ARPUG Briefing P8 Overview PDF

IBM North America Power Systems
POWER8 is Revolutionary
John Hock
IBM Power Systems Advanced Technical Support
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Power8: Superior Innovation
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Power8: Innovations for Evolving Workloads

Power8: First Generation Open Platform

IBM continues to Invest in Linux on Power

POWER8 moves forwards while x86 moves backwards

IBM POWER processors continue to deliver improved core performance – up to +35% versus POWER7+
while Intel went backwards (-10%) with Ivy Bridge versus Sandy Bridge.
Relative Core Performance

1.4
 POWER8 core performance2 1.2

1
improvements surpass 0.8
lagging x86 core 0.6

0.4
performance improvements 0.2
0
P7+ P8 CRM P8 Integer P8 P8 Java
Floating
 POWER8 core provides 35% Point
Relative Core Performance

1.4
better performance per SW 1.2
license $ than POWER7+ 1

0.8
– Intel Ivy Bridge Core degrades 0.6
performance per SW license $ by 0.4
10% versus Sandy Bridge 0.2
0
Sandy Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge
Bridge CRM Integer Floating Java
Point
1 Based on generational comparisons of SW that utilizes per core pricing and 50% more cores in per system (Power: 8c POWER7 to 12c POWER8; x86:8c E5-2690 to 12c E5-2697
v2)
2 Performance is based on published x86 data and published/projected POWER8 data averaged across multiple workloads (ERP, Integer, Floating Point, Java)


POWER8
Processor
Memory
I/O

Power Processor Technology Roadmap
POWER9
Extreme Analytics
Optimization
POWER8 Extreme Big Data
More Cores Optimization
SMT+++ On-chip accelerators
POWER7/7+ Reliability ++
FPGA Support
45/32 nm Transactional Memory
POWER6/6+ Eight Cores
On-Chip eDRAM PCIe Acceleration
65/65 nm Power-Optimized Cores
POWER5/5+ Memory Subsystem ++  200+ systems in test
130/90 nm Dual Core SMT++
High Frequencies Reliability +
Dual Core Virtualization + VSM & VSX
Enhanced Scaling Memory Subsystem + Protection Keys+
SMT Altivec
Distributed Switch + Instruction Retry
Core Parallelism + Dynamic Energy Mgmt
FP Performance + SMT +
Memory Bandwidth + Protection Keys
Virtualization
2004 2007 2010 2014

POWER8 Highlights
Announced 2013 at Hot Chips Conference

12 Cores per Socket/Chip
Significantly Strengthened Cores
8 threads per core (SMT8)
Wider fetch / dispatch/issue of instructions (8 fetch / dispatch, 10 issue)
Doubled highly utilized execution units
Larger Caches:
64K D Cache, 32K I Cache, 512K private L2, 8M L3 / Core (96M)
2 Integrated Memory Controllers w/ Improved Latency & BW
~ 25% memory latency improvement via on-chip fastpath interconnect
16MB mem cache / buffer chip
Integrated SMP Interconnect w/ improved ―Flatness‖
2-Hop fabric topology
Integrated IO Subsystem
On Chip PCIe Controller
Fine Grained Power Management
On Chip Power Management Controller & Power gating

Scale Out Systems - DCMs and POWER8 Chips
1S & 2S servers use DCM (Dual Chip Module)

• 1 DCM fills 1 socket …. Similar to POWER7+ 750 / 760
• 1 DCM has two Scale Out POWER8 chips
• 1 DCM can provide 6-core, 8-core, 10-core or 12-core sockets
6-core Processor Chip
Local SMP Links

• 362 mm2
Accelerators
• 22nm SOI w/ eDRAM Core Core Core
Strengthen Cores
• 8 Threads per Core L2 L2 L2
8M L3
Caches Region
• D Cache: 64KB L3 Cache & Chip Intercon MemCtrl
Remote SMP Links

• L2: 512KB
PCI Gen 3 Links

• L3: 8 MB per Region Total: 48MB
L2 L2 L2
Fine Grained Power Management
• On Chip power management Core Core Core
Excellent I/O bandwidth per socket
PCIe Gen3: 24 Lanes
DRAM Memory
POWER8 Memory Buffer Chip Chips Buffer
DDR Interfaces
Intelligence Moved into Memory

16MB
• Scheduling logic, caching structures Scheduler & POWER8
Memory
• Energy Mgmt, RAS decision point Management Cache Link
– Formerly on Processor
– Moved to Memory Buffer
Processor Interface
• 9.6 GB/s high speed interface
• More robust RAS
•― On-the-fly‖ lane isolation/repair
Performance Value
• End-to-end fastpath and data retry (latency)
• Cache  latency/bandwidth, partial updates
• Cache  write scheduling, prefetch, energy

POWER8 Memory Organization (Max Config shown)

DRAM Memory
Chips Buffer
128 16MB 128

16MB
GB POWER8 GB
DCM
128 128
GB 16MB 16MB GB
128 16MB 16MB 128

GB GB
Close Proximity
= Performance
128 128
16MB 16MB
GB GB
 Up to 1 TB / Socket
 First P8 Systems:
§ 512 GB /Socket
POWER8 Integrated PCI Gen 3

POWER8
POWER7 Native PCIe Gen 3 Support

• Direct processor integration
• Replaces proprietary GX/Bridge
• Low latency
GX PCIe G3
Bus Transport Layer for CAPI Protocol
• Coherently Attach Devices connect to
I/O processor via PCIe
Bridge • Protocol encapsulated in PCIe
PCIe G2
PCI
24 Lanes
16 = 32GBs
Device
PCI 8 = 16GBs
Devices
PCIe Gen3
Gen1 x8 Gen2 x8 Gen3 x8

