Short presentation to introduce IBM Power Systems, including OpenPOWER Foundation, GPU, FPGA, CAPI and more, the an example of Dragen for genomics

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IBM Power Systems
12th January 2017
Presented by David Spurway
IBM Power Systems Product Manager
IBM Systems, UK and Ireland

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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

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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

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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.

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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!

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The Mythbusters explain GPUs – click image below!

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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

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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!

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

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Some LEGO and more family

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From Dragons to Dragen…
http://www.edicogenome.com/dragen/

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Edico Genome
https://www-304.ibm.com/events/tools/interconnect/2016ems/REST/presentations/PDF/InterConnect2016_7052.pdf

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IBM OpenPOWER Server with DRAGEN
https://www-304.ibm.com/events/tools/interconnect/2016ems/REST/presentations/PDF/InterConnect2016_7052.pdf

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DRAGEN Hybrid Cloud
https://www-304.ibm.com/events/tools/interconnect/2016ems/REST/presentations/PDF/InterConnect2016_7052.pdf

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

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Treasure Wild Ducks
"We are convinced that any business needs its wild ducks. And in IBM
we try not to tame them.“
• Some IBMers
• Some Customers
–IBM Centennial Film Wild Ducks Celebrating 100 years of Visionary Clients
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbGcJiaUC-M
• http://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/wild-ducks-podcast/

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