Power8 hardware technical deep dive workshop

POWER8 Hardware Enhancements and Update

July 9, 2014

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Agenda

Power S814 July Announcement Edward Liu

POWER8 Processor and I/O Enhancements Mark Olson

Corsa and FPGA Overview Robert Sherwood

IBM Rackswitches – MTM Transitions Pramodh Mallipatna

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POWER S814 July AnnouncementRevolutionizing how IT is created and consumed

Edward LiuOffering Manager

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Power Systems S822LPower Systems

S812L•1-socket, 2U•Up to 12 cores POWER 8•512 GB memory•6 PCI Gen3 siot•Linux only•Up to One CAPI support •PowerVM or PowerKVM

•2-socket, 2U•Up to 24 cores POWER8•1 TB memory•9 PCI Gen3 slot•Linux only•Up to 2 CAPI support •PowerVM or PowerKVM

•2-socket, 2U•Up to 20 cores POWER8•1 TB memory•9 PCIe Gen 3•AIX & Linux•Up to 2 CAPI support •PowerVM

Power Systems S822

1 & 2 Sockets

Power Systems S814

•1-socket, 4U•Up to 8 cores POWER8•512 GB memory•7 PCIe Gen 3•AIX, IBM i, Linux•Up to 1 CAPI support•PowerVM

Power Systems S824

Power Systems: Innovation to put data to work

•2-socket, 4U•Up to 24 cores POWER8•1 TB memory•11 PCIe Gen 3•AIX, IBM i, Linux•Up to 1 CAPI support•PowerVM

POWER Scale-out Systems - Created for New Workloads & Enhanced Core Values

Provide efficient consolidation of business workloads Designed for demanding environments where uptime is

critical and downtime is costly Deliver a higher value, more secure, and more reliable

platform than competitors

• Processor and Memory– Up to 12-core POWER8 processor card– Up to 8 Simultaneous Multi Thread per core– Transactional Memory– Java Code Optimization w/HW Assist

• I/O innovation– PCIe Gen3– Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface

• RAS– RAID 0, 5, 6, 10 in the base– Concurrent maintenance PCIe Gen3 slots– Standard redundant power/cooling

New4-core

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The New 4-core Power S814

• 1 socket, 4 EIA units with 4, 6 or 8 core processor card, 16- 512GB memory• Standard, split, and high perf RAID backplanes•PowerVM virtualization•AIX, IBM i, RHEL, SUSE OS

Highlights• Highly secure and scalable architecture providing a stable database and middleware platform for efficient deployment of business processing and mission critical applications• Ideal for mid-sized business customers consolidating UNIX, IBM i and Linux workloads•The new Power S814 4-core POWER8 processor offering with IBM i P05 pricing tier ( while S814 6-core and 8-core with IBM i P10 pricing tier ), small tier AIX and Linux pricing as roadmap to 4-core Power 720 and address market low cost pricing requirement.

Include IBM i Solution Edition and CBU support Limited I/O support

no feature code I/O drawers like #5887 and no future PCIe expansion drawer. (Fibre Channel attached drawers/SANs supported.)

Max of 8 (June) or 10 (July) storage bays Support only HHD 139G & 283G and SSD 387G

drives (#ELDT and #ELDU available at July 25th)

Open Technology Server for mid-sized business solutions


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POWER 720 and Power S814

Power 720 Power S814

Processor Offerings

POWER 74-core 3.6 GHz6-core 3.6 GHz 8 core 3.6 GHz

POWER84-core and 6-core 3.02 GHz 8-core 3.72 GHz ( Rack only)

Memory Features8 / 16 / 32 / 64GB DDR2

8 to 512GB

4-core (16GB DDR3 max 64GB )6-or 8-core (16 / 32 / 64GB DDR3)

16 to 512GB

OS Support

AIX V7.1, V6.1IBM i 6.1. 7.1, 7.2Linux RHEL 6.4,

SLES 11 SP2

AIX V7.1, V6.1IBM i 7.1, 7.2

Linux RHEL 6.5, 7SLES 11

HDD/SSD Bays in system unit HDD/SSD Bays in system unit Standard 6SFF or 8 SFF

4-core: 8SFF 6 -or 8-core :Standard: 12 SFF or

18 SFF

PCIe Slots(low profile)

