POWER8 Review

Bill Moraca
CTS POWER Systems
wmoraca@us.ibm.com
Rick Kearns
Power Sales Top Gun
rkearns@us.ibm.com

Power Systems Legacy

2008
RT PC
1986

RS/6000
1990

System/32
1975

System/3
1969

Power Systems
2008

System p
2006

pSeries
2000

System/38
1979

System/34
1978

System/36
1983

AS/400
1988

iSeries
2000

System i
2006
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IBM Corporation, 2016

Transformation: IBMs renewed commitment to Power

Aligned to the New Era (Cloud, Data, Open)

IBM
Watson

Hybrid
Cloud

Most Open Server in the Market

(OpenPower, OpenStack, Open Solutions)

$1 billion

Linux Centers
around the world

3+ years, $2.5B
R&D investment

New Data-Centric Systems

Three major
Linux distros

Simplified Power8 Portfolio with ScaleOut and Enterprise (scale up)

Expanding Linux Ecosystem with 1000s of
ISVs, 100,000s of Open Source
Packages, and Dozens of Solutions
Growing University Program,
with hundreds of schools

OpenPower
Foundation

Double-digit Growth in CAMSS, ScaleOut Servers and OpenPower

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Moores Law
Number of devices integrated on a chip of fixed area doubles
every 12-18 months
IBM says that Moores Law is no longer possible.
Future performance improvements will be based on a different system design
strategy
100%
80%

Gain by Innovation

60%

Gain by Technology Scaling

40%
20%
0%

180 nm 130 nm 90 nm 65 nm 45 nm 32 nm 22 nm
P4
P4+
P5+
P6
P7
P7+
P8

Source: An Introduction to POWER8 Processor, Dr. Joel Tendler, IBM Corporation

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IBM Corporation, 2016

POWER8: Designed for data to deliver breakthrough performance

POWER8 compared to Haswell EX and Broadwell EP

4X

4X

Threads per core*

Mem. Bandwidth*

x86
POWER8
Hyperthread
SMT8

Parallel Processing
Haswell & Broadwell

Data flow

POWER8
pipe

6X
Cache per core

1.4 2.3X

Clock Frequency

x86
x86 pipe

Haswell EX

POWER8

POWER8

Broadwell EP

x86

Haswell EX

These design decisions result in best performance for data centric workloads like:

Database, NoSQL, Big Data Analytics, OLTP

SMT=Simultaneous Multi-Threading
OLTP = On-Line Transaction Processing
For IBM and Business Partner Use Only

2016 International Business Machines Corporation

Market Shifts
Moores law no
longer satisfies
performance gain

New Open
Innovation

Response to Market Shifts

Open model fuels workgroup
and independent innovation

Optimized software
ecosystem

Open Power8 architecture

Growing workload
demands
Numerous IT
consumption
models

CAPI

Spectrum of Power
servers

Reference designs donated

to foundation

Numerous unique
hardware options

Licensing of Power8 and

micro architecture

Derivative Power chip

designs

Mature Open
software ecosystem
200 members as of April, 2016
More on OpenPOWER tomorrow
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Feeds
back
resulting in client choice
2014 OpenPower Foundation

Systems

POWER8 Scale-Out Family

Scale-out Servers for AIX, IBM i, Linux
- High Scalability and Consolidation
- Good virtualization and utilization
- Good Security and RAS

S822

S814

S824

1 or 2 socket, 2U

1 socket, 4U

2 socket, 4U

6 - 20 cores

4 - 8 cores

6 - 24 cores

Scale-out Servers for Linux Only

- High Scalability and Consolidation
- Good virtualization and utilization
- Good Security and RAS

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S812L

S822L

S824L

1 socket, 2U, Linux

2 socket, 2U, Linux

2 socket, 4U, Linux

10 - 12 cores

16 - 24 cores

8 - 24 cores

IBM Corporation, 2016

POWER8 Scale-Up Enterprise Family

Enterprise Servers (AIX, IBM i, Linux)
- Highest Scalability and Consolidation
- Extreme virtualization and utilization
- Highest Security and RAS

E850 (4U)
2 to 4 Sockets
8 or 10 or 12 Cores/Socket
64 GB 512 GB Mem/Socket*
7 /9/11 PCI Adapters for 2/3/4 Sockets
Up to 51 PCI Adapters Total
using I/O Drawers

