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Power Systems
Scale-out
Oct 2014 Announcements
Rich McCarthy
Partner Technical Advocate
Power Systems
[email protected]
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Agenda
 POWER8 Scale-out Announcements
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S824L & more
IBM Flash Optimized NoSQL Offering
Easy Tier 1.8-inch SSD
Additional Scale-out News/Info
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Power Scale-out Servers
NEW
Announce
October 6th
Power Systems
S824
Power
Systems
Power Systems
S822L
S812L
2-socket, 2U
1-socket, 2U
POWER8 processor
Linux only
CAPI support (2)
POWER8 processor
Up to 24 cores
1 TB memory
9 PCI Gen3 slot
Linux only
CAPI support (4)
PowerVM & PowerKVM
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Power
Systems S822
2-socket, 2U
Up to 20 cores
1 TB memory
9 PCIe Gen 3
AIX & Linux
CAPI support (4)
PowerVM
Power
Systems S814
1-socket, 4U
Up to 8 cores
512 GB memory
7 PCIe Gen 3
AIX, IBM i, Linux
CAPI support (2)
PowerVM
Power
Systems
S824L
2-socket, 4U
Up to 24 cores
Linux
NVIDIA GPU
CAPI support(2)
2-socket, 4U
Up to 24 cores
1 TB memory
11 PCIe Gen 3
AIX, IBM i, Linux
CAPI support (4)
PowerVM
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POWER S824L
Open Technology Platform for High Performance Analytics, Big Data,
and Java Applications workloads
Plan Availability Date
October 31st
Incorporating the innovation of the
OpenPOWER Community
 Partnership with NVIDIA
Accelerates by GPU
 Exploit the uncompromising performance
of proven POWER8 and NVIDIA GPU.
High Performance Analytics, Big Data,
Java Application Workhorse
8247-42L
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 Aim to deliver a new class of technology
that maximizes performance and
efficiency for all types of technical
compute and high performance analytics
workloads as well as Java and Big Data
Applications.
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IBM and NVIDIA deliver new acceleration capabilities for
Analytics, Big Data, and Java
Runs pattern extraction analytic workloads
8x faster
 Provides new acceleration capability for
analytics, big data, Java, and other
technical computing workloads
 Delivers faster results and lower energy
costs by accelerating processor intensive
applications

Power System S824L
•Up to 24 POWER8 cores
•Up to 1 TB of memory
•Up to 2 NVIDIA K40 GPU Accelerators
•Ubuntu Linux running bare metal
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Power System S824L
Processor
2x 10-core 3.42GHz or
2x 12-core 3.02GHz
Memory
Total 16 DDR3 CDIMM slots
16,32,64 GB CDIMM @ 1600 Mbps
1TB capacity, 384GB/s bandwidth max
Storage
JBOD, RAID 0,10,5,6
12 SFF Disk Drive, 1 DVD
LAN adapters
 2x 10GBASE-T adapter or
 2x 10Gb SFP+ Fiber SR plus 2x 1GE adapter
GPU adapter (1 min or 2 max)
El Capitan nVidia K40 GPU adapter
Power supply
2+2 1400W PS
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O/S Capable
 Linux Ubuntu 14.10
Hypervisor Capable
 OPAL, No virtualization
PCIe Gen3 Slots
 4 PCIe x16 G3 FHFL slots
 6 PCIe x8 G3 FHHL slots
 CAPI capable on PCIe x16 slots
Native I/O
 USB 3.0 (2 front, 2 rear)
 System Management 1GE (2 rear)
 System port (rear), USB 2.0 (2 rear)
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POWER S824 More Memory
2X max memory
Up to 2 TB
RPQ announce planned mid October
GA in December
RPQ Number 8A2232
No eConfig support – manual config
Larger memory DIMM (128GB)
Rules:
a) No Mixing of DIMMs sizes. ( i.e when order 128GB DIMM, no other size ( 64GB, 32GB, 16GB ) can
be mixed with )
b) Only qty 8 or qty 16 DIMMs ( no other qty accepted, so when order 128GB DIMM, customer can
either order them by quantity of 8 = 1TB or quantity of 16=2TB )
c) No MES Upgrade provided for installed systems.
d) Only supported on Models S824, no other Scale-out servers.
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NEBS: Differentiated Value for Telecommunications Clients
Designed for clients that require hardened infrastructures because of the industries they serve
or data center environments where the equipment is located.
Carrier-grade platforms for NGN infrastructure and application deployment, designed for
extreme shock, vibration and thermal conditions which exceed normal datacenter design
standards.