2.5 GHz
Though these cards physically look the same … and fit in the same slots
Gen3 cards/slots have up to 2X more bandwidth than Gen2 cards/slots
Gen3 cards/slots have up to 4X more bandwidth than Gen1 cards/slots
– More virtualization
– More consolidation saving PCI slots and I/O drawers
– More ports per adapter
18
16
14
Peak
12 Sustained A Gen1 x8 PCIe adapter has a theoretical max (peak)
10
bandwidth of 4 GB/sec.
8
6 A Gen2 x8 adapter has a peak bandwidth of 8 GB/sec.
4 A Gen3 x8 adapter has a peak bandwidth of 16 GB/sec.
2
0
Gen1 Gen2 Gen3

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PCIe x8 and x16
POWER8 servers have x8

AND x16 PCIe slots
Compared to POWER7+ PCIe Gen2 x8 slot, a
POWER8 PCIe Gen3 x16 slot has a peak bandwidth of
4X (2X going Gen2 to Gen3 plus 2X going x8 to x16)
x1 x4 x8 x16
x8 x16
x16 slot/card has more connections than a x8 slot/card

―x16‖ or ―x8‖ refers to the number of lanes. More lanes = more physical
connections = more bandwidth
A x8 card can be placed in a x16 slot, but only uses half the connections

POWER8 Multi-threading Options

4
SMT1: Largest unit of execution work
SMT2: Smaller unit of work, but provides 3.5
greater amount of execution work per
cycle 3
SMT4: Smaller unit of work, but provides

2.5
greater amount of execution work per
cycle
2
SMT8: Smallest unit of work, but
provides the maximum amount of 1.5
execution work per cycle
Can dynamical shift between modes as 1
required: SMT1 / SMT2 / SMT4 / SMT8
0.5
Mixed SMT modes supported within
same LPAR
– Requires use of ―Resource Groups‖ 0
P7 P8 P8 P8 P8
SMT1 SMT1 SMT2 SMT4 SMT8

CAPI
Stmt of Direction

POWER8 CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)

POWER8
Statement of direction POWER8
as of April 2014
Coherence Bus
PCIe Gen3
Transport for encapsulated messages
FPGA or ASIC
Customizable Hardware / Application Accelerator

• Specific system SW, middleware, or user application
• Written to durable interface

POWER8 CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)

Virtual Addressing POWER8
• Accelerator can work with same memory addresses that the
processors use POWER8
• Pointers de-referenced same as the host application
• Removes OS & device driver overhead
Coherence Bus
Hardware Managed Cache Coherence
• Enables the accelerator to participate in ―Locks‖ as a normal CAPP
thread Lowers Latency over IO communication model
PCIe Gen3
PSL Transport for encapsulated messages
Custom
Hardware
Application
Processor Service Layer (PSL)
FPGA or ASIC
• Present robust, durable interfaces to applications
• Offload complexity / content from CAPP
Customizable Hardware
Application Accelerator
• Specific system SW, middleware, or user application
• Written to durable interface provided by PSL

Possible Example: CAPI Attached Flash Optimization
Application
Read/Write
Syscall
FileSystem
strategy() iodone()
20K
Instructions
LVM
strategy() iodone(
)
Disk & Adapter DD

Pin buffers, Interrupt,
Translate, unmap,
Map DMA, unpin,Iodone
Start I/O scheduling

Possible Example: CAPI Attached Flash Optimization
Application Attach flash memory to POWER8 via

Read/Write
Syscall CAPI coherent Attach
FileSystem
strategy() iodone()
20K Application
Instructions Posix Async aio_read()
LVM I/O Style API aio_write()
strategy() iodone(
) User Library
Disk & Adapter DD < 500 Shared
Pin buffers, Interrupt, Instructions Memory
Work Queue
Translate, unmap,
Map DMA, unpin,Iodone
Start I/O scheduling
 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

Storage
Backplanes

2U Storage Backplane Options
 Must select one  Expanded

Base Split
Function *
12 SFF SAS bays 6+6 SFF SAS bays 8 SFF SAS bays
1 SAS controller 2 SAS controllers Dual SAS controllers
2U server No write cache No write cache 7.2**GB 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
6-bay SSD cage ***
External SAS ports
Easy Tier function
Availability plan:
- eConfig 15 July
- GA Sept
* Uses one x8 PCIe slot

** 1.8GB physical write cache provides up to 7.2GB effectively with compression
*** SSD cage not available on mdl 21L, Required on mdl 22A with expanded function
4U Storage Backplane Options
 Must select one  Expanded

Base Split
Function *
12 SFF SAS bays 6+6 SFF SAS bays 18 SFF SAS bays
1 SAS controller 2 SAS controllers Dual SAS controllers
4U server No write cache No write cache 7.2**GB 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
8-bay SSD cage***
External SAS ports
Availability plan: Easy Tier function
- eConfig 15 July
- GA Sept
* Uses one x8 PCIe slot

