Red Hat evolution and importance in Enterprise and Super Computing systems

1. Our story of collaboration so far
Klaus Heinrich Kiwi
IBM Linux Technology Center Senior Manager
Red Hat, Linux and IBM

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5. This session in no way shape
or form is intended to reflect
any actions currently in
process regarding the
proposed acquisition of Red
Hat by IBM!

6. "IBM Corp. is planning to invest $1 billion in
Linux in 2001” – Luis Gerstner, IBM then-
CEO, December 12th, 2000
"IBM Corp. is investing another $1 billion in
Linux” – Brad McCredie, IBM Fellow, Linuxcon
September 2013

7. 18 years later…
"The last time IBM committed $1
billion to Linux, it helped start a
flurry of innovation that has never
slowed. We look forward to seeing
how the Power platform can bring
about further innovation on Linux,
and how companies and developers
can work together to get the most
out of this open architecture.“ – Jim
Zemlin, Linux Foundation,
September 2013

8. 1991 – Release 1.0
1996 – Release 2.0
2001 – Release 2.4
2003 – Release 2.6
2008 – Release 3.0
2015 – Release 4.0
2017 – All of Top500 runs Linux
2019 – Most successful OS ever?
1993 – Founded by Mark Ewing, Bob Young
1995 – Red Hat Linux 1.0
1999 – dotcom bubble
2002 – Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
2006 – jBoss acquisition
2012 – Red Hat $1.13bn revenue
2015 – Ansible acquisition
2017 – Joins OpenPower foundation
2018 – IBM, nVidia, Mellanox - CORAL
1911 – Founded
…
1964 – System/360
1993 – Lou Gerstner
1999 – Internal group starts (LTC)
2001 – $1bn investment in Linux
2002 – Linux support in servers
2008 – IBM maintains linux-next
2012 – PowerLinux servers
2013 – OpenPower foundation
2014 – CORAL announced
2018 – CORAL delivered
2019 – Red Hat announcement

9. Community Partners

10. Community Partners
Oak
Ridge
Summit
#1
Livermore
Sierra
#2

11. CORAL Summit Supercomputer:
A Pioneer in AI-era computing
Born of collaboration
• Power 9 Architecture, Elastic Storage Servers and General Parallel File System (GPFS) developed by IBM
• NVLink 2.0 and Automatic Address Translation developed by nVidia and adopted by Power9 processors
• CAPI 2.0 developed by IBM and OpenPower partners
• EDR Infiniband, SHARP Protocol and GPUDirect RDMA from Mellanox
Fastest Supercomputer in the World with Pioneering AI capabilities
#1 top500 – Double Precision Linpack – 143.5 PFlop/s
#1 HPCG – Data movement – 2.9 PFlop/s
#1 IO-500 – File system performance
#1 Green500 – 13.889 GFlop/Watt
200 PetaFlop FP64 Peak performance, 3.3 ExaFlop Peak performance for FP16
Deploy your own Mini CORAL
Top500 #1 and #2 supercomputers were built from standard technology, available through IBM, RedHat, Mellanox
and nVidia

12. A partnership that just makes
sense
Leading provider of
cloud and AI solutions
Leading provider of
open source solutions
Resetting the AI & Cloud Landscape
Top Companies Contributing to the Linux kernel, 4.8-4.13
2017 Linux Kernel Report Highlights Developers’ Roles and Accelerating Pace of Change
By Amber Ankerholz October 25, 2017
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/2017-linux-kernel-report-landing-page/
COMPANY CHANGES %
Intel 10,833 13.1%
None 6,819 8.2%
Red Hat 5,965 7.2%
Linaro 4,636 5.6%
Unknown 3,408 4.1%
IBM 3,359 4.1%
Consultants 2,743 3.3%
Samsung 2,633 3.2%
SUSE 2,481 3.0%
Google 2,477 3.0%

13. “It’s all about the platform”

14. Solutions
Watson
Hybrid Cloud
IBM PowerAI
Optimized stack
Ansible
OpenShift Container
Platform
CoreOS – Docker
RedHat Enterprise Linux – KVM
IBM Cloud IaaS – IBM Cloud Private – 3rd
Party
Power Systems – IBM System Z

15. Solutions
Watson
Hybrid Cloud
IBM PowerAI
Optimized stack
Ansible
OpenShift Container
Platform
CoreOS – Docker
RedHat Enterprise Linux – KVM
IBM Cloud IaaS – IBM Cloud Private – 3rd
Party
Power Systems – IBM System Z
Pervasive,
Open,
Optimized
Platform
Value!

