IBM Power Systems Introduction

© IBM Corporation, 2016
IBM Power Systems Introduction
16th February 2017
Presented by David Spurway
IBM Power Systems Product Manager
IBM Systems, UK and Ireland

2 © IBM Corporation, 2016
LEGO Bricks
LEGO®is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this presentation

Have you ever seen one like this?

They even managed to do this…

Science behind LEGO

LEGO provides the building blocks

Why are Power and LEGO similar?

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
Why are LEGO and Power Systems Similar?
50+ Years 50+ Years
Constant focus
to remain current
$1billion
~$4.3B revenue Number 1 (62% Unix)
~18 per million elements rejected
130x more checkers in
POWER processors
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories
& Compliance Reporting
19 Billion elements per year Common Platform
Competition from
LEGO “clones”
Competition from Intel
LEGO underpins the Toy Market, Power the Enterprise Server Market

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
Constant focus
to remain current
$1billion
POWER processors
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories
Competition from
LEGO “clones”
50+ Years50+ Years

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
50+ Years 50+ Years
POWER processors
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories
Competition from
LEGO “clones”
Constant focus
to remain current$1B Invest for Linux$2.4B Invest for POWER8$3B Invest for Future

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
50+ Years 50+ Years
Constant focus
to remain current
$1billion
POWER processors
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories
Competition from
LEGO “clones”
~$4.3B revenue
Number 1
Traditional UNIX

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
50+ Years 50+ Years
Constant focus
to remain current
$1billion
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories
Competition from
LEGO “clones”
~18 per million elements
rejected
POWER processors

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
50+ Years 50+ Years
Constant focus
to remain current
$1billion
POWER processors
Competition from
LEGO “clones”
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
50+ Years 50+ Years
Constant focus
to remain current
$1billion
POWER processors
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories
Competition from
LEGO “clones”
19 Billion elements per yearCommon Platform

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
50+ Years 50+ Years
Constant focus
to remain current
$1billion
POWER processors
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories
19 Billion elements per year Common PlatformCompetition from
LEGO “clones”Competition from Intel

Manufacturing
Cost
Reliability
Security
R&D
Market Leadership
Heritage
50+ Years 50+ Years
Constant focus
to remain current
$1billion
POWER processors
0.002 mm Tolerance
Minimal Advisories
Competition from
LEGO “clones”

What “bricks” do LEGO use?
IBM AIX, IBM PowerHA, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli Netcool/Webtop,
IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Probe, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager,
IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console, IBM Tivoli Network Manager,
IBM Tivoli Performance Analyzer, IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller,
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, IBM Power 570,
IBM BladeCenter HS22 blade servers, IBM Power 770, IBM System x3650 servers,
IBM System Storage DS4800, IBM System Storage DS8700, IBM Tape Library
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=PM&subtype=AB&htmlfid=SPC03262DKEN
LEGO creates model business success with SAP and IBM

What “bricks” do LEGO use?
“Due to the architecture and design of the cloud-based LEGO Matrix, IT is not a
bottleneck on growth.”— Esben Viskum, Senior Director, LEGO Service Center
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=PM&subtype=AB&htmlfid=SPC03262DKEN

Let’s talk bricks…

Would you like to go fast?

Go faster – win your race

POWER8 is the fastest around

What would “faster” mean to you?

POWER8 Overview
Optimized for
Data
Open Innovation
Platform
Superior Cloud
Economics

Power S814 Power S824
Power S822
Power S812L Power
S822L
Scale-out Systems (1 & 2 sockets)
IBMPowerSystems
Enterprise Systems (4+ sockets)
Power E880CPower E870C
Power E850C
Power S824L
Power Systems Range
Operating Systems
or
Hypervisors Management