** 1.8GB physical write cache provides up to 7.2GB effectively with compression
***SSD cage not available on mdl 41A, Required on mdl 42A with expanded function
Storage Backplanes
4U server example
12 SAS bays for either base
or split backplanes
Backplanes provide
 High performance integrated SAS controller(s) built on IBM industry leading
PCIe Gen3 SAS adapter technology
 All include RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10. Plus hot spare capability
 Split backplane option with zero-write cache controllers
 Easy Tier® function*
 8-18** SAS bays for 2.5-inch (SFF) HDD or SSD
 6-8** SAS bays for 1.8-inch SSD*
 One DVD bay
 Option for attaching one EXP24S drawer of HDD or SSD*
Op-panel
DVD
* With dual IOA, expanded function backplane with write cache

** number varies based on 2U/4U and backplane option selected

Easy Tier Function Advantage

Optional function with HDD
Low cost per GB
SSD
Low cost per IOP
expanded-function, high-
performance storage Easy
Tier
backplane
 Automatically moves high activity (hot) data to SSD and low activity
(cold) data to HDD
 Function handled totally by POWER8 integrated SAS controllers. No
application coding. No SAN, just internal SAS drives.
 For AIX/Linux/VIOS. Just configure as a new type RAID array
 IBM i already has hot/cold function in OS for all SAS adapters

 Could use this function via VIOS (no performance data available at this time)
 IBM i less automated, but has more controls/options

RAS

● Standard
RAS Feature Overview ◙ Optional
▬ Not Available
POWER7+ POWER7+ POWER8
RAS Item
710 / 730 720 / 740 models
Redundant / Hot Swap Fans & Blowers ● ● ●
Hot Swap DASD & Media ● ● ●
Hot Swap PCI Adapters ▬ ▬ ●
Concurrent Firmware Update ● ● ●
Redundant / Hot Swap Power Supplies ● ● ●
Dual disk controllers (split backplane) ▬ ◙ ◙

Processor Instruction Retry ● ● ●
Alternate Processor Recovery ● ● ●
Storage Keys ● ● ●
PowerVM™/Live Part. Mobility/Live App Mobility ◙ ◙ ◙

Dynamic Processor Sparing ▬ ▬ ▬
Redundant Service Processors ▬ ▬ ▬
Redundant System Clocks ▬ ▬ ▬
Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair ▬ ▬ N/A
Dynamic Service Processor &System Clock Failover ▬ ▬ ▬

Enterprise Memory ( Memory Sparing ) ▬ ▬ ●
Integrated TPMD Function ▬ ▬ ●
Hot GX Adapter Repair ▬ ▬ N/A
Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor ▬ ▬ ▬

Power Pools ▬ ▬ ▬
Dynamic Processor Sparing ▬ ▬ ▬

Performance

Power Systems Performance Optimization
Draft available now!
POWER7 & POWER8

PowerVM Hypervisor
AIX, i & Linux
Java, WAS, DB2…
Compilers & optimization
Performance tools & tuning
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248171.html
POWER8 IO Bandwidth
POWER8
POWER7+
POWER7
POWER6
0 50 100 150 200
GB/Sec
POWER8 Memory Bandwidth per Socket
POWER8
POWER7
POWER6
POWER5
0 50 100 150 200

GB/Sec
POWER8 Relative Performance
P8 S824
P5+ 595
P4 690

CPW
720 POWER7+ (1 socket) S814 (1 socket)
 4-core 3.6 GHz 28,400  4-core xxxxx xxxxxx
+40%  6-core 3.0 GHz 59,500
 6-core 3.6 GHz 42,400
 8-core 3.6 GHz 56,300  8-core 3.7 GHz 85,500
+50%
740 POWER7+ (1 or 2 socket)  S824 (1 or 2 socket)

 6-core 4.2 GHz 49,000 – 6-core 3.8 GHz 72,000
 12-core 4.2 GHz 91,700 – 12-core 3.8 GHz 130,000
+40%
 8-core 3.6 GHz 56,300 – 8-core 4.1 GHz 94,500
 16-core 3.6 GHz 106,500 – 16-core 4.1 GHz 173,500
 8-core 4.2 GHz 64,500 +60%
 16-core 4.2 GHz 120,000 – 12-core 1-socket not offered
– 24-core 3.5 GHz 230,500
+90%

Power 740 / POWER8 S824 CPW Compares
Performance Performance
Dual Socket 24
per Core Core
16
Core
16
16 Core
Core
740 P740+ S824

P740 P740+ S824 S824

Power 740+ / POWER8 S824 rPerf Comparisons

Performance Performance Performance
per Core per Socket per KW
18
200 27%
Better
150
9
100
50
0 0
P740 P740+ P8 4U2S P740 P740+ P8 4U2S P 740+ P8 4U2S

rPerf Comparsion
Model Processors /#cores GHz rPerf ST rPerf SMT 2 rPerf SMT4 rPerf SMT 8
S822 P8/6 3.8 59.9 86.9 112.9 120.8
S822 P8/10 3.8 88.2 127.8 166.2 177.8
S822 P8/12 3.8 116.8 169.4 220.2 235.6
S822 P8/20 3.8 171.9 249.3 324 346.7
S824 P8/6 3.8 59.9 86.9 112.9 120.8

S824 P8/8 4.1 82.3 119.3 155.1 166
S824 P8/12 3.8 116.8 160.4 220.2 235.6
S824 P8/16 4.1 160.4 232.7 302.4 323.6
S824 P8/24 3.8 209.1 303.2 394.2 421.8
740 P7/12 3.7 101.7

740 P7+/12 4.2 176.6

Power 750+ vs POWER8 4U2S

Performance
Performance Total # Cores TCA per $
1.2 3 3
32
1 2.5 2.5
0.8 24 2 2
0.6 1.5 1.5

