IBM Power Systems Outlook and Roadmap

© IBM Corporation, 2016
IBM Power Systems Outlook and Roadmap
6th June 2017
Presented by David Spurway
IBM Power Systems Product Manager
IBM Systems, UK and Ireland

Expose systems
as APIs to
enable
composable
services
IBM Systems | 2
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

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Who is the boss?
Robert Picciano
SVP IBM Cognitive Solutions
IBM Systems
Stefanie Chiras
Vice President, Power Systems Hardware
Offerings

Rethinking insurance: How cognitive computing enhances
engagement and efficiency (Updated 30 Nov 2016)
In a world of data explosion,
empowered customers
and ecosystem disruption, insurers
should ask,
“What is the cost of not knowing?”

Agenda
• Strategic Context
• Strategic Posture: Intel and IBM
• POWER Roadmap & Technology Outlook

Exciting times in our industry
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Exciting times in our industry

Today’s challenges demand innovation – data expansion!
Performance: needs full system optimisation augmented by accelerators

Data Explosion – Why is it happening?
Pervasive high performance data comms & access devices
• Affordable high performance mobile devices
• Pervasive data comms (3G & 4G)
• Advances in security and encryption
• Ericsson demo: 5Gbps pre-standard 5G network technology
– Feb17: partnership SK Telecom/BMW peak downlink 3.6Gbps for a connected vehicle at 170km/hr
• Huawei is trialling 5G technology:
– Mar17: max speed 70Gbps in a 5G demo with Norway’s Telenor

High consumer expectations for service and access
• High consumer expectations of Service
– Large element of Organisation’s brand value
– “no place to hide” competition
• The rise of social platforms
– Huge unstructured data growth
• Massive rise in transaction and search rates
• Changed technology consumption models
– Cloud: Data and Compute (On premise, Hybrid, 3rd party HyperDC)
– Back-end systems access (APIs & Microservices)
• Changing consumer and institutional purchase patterns
• (instrumented world: the internet of things  more data oceans)

Since the IBV 2012 study, the cloud technology has
become much more mainstream
1IBV report: “The Power of Cloud - Driving Business Model Innovation”, 2012. Link: https://ibm.biz/Bd4uzw
Today, 78% says cloud initiatives
are coordinated or fully integrated
In 2012, only 34% said they had
a solid plan in adopting cloud1
10%0% 30%20% 50%40%
Fully integrated as part of an
overall strategic transformation
Multiple related initiatives
within a coordinated program
Ad hoc initiatives with some
coordination among business
group
Ad hoc initiatives with no
coordination among business
group
44%
34%
3%
19%
10%0% 30%20%
We have redesigned our
business process due to cloud
We have redesigned out IT
infrastructure due to cloud
We have adopted or plan to
adopt cloud 21%
7%
6%
How enterprise cloud initiatives are viewed
within respondent’s organization
Level of cloud adoption in respondent’s organization

Though cloud adoption is maturing, nearly half of
workloads are expected to remain on on-premise dedicated
servers
45%
workloads will continue to be on
dedicated servers demanding
executives to be fully cognizant of
what value an optimal combination of
cloud and traditional IT can deliver
Third party hosted cloud
Self hosted private cloud
On-premise dedicated
servers
10%
0%
30%
20%
50%
40%
60%
80%
70%
100%
90%
2 years ago Today 2 years from
now
26%
30%
44%
25%
31%
44%
25%
30%
45%
Percentage distribution of respondent’s IT
infrastructure workloads

What workloads and who is the competition?

Turning data in to insight: generating value
• Advanced analytics insights is
enabling:
–More efficient supply chain
–Greater customer intimacy
–Faster time-to-market
–Better products/services and
portfolio
–Higher quality citizen
experience
–Improved branding
–Better targeted marketing
• High performance computing
enabling
–Greater product quality
–Lower costs (improved
competitive posture)
• Cognative era: AI becoming
more mainstream
–Machine learning, deep learning
–Neural networks, natural
language processing
–Automated decision making

Agenda

How are IBM POWER and Intel reacting to trends

Intel’s Business:
Design and manufacture of integrated circuits
• Huge manufacturing footprint
• Develop proprietary IP
• Aggregation of technologies
–Memory
–GPU
–FPGA
• Chipsets and Architecture
• Key metrics:
–Volumes
–Yield
Source: Intel website

Intel MUST lead in the mobile processor & IoT markets to be
successful in it’s vision and investments (growth)
• Intel MUST be successful in mobile and IoT marketplace against ARM
• Mobile and IoT generate massive chip volumes

Intel Strategy overview – Technology and Manufacturing
Strategy Day 2017

Si technology is becoming rare

Growth through incorporating capabilities within the Intel
chipset (Strategic Vectors: Integration)

“Intel loses its ARM wrestling match, kicks out Atom mobile
chips” The Register on 30 Apr 2016
• “Intel has thrown in the towel on smartphone processors after losing round
after round against the ARM architecture”
• “Intel today scrapped the development of its Atom processor codenamed
Broxton, which was aimed at powering high-end smartphones and tablets”
• “[Intel] hopes instead to sling Goldmont-based Apollo Lake Pentiums and
Celerons, plus Skylake Core M components, at tablets and slab-like PCs
• Despite spending millions of dollars on x86 smartphone chips, Intel has
managed to gain only a minute market share
X

Intel regarded “Mobile” as a must win marketplace
• Faced very able and well entrenched competition for phones & tablets
–ARM Technologies
• Intel leaves “mobile” to focus on IoT
• Intel has entered into a new licensing agreement with competitor ARM to
produce ARM-based chips in Intel factories (The Verge, 16 Aug 2016)

