IBM i + POWER7

© 2010 IBM Corporation

IBM Power Systems

IBM i Strategy & Roadmap Power of i Webcast Series

Ian Jarman, Manager Power Systems Software

Mark Olson, Power Systems Product Manager


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Power your planet.Introducing the next generation of Power Systems with POWER7

Smarter systems for a smarter planet.

New technology

– POWER7 delivers a huge leap in capacity, virtualization and

energy efficiency, while still delivering leadership per core

performance

New systems

Power 750 -- a midrange business server

Power 770 -- a modular enterprise server

Power 780 -- a new category of scalable high end servers

IBM i

– IBM i 6.1.1 – supported with POWER7

– IBM i 7.1 – major new release coming in 2010


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IBM i Strategy and Roadmap

“With our clearly defined roadmaps for POWER

processors and the IBM i operating environment,

IBM's commitment to our i clients is solid and

unchanged. We are making substantial

investments in the future of i as an important,

strategic element in the IBM product portfolio.”

New IBM white paper reviews IBM i Strategy

and Roadmap– Includes information about the IBM i market, Power

Systems and IBM i roadmap, and concludes with a listing of

the wide range of IBM initiatives to help businesses reduce

costs, improve service, and manage risk.

http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/rossmauri/index.html


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IBM i Offers Lower Total Cost of Ownership than x86 Systems

New report from ITG

demonstrates value provided

with IBM i and unification of

Power Systems

– Costs for use of Power Systems and

IBM i 6.1 average

• 41 % less than x86 servers and

Microsoft Windows

• 47 % less than for x86 servers

and Linux

– IBM i deployments offer lower

software, support, and personnel costs

Executive Summary and Full

Report available * Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems Servers and IBM i: Minimizing Costs and Risks for Midsize Businesses

International Technology Group, Los Altos, California http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/strategy.html

Three-year Costs by Platform

Averages for All Installations


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Virtualization without Limits

Drive over 90% utilization

Dynamically scale per demand

Dynamic Energy Optimization

70-90% energy cost reduction

EnergyScale™ technologies

Resiliency without Downtime

Roadmap to continuous availability

High availability systems & scaling

Management with Automation

VMControl to manage virtualization

Automation to reduce task time

Workload-Optimizing Systems

AIX - the future of UNIX

Total integration with i

Scalable Linux ready

for x86 consolidation

Power your planet.

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Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.


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✓4, 6 or 8 cores per socket

✓3.0 to 4.14 GHz

✓Up to 4 threads per core

✓Integrated eDRAM L3 Cache

✓Dynamic Energy Optimization

Technology leadership


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POWER7 Operating System Support

POWER7 is the first

processor technology

generation to support all

3 operating systems

at first general

availability.

Operating System GA

AIX 5.3 03/16/10

AIX 6.1 02/19/10

IBM i 6.1.1 03/16/10

SUSE 10 SP3, 11 02/19/10

RHEL 5.5 SOD (03/10)


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Power Systems offers balanced systems designs

that automatically optimize workload performance

and capacity at either a system or VM level

✓ TurboCore™ for max per core performance for databases

✓ MaxCore for incredible parallelization and high capacity

✓ Intelligent Threads utilize more threads when workloads benefit

✓ Intelligent Cache technology optimizes cache utilization flowing it from core to core

✓ Intelligent Energy Optimization maximizes performance when thermal conditions allow