16
0.4 1 1
8
0.2 0.5 0.5
0 0 0 0
P 750+ P8 4U2S P 750+ P8 4U2S P 750+ P8 4U2S P 750+ P8 4U2S

POWER8 ≥ Fewer cores means Lower Lower investment costs Better performance
Performance Software Costs per dollar spent
Does not reflect lower PVU
savings
SAP Sales & Distribution 2-Tier ERP 6 Benchmarks

IBM Power System S824 using DB2 10.5 vs. Competition
Over 2 times better 24 core performance than nearest Intel competitive

results
Up to 2 times greater performance than previous Power generation
2X
more users
IBM Power Fujitsu Cisco UCS HP ProLiant IBM Power IBM IBM
S824 RX300 S8 C240 M3 BL460c S824 p270 p260
(1.0) 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 / 192 threads, POWER8;
3.52GHz, 512 GB memory, 21,212 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, dialog response: 0.98 seconds, line items/hour: 2,317,330, dialog steps/hour: 6.952,000 SAPS: 115,870 database
response time (dialog/update): 0.011 sec / 0.019sec, CPU utilization: 99%, Certification #: 2014016 Results valid as of 3/24/14. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1) Fujitsu RX300 S8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697
processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.240 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 SE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013024
(1.2) Cisco UCS c240 M3 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24c ores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697
processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.045 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 DE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013038
(1.3) HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-
2697 processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.025 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 DE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013025
(2.1 IBM Flex System p270 Compute Node 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,
POWER7+; 3.4GHz, 256 GB memory, 12.528 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10 .5 Certification #: 3012019 Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1)IBM Flex System p260 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 16 cores / 64 threads, POWER7+; 4.1GHz,
256 GB memory, 10,000 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10, Certification #: 2012035
SAP SD 2-Tier Details

46% 75%
Better Better
Performance Performance per Core
DL380p S822L DL380p S822L
HP IBM HP IBM

SPECjbb Details
50% 81% 40%
Better Better Better
Performance Performance per Core Price Performance
DL380p S822L DL380p S822L DL380p S822L
HP IBM HP IBM HP IBM

POWER8
Roll Out

Power April Announcements
New Scale-Out Servers with POWER8 technology

– 2U servers: 2 socket
– 4U servers: 1 socket and 2 socket
Linux-only server models

– 2U servers: 2 socket
New Virtualization Management

– IBM PowerKVM – Kernel Virtual Machine
– PowerKVM for Linux-only servers
New HMC Functionality

– LPAR Creation
– LPAR Management
– Performance Monitoring

Power April Announcements
New IBM i Releases

– IBM i 7.2 --- New Release (Annc 28 Apr)
– IBM i 7.1 --- New Technology Refresh, TR8 (Annc 8 Apr)
POWER8 Hardware support

– IBM BLU Acceleration Solution - Power Systems Edition
– IBM PowerVP – Virtualization Performance
– IBM PowerSC – Security and Compliance
– IBM PowerVM
– IBM PowerVC


POWER8 2S2U Scale-Out System

Power S822
 Single Socket populated
 Cores: 6 or 10
 Memory: Up to 512 GB
 PCIe Slots: 6 PCIe Gen3 LP (Hotplug)
 Both Sockets populated

 Cores: 12 or 20
 Memory: Up to 1 TB
 PCIe Slots: 9 PCIe Gen3 LP (Hotplug)
 Ethernet: Quad 1 Gbt / (x8 slot) 3 Yr Warranty

 Integrated ports: USB (4), Serial (2), HMC (2)
 Internal Storage
 DVD
 12 SFF Bays -- Split Backplane: 6 + 6
 or 8 SFF Bays & 6 1.8‖ SSD Bays with Easy Tier with 7GB write cache
 Hypervisor: PowerVM
 OS: AIX, Linux (not IBM i)
POWER8 Linux 2S2U Scale-Out System

Power S822L
 Dual Sockets
 Cores: 20 or 24
 Slots: 9 PCIe Gen3 LP (Hotplug)
 Ethernet: Quad 1 Gbt / (x8 slot)

 DVD
 Hypervisor: PowerVM or PowerKVM

 OS: Linux
3 Yr Warranty

POWER8 Linux 1S2U Scale-Out System

Power S812L
 Dual Sockets
 Cores: 10 or 12
 Slots: 6 PCIe Gen3 LP (Hotplug)

 DVD
 Hypervisor: PowerVM or PowerKVM

 OS: Linux 3 Yr Warranty
GA Sept 2014
POWER8 2S4U Scale-Out System

Power S824
 Single Socket populated
 Cores: 6 or 8
 Slots: 7 PCIe Gen3 full-high (Hotplug)
 Both Sockets populated
 Cores: 12, 16, or 24
 Slots: 11 PCIe Gen3 full-high (Hotplug)

 Integrated ports: USB (4/5), Serial (2), HMC (2) 3 Yr Warranty
 DVD
 or 18 SFF bays & 8 SSD bays with Easy Tier with 7GB write cache
 Hypervisor: PowerVM
 OS: AIX, IBM i, Linux

SWG 70 Processor Value Unit (PVU) Licensing

 Now Available Worldwide 70 PVUs
All Power cores
running Linux And all
 Applies to SWG PVU licensed 1 &2 core AIX servers
software products for ALL Power
cores running Linux
 70 PVU pricing previously only
available for 1-2 socket servers
– PowerLinux 7R1/7R2, p260 and
Power 710/720/730/740
– Intel SandyBridge servers
 70 PVU pricing now includes:
– Power IFLs
– Power 750 to Power 795
– PowerLinux 7R4
– Flex System p460
– Power 8 one and two socket
servers (AIX)
PVU Table link: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html

