This document summarizes an IBM presentation about Power7 technology. It introduces Power7 processors and systems, compares them to competitors' offerings, and highlights Power7's performance, reliability, availability, security and virtualization capabilities. Key points include Power7 having 8 cores with 32MB eDRAM L3 cache, outperforming Intel's best processors on major workloads, and delivering "mainframe-class" reliability with 99.997% availability.
Healthcare has became one of the most important aspects of everyones life. Its importance has surged due to the latests outbreaks and due to this latest pandemic it has become mandatory to collaborate to improve everyones Healthcare as soon as possible.
IBM has reacted quickly sharing not only its knowledge but also its Artificial Intelligence Supercomputers all around the world.
Those Supercomputers are helping to prevail this outbreak and also future ones.
They have completely different features compared to proposals from other players of this Supercomputers market.
We will try to make a quick look at the differences of those AI focused Supercomputers and how they can help in the R&D of Healthcare solutions for everyone, from those ones with access to a big IBM AI Supercomputer to those ones with access to only one small IBM AI focused server.
Programmable I/O Controllers as Data Center Sensor NetworksEmulex Corporation
This is a presentation on 'Programmable I/O Controllers as Data Center Sensor Networks' as presented by Shaun Walsh and Sanjeev Datla at the 2011 Storage Developer's Conference in October 2011.
Healthcare has became one of the most important aspects of everyones life. Its importance has surged due to the latests outbreaks and due to this latest pandemic it has become mandatory to collaborate to improve everyones Healthcare as soon as possible.
IBM has reacted quickly sharing not only its knowledge but also its Artificial Intelligence Supercomputers all around the world.
Those Supercomputers are helping to prevail this outbreak and also future ones.
They have completely different features compared to proposals from other players of this Supercomputers market.
We will try to make a quick look at the differences of those AI focused Supercomputers and how they can help in the R&D of Healthcare solutions for everyone, from those ones with access to a big IBM AI Supercomputer to those ones with access to only one small IBM AI focused server.
Programmable I/O Controllers as Data Center Sensor NetworksEmulex Corporation
This is a presentation on 'Programmable I/O Controllers as Data Center Sensor Networks' as presented by Shaun Walsh and Sanjeev Datla at the 2011 Storage Developer's Conference in October 2011.
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We compare the total list pricing for each tier of the Cisco UCS solution and the IBM Flex System solution to highlight the differences in the cost of bandwidth between each environment. Not only does the Cisco UCS solution have a 22.3 percent lower initial investment cost, but the costs to increase bandwidth above the baseline configuration are significantly lower than doing so on the IBM Flex System.
Fault tolerance performance and scalability comparison: NEC hardware-based FT...Principled Technologies
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In our datacenter, the hardware-based NEC solution with eight VMs achieved more than 2.4 times the performance of the software-based solution using VMware vSphere and recovered from a service interruption without downtime or performance loss. In addition, the hardware-based NEC solution did not require a dedicated 10-Gigabit network infrastructure to provide fault tolerance to the VMs. These advantages make the NEC Express5800/R320d-M4 server an excellent option for those businesses that don’t want to choose between strong performance and fault tolerance.
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One of the key benefits of combining workloads in a virtualized environment is the ability to pay for less than the full capacity of the machine. Unfortunately there are many misconceptions about how software licensing really works in these environments.
The IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualization technology offers a great deal of flexibility, but that flexibility also results in complexity when determining software license requirements. This presentation covers important licensing considerations for the IBM Power Systems environment.
Learn how Cloud is enabled for fast implementation of new workloads, secure application, available with modular and economically efficient design. For more information visit, http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
The Spansion® Traveo™ microcontrollers are based on the ARM® Cortex®-R5 core and will deliver high performance, enhanced human-machine interfaces, high-security and advanced networking protocols tailored for a broad range of automotive applications such as electrification, body electronics, battery management, automotive cluster displays, HVAC and ADAS.