✓Solid State Drives optimize high I/O access applications

Workload-Optimizing Features make POWER7

#1 in Transaction and Throughput Computing

Power is Workload Optimization


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Power 750 Express

✓4 Socket 4U

✓6 or 8 cores per socket

✓3.0 to 3.55 GHz

✓Energy-Star Qualified

✓Up to 181,000 CPW


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Power 770

✓12 or 16 core 4U Nodes

✓Up to 4 Nodes per system

✓3.1 and 3.5 GHz

✓Capacity on Demand

✓Enterprise RAS

✓Up to 292,700 CPW


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✓New Modular High-End

✓Up to 64 Cores

✓TurboCore

✓3.86 or 4.14 GHz

✓Up to 343,050 CPW

✓Capacity on Demand

✓Enterprise RAS

✓24x7 Warranty

✓PowerCare

Power 780


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IBM i Roadmap

2008 2010

IBM i 7.1IBM i 6.1.1

2009

IBM i 6.1

2011 2012

IBM i Next

Planning a major new release of IBM i every two years


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IBM i 7.1 Highlights

DB2 – Support for XML and column level encryption

PowerHA – Async Geographic Mirroring & LUN-level switching

Virtualization – IBM i 6.1 virtualization for i 7.1 partitions

Solid State Drives– Automatic movement of hot data to SSDs

Open Access for RPG– Extend application reach to pervasive devices

PO

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Order

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XML

~

IBM i

PowerHA

IBM i

PowerHA

IASP IASP

Power Systems

VIOS

IBM i 6.1 IBM i 7.1


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DB2 for i Enhancements

Rich XML Support now available with DB2 for i 1. XML data type stores XML documents

supporting database operations 2. Decompose (shred) XML documents into

relational columns 3. Generate XML documents from existing

relational data

– OmniFind Text Search Server provides support for searching XML documents

Column Level Encryption– Allows for transparent (no application changes)

encryption of a specific column in a database table accessed through SQL or native

PO # Customer

#

Date Purchase

Order

123 2468 5/27/09

456 1357 6/10/09

~

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~

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Card#

Megan Minneapolis Minnesota *&^%$*

Casey Ames Iowa $%@^


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IBM i

PowerHA

IBM i

PowerHA

IASP IASP

IBM i

PowerHA

IBM i

PowerHA

IASP

PowerHA SystemMirror for i 7.1

Asynchronous Geographic Mirroring for multi-site DR solution

– IBM i based mirroring for geographically dispersed systems

– Asynchronously mirrors disk writes to target system

– Support for automatic failover – Supports IASPs on integrated disk, SAN,

and virtual disk

LUN level switching for local HA solution

– Switch IASP on DS8000 or DS6000 between local systems

– Support for automatic failover– Supports native and VIOS with NPIV

attached SANs


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IBM i 7.1 Virtualization Enhancements

1. IBM i 6.1 partition can host IBM i 7.1 and 6.1 partitions

AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and SLES and Red Hat Linux partitions

iSCSI attached System x and BladeCenter

2. IBM i 7.1 partition can host IBM i 7.1 and 6.1 partitions

AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and SLES and Red Hat Linux partitions

iSCSI attached System x and BladeCenter

3. PowerVM VIOS can host IBM i 7.1 and 6.1 partitions

AIX and Linux partitions

VIOS supports advanced virtualization technologies including Active Memory Sharing and NPIV

POWER6 & POWER7

VIOS

IBM i 6.1

POWER6 & POWER7

VIOS

IBM i 7.1

POWER6 & POWER7

VIOS

IBM i 7.1 IBM i 6.1VIOS

VIOS

IBM i 7.1 IBM i 6.1

VIOS

IBM i 7.1 IBM i 6.1


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IBM i Storage Management Enhancements for SSD

IBM i supports hierarchical storage management

– Now IBM i automatically collects I/O performance data and moves most active data to Solid State Drives (SSD)

DB2 for i supports SSD as preferred media

– New DB2 Random Read Statistics

Additional enhancements for SSDs – New “SSD-Aware” utilities

– Improved performance instrumentation

– Usability enhancements

SSD Analyzer Tool – Designed to help determine if SSDs can help

improve application performance – Runs on IBM i 5.4 or 6.1 system#

Batch Performance Runs

0

1

2

3

4

5

Ho

urs

72 Drives 72 Drives + 8 SSD 60 Drives + 4 SSD

40% Reduction

Associated Bank Reduces Batch Run Time

by 40% with SSDs*

*http://www.ibmsystemsmagpowersystemsibmidigital.com/nxtbooks/ibmsystemsmag/ibmsystems_power_200909/index.php#/16