Announce / Availability Plans
Annc eConfig GA
Power S814 28 Apr 28 Apr 10 Jun
Power S822L 28 Apr 28 Apr 10 Jun
Add’l storage backplane option 28 Apr 17 July Sept
SFF-3 146/139GB 15k & 300/283GB 10k HDD 28 Apr 27 May 25 July
Linux-only 1S 2U S812L July July Sep
Linux-only 4U S824L 2H14 2H14 2H14

4-core Power S814 4Q 4Q 4Q
NEBS compliance 2U 4Q 4Q 4Q

POWER8 Enterprise Systems - Statements of Direction

POWER8
IBM plans to… Enterprise Systems
• … bring POWER8 capability to the full Power Systems portfolio,
with the intent to deliver the most scalable, highest performing
enterprise-class Power System with
an advanced version of the POWER8 processor.
• … to provide upgrade paths from the current POWER7+ Power

770 and 780 servers to enterprise-class
• Architectural strengths
POWER8 processor-based servers. of Power 795
• Modularity & efficiencies
• … preserve client investment in Power Systems by enabling of Power 770/780
POWER8 processor-based Power systems to interoperate and • Performance and
share Mobile Capacity on Demand (COD) resources with innovation of POWER8
POWER7/7+ processor-based Power systems in a single Power• Greater Scalability &
Enterprise Pool Reliability
• Increased Efficiency
(Space, Energy)

New POWER8 PCIe Adapters
LAN
2-port 40GbE NIC & RoCE QSFP+ cables
2-port 10GbE RJ45 (10GBaseT) only $950
No
4-port 10GbE+1GbE Copper twinax & RJ45 only $1200 NIM
4-port 10GbE+1GbE SR optical & RJ45 only $1600
USB-3 4-port (old USB-2 not supported)
SAS PCIe3
4-port Tape/DVD only $1000
Reprice 4-port zero cache HDD/SSD to $1000
Graphics adapter for future RHEL 7 (Planned June announce)
PCIe3 FPGA Accelerator Adapter
Prices are USA PRELIMINARY list prices for a Power S822 and are subject to change. Reseller prices may vary.
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POWER8
OS
Support
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• Can roll-back to a previous version of the WPAR
Enhanced AIX versioned WPAR lifecycle management (AIX 7.1 only)
• Allow existing AIX 5.2 or 5.3 versioned WPARs to be upgraded to AIX 7 WPARs
“Does your OS Matter?”, Display of current ODM attribute settings
Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. (SIL) • New lsattr –P option to display applied attributes that may not yet be in effect on
study, 2012 the running system
AIX Enterprise Edition includes entitlement to PowerVC
AIX Enterprise Edition Contents

AIX 7 or AIX 6
PowerVC
PowerSC Standard Edition
AIX Dynamic System Optimizer
SmartCloud Entry Bundle for Power
– Director Storage Control
– Systems Director Standard Edition
 IBM System Director
 Active Energy Manager
 Network Control
 Transition Manager for HP® SIM
 Service and Support Manager
– VMControl Enterprise Edition
WPAR Manager
Tivoli Products
– IBM Tivoli Monitoring

AIX Roadmap 2013 Future

2012 Workload Optimization
Workload Optimization • DSO (v4)
• DSO (v3) • Hybrid Threads
Workload Optimization
• Oracle RDSv3 Certification • SMC-R (shared memory
• ASO (v2)
• OFED 1.5 for RoCE communications)
• Support for DPO
• SSD Flash Caching • Node/V8/Javascript
• Scaled Throughput Folding
2011 Virtualization: • Key OSS Dependencies
• IPV6 for NFSV3 and WPARs
• WPAR alt-disk install and Virtualization:
Virtualization: rollback • SRIOV (NIC, RoCE, FCoE)
• Cross platform WPAR Mobility Security:
Workload Optimization: • WPAR to LPAR
• LPAR to WPAR tool • Russian Security
• ASO (v1) • Java WPAR shared memory
Security:
Virtualization: Certification • China Security Certification
HW Support/Exploitation: HW Support/Exploitation:
• AIX 5.3 Compatible • POWER7+ Introduction
HW Support/Exploitation:
WPAR • More POWER7+ Servers • POWER8
• Security Encryption HW • Energy Management++
• UUIDs for WPARs and Acceleration • Transactional Memory
LPARs
• Active Memory Expansion HW • Coherent Accelerators
• Active Memory Acceleration • CAPI Flash
Deduplication • PCIe FPGA
Availability:
• Concurrent Maintenance w/ • 40Gb Ethernet
Single Unix Spec v4 WPAR Mobility between AIX Availability:
Levels • Live AIX Kernel Update
AIX 7 TL1 AIX 7 TL2 AIX 7 TL3
AIX 6.1 Still Supported on New HW
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IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 8

 IBM i is the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems™
 Includes operating system, database, and middleware that were
designed, developed, built, tested, delivered and supported together
 Provides a foundation for wide variety of industry applications
 Helps businesses deliver services faster, with higher quality and with superior
economics
Announce – 4/8 GA – 6/25
IBM i 7.1 TR8 provides enhancements to the following:

• Accessible but secure information
 Support for refreshed
POWER7+ models Generate SQL from any file type; capture; archive; compare; model
• Solutions for a modern mobile world
 Support for new I/O
Extending applications and management
 Data management • Strong integrated value
enhancements
Processors, I/O and Operating System
 SWG product • New enhancements for Rational and WebSphere products
enhancements Free format RPG added to RDi
WebSphere Liberty profile is new base for IBM i Integrated
Application Server