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As organizations deploy converged infrastructure environments, entry costs play a significant role in hardware selection. Choosing a solution that provides easy upgrade paths when increased performance and capacity are necessary is another important factor. However, as our analysis demonstrates, it is equally important to consider the future costs associated with those upgrades. Selecting hardware based solely on initial acquisition costs can lead to substantially higher costs for future bandwidth increases.
We compare the total list pricing for each tier of the Cisco UCS solution and the IBM Flex System solution to highlight the differences in the cost of bandwidth between each environment. Not only does the Cisco UCS solution have a 22.3 percent lower initial investment cost, but the costs to increase bandwidth above the baseline configuration are significantly lower than doing so on the IBM Flex System.
Fault tolerance performance and scalability comparison: NEC hardware-based FT...Principled Technologies
Being able to rely on your server solution to deliver uncompromising levels of performance across a large number of VMs and to maintain these levels during an outage is a very appealing prospect. NEC Express5800/R320d-M4 servers with hardware-based fault tolerance can let you do just this.
In our datacenter, the hardware-based NEC solution with eight VMs achieved more than 2.4 times the performance of the software-based solution using VMware vSphere and recovered from a service interruption without downtime or performance loss. In addition, the hardware-based NEC solution did not require a dedicated 10-Gigabit network infrastructure to provide fault tolerance to the VMs. These advantages make the NEC Express5800/R320d-M4 server an excellent option for those businesses that don’t want to choose between strong performance and fault tolerance.
Datacore's Hyperconverged solution went through Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmarking this year and results are amazing. We broke world records for top IOPS (IO per second), response time, and price-performance. Check this infographic out.
Understanding software licensing with IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualizationJay Kruemcke
One of the key benefits of combining workloads in a virtualized environment is the ability to pay for less than the full capacity of the machine. Unfortunately there are many misconceptions about how software licensing really works in these environments.
The IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualization technology offers a great deal of flexibility, but that flexibility also results in complexity when determining software license requirements. This presentation covers important licensing considerations for the IBM Power Systems environment.
Learn how Cloud is enabled for fast implementation of new workloads, secure application, available with modular and economically efficient design. For more information visit, http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
The Spansion® Traveo™ microcontrollers are based on the ARM® Cortex®-R5 core and will deliver high performance, enhanced human-machine interfaces, high-security and advanced networking protocols tailored for a broad range of automotive applications such as electrification, body electronics, battery management, automotive cluster displays, HVAC and ADAS.
White Paper: Best Practices for Data Replication with EMC Isilon SyncIQ EMC
This White Paper provides a detailed overview of the key features and benefits of EMC Isilon SynclQ software and describes how SyncIQ enables enterprises to flexibly manage and automate data replication between two Isilon clusters. This paper also describes best practices and use cases to maximize the benefits of cluster-to-cluster replication.
Everything is changing from Health Care to the Automotive markets without forgetting Financial markets or any type of engineering everything has stopped being created as an individual or best-case scenario a team effort to something that is being developed and perfectioned by using AI and hundreds of computers.And even AI is something that we no longer can run in a single computer, no matter how powerful it is. What drives everything today is HPC or High-Performance Computing heavily linked to AI In this session we will discuss about AI, HPC computing, IBM Power architecture and how it can help develop better Healthcare, better Automobiles, better financials and better everything that we run on them
[Café techno] - Ibm power7 - Les dernières annoncesGroupe D.FI
Annonces de la nouvelle technologie IBM Power7+
Depuis plus de 10 ans, les entreprises privilégient la technologie Power pour AIX, IBM i et Linux. Aujourd'hui, IBM élargit le leadership de ses plateformes Power en introduisant une évolution technologique avec l'architecture Power 7+.
D.FI vous invite à découvrir les nouvelles fonctionnalités Power 7+ qui peuvent vous aider à répondre aux exigences de votre informatique en vous offrant dynamiquement une plus grande efficacité, des fonctions d'analyse métier et centraliser les charges de travail.