IBM Power Systems with Oracle DBs
£0.00
£10,000,000.00
£20,000,000.00
£30,000,000.00
£40,000,000.00
£50,000,000.00
£60,000,000.00
£70,000,000.00
£80,000,000.00
£90,000,000.00
HPE ProLiant
DL380 Gen9
(2ch/36co Xeon
E5-2699 v3
2.3GHz)
HPE ProLiant
DL580 Gen9
(4ch/72co Xeon
E7-8880 v3
2.30GHz)
IBM Power
System S812LC
(1ch/10co
POWER8
2.92GHz)
IBM Power
System S822LC
(2ch/20co
POWER8
2.92GHz)
IBM Power
System S824
(4ch/24co
POWER8
3.52GHz)
IBM Power
System E850
(8ch/48co
POWER8
3.02GHz)
IBM Power
System E870
(8ch/80co
POWER8
4.19GHz)
Cost Comparison
3 Year DG Maint
Oracle DG Lic Costs
3 Year Tuning Pack Maint
Oracle Tuning Pack Lic Costs
3 Year Diag Pack Maint
Oracle Diag Pack Lic Costs
3 Year Partitioning Maint
Oracle Partitioning Lic Costs
3 Year RAC Maint
Oracle RAC Lic Costs
3 Year Oracle Maint
Oracle DB Lic Costs
People Costs (3yr)
SAN Port Costs
LAN Port Costs
Power Costs (3yr 24x7)
Rack Costs (3yr)
Hardware Maint (3yr 24x7)
System Purchase

Linux on Power: Lower Hardware Costs
• PowerVM Linux Edition
– 1 year 24x7 SWMA
• Integrated Facility for
Linux
– Linux only
4 Core
Activations
32 GB
Memory
+ +
Lower Cost
Support

Linux on Power: Lower IBM Software Costs
• 70 Processor Value Units
• Same as 2-socket servers
• Enterprise Power advantage
PowerVM
Linux Linux Linux
Power Hardware

IBM Power Systems with WAS/ND
£0.00
£500,000.00
£1,000,000.00
£1,500,000.00
£2,000,000.00
£2,500,000.00
£3,000,000.00
£3,500,000.00
£4,000,000.00
£4,500,000.00
£5,000,000.00
HPE ProLiant
DL380 Gen9
(2ch/36co
Xeon E5-2699
v3 2.3GHz)
HPE ProLiant
DL580 Gen9
(4ch/72co
Xeon E7-8880
v3 2.30GHz)
IBM Power
System S812LC
(1ch/10co
POWER8
2.92GHz)
IBM Power
System S822LC
(2ch/20co
POWER8
2.92GHz)
IBM Power
System S824
(4ch/24co
POWER8
3.52GHz)
IBM Power
System E850
(8ch/48co
POWER8
3.02GHz)
IBM Power
System E870
(8ch/80co
POWER8
4.19GHz)
Cost Comparison
WAS/ND 3 Year Support Costs
WAS/ND License Costs
People Costs (3yr)
SAN Port Costs
LAN Port Costs
Power Costs (3yr 24x7)
Rack Costs (3yr)
Hardware Maint (3yr 24x7)
System Purchase

Open Source for IBM i
• Option 1 – Node.JS 2.x
• Option 2 - Python 3.4
• Option 3 – GCC / chroot
• Option 4 – Python 2.7
• Option 5 – Node.JS 4.x
• Option 6 – Git
• Option 7 – Tools
• Option 8 – Orion
• Option 9 – cloud-init
• Option 10 – Node.JS 6.x 31
New

Do you believe that POWER8 is best for you?

Need a refresher in Computer Science?

Getting answers from your data
• To work with your data today, you need to get the data to the processor core
–Get data from disk
–From disk to adapter
–From adapter to memory
–From memory to cache

–From cache to processor core

–From cache to processor core
–Get your answer!
Still
gobbledegook?

Your not a computer scientist?

You don’t need to be.

What would “faster” mean to you?

Taking the kids to school

Fast processors = new knowledge fast

POWER8 vs. Intel Performance
Benchmark x86 E5 Haswell
Best
Results POWER8
Best
Results
Per
Core
Ratio
SAP SD 2-Tier ERP 6
Dell PowerEdge R730
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
16,500
IBM E870
80 Core
79,750 2.2 X
SPECjbb2013
Lenovo Flex x240
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
245,178
IBM E870
80 Core
1,299,150 2.4 X
SPECint_rate2006
Dell PowerEdge T620
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
1,400
IBM S824
24 Core
1,750 1.9 X
SPECfp_rate2006
Dell PowerEdge T620
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
942
IBM S824
24 Core
1,370 2.2 X
Oracle e-BS 12.1.3
Extra Large Payroll
Cisco UCS C240 M4
E5-2697 v3, 28 Core
1,125,281
IBM S824
12 Core
1,090,909 2.3 X
IBM Power E870 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 8 processors / 80 cores /
640 threads, POWER8; 4.19GHz, 2048 GB memory, 79,750 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, dialog response: 0.97 seconds, order line items/hour:
8,722,000, dialog steps/hour: 26,166,000, SAPS: 436,100, Database response time (dialog/update): 0.013 sec / 0.026 sec, CPU utilization: 99%, Cert #2014034. Result
valid as of October 3, 2014. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
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 E5-2699v3; 2.30 GHz, 256 GB memory; 16,500 SD benchmark users, running RHEL 7 and SAP ASE 16; Certification # 2014033.
SPECjbb2013 results are submitted as of 12/01/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/jbb2013/results
SPECcpu2006 results are submitted as of 9/8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/cpu2006/results/
All results use Oracle eBS 12.1.3 Payroll Batch Extra Large Kit and are current as of 1/24/2015. For more information go to
http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/results-166922.html
Per
Core
Ratio
2 X or
better