Announcement Date: October 6
General available Date : October 31st
Eligible model : Power S822L and S822
Certifications: NEBS Level-3 and ETSI
Optional DC power supply and flexible thermal settings
 Power Supply, 2x750 Watt, -48V DC, Hot-swap, Base and Redundant (#EB3H)
RPQ 8A2227 approval of configuration validation required
 Flexible Thermal Settings for NEBS Applications (#0709)
 For additional guidance,
visit: ibm.com/power/solutions/industry/telco
or email [email protected]
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Agenda
 POWER8 Scale-out Announcements




S824L & more
IBM Flash Optimized NoSQL Offering
Easy Tier 1.8-inch SSD
Additional Scale-out News
© 2014 International Business Machines Corporation
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Power Scale-out Servers
Power Systems
S824
Power
Systems
Power Systems
S822L
S812L
2-socket, 2U
1-socket, 2U
POWER8 processor
Linux only
CAPI support (2)
POWER8 processor
Up to 24 cores
1 TB memory
9 PCI Gen3 slot
Linux only
CAPI support (4)
PowerVM & PowerKVM
© 2014 International Business Machines Corporation
Power
Systems S822
2-socket, 2U
Up to 20 cores
1 TB memory
9 PCIe Gen 3
AIX & Linux
CAPI support (4)
PowerVM
Power
Systems S814
1-socket, 4U
Up to 8 cores
512 GB memory
7 PCIe Gen 3
AIX, IBM i, Linux
CAPI support (2)
PowerVM
Power
Systems
S824L
2-socket, 4U
Up to 24 cores
Linux
NVIDIA GPU
CAPI support(2)
2-socket, 4U
Up to 24 cores
1 TB memory
11 PCIe Gen 3
AIX, IBM i, Linux
CAPI support (4)
PowerVM
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POWER8 CAPI
(Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)
Was just Statement of direction in April 2014
10 June annc letter shared billing structure –
feat #EC2A. EC2A is an enablement code to
use with future separately acquired hardware.
POWER8
POWER8
Coherence Bus
Introducing hardware using CAPI October 2014
PCIe Gen3
Transport for encapsulated messages
FPGA or ASIC
Customizable Hardware / Application Accelerator
• Specific system SW, middleware, or user application
• Written to durable interface
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Possible Example: CAPI Attached Flash Optimization
Application
Attach flash memory to POWER8 via
CAPI coherent Attach
Read/Write
Syscall
FileSystem
strategy()
iodone()
20K
Instructions
LVM
strategy()
iodone()
Disk & Adapter DD
Pin buffers,
Translate,
Map DMA,
Start I/O
Interrupt,
unmap,
unpin,Iodone
scheduling
Application
Posix Async
I/O Style API
aio_read()
aio_write()
User Library
< 500
Instructions
Shared
Memory
Work Queue
 Issues Read/Write Commands from applications to eliminate 97%
of instruction path length CAPI Flash controller Operates in User Space
 Saves 10 Cores per 1M IOPs
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New
IBM Solution for Flash Optimized NoSQL
- Power Systems Edition
Significant Cost Savings for In-Memory NoSQL Data Stores
The Market: Explosive growth of new mobile, social apps
requiring lightening fast response at high volume
 Enabled by in-memory NoSQL, Key Value Stores
like Redis
The Issue: x86 memory limited by max RAM
• Scale-out x86 servers limited memory size
• Results in costly, complex infrastructure
 Ordered (key, value) pairs provide type of in-memory,
lightening fast distributed hash table
 Plays an important role in many large websites
Load Balancer
24U
 GitHub, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & more…
The Solution: POWER8 + CAPI FLASH as RAM
- Up to 40 TB in 4U
WWW
Power S822L/S812L
Ubuntu 14.10
4U
FlashSystem 840
2TB to 40 TB Flash
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500GB Cache
500GB
NodeCache
500GB
NodeCache
500GB
NodeCache
1U x86
server (24)
Node
512 GB memory
The POWER8 + CAPI Flash as RAM Advantage:
• New FLASH as RAM for Redis in-memory apps
• Provides means for large FLASH exploitation
• Lower cost memory, greater workload density
• Dramatically reduce costs to deliver services
• Can be offered as a cloud-based service or as
an on-premise solution for enterprises
24:1 server
consolidation3
Up to 3x
lower TCA
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What it Means to the Delivery of NoSQLs
Today’s NoSQL in memory
(x86)
Differentiated NoSQL
(POWER8 + CAPI Flash)
24:1
Reduction in
infrastructure
WWW
WWW
10Gb
Uplink
10Gb
Uplin
k
Load Balancer
2.4x
Price reduction
POWER8 Server
500GB Cache
500GB
Cache
Node
500GB
Cache
Node
500GB
Cache
Node Cache
512GB
Node
Node
Infrastructure Requirements Backup Nodes
- Large Distributed (Scale out)
- Large Memory per node
- Networking Bandwidth Needs
- Load Balancing
4U
Flash Array w/ up
to 40TB
New memory tier for POWER8 server
Up to 40 TB for NoSQL based applications
Cluster solution in a box
Infrastructure Attributes
12x
Less Energy
12x
Less rack space
40TB of
extended
memory
192 threads in 4U Server drawer
- 40 TB of memory based Flash per 4U Drawer
- Shared Memory & Cache for dynamic tuning
- Elimination of I/O and Network Overhead
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Power CAPI-attached Flash model for NoSQL regains
infrastructure control and reigns in the cost to deliver services.