Ten Gen2 slots: Five x8, One x4 and 4 LP x8*

Np Hot swapNo CAPI capable

Seven Gen3 slots: Two x16 and Five x8 (one x8 PCIe slot must

contain a 4-port 1Gb Ethernet LAN) Hot swap

CAPI capable – max 1

Integrated SAS Controller

Standard: JBOD, RAID 0,1,10 Optional: 175MB cache & RAID 5 & 6

Standard JBOD, RAID 0,5,6,10Optional: 7200MB# cache

& Easy Tier function Ethernet AdapterIn one PCIe Slot

Quad 10/100/1000 Quad 10/100/1000

PCIe I/O Drawers Max 2 PCIe Gen1 Drawers n/a (SOD Gen3)

Storage Drawer Max 14 EXP24S 6-or 8-core only: Max 24 EXP24S

Electrical PowerTower : 100 to 127AV or

200V to 240V ACRack 200V to 240V AC

Tower : 100 to 127V AC or200V to 240V AC

Rack 200V to 240V AC

Redundant Power and Cooling Optional Standard

EnergyScaleActive Thermal Power Management

Dynamic Energy Save & Capping

Warranty 3 Years

# 1.8GB write cache with compression up to 7.2 GB effective

* 4 LP slots required optional PCIe raiser card which takes a GX++ slot

• Highly secure and scalable architecture providing a stable database and middleware platform for efficient deployment of business processing and mission critical applications• Ideal for mid-sized business customers consolidating UNIX, IBM i and Linux workloads


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S814 list price summary

* Due to the memory module limitation of 4-core configuration, 2x16GB RAM price is higher than 32GB


+20%

+39%

POWER8 Processor and I/O Enhancements

Mark OlsonPower Systems WW Product Management


4-core S814


4-core 1S4U Scale-out System (June)

Power S814 Form Factor: 4U or Tower Single Socket

Cores: 4 (3.0 GHz) Memory: Up to 64 GB Slots: 7 PCIe Gen3 Full-high (Hotplug)

Ethernet: 4-port 1 Gbt in PCIe slot Integrated ports: USB (4/5), Serial (1), HMC (2) Internal Storage

DVD 8 SFF Bays * -- Split Backplane: 4 + 4 or 8 SFF Bays * with Easy Tier with 7GB write cache

Hypervisor: PowerVM OS: AIX, IBM i (P05 software tier), Linux

3 Yr Warranty

* Physically 12 bays or 18 bays are present, but usage of a max of 8 drives (SSD or HDD or mix) is supported, Note 10 June announcement was for 8 drives and 15 July announcement increased to 10 drives.


4-core 1S4U Scale-out System (July)

Power S814 Form Factor: 4U or Tower Single Socket

Cores: 4 (3.0 GHz) Memory: Up to 64 GB Slots: 7 PCIe Gen3 Full-high (Hotplug)

Ethernet: 4-port 1 Gbt or 2-port 10/1 Gbt in PCIe slot Integrated ports: USB (4/5), Serial (1), HMC (2) Internal Storage

DVD 10 SFF Bays * -- Split Backplane: 5 + 5 or 10 SFF Bays * with Easy Tier with 7GB write cache

Hypervisor: PowerVM OS: AIX, IBM i (P05 software tier), Linux

3 Yr Warranty

* Physically 12 bays or 18 bays are present, but usage of a max of 10 drives (SSD or HDD or mix) is supported, Note 10 June announcement was for 8 drives and 15 July announcement increased to 10 drives. Also not split back plane can also be split 4+6 as well as 5+5


4-Core Power S814

Four-core server for AIX, IBM i and Linux. Especially interesting to IBM i clients because of its P05 software tier 3 GHz cores Like the POWER7 4-core offering – no feature code I/O drawers like #5887 and

no future PCIe expansion drawer. (Fibre Channel attached drawers/SANs supported.)

Like the POWER7 4-core – 64GB memory maximum. 4-core POWER8 uses only 16GB memory features

Max of ten SFF-3 drives in system unit (SSD or disk or mix) -- POWER7 4-core maximum is eight. POWER8 4-core is 25% more drives as of July.

Supports 15k 139/146GB and 15k 283/300GB disk drives and supporting 387GB SSD. Not supporting other drive sizes.