POWER8 vs. Intel Performance
Benchmark x86 E5 Haswell
Best
Results POWER8
Best
Results
Per
Core
Ratio
SAP SD 2-Tier ERP 6
Dell PowerEdge R730
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
16,500
IBM E870
80 Core
79,750 2.2 X
SPECjbb2013
Lenovo Flex x240
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
245,178
IBM E870
80 Core
1,299,150 2.4 X
SPECint_rate2006
Dell PowerEdge T620
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
1,400
IBM S824
24 Core
1,750 1.9 X
SPECfp_rate2006
Dell PowerEdge T620
E5-2699 v3, 36 Core
942
IBM S824
24 Core
1,370 2.2 X
Oracle e-BS 12.1.3
Extra Large Payroll
Cisco UCS C240 M4
E5-2697 v3, 28 Core
1,125,281
IBM S824
12 Core
1,090,909 2.3 X
IBM Power E870 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 8 processors / 80 cores /
640 threads, POWER8; 4.19GHz, 2048 GB memory, 79,750 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, dialog response: 0.97 seconds, order line items/hour:
8,722,000, dialog steps/hour: 26,166,000, SAPS: 436,100, Database response time (dialog/update): 0.013 sec / 0.026 sec, CPU utilization: 99%, Cert #2014034. Result
valid as of October 3, 2014. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
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 E5-2699v3; 2.30 GHz, 256 GB memory; 16,500 SD benchmark users, running RHEL 7 and SAP ASE 16; Certification # 2014033.
SPECjbb2013 results are submitted as of 12/01/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/jbb2013/results
SPECcpu2006 results are submitted as of 9/8/2014. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/cpu2006/results/
All results use Oracle eBS 12.1.3 Payroll Batch Extra Large Kit and are current as of 1/24/2015. For more information go to
http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/results-166922.html

SMT = Hermione’s Time-Turner
Attend multiple lessons at once and learn more!

POWER8 and AIX Demonstrate SMT
Throughput Improvement Compared to Intel
IBM Confidential

Do you have enough to do?

Is the car park big enough?
Cache = school car park

Core
Cache
Memory
Memory is slow
relative to
cache
1-100
clock cycles
400-800
clock cycles
1
clock cycle
Cache is Critical to Good Performance

Chip Cache and Core Speed
2S=2 Socket, 4S=4 Socket, 8S=8 Socket, DCM=Dual Chip Module, SCM=Single Chip Module, Low Power Models Not Included
Chip Family
Core
Frequency
(GHz)
L1 plus L2
Cache per
Core (KB)
Approximate
Cache per Core
(MB)
Intel 26xx-V4 (2S, 8+ Cores) 1.7 – 3.2 320 2.81 – 3.44
Intel 46xx-V4 (4S, 8+ Cores) 1.8 – 2.6 320 2.81 – 4.06
Intel 48xx-V4 (4S, 8+ Cores) 2.0 – 2.1 320 2.81
Intel 88xx-V4 (8S, 8+ Cores) 2.1 – 2.8 320 2.81 – 6.31
POWER8 (DCM, 8+ Cores) 3.02 – 4.15 608 19.27
POWER8 (SCM, 8+ Cores) 4.02 – 4.35 608 19.27
IBM z13 5.0 4,320 32.22
Note: Only 3 of the 42 Intel chips included on this chart have greater than 2.81 MB of
cache per core. Only 3 of the chips included have clock frequencies >= 3 GHz
Chip Family
Core
Frequency
(GHz)
L1 plus L2
Cache per
Core (KB)
Approximate
Cache per Core
(MB)
Intel 26xx-V4 (2S, 8+ Cores) 1.7 – 3.2 320 2.81 – 3.44
Intel 46xx-V4 (4S, 8+ Cores) 1.8 – 2.6 320 2.81 – 4.06
Intel 48xx-V4 (4S, 8+ Cores) 2.0 – 2.1 320 2.81
Intel 88xx-V4 (8S, 8+ Cores) 2.1 – 2.8 320 2.81 – 6.31
POWER8 is… Faster Bigger Much Bigger!
POWER8 (DCM, 8+ Cores) 3.02 – 4.15 608 19.27
POWER8 (SCM, 8+ Cores) 4.02 – 4.35 608 19.27