16. Intersect360 Research CEO, Addison Snell, “We
see a variety of Linux operating systems reported
from across the HPC market. Overall, Red Hat has
the largest share of systems in our surveys and
CentOS and SUSE take up most of the rest, though
we do get a few mentions of others, like Ubuntu and
Scientific Linux.”
Top reasons for choosing RedHat on Power
Xeon x86 2680v4
w/ 4x v100 GPUs
Power AC922 w/
4x v100 GPUs
3.1 Hours
49 Mins
3.8x Faster
• RHEL provides 10-year support, largest
software compatibility for commercial
packages
• IBM Power provides faster training times in
single server, and scalability beyond 100s of
nodes

17. Using Red Hat and IBM Power to speed up processing
“We found that having the CAPI bus with NVLink
created the greatest speed up for moving real data
across the GPU bus. This group processes 250TB
every 3 months of sampling and without IBM Power
we would never get the work done. “

18. Using GPU’s to Classify Oceans of Data
• To process a single batch of video files
(composed of 344,000 individual
frames, each yielding 100’s to 1000’s of
individual segments of plankton) on a
PCI based Tesla K80, could take
upwards in the range of 37 days to
complete
• CGRB and IBM provided access
Power8 Minsky servers. These servers
were configured with 160 thread count
and 2x Tesla P100 GPUs. These new
machines allowed us to change from 37
days of processing to around 10 days.
Power9 has moved it to 5 days.

19. § Free Open Access Development
Environment for porting code to POWER9
– Access to several IBM POWER9 servers
– Each Server with the following configuration:
§ 2x 20 Core POWER9 Processors
§ 1 TB Onboard RAM
§ 4x NVIDIA V100 GPGPU (NVLink)
§ 40Gbps Network
§ 2x 3.2 TB NVMe FLASH (CAPI)
§ CAPI Bus
§ Onboard NVLink
– https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_gpu/
IBM Power GPU Development Environment

20. POWER Cloud Benefits
• Manage POWER nodes just like any other
compute infrastructure.
• Superior VM density and accelerated performance
for modern data & AI workloads
Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP) on Power
Add Power compute nodes to your existing
OpenStack infrastructure.
Deploy VM based applications faster on POWER for an on-
premises Private Cloud.
Expand the capabilities of your Private Cloud, with matching
infrastructure with the workloads (Fit for purpose).
September 28
GA!

21. 21
POWER Cloud Benefits
• Build, run cloud native apps with full control of
Kubernetes on Power cloud (bare-metal or KVM)
• Superior container density and accelerated
performance for modern data and AI workloads
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Power
Handles DevOps for cloud-native & traditional
applications and services on a single platform
Containerize and manage existing apps, modernize on your own
timeline, and work faster with new, cloud-native applications
Deliver apps faster on Power for on-premises private cloud
(bare-metal, KVM in initial release)
Oct. 26
OpenShift v3.10
-Initial Release-

22. IBM and Red Hat’s
Partnership
○Over half of all cloud workloads run Linux. Red Hat accounts
for 65.5% of paid Linux server operating system
shipments/subscriptions*
○IBM is a leader and contributor in many open communities
going back 20 years: from Linux to Java/Eclipse, to an
ecosystem of strong partners; none more so than Red Hat.
○Together IBM and Red Hat offer value to clients in hybrid
multicloud management; providing Control, Confidence, and
Freedom.
○IBM has a strong relationship with Red Hat, including first and
second-level support agreements across their portfolio.
○Red Hat has a loyal developer community of more than 8
million software developers
CONTROL
Your IT Solutions should
provide security.
CONFIDENCE
Your IT solutions should
work reliably.
FREEDOM
Your IT solutions shouldn’t get in your
way.
* Source: IDC #US44150918 - Worldwide Server Operating Environments Market Shares, 2017: Linux Fuels
Market Growth

23. Thank
You
klausk@br.ibm.com

24. THE WORLD’S LEADING PROVIDER OF
OPEN SOURCE, ENTERPRISE I.T.
SOLUTIONS
*Red Hat client data and Fortune 500 list, June 2018
MORE THAN
90%
of the
FORTUNE
500
RED HAT
use
PRODUCTS &
SOLUTIONS*
~12,000
EMPLOYEES
95
OFFICES
S&P
500
COMPANY
NYSE
RHT
35
COUNTRIES
THE FIRST
$2
OPEN
SOURCE
COMPANY
IN THE WORLD
BILLION

25. Metric FY2019
FY Change
(@CC)
Q4 2019
4Q Change
(@CC)
Revenue $3.4 billion 15% $879 million 17%
Subscription
revenue
$2.9 billion 15% $774 million 16%
Infrastructure $2.1 billion 10% $549 million 10%
App Dev $816 million 32% $225 34%
Non-GAAP
earnings per
share
$3.69 23% $1.16 26%
Red Hat balance sheet & stock value:
Source: RedHat 4Q2019 earnings