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S822 / S824
Easy Tier SSD
Enhancement
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New Low-price 1.8-Inch SSD for System Unit Cage
For 2-socket server: S822 & S824
Using high-function backplane
with Easy Tier function
Drive goes in
1.8-inch SSD
cage
Read intensive SSD -- Great performance, Great entry price
Intelligent SAS controller in backplane places data with high read activity
and low write activity on the drive to allow many years of service without
replacement. (replacement covered by IBM service agreement)
List price qty 3 177GB SSD for RAID-5T2
List price qty 3 387GB SSD for RAID-5T2
$ 3,930
$10,764
63% lower
Maintenance prices after warranty also about 60% less
Prices are USA list prices and subject to change. Reseller prices can vary.
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4U Storage Backplane Options
Must select one 
4U server
Base
Split
12 SFF SAS bays
1 SAS controller
No write cache
6+6 SFF SAS bays
2 SAS controllers
No write cache
18 SFF SAS bays
Dual SAS controllers
7.2GB cache
RAID-0,1,5,6,10
RAID-0,1,5,6,10
RAID-0,1,5,6,10
DVD bay
DVD bay
DVD bay
External SAS ports
8-bay SSD cage
Easy Tier function
Sweet SSD enhancement for
 AIX / Linux / VIOS
 S824 & S822
 Using Easy Tier function
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Expanded
Function *
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Agenda
 POWER8 Scale-out Announcements




S824L & more
IBM Flash Optimized NoSQL Offering (Bob Sullivan)
Easy Tier 1.8-inch SSD
Additional Scale-out News
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AC Power Supplies
(single phase)
900W = #EB2L or #EL1A (Linux only)
1400W = #EB2M or #EL1B (Linux only)
NEW
Plan announce
September 23rd
Through RPQ 8A2217
1-socket 4U (S814)
uses 2 power supplies
if tower uses two 900W
(100-120V or 200-240V)
if rack uses two 1400W
(200-240V)
RPQ to use two 900W in rack for 100-120V option)
factory install only 4-core and 6-core, not 8-core
2-socket 4U
S824
S824L
uses 4 900W power supplies
uses 4 1400W power supplies
200-240V
200-240V
1-socket 2U
uses 2 900W power supplies
200-240V
2-socket 2U
uses 2 1400W power supplies
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200-240V
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No 4U Changing Rack to Tower or Vice Versa
1S 4U
S814
8286-41A
Tower
Rack
Bezel for 12 SAS bay
n/a
#EJT8
Bezel for 18 SAS bay
n/a
#EJT9
Rail feature code
n/a
#EJTN
Front Door & covers for 12 SAS bay
#EJTG
n/a
Front Door & covers for 18 SAS bay
#EJTH
n/a
Choose Rack / Tower
Can NOT change S814 from rack-mount to tower or vice versa
• Originally communicated as supported change, but further
analysis has found it not supportable.
• Restriction due to a combination of factors. Labels with Power
ratings and certifications are impacted since tower and rack use
different power supplies.
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Scale-out Servers & PCIe Gen3 I/O Drawer SOD
Oct 2014 SOD
IBM plans to extend the support of PCIe Gen3 I/O
drawers to the POWER8 scale-out servers which
have 6 or more cores. This drawer is planned to
be attached via two x16 PCIe slots and will require
an update to the currently available firmware.
IBM’s statements regarding its plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal
without notice at IBM’s sole discretion. Information regarding potential future products is intended to
outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision.
The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal
obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Information about potential future products
may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future
features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.
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Scale-out Systems built with POWER8
•
Portfolio is complemented by a full commitment to support an open stack of
software
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Ubuntu, SUSE, RedHat, PowerKVM, and Open Stack
New Capabilities (4Q2014)
-
S812L
 1-socket, 2U
 Linux only
2 TB memory option in S824
Linux SUSE SLES12 (LE) enabling easier application portability
S824L w/ NVidia GPU acceleration
Mixed Endian VM support of a single PowerKVM host
NEBS option for Telco
S822L
S822
 2-socket, 2U
 Up to 24 cores
 1 TB memory
 9 PCI Gen3 slot
 Linux only
 PowerVM &
PowerKVM
 2-socket, 2U
 Up to 20 cores
 1 TB memory
 9 PCIe Gen 3
 AIX & Linux
 PowerVM
 NEBs option
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 NEBs option
S814
 1-socket, 4U
 Up to 8 cores
 512 GB
memory
 7 PCIe Gen 3
 AIX, IBM i,
Linux
 PowerVM
 4 core/P05 for
S824L
S824
 2-socket, 4U
 Up to 24 cores
 Linux
 2-socket, 4U
 Up to 24 cores
 11 PCIe Gen 3
 AIX, IBM i,
Linux
 PowerVM
 1 TB memory
 NVidia GPU
 Annc/GA in
4Q14
 2 TB memory
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option