Larger memory bandwidth means less waiting

POWER8 Memory Bandwidth per Socket
GB/Sec
IBM Confidential

Chip Bandwidth and Threading
2S=2 Socket, 4S=4 Socket, 8S=8 Socket, DCM=Dual Chip Module, SCM=Single Chip Module, Low Power Models Not Included, Updated 6/1/2015
Chip Family
Memory
Bandwidth
per Socket
Peak I/O
Bandwidth
per Socket
Threads
per
Core
Intel 26xx-V4 (2S, 8+ Cores) 60 – 77 GB/s 80 GB/s 1, 2
Intel 46xx-V4 (4S, 8+ Cores) 68 GB/s 80 GB/s 1, 2
Intel 48xx-V4 (4S, 8+ Cores) 102 GB/s 64 GB/s 1,2
POWER8 (DCM, 8+ Cores) 192 GB/s 96 GB/s 1, 2, 4, 8
POWER8 (SCM, 8+ Cores) 230 GB/s 64 GB/s 1, 2, 4, 8
Chip Family
Memory
Bandwidth
per Socket
Peak I/O
Bandwidth
per Socket
Threads
per
Core
Intel 26xx-V4 (2S, 8+ Cores) 60 – 77 GB/s 80 GB/s 1, 2
Intel 48xx-V4 (4S, 8+ Cores) 102 GB/s 64 GB/s 1,2
POWER8 is… Much faster! About the same Does much more!
POWER8 (DCM, 8+ Cores) 192 GB/s 96 GB/s 1, 2, 4, 8
POWER8 (SCM, 8+ Cores) 230 GB/s 64 GB/s 1, 2, 4, 8

Enterprise System Pools
Grow your brains and move them around

• Planned maintenance
• Rebalance capacity
• Failover clusters
• Server migration
Power Enterprise Pools Lower Costs
Before After
A B C A B C

Marketing

Scale-Up or Scale-Out
Scale-Up Scale-Out

What is Power8?
http://www.power8.com/Home.aspx

What is POWER8?
POWERx – All uppercase, with number, no space – processor generation
Power – Uppercase “P”, rest lower case, no number, servers, based on POWER processors

POWER8 Overview
Optimized for
Data
Open Innovation
Platform
Superior Cloud
Economics

OpenPOWER drives industry innovation
The OpenPOWER Foundation creates an open ecosystem,
using the POWER Architecture to share expertise, investment, and
server-class intellectual property to serve the evolving needs of customers.
Performance of leading POWER architecture
Broadens the capability and performance of the POWER
platform
Collaboration across multiple thought leaders
Collaborative development model drives collective
thought leadership, simultaneously across multiple
disciplines
Open Development
OpenPOWER enables greater innovation through
both open software and open hardware

Hadoop / Spark Commercial Technical
OpenPOWER Linux Cluster (LC) Systems (existing)
S812LC
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
S822LC – GCA
2 socket, 2U, Linux
16 or 20 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
2 Disks
5 Available PCI slots
KVM / Bare Metal
S822LC – GTA
2 socket, 2U, Linux
16 or 20 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
2 Disks
2 NVIDIA K80 GPUs
Bare Metal