*64- 1 TB per socket as of June 10, 2016

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E870
1 or 2 CEC Drawers

E880
1 to 4 CEC Drawers

32 or 40 Cores/Drawer(5U)
256 GB 8 TB Mem/Drawer
8 I/O Slots/Drawer
Up to 96 PCI Adapters Total
using I/O Drawers
2U Control Drawer for
Dual FSP & Clock

32 or 40 or 48 Cores/Drawer(5U)
256 GB 8 TB Mem/Drawer
8 I/O Slots/Drawer
Up to 192 PCI Adapters Total
using I/O Drawers
2U Control Drawer for
Dual FSP & Clock

IBM Corporation, 2016

Welcome to the Waitless World

OpenPOWER Linux Cluster (LC) Systems

S812LC

S822LC GCA

S822LC GTA

1 socket, 2U, Linux

8 or 10 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
Up to 112 TB Storage
4 Available PCI Slots
KVM / Bare Metal

2 socket, 2U, Linux

16 or 20 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
2 Disks
5 Available PCI slots
KVM / Bare Metal

2 socket, 2U, Linux

16 or 20 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
2 Disks
2 NVIDIA K80 GPUs
3 Available PCI Slots
Bare Metal

Hadoop / Spark

Commercial

Technical

More LC servers will be announced in the June/July, 2016 time frame

2016 IBM Corporation

IBM PurePower System

Rapid Deployment. Expertly Integrated. Flexible. Open.
Private cloud in a 19 rack.
Open Linux
Environment
Red Hat/SUSE*
3000+ Applications
Little Endian Support

PurePower Converged
Infrastructure Manager
PowerVM
PowerVC
Nagios

IBM Storwize V7000

Storage
Integrated SVC functionality
OpenStack Drivers

Integrated
Complete infrastructure
stack up and running in hours vs. days
Production
Ready in
Hoursworkload scalability
in workload elasticity
automated
Built
Single point of management
Complete, pre-integrated software and hardware

Power8 S822/S822L
2U Compute Nodes
(1-12 per rack)

Trusted, Single Source

IBM Support

Migration Pricing & IGF

Financing

Easy integration through open-standards computing

Easily extendable and accommodating to change
Single service point of contact and integrated updates
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Selling Power In
2016

2014 International Business Machines Corporation

Welcome to the Waitless World

NA Power Systems 2016 Brand, Channel & Marketing

Strategy

Protect & Grow

the Base

Workload
Expansion

New Client
Acquisition

Defend and Grow

AIX & IBM i
installed accounts

New workload
acquisition in
install base

New logo
customer
acquisition
primarily Linux

Power Revenue Opportunity

2016 IBM Corporation

Does Power Have a Technology Problem?

Better performance (per processor / chip / socket) than x86
Potentially lower software and hardware costs than x86
Greater workload scalability than x86
More efficient resource sharing (virtualization) than x86
Higher sustainable utilization of resource than x86
Higher system availability (lower mean time between component failures)

The Answer is NO

2011 IBM Corporation

IDC: 10 Year UNIX Server Market Leadership

Annual UNIX Server Market Revenue Share

UNIX Market Revenue ($B)

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2011 IBM Corporation

The Application Solution Stack

--what IBM i customers buy-IBM i environment

Windows Environment

Its All In There

Do It Yourself

Vendors

Vendors

Client is
responsible for
assembling
components

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Applications

Performance Management

Storage Management

Systems Management

Security

Web Server

Relational Database

IBM is
responsible for
assembling
components

File system
Operating System

Virtualization

Hardware

2015 IBM Corporation

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IBM i is a Total Solution

Operating system and middleware components are designed, developed,

built, tested, delivered and supported as one

2015 IBM Corporation

Single Level Storage = Built-in Storage

Management

In IBM i, all storage is viewed as one

large, contiguous, addressable space
Storage management is integrated

Object/data placement is balanced

based on the performance, capacity
and type of storage devices
Storage may be dynamically and
automatically rebalanced based on
usage patterns
Support for storage innovations, such as
Solid State Drives, can be integrated into
storage management algorithms quickly

IBM i clients typically do not require

storage administrators
Automated storage management
simplifies operations and reduces costs

2015 IBM Corporation

Objects
Objects are
are stored/retrieved
stored/retrieved by
by name
name
without
without regard
regard to
to physical
physical location,
location,
minimizing
minimizing the
the need
need for
for administrators
administrators
to
to manage
manage storage
storage infrastructure.
infrastructure.

