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Power Systems Projects in Research
NYC & Philadelphia OpenStack Meetups
October 2014
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Please Note!
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withdrawal without notice at IBM’s sole discretion.!
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remains at our sole discretion.!
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Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks
in a controlled environment. The actual throughput or performance that any user will
experience will vary depending upon many factors, including considerations such as the
amount of multiprogramming in the user’s job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage
configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an
individual user will achieve results similar to those stated here.!
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Where Power Systems Can Provide Superior Value!
Analytics and Cognitive Services: (exploiting
memory BW and large memory capacity)!
Faster answers to questions!
Scale Up Services!
We see services that fit on a single large machine can “dramatically”
benefit from many processors with large memory bandwidth!
Our work is to make Power Systems the platform for such services!
Containers: (using special HW built for safe virtualization)!
More efficient packing!
Better isolation for security & performance!
More predictable performance!
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….
For
parallel
applica-ons
that
fit
within
a
single
large
SMP
the
efficient
communica-on
can
translate
into
drama-c
performance
gains.
However,
WSCs
workloads
are
unlikely
to
fit
within
an
SMP,
....
“The
Datacenter
as
a
Computer”,
Barroso,
Clidaras,
Hölzle,
Google

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Two High-Level Goals!
POWER is Easy / Same To Consume:!
End Users!
BlueMix, OpenStack, others!
Developers!
Tooling (apt-get, PIP, gcc, …)!
Continuous Integration & build systems!
Service Providers!
Conform to popular APIs and form factors!
POWER provides a Better Experience:!
End Users!
Applications run better on POWER!
Services run better on POWER (e.g.
Hadoop, Analytics, “home run plays”!
Developers!
High performance building blocks!
Portable libraries enhanced capabilities!
Service providers!
Better container packing on POWER!
Predictable multi-tenant performance!
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Consump-on
Mechanisms
(e.g.
BlueMix
Integra-on,
OpenStack
Cloud
as
a
Service)
Infrastructure
Capabili-es
(e.g.
Docker
Support)
Infrastructure
Capabili-es
(e.g.
Containers)
Applica-on
Services
(e.g.
Analy-cs
Libraries)
Performance
Capabili-es
(e.g.
TM,
CAPI)
Ecosystem
Founda-on
Linux,
compilers,
development
tools,
building
blocks
(e.g.
sort,
storage)

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Quick Demo If Possible!
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Soliciting Feedback and Participation!
Your thoughts on Power Systems and the projects described above?!
Do you have a workload which Power System could support better than what you have?!
Are we missing any key roles?!
!
Are there ways we could be more helpful?!
Do you use Open Source packages?!
Are you comfortable with research projects?!
!
Are you interested in exploring these areas together?!
Let’s talk!!
!
!
Thank you for your time and comments!
!
!
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