Spark Internal Benchmarks Price Performance
Power S812LC HP DL380 Gen9 (Haswell)
Configuration
10 cores / 80 threads,
POWER8; 2.9GHz,
256 GB memory, Ubuntu 15.04,
Spark 1.4, OpenJDK 1.8
E5-2690 v3; 2.6GHz ,
256 GB memory. Ubuntu 15.04,
Spark 1.4, OpenJDK 1.8
Web Price ($US) $12,999 $16,004
Relative Results 1,940 1,000
• All results are based on IBM Internal Testing of 10 SparkBench benchmarks consisting of SQL RDD Relation, Twitter, Pageview Streaming, PageRank, Logistic Regression, SVD++, TriangleCount, SVM, MF, SQL Hive
• IBM Power System S812LC 10 cores / 80 threads, 1 X POWER8; 2.9GHz, 256 GB memory, Ubuntu 15.04, Spark 1.4, OpenJDK 1.8
• Intel Xeon HP DL380; 24 cores / 48 threads, 2 X E5-2690 v3; 2.6GHz , 256 GB memory. Ubuntu 15.04, Spark 1.4, OpenJDK 1.8
• * Pricing is based on web prices for S812LC (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/s812lc/buy.html ) and HP DL380
(http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstoreHPE/MiddleFrame.asp?page=config&ProductLineId=431&FamilyId=3852&BaseId=45441&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID= )
• 2 x 1TB SATA 7.2K rpm LFF HDD, 10 Gb two port, 2 x 16gbps FCA
Price Performance $6.70 (2.3X Better) $16.00

PostgreSQL Benchmark Price Performance
Power S822LC HP DL380 Gen9
Configuration
POWER8; 3.6GHz,
256 GB memory, PostgreSQL
9.5 Alpha2, RHEL 7.1,
PowerKVM
36 cores / 72 threads;
Intel E5-2699 v3; 2.3 GHz;
256 GB memory, PostgreSQL
9.5 Aplha2, RHEL 7.1, RHEV
Web Price ($US) $20,872 $29,123
Relative Results 1,250 1,000
Price Performance $16.70 (1.74X Better) $29.12
• Results are based on IBM internal testing of single system running multiple virtual machines with pgbench select only work load and are current as of October 5, 2015. Performance figures are based on running a 300 scale factor. Individual
results will vary depending on individual workloads, configurations and conditions.
• IBM Power System S822LC; 16 cores / 128 threads, POWER8; 3.6GHz, 256 GB memory, PostgreSQL 9.5 Alpha2, RHEL 7.1, PowerKVM
• Competitive stack: HP Proliant DL380 Gen9; 36 cores / 72 threads; Intel E5-2699 v3; 2.3 GHz; 256 GB memory, PostgreSQL 9.5 Aplha2, RHEL 7.1, RHEV
• Transactions per $ graph compares virtual machine at comparable per VM transactions per second using S822LC running 8 vcpu (1 core equiv.) and DL380 GEN9 ran 4 vcpu (2 core equiv.) VM configurations. S822LC produced 26, 781
average TPS per VM @ 20 VMs; DL380 produced 26,793 average TPS per VM @ 16 VMs.
• Pricing is based on web pricing for S822LC http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/s822lc-commercial/buy.html and HP DL380
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstoreHPE/MiddleFrame.asp?page=config&ProductLineId=431&FamilyId=3852&BaseId=45450&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID

Dense Virtualisation Big Data Technical
OpenPOWER Linux Cluster (LC) Systems (new)
S821LC
Up to 2 socket, 1U, Linux
8, 10, 16 or 20 cores
Up to 512 GB memory
Up to 38 TB Storage
1 NVIDIA K80 GPU
S822LC for Big Data
Up to 2 socket, 2U, Linux
8, 10, 16 or 20 cores
Up to 512 GB memory
Up to 96 TB Storage
2 NVIDIA K80 GPUs
5 Available PCI slots
S822LC for HPC
2 socket, 2U, Linux
NVLink
16 or 20 cores
Up to 1 TB memory
2 Disks
2 or 4 NVIDIA P100 GPUs

OpenPOWER Linux Cluster (LC) Systems
S821LC
MTM: 8001-12C
Code Name: Stratton
S822LC for Big Data
MTM: 8001-22C
Code Name: Briggs
S822LC for HPC
MTM: 8335-GTB
Code Name: Minsky
(was Garrison)
Power S812LC
MTM: 8348-21C
Code Name: Habanero
Power S822LC
MTM: 8335-GCA
Code Name: Firestone
Power S822LC
MTM: 8335-GTA
Code Name: Firestone

OpenPOWER Open Interfaces
OpenPOWER open interfaces enable an unbeatable innovation pace
CAPI
NVLink
40 GB/s
CAPI
16 GB/s
POWER8
Memory
Interface
Control
Server
Class
Memory
DMI
IBM and
Partner Devices
GPU