IBM i 7.2  IBM i is the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems™
 Includes operating system, database, and middleware that were
designed, developed, built, tested, delivered and supported together
 Provides a foundation for wide variety of industry applications
 Helps businesses deliver services faster, with higher quality and with
superior economics
Announce – 4/28 GA – 5.2

 IBM i 7.2 is a major new release affecting all parts of the operating
system and Licensed Program Products
 Major Release  Significant new enhancements include
 Enhanced Security for • DB2 for i extends reputation for securing critical business
critical business data data by delivering advanced security functions
• IBM Navigator for i provides new interfaces, new system
 Support for movement to management capabilities and performance investigator
mobile device enablement • New additions to the integrated IBM I SSO application suite
 Significant enhancements • BRMS adds new Hub function
to entire operating system • PowerHA SystemMirror for i Express Edition
and most licensed • Support for new POWER8 hardware
program products • Support for new and extended I/O devices
• Enhancements to Save/Restore, Installation, PTF
Management and Printing
Linux for Scale-out Servers

1H / 2014 2H / 2014
RHEL 6.5 RHEL 6.6

RHEL6
POWER7 Mode on POWER8 POWER7 mode on POWER8
RHEL 7 RHEL 7.0 *
SLES 11 + SP3
SLES 11
POWER7 Mode on POWER8
SLES 12 (LE)
SLES 12
POWER8 Support
14.04.00/01
Ubuntu (LE) 14.04.00/02
POWER8 Support
LE Introduction
Debian LE Update
POWER8 Support
PowerVM 2.2.3.3 2.2.3.X
* REH7 currently in Beta, RH and IBM working to support POWER8


Power
Software
IBM North America Power Systems Planned 2Q Announcement / GA
Power System Software

Delivering the intelligent IT infrastructure to support Cloud, Big Data, Analytics & Mobile
Simplified Virtualization & Cloud Mgmt Enhanced Security & Availability
The industry’s most scalable and flexible A track record of excellence with
virtualization infrastructure for enterprise industry leading resilience and security
UNIX, Linux and IBM i private clouds
 New PowerKVM – Open Virtualization Choice  Update PowerHA SystemMirror for i

• Kernel-Based Virtual Machine(KVM) Linux based • Decrease failover time and eliminate operator
virtualization for scale out POWER8 Linux Servers intervention with automated UID/GID post failover
mergers and Object authority/ownership sync
 Update PowerVM - Virtualization without Limits
 New PowerHA Express for i
• Improved virtualization user experience with New
performance views and capacity data • Provides full system HyperSwap for continuously
available storage
 Update PowerVP - Virtualization Performance
 Update IBM i 7.1 TR 8
• Improved memory and shared processor affinity for
•Support for refreshed POWER7+ models and new
improved optimization
I/O, as well as application and management
 Update PowerVC – Virtualization Center extensions that enable solutions for a modern mobile
• Improved scalability and added support for active world
directory and shared storage pools enabling faster  New IBM i 7.2
integration with clients existing infrastructure • Major new release that delivers significant
 Nw SmartCloud Entry for Power Systems* enhancements in the areas of DB2 for i, Security and
• Extended base OpenStack capability to allow for Systems Mgmt as well as many other areas of the
customization & quicker deployment of OpenStack- operating system
based cloud solutions
* Will announce in May, not

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Power Cloud and Virtualization

Driving efficiency and simplicity towards a software defined environment
Update
PowerVM - Virtualization without Limits
 Performance, resiliency, and flexibility improvements with better
Shared Storage Pools elasticity, better vSCSI redundancy and
virtualization performance monitoring New
 PowerVP - Virtualization Performance Analyzer
 Real time, graphical performance information for virtualized workloads
health mgmt and optimization New
PowerVC – Virtualization Center
 Advanced virtualization management leveraging OpenStack to help
clients respond to business needs faster while reducing cost
SmartCloud Entry for Power Systems
 Open and extensible cloud delivery based on OpenStack for
alignment with emerging cloud standards, interoperability
Solution Edition for Service Providers New
 Integrated and optimized for Service Providers with cloud delivery,
management and utility-based pricing
Enterprise Pools and Mobile CoD New
 Dynamically move processor and memory activations within pools of
systems to flexibly pay for what you use
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) on Power New
 Improved economics for Linux applications and infrastructure with

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PowerVM v2.2.3.3
Virtualization without Limits
 Reduces IT infrastructure costs
Consolidate diverse workloads save operational costs
 Improves service levels
Virtualized resources can be applied dynamically to workloads as needed
 Manages risk
Unrivaled flexibility enables rapid response to business change minimizing risk
Announce – 4/28 GA – 06/03
• Improved Virtualization User Experience

• Enhanced, simplified HMC Virtualization UI lowers cost of
operation
 Improved User • No Touch VIOS Management simplifies administration
Experience for • One Touch VIOS Deployment from the HMC accelerates
PowerVM virtualization deployment
 Industrial Strength • System and Partition Templates reduces risk by providing
Server Virtualization repeatable deployments and best practices enforcement
• New Performance Views and Capacity Data help to simplify
 POWER8 Support performance and capacity management
• POWER8 Support enables improved Power capabilities
• SRIOV NIC Support enables enhanced hardware virtualization

