2012
THANK YOU