Workload Accelerators and Power
Field
Programmable
Gate Array
Graphics
Processing
Unit
Description
Reconfigurable hardware
Task customized, low latency, low
power
1000s of simple cores
High bandwidth, floating point, and
parallelism
Example
Use Cases
Compression, encryption, high speed
streaming, search, Monte Carlo
simulations
Deep neural networks, speech
recognition, chemistry, simulations,
JAVA, Hadoop, graphics
Power Chip
Integration
Coherent Accelerator Processor
Interface (CAPI)
NVIDIA NVLink
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.

GPUs are like minions
The individual cores in a GPU
are not very powerful
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/
But gather loads together, and
remarkable things can happen!

The Mythbusters explain GPUs – click image below!

Power Systems and NVIDIA GPU Roadmap
NVIDIA GPU NVIDIA GPU with NVLink
2015
Power Chip Power Chip
with NVLink*
2016*
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
80 GB/s
Peak*
PCIe x16
32 GB/s

FPGAs are like Wolverine…
• Really good at doing one thing
• Only does one thing, just really fast
• Unlike Wolverine, can be
reprogrammed to change what it does
–This takes a particular set of skills,
which many of the OpenPOWER
Foundation member have
• Can work alongside more general
computational elements, and maybe
other FPGAs
–Like the X-Men!

Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface
Non-CAPI
Off-Chip
Accelerator
Core
Memory
PCI
CAPI
FPGA
w/CAPI
AcceleratorP8
Core
Memory
PCI

What is CAPI?
FPGA
POWER8
Core
PCIe
POWER8 Processor
OS
App
Memory (Coherent)
AFU
IBM Supplied
PSL
Virtual Memory
CAPP
CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) is a set of IBM
innovations in hardware and software that allow an application
and it’s accelerated component to share the same virtual
address space.
For customers, CAPI enables performance and ease of
programming:
• Application to set up data coherently in shared virtual memory
and call the accelerator functional unit (AFU)
• AFU to reads and writes data from and to shared virtual
memory coherently across PCIe and communicating with the
application
• AFU to coherently cache data in the PSL cache for quick AFU
access

What is OpenCL?
Host Accelerator
C/C++
API
OpenCL
C
• OpenCL is an open standard programming framework enabling a
programmer to code and compile a kernel for a number of architectures
like CPU’s, GPU’s, FPGA’s or other processors.
• OpenCL provides an abstraction of the hardware allowing software
engineers to accelerate algorithms
• OpenCL enables flexibility of acceleration approaches
• OpenCL enables selection of most effective acceleration platform for your
kernel
• Allows you to leverage a vast OpenCL ecosystem for accelerated
functionality
– Multiple FPGA suppliers
– Multiple kernel providers

What OpenCL 2.0 features exploit CAPI?
• On CAPI systems, Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) can be used to share buffers between
host and FPGA rather than transferring data to and from private FPGA buffers
• Non-CAPI
• CAPI
• Existing OpenCL host programs need to be modified to use SVM buffers instead of
cl_mem objects
Dataout
Datain transfer from host
Kernel execution
Dataout transfer to host
Datain
Datain in shared memory
Kernel execution
Dataout in shared
memory

Catalogue of CAPI Accelerators
Financial
L3 Order Book (Algo
Logic)
Monte Carlo Risk Analysis
(IBM)
Database
IBM Data Engine for No-
SQL (“CAPI-Flash”)
Erasure code for Hadoop
(IBM, Xilinx, Semptian)
SQL Accelerator (IBM
Netezza)
Key Value Store (KVS)
(Xilinx)
Dynamic Time Warp
Pattern Match (IBM)
Bitwise Encryption (DRC /
SecurityFirst)
General Purpose
GZIP Compression (IBM)
Fast-Fourier Transfer (IBM)
Linear Algebra (Auviz)
JPEG Manipulation
(ClusterTech)
Security
Bank Fraud Detection
In-Betweenness Djikstra
(DRC)
Video Surveillance
(SiliconScapes)
Digital DNA for forensics
(DRC)
Retail & Analytics
RegEx Text Analytics
(IBM)
Mood Detection
(SiliconScapes)
Real-Time Ad Auctions
(Algo-Logic)
Visually impaired
assistance
(SiliconScapes)
Computer Vision
& Learning
CV Library (Auviz)
People Identification
DNN Library (Auviz)
Activity Recognition
(SiliconScapes)
Health Care
Light Activated Cancer
Therapy (U of Toronto)
Genomics Processing
(Edico)
PairHMM Accelerator
(IBM)