# Download http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS3780


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Open Access for RPG

Extends RPG application reach to pervasive

devices– Provides ability for RPG programs to work with a variety of clients

including phones, XML, Web Services

– Developers write handlers for non-5250 interfaces

Tool providers plan to offer handler solutions for

common devices and interfaces

New product required to create or run programs

that utilize Open Access for RPG

Rational Developer for Power with RPG

development feature is required to write

the code to invoke handlers

Supported Environments– IBM i 7.1 and 6.1


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COMMON 2010, Orlando, May 3 - 6…

…the event to learn all about IBM i 7.1


Mark OlsonPower Systems Product Manager

IBM Power Systems


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Processor Technology Roadmap

POWER8201x

POWER42001

POWER52004

POWER62007

POWER72010

Transistors 276 M 790 M 1.2 B

Cores 2 2 4 / 6 / 8

Frequencies 1.9 GHz 3-5 GHz 3-4 GHz


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POWER7

Plus … up to 4 threads per core, faster memory bandwidth, and more


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IBM i Performance on Power 750, 770, 780

POWER7 delivers more

performance per core

POWER7 delivers more

performance per system

POWER6 550

# Cores CPW

8 37,950

POWER7 750

# Cores CPW* %

8 47,800 26%

32 168,800 345%

POWER6 570

# Cores CPW

16 77,600

POWER7 770

Model Max CPW*

750 181,000

770 292,700

780 343,050

Power 550 5.0 GHz

Power 570 5.0 GHz

POWER6 570

# Cores CPW

16 77,600

POWER7 780

Power 570 5.0 GHz

Power 750 3.55 GHz

Power 770 3.1 GHz

Power 780 3.86 GHz

# Cores CPW* %

16 88,800 14%

64 292,700 277%

# Cores CPW* %

16 105,200 35%

64 343,050 342%

32 181,000 377%

Power 750 3.3 GHz


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Power Systems – February 2010

Blades

Power 770

Power 780

Power 560

Power 750


IBM Power Systems


Power 750 System Overview

Up to 4 POWER7Processor / Memory Cards

Very similar structure/options

to POWER6 550


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POWER7

chip

4 DIMM Slots

4 DIMM Slots

750 Processor Cards Offer Great Granularity

Processor Cards6-core 3.3 GHz 1 to 4 per server (6 – 24 core) 8-core 3.0 GHz 1 to 4 per server (8 – 32 core)8-core 3.3 GHz 1 to 4 per server (8 – 32 core)8-core 3.55 GHz 4 per server (32 core)

All processor cards on the same server must be the same


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Power 750 CPW & rPerf Details

6-core 3.3 GHz CPW rPerf

6-core 37200 70.07

12-core 69200 134.54

18-core 94900 193.40

24-core 135300 252.26

8-core 3.0 GHz

8-core 44600 81.24

16-core 82600 155.99

24-core 122500 224.23

32-core 158300 292.47

8-core 3.3 GHz

8-core 47800 86.99

16-core 88700 167.01

24-core 129700 140.08

32-core 168800 313.15

8-core 3.55 GHz

32-core 181000 331.06


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Power 750 Memory Granularity

Power 750 DDR3 Memory

# Proc card 1 2 3 4

DIMM slots 8 16 24 32

Max GB 128 256 384 512

Min GB 8 8 8 8

DIMMs

DIMMs

1066 MHz


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Power 750

8 SFF Bays

(Disk or SSD)

Dual Power Supplies

Half-High Bay (LTO or DAT tape)

3 PCIe & 2 PCI-X Slots

IVE

DVD-RAM

Optional 175 MB cache & battery

2 GX (12X) slots

Operator Panel


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19-inch I/O Drawer Configuration Rules

12X PCI-X DDR

Max 4 per loop

6 slots per drawer

12X PCIe

Max 2 per loop

10 slots per drawer

No mixing PCI-X 12X and PCIe 12X on same loop

POWER7 modelMax

loops

750 1 proc card 1

750 2-4 proc

card2

770 or 780 1

proc enclosure2

770 or 780 4

proc enclosure8

POWER7 Note:

• No RIO/HSL

• No IOPs (IBM i)

#5802 or 5877

#5802 or 5877

#5796

5714-G30#5796

5714-G30


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Power 770 and Power 780

Max 3.55 GHz

9x5 Maint/Warranty

Positioned as POWER6 570

follow on product

IBM i Medium Tier (P30)

Max 3.86 GHz (4.14 GHz TurboCore)

24x7 Maint/Warranty

Positioned between Power 770 and

Power 595

IBM i Large Tier (P50)

PowerCare Support


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16 DIMM slots

6 PCIe Slots

2 GX++

Slots

6 SFF

Bays

POWER7

Processor

Chips

TPMD

Power 770 and 780 Processor Enclosure

NAMES

Processor enclosure

Processor drawer

CEC enclosure

System unit enclosure

Module

Node


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Power 770 and Power 780 Processor Options

Socket

Socket

Memory

Memory

Memory

Power 780 Processor Options (2 Sockets per enclosure )

16-core 3.86 GHz 1 to 4 per server - MaxCore mode 8-core 4.14 GHz 1 to 4 per server - TurboCore mode

Power 770 Processor Options (2 Sockets per enclosure )

12-core 3.5 GHz 1 to 4 per server16-core 3.1 GHz 1 to 4 per server

Only one 780 processor card option -- server IPLed to either 3.86 or to 4.14 GHz

Use all 12-core or all 16-core processor cards per server


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770 and 780 CPW & rPerf Details

12-core 3.5 GHz #4980 CPW rPerf

12-core 73100 140.75

24-core 131050 261.19

36-core * 377.28

48-core 248550** 493.37

16-core 3.1 GHz #4981

16-core 88800 165.30

32-core 155850 306.74

48-core 229800** 443.06

64-core 292700*** 579.39

8-core 3.86 GHz #4982 CPW rPerf

16-core 105200 195.45

32-core 177400 362.70

48-core 265200** 523.89

64-core 343050*** 685.09

780 TurboCore mode values not shown

770

780

Wow!!! * not measured, use WLE or use 12-core +24-core partitions to estimate

** used two 24-core partitions

*** used two 32-core partitions


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Capacity on Demand Enhancements

More attractive pricing of On/Off CoD and of Utility CoDApplicable to Power 770, Power 780 and Power 595

New On/Off “breakeven” time periods compared to permanent activation

Around 360 On/Off days (vs. previous 120 days)

List price per day of 1 On/Off processor core running IBM i and 8 GB

memory now as little as $180

Utility CoD pricing also much more favorable

More Standard Trial CoD resource availableThis is the no-charge repeatable 30-day trial,

Was: up to 2 processors and up to 4GB memory activated

New: up to 8 processors and up to 64GB memory activated

For the Power 770, Power 780 and Power 595

USA list prices. Prices and are subject to change without notice. Reseller prices may vary.


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POWER7 Modular Memory Card Options

FeatureSize (4 DIMM card)

DIMM Size

MemorySpeed

MaxMemory

32 GB 8 GB 1066 MHz 512 GB

64 GB 16 GB 1066 MHz 1 TB

128 GB 32 GB 800 MHz 2 TB

Buffer

DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3

DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3

DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3

DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3

DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3

DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3

DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3

DD

R3

DD

R3

DD

R3

DD

R3

DD

R3

DD

R3

DD

R3

DD

R3

DD

R3

DD

R3

19 Nov 2010 planned GA

Performance

&

Reliability


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Operator Panel

DVD-RAM Note a dedicated SATA controller for the DVD is

included in processor drawer. It is totally separate from the SAS disk/SSD controllers thus providing LPAR config flexibility.

