Why Linux on POWER is a game changer ?

Thibaud Besson – IBM FranceIBM Power Systems Specialist

My challenges for today

● Cover Linux on Power in 15 minuts

● Be relevant to every one of you at least once in the presentation

● Inspire discovery of Linux on Power

Don't be too busy to innovate

Don't be too busy to innovate

Imagine : What if you could...

● Reduce server sprawl ?

● Gain competitive advantage with faster insights ?

● Host more users ?

● Reduce sofware costs ?

● Gain market shares ?

Achieve your business goals with IBM POWER8

2x core performance vs x86: Reduce HW/SW costs

1 TB of memory per socket: Consolidate massively

4x Memory Bandwidth vs x86: Accelerate access to data

8 threads / core: Increase throughput & users

Transactionnal Memory: Improve Java performance

> 70 % utilisation rates: Fully exploit your hardware

Open Source KVM, OpenStack: Capitalize on your skills

Up to TWICE the performance per core across key workloadscompared to the top 5 Intel vendors

POWER S8242s/24c/192t

IBM POWER8

Oracle Sun X4-2 2s/24c/48t

Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge

Java SPECjEnterprise2010

(EjOPS)2x Performance

ERP – SAP 2-Tier (Users)

1.9x Performance

POWER S8242s/24c/192t

IBM POWER8

Dell PowerEdge T620

2s/36c/72tIntel Xeon Haswell

SPECint_rate20061.8x Performance

SPECfp_rate20062.1x Performance

1) Results are based on best published results on Xeon E5-2697 v2 and E5-2699 v3 from the top 5 Intel system vendors (HP, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu).2) Dell PowerEdge R730, on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors/36 cores/72 threads, Intel Xeon

Processor 2699v3; 2.30 GHz, 256 GB memory; 16,500 SD benchmark users, running RHEL 7 and SAP ASE 16; Certification # 2014033. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark. 3) IBM Power System S824 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 96 threads,

POWER8; 3.52GHz, 512 GB memory, 21,212 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, Certification # 2014016. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark All results valid as of October 3, 2014

4) SPECjEnterprise2010 results are valid as of 9//8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/jEnterprise2010/results/ 5) SPECcpu2006 results are submitted as of 9/8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/cpu2006/results/

AIX LoP (RHEL)

POWER S8242s/24c/192t

IBM POWER8

AIX LoP (RHEL)

Nearly Equal Performance with both

AIX and LINUX on POWER8

Nearly Equal Performance with both

AIX and LINUX on POWER8

Dell PowerEdge T620

2s/36c/72tIntel Xeon Haswell

IBM POWER S824AIX / DB2

4p/24c/192t

Dell PowerEdge R730

E5-2699 v3RHEL / SAP ASE

2p/36c/72t

Nearly Equal Performance with both

AIX and LINUX on POWER8

Nearly Equal Performance with both

AIX and LINUX on POWER8

RHEL7.0 & 6.5 BE

1 SOCKET10 or 12 coresMax 512 GB

POWER8 Scale-Out offering

S822LS812L S822 S814 S824S824L

7.16.1

2 SOCKETS20 or 24 cores

Max 1 To

2 SOCKETS6,12, 10 or 20 cores

Max 1 To

1 SOCKET4, 6 or 8 coresMax 512 Go

2 SOCKETS20 or 24 cores

Max 1 To

2 SOCKETSDe 6 à 24 cores

Max 2 To

7.27.1

SLES 11 SP3 BESLES 12 LE

14.10 LE

BE/LE

BE BE

BE/LE

BE BE BE

RHEL7.0 & 6.5 BE

1 SOCKET10 ou 12 coeurs

Max 512 Go

Power Systems - POWER8 Enterprise Offerings

E870S812L S8144 SOCKETS per node

4 or 4,2 GHz1 or 2 nodes

From 32 to 80 cores installedFrom 8 to 80 cores activated

Max 4 TB of memoryMaximum 800 VMs

SLES 11 SP3 BE

E880

RAS – Reliability, Availability, Serviceability

● Fully redundant

● Advanced RAS features

● Active Memory Mirroring

4 SOCKETS per node4,35 GHz

1 or 2 nodes in 20141 or 4 nodes in 2015

From 32 to 192 cores installedFrom 8 to 192 cores activated

Max 16 TB of memoryMaximum 1000 VMs

Advanced features

● Dedicated cores for Linux « IFL », 70 PVU

● Capacity on Demand cores and memory

● Capacity upgrade on demand cores and memory

● Power Enterprise Processor Pools

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CAPI – an open invitation to innovate on POWER

PPC Core

CA

PP

PCIe

FPGA

IBM Supplied PSL

POWER8 Processor

Memory (Coherent)

Coherent Attached Processor Proxy (CAPP) in processor

Coherency protocol tunneled over standard PCIe

Enables attached device to be a peer to the processorEnables device to use same effective address as application running in processor

Eliminates the cumbersome I/O Device Driver requirements

Smart, simplified attach for accelerators: flash memory, networking & FPGAs

Improves performance, reduces latency, and provides more workload for your

dollar

Leveraged by emerging applications built on Linux

CAPI Development Platform enables

innovators to create entirely new classes

of IT solutions

Too good to be true ? Myths busting on IBM POWER servers

Myth n°1 : are IBM POWER servers expensive ?

● Ask the real question: how much do I pay to run my workloads ?

● Linux-only IBM POWER servers are at the same price as Intel same configuration

● Cores are 2x more powerful

● Hypervisor is very efficient

● You can do more with less : more VM, more users, more batches, etc.

● Open Source & Community-supported distributions / applications available

Myth n°2 : virtualization is different on POWER

● KVM runs on POWER

● POWER servers are fully OpenStack compliant

● Ubuntu Juju / Chef / etc. runs on Linux on Power

● MSPs are introducing POWER in their cloud

MAAS

Myth n°3 – POWER Architecture is proprietary and closed

POWER8 chip

POWER8 core

August 2013

+60 members and counting !

Boards / Systems

I/O / Storage / Acceleration

Chip / SOC

System / Software / Services

Implementation / HPC / Research

24:1 server consolidation

Up to 3xlower TCA

The issue: • Scale-out x86 servers with limited memory size • Costly and complex Infrastructure

Load Balancer

500GB Cache Node

WWW

500GB Cache Node500GB Cache

Node500GB Cache Node1U x86 server (24)

512 GB memory

24U

Power S822L/S812LUbuntu 14.10

FlashSystem 8402TB to 40 TB Flash

WWW

4U

The solution :• POWER8 server hosting Redis•Connection to FlashSystem via CAPI

Solve your cost and response time issues withthe IBM Data Engine for NoSQL - Power Solution Edition

How to get your hands on this amazing technology ?

● Try it if you already have one POWER system

● Linux on Power VMs available in public clouds

● IBM PartnerWorld web site offers access to VMs

● IBM / Business Partners can lend servers for test purposes

● Linux Technology Centers : PSSC Montpellier for Proof of Concept / benchmarking

Open Innovation to Put Data to Work

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