CAPI related OpenPOWER members

Intel taking a very different strategic direction…

The last four generations of x86 architecture

Single Thread Performance is Increasing
Performance measured in rperfs
+14 % +28%
POWER7 740
3.7 GHz
8 Cores
SMT1
56
POWER7+ 740
4.2 GHz
8 Cores
SMT1
64
POWER8 S824
4.1 GHz
8 Cores
SMT1
82

Google, Rackspace, and GPUs: OH MY! See what you
missed at OpenPOWER Summit
http://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/google-rackspace-gpus-openpower-summit/

Accelerators Will Be Enhanced in POWER9
POWER9
Core
On-Chip
Accelerators
Cache Hierarchy and On-Chip Interconnect
I/O CAPIMemory SMPAccelNV
PCIe Gen4DDR4 16 Gb/s25 Gb/s
Memory PCIe
Device
IBM &
Partner
Device
NVIDIA
GPU
IBM &
Partner
Device
POWER9
Chips
DDR
PCIe
CAPI2
NVLink2
Accel
SMP
Source: http://openpowerfoundation.org/presentations/brad-mccredie-board-advisor-ibm/

POWER8 Announcement
Optimized for
Data
Open Innovation
Platform
Superior Cloud
Economics

Need for change

Power Systems Scalability and Value Growth
IBM p5 595
(2004)
List Price £2.4M
38 Processor Cores
Per Ratio (Gartner)
= 1.00
~22,710 watts max
Weight ~1,310 kg
=
IBM Power S822
(2014)
List Price £42.5k
12 Processor Cores
Per Ratio (Gartner)
= 1.17
~1,524 watts max
Weight ~28.6 kg

Power Systems Scalability and Value Growth
IBM p5 595
(2004)
List Price £2.4M
38 Processor Cores
Per Ratio (Gartner)
= 1.00
~22,710 watts max
Weight ~1,310 kg
=
IBM Power
S821LC
(2016)
List Price £7.7k
20 Processor Cores
Per Ratio (Gartner)
= 1.00
~703 watts max
Weight ~19 kg

Off-premise
On-premise
VPN
SecurityServices
SecurityServices
Container
Systems of Record Systems of Engagement
Bluemix
AIX
RHEL
IBM i
IBM Systems Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture

Systems
of…

Traditional IBM Power Systems – Systems Of Record

Other data sources, some in the Cloud

New and imminent announcements
• 9 Sept 2016 Three new LC servers
–S821LC (1U), S822LC for Big Data, & S822LC for High Performance Computing
• 19 Sept 2016 Power Enterprise Cloud - E870C & E880C
• 11 Oct 2016
–Power Enterprise Cloud – E850C
–DDR4 memory
–Multiple I/O announcements

Organizations struggle with key technology challenges supporting
insights, change, and speed
Understanding Data
Digital intelligence is a primary
competitive advantage
Yet 88% of all data today is
unstructured and invisible to
computers1
“The next wave will be all about
connecting dots and correlating data
to produce actionable insights.”
–CIO, Retail, United States2
Keeping Pace
Superior technology delivers
superior performance
Yet the pace of innovation (72%)
is now the top CEO challenge,
even greater than security
(66%)3
“Disruptive technologies could
change the fundamentals of our
business”
–Kazuo Hirai, CEO, Sony
Corporation, Japan4
Accelerating Time-to-
Market
Sustainable success is now
measured in days, not weeks
Outperforming CxOs are 95%
more likely to focus on being
first to market4
“We’ve been charged with speeding
up
time-to-market, both for the products
we sell and for our own internal tools.”
⎯Kalev Reiljan, CIO, TeliaSonera,
Finland2
Source: 1) IBM Research
Source: 2) IBM Institute for Business Value, Redefining Connections, Insights from the Global C-suite Study – The CIO Perspective
Source: 3) Fortune, Myth-busting the Fortune 500, 2015
Source: 4) IBM Institute for Business Value, Redefining Boundaries: Insights from the Global C-Suite Study, 2015
IBM Systems | 93