PowerVC v1.2 Virtualization Center

 Improve resource utilization to reduce capital expense and power
consumption
 Increase agility and execution to quickly respond to changing business
requirements
 Increase IT productivity and responsiveness
 Manage scalability without adding complexity
 Dynamically adjusts workloads to ease burden on systems management

“I have a certain set of skills.
For me to do these tasks • Globalization (group 1) for improved usability for non English
without any background of the speaking clients
product shows it’s intuitive.”
• Active Directory support for simpler integration with clients existing
Spencer Siu
infrastructure and security standards
• Shared Storage Pool support to enable support for a broader set of
storage and clients with EMC and Hitachi storage
“PowerVC is so easy I could • Leverage the Performance of new POWER8 hardware
have an intern do this for me.“
David Jackson • Support for the new PowerKVM
• Expanded scale to manage larger enterprise environments

Power Enterprise Pools with Mobile and Elastic COD

delivers both flexibility and economic efficiency
Multi-system infrastructure providing a highly available and flexible IT
environment to support clients’ most demanding business resiliency
objectives
Clients purchase the capacity needed and may allocate & rebalance
virtual processor and memory resources within the capacity pool
Elastic On/Off Processor and memory enables clients to address

periodic spikes in demand
Live Partition Mobility enables clients to migrate running workloads

between systems to enable continuous availability
Active - Active Planned Maintenance Resource Balancing Periodic Demand Peaks
Activate 32
64 64 System 64
64c for Inactive 96 64
Inactive Inactive being Inactive
Maint. Inactive Inactive
Maintained
32c
Active
64c 64c 64c 64c 64c
Active Active Active 64c 32c Active Active
Active Active
79
New ―Mobile-Enabled‖ Activations static mobile
8 April 2014 announcement for POWER7+ 770/780 and Power 795

– New static processor core activations can save total cost
– Higher initial cost, but converts to mobile activations at no-charge when
ready
Original Static + MES conversion  Mobile

$$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$
Mobile enabled Static + MES conversion  Mobile

0
$$$$$$ $$$$$$

PowerVP v1.1.2 Virtualization Performance Intelligence

 Provides performance information to help optimize virtualized systems
 Understand the mapping of virtualized workloads to physical hardware
 Accelerates identifying performance bottlenecks
 Operational health status
Announce – 4/28 GA – 06/06
• POWER8 Hardware Support enables performance

 Real time performance optimization for new Power systems
information which • Globalization Support provides local language support for
identifies performance messages and documentation
bottlenecks
• Improved Memory Affinity Information allows optimization of
 Graphical display memory for virtualized workloads
showing virtualized
workloads health • Improved Shared Processor Affinity Information allows
shared processor configurations to be understood and
optimized

SmartCloud Entry ―Next‖ for Power Systems

Announce – 5/19 GA – 6/13/14
What’s New?
• Support for PowerVC enhancements including support for Shared

Storage Pools and live VM migration
• Flexible, more advanced cloud deployment with Chef
• Expanded OpenStack ecosystem including cinder, heat, ceilometer
 Open alternative to and Horizon UI
proprietary cloud stacks • Enhanced integration with policy-based placement solutions, IBM
Platform Resource Scheduler
 Leveraging community to
–VM placement policies, ie. Packing, Striping, Load balance and
speed innovation
more…
 Open APIs provide –Run-time optimization policies, ie. Load, Memory, VM-HA, and
flexibility, agility and hybrid more…
cloud support • Hybrid Private Cloud with OpenStack and SoftLayer**
• Adding OpenStack support for PowerKVM, z/VM and VMware
vSphere to KVM/x86 and Microsoft HyperV
*New name to be announced at GA

** STG Lab Services offering, to x86 initially

This document is for IBM and IBM Business Partner use only. It is not intended for use with customers.
PowerHA SystemMirror for i V7.2

 Minimize planned and unplanned outages in the data center
 Provide multi-site solutions for disaster recovery
 Tightly integrated with IBM i for robust operations
 Fault tolerant storage configurations with HyperSwap
 Comprehensive HA/DR with IBM Storage Copy Services

Integrate and automate
HA/DR operations with • Single-node HyperSwap for cross-campus fault tolerant storage
IBM storage
• UID/GID post failover auto merge
Eliminate Storage
outages with HyperSwap • Admin Domain increased to 45,000 objects
Minimize cost with the • Object authority/ownership post fail over auto-sync
CBU for i
• Independent ASP Assignment; many to one FlashCopy operations
Simple, low cost
• NEW - PowerHA Express Edition for i provides full system
replication with
HyperSwap for continuously available storage
Geographic Mirroring

PowerKVM v2.1
Open Virtualization Choice for Linux-only Scale-out Servers
 Optimize Linux Workload Consolidation and scale out of workloads at
a lower cost of ownership
 Maintain flexibility and agility by exploiting Open Source Community
 Leverage traditional Linux admin skills on Power Systems to
administer virtualization
 Use open source tools like OpenStack to manage virtualization
• Kernel-Based Virtual Machine(KVM) Linux based virtualization
For Scale Out POWER8 Linux Servers
• Processor and memory sharing and over commitment enables
 Reduces IT
Infrastructure costs
higher VM and workload consolidation
 Optimize Linux • Dynamic addition & removal of virtual devices
workload consolidation • Live VM Migration enables higher availability and allows workload
at a lower cost balancing
 Simplify your • Exploits P8 Features like Micro-Threading providing greater
virtualization
management using
scheduling granularity vs x86 virtualization
open source tools • Exploits performance, scalability and security built into Linux
• Managed by PowerVC and open source tools which provides
flexible familiar Linux admin tools
• Supports Redhat, SUSE, Ubuntu Linux Guests
Back
SR-IOV