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Welcome to the Waitless World

NA Power Systems 2016 Brand, Channel & Marketing

Strategy

Protect & Grow

the Base

Workload
Expansion

New Client
Acquisition

Defend and Grow

AIX & IBM i
installed accounts

New workload
acquisition in
install base

New logo
customer
acquisition
primarily Linux

Power Revenue Opportunity

2016 IBM Corporation

IDC: 10 Year UNIX Server Market Leadership

Annual UNIX Server Market Revenue Share

UNIX Market Revenue ($B)

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2011 IBM Corporation

Worldwide Linux server deployments are soaring

Linux continues on its growth path
79% of enterprises deploying new
workloads on Linux vs. 36% on Windows
#1 workload: web/application servers

(88%)
Database usage plans up 11% (NoSQL
DBs)

Linux leads enterprise shift to cloud

In 2014, 75 percent of the organizations in
the cloud cited Linux as their primary cloud
platform.
Source: Linux Foundation - 2014 Enterprise End User Trends Report (Dec. 2014)
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation/linux-end-user-trends-report-2014

NA Power Systems 2016 Brand, Channel & Marketing

Strategy

Protect & Grow

the Base

Workload
Expansion

New Client
Acquisition

Defend and Grow

AIX & IBM i
installed accounts

New workload
acquisition in
install base

New logo
customer
acquisition
primarily Linux

Power Revenue Opportunity

What is a Key Strategy For Power Growth?

Power Must Become A Preferred

Infrastructure Choice For Linux Workloads
(Like It Is For UNIX)

How Does Power Do This?

2011 IBM Corporation

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Database Systems

***

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database

Management Systems (10/12/15)

Majority of ISVs in the Gartner Challenger or Leaders Quadrant are on Power and
being optimized

Additional ISVs in the Gartner MQ that are on Linux on Power, showing strong
promise

Another 6 being recruited including Percona, Marklogic, Basho, Areospike,

Couchbase

***
*

**

Key
Ported or Porting on LOP

* Available in Open Source as Cassandra

** Available as IOP instead of Hortonworks

*** Oracle on AIX, DB2 and SAP on both AIX and LoP
Recruiting

Prioritized set of Data Providers for optimization and ecosystem development

2016 IBM Corporation

Non Traditional Customer Workloads

Open Innovation to
put data to work

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2011 IBM Corporation

Deliver unparalleled speed of access to data and insights

Unstructured
NoSQL
Databases

Derive actionable insight using

industry cost-efficient solutions

In-Memory
Relational
Databases

Hadoop/
MapReduce
& Spark

Designed
for
Big Data
&
Analytics

Perform faster in-memory

performance with leading
database providers

Structured
Compute tremendous amounts of
data rapidly across databases
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Power Systems Big Data Offering Overview

Multitenant Hadoop
+
Big Data Storage System Traditional Analytics
IBM
IBMData
DataEngine
Enginefor
forAnalytics
Analytics
Power
PowerSystems
SystemsEdition
Edition

IBM
IBMElastic
ElasticStorage
StorageServer
Server

Pre-integrated Storage
System
Entry point / upsell for
Data Engine for
Analytics

Up to 3X reduction in storage
disk count*
2X storage cost reduction*

Customized, Preintegrated Infrastructure

Solution
1.51x* per-core advantage
Requires no data duplication
Designed for mixed analytics
workloads
Over 2 PB in 28U!

Starter Solution
for Hadoop
Workloads
IBM
IBMSolution
Solutionfor
forHadoop
Hadoop
Power
PowerSystems
SystemsEdition
Edition

Hadoop-Dedicated
Reference Architecture
2.5x faster insights over x86*
Classic Hadoop config with 3
copies of data
Lower cost entry points for
BigInsights or Veristorm Data
Hub configs

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Power Systems Analytics Offerings Overview

Integrated platform
solution with
DB2 BLU

Integrated solution
with Cognos BI and/or
SPSS

SAP HANA Optimized

for Power

Integrated solution
for NoSQL

IBM Solution for BLU

Acceleration

IBM Solution
for Analytics

SAP HANA
on Power

IBM Data Engine

for NoSQL

Power Systems Edition

Accelerate complex
queries & reports
an avg of 16-50X 3

Little Endian
Support!