Expose systems
as APIs to
enable
composable
services
IBM Systems | 94
Architects of the future
require IT infrastructure
that can do more than
‘just work’
Servers and storage are no longer
inanimate.
They can understand, reason, and
learn.
Today, they can think.
Outthink status quo.
Think IT infrastructure for the
cognitive era.
Detect
anomalies to
proactively
resolve issues
Move data to
right location
based on usage
patterns
Deliver real-time
insights from
oceans of data

What is cognitive computing?
Cognitive computing solutions offer various capabilities, including…
• Learning and building knowledge from various structured and unstructured
sources of information
• Understanding natural language and interacting more naturally with humans
• Capturing the expertise of top performers and accelerating the development of
expertise in others
• Enhancing the cognitive processes of professionals to help improve decision
making
• Elevating the quality and consistency of decision making across an
organization.

Engage with your customers
• Acts as a tireless agent providing
expert assistance to human
users
• Makes the conversation in
natural means, such as human
language
• Understands consumers from
past history and brings context
and evidence-based reasoning
to the interaction.

Fighting the security questions
A Call Center Story
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fighting-security-questions-
banking-story-david-spurway

Banking industry - Thought leadership from the IBM Institute
of Business Value
Breakthrough
banking
Your cognitive future
in banking and
financial markets
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=XB&infotype=PM&htmlfid=GBE03713USEN&attachment=GBE03713USEN.PDF

Some existing challenges

But what does this have to do with IBM Systems?
• Details of customers (such as
past history), is contained on
IBM Systems
–IBM Power
–System z
• New solutions will combine
existing Systems of Record with
new solution elements in the
Cloud
• An example of Hybrid Cloud

A surprise trip to Lisbon
An Insurance Story
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/surprise-
trip-lisbon-insurance-story-david-spurway

I find myself in Lisbon…
• My Parents-In-Law set off on a cruise,
but Mother-In-Law is taken ill
• Hospitalised in Lisbon
• Insurance company take 12 days to
validate cover
• Father-In-Law is the real concern
• Twitter storm

Insurance industry - Capturing hearts, minds and market share
How connected
insurers are
improving
customer
retention
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/thoughtleadership/insuranceretention/

Insurance is a product based on trust, for which perception
matters.

Mix in some Bluemix and Watson…

Unstructured Facebook entries in, Geo Political Entities out!
http://ibmlaser.mybluemix.net/siredemo.html

Who & Where: Find out with Bluemix Geospatial Analytics
https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2014/12/17/find-bluemix-geospatial-analytics/

But what does this have to do with IBM Power?
• Details of customers are on IBM
Power Systems
–Customer Details
–Declared Medical History
• Location, Sentiment, etc. are on
Social Media
• Other data could be available through
B2B APIs
• Hybrid Cloud solution could
differentiate from competition

IBM Power Systems Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
On-Premises Cloud Hybrid Infrastructure
Complementary Built-in Cloud Deployment Service Options
Transform traditional infrastructure with automation,
self-service and elastic consumption models
Securely extend to Public Cloud with rapid access
to compute services and API integration
• OpenStack-based Cloud Management:
enabling DevOps to Full production
• Open source automation (installation and config.
recipes)
• Flexible elastic private cloud capacity and
consumption models
• Cross Data Center Inventory and Performance Monitoring via
the IBM Cloud
• Manage VMs across on and off-premises clouds with a
single pane of glass (e.g., VMware vRealize)
• Securely connect traditional workloads with cloud-
native apps (Power & API Connect, BlueMix)
• Optional DR as a Service (GDR for Power)
• Free access and capacity flexibility with SoftLayer
- Free SoftLayer starter pack (12 server months)
- Flexibility to run capacity On Premises or in SoftLayer
• Design for Cloud Provisioning and Automation
• Build for Infrastructure as a Service
• Build for Cloud Capacity Pools across Data Centers
• Design for Hybrid Cloud with BlueMix
• Deliver with automation for DevOps
• Deliver with Database as a Service

Questions?
David Spurway – IBM Power Systems Product Manager
Email: david.spurway@uk.ibm.com
Phone: 07717 892 896
Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube

How IBM Power Systems are like Batman
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ibm-power-systems-like-batman-david-
spurway?articleId=8112406449121429124

Thank you!
David Spurway – IBM Power Systems Product Manager
Email: david.spurway@uk.ibm.com
Phone: 07717 892 896
Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube

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