Front View

DASD Backplane

Six SFF Bays & 1 DVD bay & two

SAS controllers

SFF bays for disk or SSD

POWER7 Modular Layout


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Power 770 and Power 780 Disk/SSD (continued)

Great flexibility/power to run processor enclosure SAS Disk/SSDTwo SAS controllers in DASD backplane

Base: Dual Split Backplane – AIX/Linux, not IBM i

Optional: Triple Split Backplane - AIX/Linux, not IBM i

• Optional: No Split Backplane - 6 bays

• Add 175MB Cache Dual IOA Enablement

• Adds Option of RAID-5/6

• AIX/ IBM i /Linux support

3/3

2/2/2

+12 • Add 12 SAS bays to above 175MB cache

option

• AIX/ IBM i /Linux support

#5886 EXP12S

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POWER7 Modular Rear View

Two GX++ Slots

Two PowerSupplies

HMCPorts

PCIe

PCIe

PCIe

PCIe

PCIe

PCIe

SPCNPorts

HMCPorts

SerialPortIVE: 4 Ethernet ports. choose:

(4)1Gb (RJ-45)

(2) 10Gb Optical + (2) 1Gb

(2)10Gb Copper + (2) 1Gb

GX++ slots do NOT share space with

PCIe slots, unlike POWER6 570


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19-Inch I/O Drawer Attachment & Configuration

#1808 GX++ 12X Adapter for Power 770 and 780DDR capable adapter – faster than POWER6 570 GX+

Runs DDR for #5802/5877, SDR for #5796/5714-G30

12X PCI-X DDR

Max 4 per loop

6 slots per drawer

12X PCIe

Max 2 per loop

10 slots per drawer

No mixing PCI-X 12X and PCIe 12X on same loop

POWER7 modelMax

loops

770 or 780 per

proc enclosure2

770 or 780 with

4 proc

enclosures

8

Note:

• No RIO/HSL

• No IOPs (IBM i)

#5802 or 5877

#5802 or 5877

#5796

5714-G30#5796

5714-G30

If server limited on number of

loops, I/O drawer selection

can be impacted


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19-inch Rack Considerations

Cables lay outside width of processor enclosure

Be VERY careful of 19-inch, narrow racks! Not all 19-inch racks will handle Power 770 or Power 780

POWER7 modular systems with interconnect cables are 535mm

(21 inches) vs. standard 19 inch. Cables extend out equally on both side.

Multi-enclosure configurations

supported in IBM “enterprise” racks: IBM 7014-T00, -T42, #0551, #0553

No problem with a front door, but if use rack

trim kit, need new rack trim kit for multi-

drawer cabling


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POWER6 to POWER7 Upgrades

Power 570 (POWER6) can be upgraded to Power 770 or 780

– Upgrades GA on June 4, 2010

Power 520 Statement of Direction– IBM plans to provide upgrade paths in 2010 from the POWER6 Power 520 2 and 4-core

servers to next generation POWER7 processor-based entry servers.

Power 595 Statement of Direction– IBM plans to deliver a new high-end server in 2010 with up to 256 POWER7 processor cores.

Designed to operate within the same physical footprint and energy envelope of the current 64-core Power 595 server. IBM also plans to provide an upgrade path from the current IBM Power 595 server with 12X I/O to the new POWER7 high-end server.

POWER6 570

POWER7 770

POWER7 780

3.5 GHz

3.86 GHz

4.14 GHz


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POWER7 / POWER6 Enclosure Comparison

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

Energy Consumption Thermal

Power 770 Power 570

POWER7: 16 Cores active / POWER6: 8 Cores Active


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0

20

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60

80

100

120

Power 780 Power 770 Power 570/320

5

10

15

20

25

30

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Power 780 Power 770 Power 570/32

Performance* / KW Performance* / KBTU

Power 780 & Power 770 vs Power 570/32

* Calculated on rPerf, CPW results similar


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IBM Power Systems ComparisonsPower 750 Power 770 Power 780 Power 595

Nodes One Up to four Up to four Up to eight

Cores (single

system image)