Nouveautés :
Le Power 7+ est une puce octocoeurs gravée en 32 nm (contre 45 mn pour Power7) :
- Atouts : La fréquence d'horloge est dopée ;
- La taille du cache eDRAM est multipliée par 2,5.
De nouvelles fonctions : assistance matérielle à la compression de mémoire AME ("Active Memory Expansion“) et accélération cryptographiques.
Une évolution majeure permet désormais de créer jusqu'à 20 micro-partitions par coeurs Power7+
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STG101 Power Product_PRESENTATION VERSION 1.pptsalesjpayroll
Introduction to POWER Systems previously known as RS/6000, pSeries and System p. Understand the current Power System product portfolio. Understand the PowerVM offering for virtualization. Configuration of Power server with eConfig tool. Available tool/material available for Power server - tvdemo. Product Certification target for Power server pre-sales and sellers.
POWER Technology Update
Intro to POWER Technology
POWER7 Product Offerings and Features, Virtualization and High Availability
PowerVM, PowerHA clustering
Operating Systems, AIX and IBM I and Linux
IBM Research built a computer system able to compete with humans at the game of Jeopardy: Human vs. Machine contest.
This talk will present an overview of shared-memory heterogeneous ( accelerated ) computing starting with the Cell Broadband Engine used in the Playstation 3 and the world's first 1 Petaflop supercomputer in 2008, to the current number 1 and 2 supercomputers: Summit and Sierra a decade later that combine POWER processors and NVIDIA GPUs in a high-bandwidth shared-memory configuration. We examine the architectural foundations, and we show the benefits of this architecture in a number of different computing domains, from HPC applications to Big Data and ML/DL for AI. We also spend time discussing FPGAs connected to the host processor in a shared-memory configuration and the recent developments in shared-memory programming for such systems.
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My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
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While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
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POWER7 will deliver new features and functions to the Power family of Processors
The enhancements include:
Additional core density
On chip cache using the energy saving technology developed in IBM Research
Energy efficient core
New on chip memory controller technology providing support for DDR3 memory. The memory will deliver more than 3X memory bandwidth of the POWER6 chip
Support for both single and dual precision SIMD processing
Support for additional Storage Protection Keys
Let’s take a closer look now at the POWER7 Chip.
POWER7 is fabricated in IBMs 45nm Silicon on insulator technology using copper interconnect and embedded dram for the L3.
The chip is 567mm square and contains 1.2B transistors.
However if you consider each EDRAM cell has the function of a 6T SRAM cell the chip actually has the equivalent function of a 2.7B transistors chip.
The chip as you can see has 8 processor cores each with 12 execution unit capable of running 4 way SMT. I’ll share some core details in a few slide.
To feed the processor cores: We have two memory controllers one on each side of the chip. Each memory controller supports 4 channels of DDR3 memory. Combined these 8 channels provided 100GBs sustained memory bandwidth.
On the top and bottom of the chip are our seven 8 byte multi-processor links providing 360GB/s bandwidth to make balanced SMP systems scalable to 32 sockets.
Next let’s take a closer look at the POWER7 core.
The smaller P7 core provides additional performance over our previous generation Power6 core by:
Having a shorter wider pipeline with better utilization leveraging SMT4 and Out of order execution
The net is higher performance even with a smaller core in equivalent technology thus saving power.
Taking a look at the chip floor plan you can see.
Two fixed point pipelines.
The two LSU pipes, The load store pipes are also capable executing simple fixed point instructions.
FPU pipelines capable of 4 double precision multiply add operations per cycle or 8 flops/cycle. This unit also handles vector instructions.
The instruction fetch unit which also executes branch and condition register instructions.
The decimal floating point unit
< A widened Instruction sequencing unit capable of dispatching 6 instructions per cycle including 2 branches and issuing up to 8 instructions per cycle.
<click> In POWER7 we took advantage of the out of order execution to switch from a dedicated recovery unit to a distributed one using the flush and refetch capability in the OOO machine.