Intel must bet (and bet big) to break in to new markets that
drive enough growth

Intel Strategy – Investor Meeting February 2017
https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/files/doc_presentations/2017/2017_Intel_Investor_Meeting_Krzanich.pdf

PC Performance Improvements…

Intel’s Xeon performance/core remains “flat”
Innovation in server-side compute has been limited

Intel: Strategic Posture Summary
• Intel continue to be a massive technology manufacturer
–Use own proprietary intellectual property
–Need large volumes to sustain margins
• Intel chip-volume growth is challenging
–Static Xeon market (market share high)
–Declining PC desktop and laptop to power-user levels
–Poor performance in Mobile market to date
• Intel must take large slice of Mobile & IoT market – primary area of focus
–Recently rebalanced strategy to achieve this objective
–Recently rebalanced investments/projects
–Halt decline in PC business

How are IBM POWER and Intel reacting to trends

IBM POWER strategy
(almost complete opposite of Intel)
• Platform of choice for important and differentiated workloads
• Primary focus: Server-Side/DataCenter Computing
• Open up POWER Architecture and interfaces
• Recognition of importance of community, partnership, ecosystem to Innovation
• Applicability of Amdahl’s Law to workload performance
– Address systems price/performance curve + data ocean

Industry Trends: Server-Side/DataCenter Computing
• Strong general purpose processor cores
• Open high-performance low-latency device interfaces
• Accelerators for specific work-load types
–GPUs (e.g. NVIDIA Tesla P100)
–FPGAs (e.g. Xilinx devices)
• Next generation I/O controllers
–Storage
–Networking
• Emerging storage-class memory technologies

POWER thread performance is increasing; strong general
purpose compute cores deliver workload throughput

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

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

OpenCAPI Consortium: What is OpenCAPI ?
• OpenCAPI technology is an Open Interface Architecture that allows any microprocessor to attach to:
– Coherent user-level accelerators and I/O devices
– Agnostic to processor architecture
• Device attach
– Memory
– Accelerators
– Network
– Storage
– Etc.
• Latency: 10s of ns interface overhead (Typical PCIe round trip latency: ~100s ns)
• Bandwidth: 25G+ differential signalling
• Flexibility: One interface scaling from low latency memory to sophisticated accelerators

IBM and Nutanix Launch Hyperconverged Initiative to bring
Enterprises into the Cognitive Era
Watch the joint announcement video: https://youtu.be/qYiBYLuW53M

The Intended Outcome of this Initiative
• An IBM branded offering that combines IBM Power Scale out Servers with
Nutanix Hyperconverged Software
• This offering will be IBM Branded and supported and sold through IBM routes
to market for Power Offerings

What this means for POWER Clients
• A new deployment model to access the value of IBM Power Systems with the
simplicity and scalability of Nutanix Hyperconverged Private Cloud
management
What this means for Hyperconverged Clients
• The opportunity to expand the workloads on a hyperconverged private cloud
to compute and data intensive workloads

What does Nutanix offer?

*Only available on
Nutanix branded
systems

Nutanix software

Scalable Distributed System Design
VM VM VM CVM
KVM based Hypervisor
VM VM VM CVM
KVM Based Hypervisor
Tier 1 Workloads
(running on all nodes)
Nutanix Controller VM
(one per node)
VM VM VM CVM
KVM Based Hypervisor
Distributed Storage Fabric
 Snapshots  Clones  Compression  Deduplication
 Locality  Tiering  Erasure Coding  Resilience
Node 1 Node 2 Node N
P8 P8 P8

What is next?

Agenda

Processor Technology Roadmap
Continued Investment in POWER
2014
 12 Cores
 SMT8
 2X DPFP
 PCIE Gen 3
 Coprocessor (CAPI)
 Enhanced Prefetch
 NVLink 1.0
 2X CAPI
2020+
 24 Cores
 New µArchitecture
 Direct-attach DDR4
 Gen4 PCIe
 CAPI 2.0
 OpenCAPI 3.0
 NVLink 2.0
650mm2
POWER8
22 nm
POWER8
w/ NVLink
22 nm
POWER9
14 nm
659mm2
2016 2017
POWER10
 48 Cores
 Enhanced Memory
 OpenCAPI 4.0
 Future NVLink
695mm2
Future
POWER11
 >48 Cores
 2x SIMD width
 Future NVLINK
 Future OpenCAPI

Watson Puts On A Show At COMMON
• From Therese Eaton’s Pick ‘n’ Mix
• https://www.itjungle.com/2017/05/08/
watson-puts-show-common/
• “…mentioning the introduction of
Power9 servers would come late in
2017, with IBM i versions unavailable
until early 2018.”

IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA awarded
$325M U.S. Department of Energy’s Super Computer bids
Two super computers for Oak Ridge
and Lawrence Livermore Labs in 2017. Sequoia (LLNL)
2012 - 2017
Mira (ANL)
2012 - 2017
Titan (ORNL)
2012 - 2017
Current DOE Leadership Computers
5x – 10x Higher Application Performance versus Current Systems
>100 PF, 2 GB/core main memory, local NVRAM,
Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand,
IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA Tesla GPUs

“ZAIUS”, the next Google machine fueled with IBM POWER9
April 2016, during OpenPOWER Summit 2016, Google annonced a partnership
with Rackspace to develop a new server plateform, based on IBM POWER9,
code-named ZAIUS.
More information:
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/06/inside-future-
google-rackspace-power9-system/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/open_power_s
ummit_power9/

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

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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