6, 12, 18, 24 or

8, 16, 24, 324 – 64 4 – 64

8 – 64

Upgradeable to 256

Frequency 3.0, 3.3, 3.55 GHz 3.1, 3.5 GHz 3.8, 4.1 GHz 4.2, 5.0 GHz

SMP buses 4 byte 8 byte 8 byte 8 byte

System memory Up to 512 GB Up to 2 TB* Up to 2 TB* Up to 4 TB

Memory per core 16 or 21 GB 32 or 42 GB 32 or 64 GB 64 GB

Memory Bandwidth

(peak)273 GB/s 1088 GB/s 1088 GB/s 1376 GB/s

Memory Bandwidth

per core (peak)8.5 GB/s 17 or 22 GB/s 17 or 34 GB/s 21.5 GB/s

Memory controllers 1 per processor 2 per processor 2 per processor 2 per processor

I/O Bandwidth

(peak)30 GB/s 236 GB/s 236 GB/s 640 GB/s

I/O Bandwidth per

core (peak)0.9GB/s 3.6 or 4.9 GB/s 3.6 or 7.3 GB/s 10 GB/s

I/O loops Up to 2 Up to 8 Up to 8 Up to 32

Total disk drives Up to 576 Up to 1200 Up to 1200 Up to 2640

RAS Standard

Enhanced Memory

Dynamic FSP &

clocks

Enhanced Memory

Dynamic FSP &

clocks

Enhanced Memory

Dynamic FSP &

clocks

Warranty 9 x 5 9 x 5 24 x 7 24 x 7

PowerCare No No Yes Yes

* Planned availability in 4Q 2010


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Special notices (cont.)


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The IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer systems. Buyers should

consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider conducting application oriented testing. For

additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized resel ler or access the Web site of the benchmark

consortium or benchmark vendor.

IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html.

All performance measurements were made with AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new and upgraded systems, AIX

Version 4.3, AIX 5L or AIX 6 were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2006, SPEC2000, LINPACK, and Technical Computing

benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX 5L and Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of

these compilers were used: XL C Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++

Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux, and XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for FORTRAN

and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck & Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. Other

software packages like IBM ESSL for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.

For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

TPC http://www.tpc.org

SPEC http://www.spec.org

LINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf

Pro/E http://www.proe.com

GPC http://www.spec.org/gpc

NotesBench http://www.notesbench.org

VolanoMark http://www.volano.com

STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/

SAP http://www.sap.com/benchmark/

Oracle Applications http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/

PeopleSoft - To get information on PeopleSoft benchmarks, contact PeopleSoft directly

Siebel http://www.siebel.com/crm/performance_benchmark/index.shtm

Baan http://www.ssaglobal.com

Microsoft Exchange http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/performance/default.asp

Veritest http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports

Fluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm

TOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/

Ideas International http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html

Storage Performance Council http://www.storageperformance.org/results Revised January 15, 2008

Notes on benchmarks and values


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Revised April 2, 2007

Notes on performance estimates

rPerf for AIX

rPerf (Relative Performance) is an estimate of commercial processing performance relative to other IBM UNIX systems. It is derived from an IBM analytical model which uses characteristics from IBM internal workloads, TPC and SPEC benchmarks. The rPerf model is not intended to represent any specific public benchmark results and should not be reasonably used in that way. The model simulates some of the system operations such as CPU, cache and memory. However, the model does not simulate disk or network I/O operations.

rPerf estimates are calculated based on systems with the latest levels of AIX and other pertinent software at the time of systemannouncement. Actual performance will vary based on application and configuration specifics. The IBM eServer pSeries 640 is the baseline reference system and has a value of 1.0. Although rPerf may be used to approximate relative IBM UNIX commercial processing performance, actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Note that the rPerf methodology used for the POWER6 systems is identical to that used for the POWER5 systems. Variations in incremental system performance may be observed in commercial workloads due to changes in the underlying system architecture.

All performance estimates are provided "AS IS" and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or implied by IBM. Buyers should consult other sources of information, including system benchmarks, and application sizing guides to evaluate the performance of a system they are considering buying. For additional information about rPerf, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller.

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CPW for IBM i

Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a relative measure of performance of processors running the IBM i operating system. Performance in customer environments may vary. The value is based on maximum configurations. More performance information is available in the Performance Capabilities Reference at: www.ibm.com/systems/i/solutions/perfmgmt/resource.html