Power Systems Edition

Deliver 2-3X faster

scoring results for
predictive actions4

Power Systems Edition

Drive Power8 Sales

for mission critical
operations
Performance proof
points in the works

Lower cost, greater

workload density
for 24:1 server
consolidation and
up to 3X lower
TCA

3 This is an IBM internal study of Power System solution designed to replicate a typical IBM customer workload usage in the marketplace. Results were obtained under laboratory
conditions,& not in an actual customer environment. IBM's internal workload studies are not benchmark applications, nor are they based on any benchmark standard. As such, customer
applications, differences in the stack deployed, and other systems variations or testing conditions may produce different results and may vary based on actual configuration, applications,
specific queries and other variables in a production environment. Prices, where applicable, are based on published US list prices for both IBM and competitor, and the cost calculation
compares the cost per request for the 3 year life of the machine.

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CHANGING The Market Perceptions of Power

Market Beliefs
Power is:
Outstanding Scale-Up Systems
for Traditional Database

Bullet proof Reliability,

Availability and Serviceability

Almost 30 years of innovation in

AIX and IBM i

How the IT world

has evolved:
Big data is structured
data, unstructured data,
map reduce, moving data,
dynamic amounts
Software can compensate
for HW failures
Hardware is not the lions
share of IT cost

Open development
models deliver rapid
advancements in
innovation

Market
Perceptions
Power is:
Only Scale-Up systems
for structured database
Expensive, and
inexpensive hardware is
good enough

Power Systems are

proprietary, closed and
complex

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2011 IBM Corporation

2016

Changing the Perception

Customers Need To Understand That IBM Power Systems:

Provides competitive scale-out and scale-up servers to meet all clients
needs
Is the most open server platform for big data
Is priced competitively for value across all targeted workloads
Delivers a modern, agile, and the alternative architecture to Intel for Linux
and Open Source Solutions
Acts as the foundation for a cognitive business
FY2015: Power revenue grew year over year (for the first time since 2011).

2016 IBM Corporation

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Power8 Review Questions

What does the acronym POWER stand for?
a. Processor Optimization With Energy Reduction
b. Performance Optimized With Extra Resources
c. Performance Optimized With Enhanced Risc
d. Processor Optimized With Enhanced Risk

What is the main difference between an S822 and an S822L?

a.An S822L can only run a Linux operating system supported on POWER
systems. Pricing is similar to a 2 socket x86 server.
b. An S822L is a limited edition of the S822
c. You cant install Linux on an S822 model but you can on an S822L
d. The S822L has less cores and memory than the S822

2016 IBM Corporation

Power8 Review Questions

How do customers evaluate AIX and Linux solution purchases
differently?
a. AIX is a cost of value evaluation and Linux is a cost of asset
evaluation.
b. There is no difference in how they evaluate AIX or Linux purchases
c. Customers do not include virtualization costs in Linux evaluations
d. Customers do not evaluate POWER Scale Out Systems for AIX

What is a POWER8 Scale Out Solution?

a. It consists of any Linux distribution running on POWER8
b. It has to be a one or two socket POWER8 server with the letter L in
the model name
c. It is an OpenPOWER solution
d. It is any one or two socket POWER8 server and could be running AIX,
Linux or System i

2016 IBM Corporation

Power8 Review Questions

On POWER Servers S822L and E870 what do the letters S, L
and E stand for?
a. Standard, Linux and Expandable
b. Scale up, Linux and Expensive
c. Scale out, Low cost and Enterprise
d. Scale out, Linux and Enterprise

POWER systems has had the greatest revenue success in

which technology environment?
a. High Performance Computing (HPC)
b. Scale Out Systems
c. Scale Up Enterprise Systems
d. Cloud Infrastructure.

2016 IBM Corporation

IBM i Review Questions

What statement is FALSE about IBM i?
a. IBM i does not run the Oracle data base but Oracle runs on the
POWER architecture.
b. IBM i is not a profitable business for IBM Systems.
c. IBM i runs on Intel x86 servers.
d. IBM i continues to deliver significant price / performance improvements
for existing customers

What is the key to IBM i clients buying behavior?

a. They choose which database to run on their i system
b. They like the do it yourself environment, assembling all the needed
components b
c. They need for a DB Administrator to setup the database environment
d. They buy solutions

2016 IBM Corporation

IBM i Review Questions

On IBM i Single Level Storage is:
a. The ability to retrieve objects by a storage location reference
b. The ability to store objects on any disk drive the user chooses
c. The ability to store and retrieve objects without regard to physical
location
d. The ability to store and retrieve objects in any IASP

2016 IBM Corporation

 2011 IBM Corporation