SR-IOV …. A Technology of Interest LPAR #1
LPAR #2
 Single Root I/O Virtualization LPAR #3
 Runs ―closer to the silicon‖ potentially offering some

performance efficiencies
 Doesn’t require VIOS as a pre-req and thus can do simple

virtualization under PowerVM without VIOS …. BUT ….
VIOS continues to offer many additional advanced functions
 Architecturally can virtualize a resource like an Ethenet

adapter and allocate/provide a user-defined minimum level
of bandwidth to a partition … Quality of Service (QoS)
 Ethernet NIC announced. FCoE and FC not announced.
87  Can use VIOS & SR-IOV together

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SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) for Ethernet NIC
• Simple virtualization without VIOS

• With quality of service controls
QoS
LPAR #1
Min of y%
LPAR #2 Gen 2 *
LPAR #3
• * For specific Gen2 Adapters with SR-IOV
LPAR #4 capable electronics In PCIe Gen2 (or later) slot
• For specific Integrated Multifunction Cards with
SR-IOV capable electronics
• Under latest 7.8 firmware
• With recent OS level software

SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) for Ethernet NIC

Virtualization with VIOS example
• Redundant VIOS with one hardware resource
• Minimum amount of bandwidth for Quality of Service (QoS)
QoS
VIOS - A
Min of y%
LPAR #2 Gen 2 *
LPAR #3
• * For specific Gen2 Adapters with SRIOV-
VIOS - B capable electronics In PCIe Gen2 or later slot
• For specific Integrated Multifunction Cards with
SRIOV-capable electronics
• Under latest 7.8 firmware
• With recent OS level software

SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) Dual VIOS
• Redundant VIOS with redundant hardware resource

• Minimum amount of bandwidth for Quality of Service (QoS)
QoS QoS
SRIOV virtualization + VIOS - A SRIOV virtualization +

VIOS virtualization VIOS virtualization
Min of y%
Gen 2 LPAR #2 Gen 2
LPAR #3
VIOS - B

SR-IOV and POWER8 Servers
No announcement or SOD was issued for SR-IOV

function in April 2014
However, this capability is being worked on by IBM

development. No architectural problems are known.
The only known challenge is working it into busy test
schedules and ensuring things are tuned properly on
the POWER8 PCIe Gen3 slots
Note that SR-IOV requires an HMC

HMC

Enhanced HMC Management Capabilities
Performance Monitoring
1. View System Performance Dashboard
2. View Resource Utilization Trends (Processor,
Memory, Network, Storage)

Performance Monitoring – Metrics & Dashboard

Performance metric indicators & utilization dashboard
 Processor, memory & I/O
Server & LPAR level information
Basic trend data collection and visualization
 Identify bottlenecks
 Early problem detection
REST based API to access:
 All platform (PHYP & VIOS) metrics for Tivoli
 Third Party tools
9
8

Performance Monitoring – Server Overview

Performance Monitoring – Processor Utilization
1
0
0

Power Systems Management Requirements
Minimum Requirement:
HMC FW V8.R1.0 or Later
HMC HW 7042-CR5 / 7042-C08 or Later
HMC Memory 2GB or More
Power HW POWER6 and Later
PowerVM/VIOS V2.2.3

Education

Enterprise2014 (Tech U)
The Premier Enterprise Infrastructure Event
October 6-10
The Venetian | Las Vegas
 The Premier Enterprise Infrastructure Event

 IBM Enterprise2014 will be held October 6-10, 2014 at the Venetian in Las Vegas,
Nevada. In its second year, this event brings together the IBM System z Technical
University, the IBM Power Systems Technical University and the Enterprise
Executive Summit—all combined to provide the premier enterprise infrastructure
event.
IBM Enterprise 2014

Thank You!
from
IBM Power Systems

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Power8: Superior Innovation

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Power8: Innovations for Evolving Workloads

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Power8: First Generation Open Platform

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IBM continues to Invest in Linux on Power

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POWER8 moves forwards while x86 moves backwards

Relative Core Performance

 POWER8 core performance2 1.2

lagging x86 core 0.6

 POWER8 core provides 35% Point

Relative Core Performance

license $ than POWER7+ 1

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Power Processor Technology Roadmap

2004 2007 2010 2014

Announced 2013 at Hot Chips Conference

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Scale Out Systems - DCMs and POWER8 Chips

1S & 2S servers use DCM (Dual Chip Module)

6-core Processor Chip

Local SMP Links

Remote SMP Links

PCI Gen 3 Links

Intelligence Moved into Memory

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POWER8 Memory Organization (Max Config shown)

128 16MB 128

128 16MB 16MB 128

POWER8 Integrated PCI Gen 3

POWER7 Native PCIe Gen 3 Support

Gen1 x8 Gen2 x8 Gen3 x8

Gen1 Gen2 Gen3

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PCIe x8 and x16

POWER8 servers have x8

x16 slot/card has more connections than a x8 slot/card

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POWER8 Multi-threading Options

SMT4: Smaller unit of work, but provides

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POWER8 CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)

Customizable Hardware / Application Accelerator

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Possible Example: CAPI Attached Flash Optimization

Disk & Adapter DD

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Possible Example: CAPI Attached Flash Optimization

Application Attach flash memory to POWER8 via

 Issues Read/Write Commands from applications to eliminate 97% of

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2U Storage Backplane Options

 Must select one  Expanded