The core caches on Power7 have been improved by making the L1 instruction and data cache 32KB and reducing the access time from 4 to 2 cycles and backing them with a 256KB L2 cache integrated with the core to be only 8 cycles away.
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Our RAS results are better because we start with a full systems view. We have very challenging for each element of RAS and we measure our systems performance. as we approach a new generation of Power, we attack those elements which have had the greatest impact on reliability, availability, or serviceability. we can do this because we design the HW, firmware and OS together.
Just as an example, look at the way we address processor execution errors. before an instruction executes, we save status information about the processor. if the instruction fails for any reason, we reload that status and retry the instruction using Processor Intstruction Retry. Most of the time, the instruction will work because most problems are intermittent caused by events like bombardment of the chip by alpha particles flipping a bit. This kind of event becomes more common as we make technology denser and the size of the alpha particles becomes larger relative to the distance between bits in execution reguisters. Some of the time, retry doesn’t work on the processor because it has a hard failure. In that case, if another processor is available, we use Alternate Processor Recovery andload the status into the other processor and try there to avoid any application outage. Hardware Instruction Retry requires cooperation between HW and firmware. Alternate Processor Recovery requires the additional cooperation of the OS. We develop all of them so we include that cooperation. Itanium and x86 systems have neither.
We have similar features throughout the system. As you can see in the chart above, if Xeon does get all the RAS features itanium has, it will be an improvement, but it will still leave Xeon based systems well behind Power systems.
Now let’s look at reliability, availability, and serviceability. A recent survey (independent - not vender funded) of 400 IT users worldwide by ITIC showed that the combination of AIX and Power Systems provides the best result in each of these categories.
Our availability is 99.997% - 2 ½ times the next best UNIX alternative and 10 times better than Windows on x86.
54% of IT execs surveyed say they need 99.99% availability or better. With these kind of results it is no wonder that more and more of them are choosing Power systems. Note that Solaris on SPARC has better availability than Linux on x86. If your client moves to x86, they will be taking a step backward.
To really put balanced performance into perspective, however, we have placed four of the leading performance results on this one chart. The telling statistic, however, is that regardless of workload, POWER7 technology performs. This means that regardless of your workload, POWER7 systems can deliver industry leading performance for your business. This means that you no longer have to buy specialized systems for different workloads. This means that you can feel safe in consolidating multiple workloads onto the p770, knowing that you will get the best possible performance for each of your applications
Virtualization without Limits increases flexibility and reduces costs:
Expanded system capability teamed with PowerVM’s performance, scalability and flexibility
Workload-optimizing systems improve service levels with assured performance:
PowerVM, Intelligent Threads and TurboCore mode enable you to optimize the performance of your workloads in a virtualized environment
Consolidation that delivers exponential ROI:
Industry’s leading performance, scalability and virtualization now unbounded with DB2 pureScale
Dynamic Energy Optimization that balances performance and efficiency:
>3X increased performance per watt, new EnergyScale features integrated with Active Energy Manager
Resiliency without Downtime:
Non-disruptive application upgrades from POWER6 and the improvements to the road for Continuous Availability
Good morning. This morning I am going to take you through a presentation that cover the POWER7 Express rack and tower roll out. With a focus on the products being announced in Feb.. I will talk about how there positioned and how they compared to legacy Power products as well as competitive servers.
There will be a session with Patrick O’rourke tomorrow morning that will go into technical detail on all POWER7 offering and features.
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The Power 755 is a 4 socket, 4U rack-optimized server supporting 8-core POWER7 processors and up to 256GB of memory. The Power 755 is a high performance compute node targeted at small to mid-size clusters. It delivers better than 3X improvement in power than current power offerings.
POWER7 processors support AltiVec™ instruction set and extended VSX SIMD (single instruction multiple data) acceleration which can execute up to eight single-precision or double-precision floating point operations per clock cycle per core to improve fine-grained parallelism and accelerate data processing.
IBM HPC software stack has the development tools, libraries, file systems and system management software necessary to administer a Power 755 server cluster.
There will be a HPC technical session on the Power 755 on Wed..