4-core S814 offers better price/performance than 4-core 720 and higher function, but the absolute price of S814 4-core option higher than 720 4-core


Power 720 Power System S814Processor POWER7+ POWER8Sockets 1 1Cores 4 4

Maximum Memory* 64 GB @ 1066 MHz 64 GB @ 1600 MHzMemory Cache No Yes

Memory DRAM Spare No Yes

System unit PCIe slots 6 PCIe Gen2 FHOpt 4 PCIe Gen2 LP 7 PCIe Gen3 FH

PCIe Hot Plug Support No YesEthernet ports in required

PCIe adapter 4-port 1 Gbt (in x4 slot)4-port 1 Gbt (x8 Slot)

or2-port 10/1 Gbt (x8 slot) *

SAS bays in system unit 6 or 8 SFF-1 bays 10** SFF-3 baysIntegrated write cache Optional 175 MB Optional effectively 7GB

Easy Tier Support No (IBM i can use OS integrated capability) Yes (AIX/Linux) IBM i can use OS integrated capability

Integrated split backplane* Yes ( 3 + 3 ) But not supported by IBM i

Yes ( 5 + 5 ) note zero write cache for SAS controller

Bay for SAS tape drive in System unit 1 HH bay No HH bay

4U Scale-out Comparison – 4-core

* with latest microcode level in adapter available late August** Physically more than 10 SAS bays, but a max of 10 drives (July) supported. Could split 4+6 if desired.


CPW

S824 (1 or 2 socket) 6-core 3.8 GHz 72,000 12-core 3.8 GHz 130,000

8-core 4.1 GHz 94,500 16-core 4.1 GHz 173,500

12-core 1-socket not offered 24-core 3.5 GHz 230,500

S814 (1 socket) 4-core 3.0 GHz 39,500 6-core 3.0 GHz 59,500 8-core 3.7 GHz 85,500

740 POWER7+ (1 or 2 socket) 6-core 4.2 GHz 49,000 12-core 4.2 GHz 91,700

8-core 3.6 GHz 56,300 16-core 3.6 GHz 106,500

8-core 4.2 GHz 64,500 16-core 4.2 GHz 120,000

720 POWER7+ (1 socket) 4-core 3.6 GHz 28,400 6-core 3.6 GHz 42,400 8-core 3.6 GHz 56,300

+40%


rPerf (with SMT8)

S824 (1 or 2 socket) 6-core 3.8 GHz 120.8 12-core 3.8 GHz 235.6

8-core 4.1 GHz 166.0 16-core 4.1 GHz 323.6

12-core 1-socket not offered 24-core 3.5 GHz 421.8

S814 (1 socket) 4-core 3.0 GHz 66.9 6-core 3.0 GHz 97.5 8-core 3.7 GHz 143.9

S822 (1 or 2 socket) 6-core 3.8 GHz 120.8 12-core 3.8 GHz 235.6

10-core 3.4 GHz 177.8 20-core 3.4 GHz 346.7


Processor Activation Features

S814 S824 S822 S812L S822L 8286-41A 8286-42A 8284-22A 8247-21L 8247-22L

Processor DCM

Charge activateNo-charge activate

#EPXK4c 3.02 GHz

#EPYK#EPZK

#EPXE6c 3.89 GHz

#EPYE-

#EPX16c 3.89 GHz

#EPY1-

#ELPD10c 3.42 GHz

--#ELAD

#ELPD10c 3.42 GHz

--#ELAD

Processor DCM


#EPX06c 3.02 GHz

#EPY0#EPZ0

#EPXF8c 4.15 GHz

#EPYF-

#EPXD10c 3.42 GHz

#EPYD-

#ELP312c 3.02 GHz

--#ELA3

#ELP412c 3.02 GHz

--#ELA4

Processor DCM


#EPX68c 3.72 GHZ

#EPY6#EPZ6

#EPXH12c 3.52 GHz

#EPYH-

100% of processor cores are activated. No-charge activations used with IBM i solution editions or with Linux-only models #2319 factory deconfiguration is supported.

New 10 June


IBM i Solution Editions

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

#4927

For qualified sales of new servers with participating ISVsMinimum size deal requiredRegistration/Approval of deal required prior to installation

6-core or 8-core Power 8S14• 5 no charge processor core activations • IBM i users @ only $70• 1 IBM Service voucher• Unlimited users for IBM i Access Family • Reduced price development tools

#49284-core Power 8S14• 3 no charge processor core activations • IBM i users @ only $70• 1 IBM Service voucher• Unlimited users for IBM i Access Family • Reduced price development tools

New 10 June

Same as for POWER7+


CBU for i -- Power S814

Offering for IBM i HA/DR environments

PrerequisitesNew server order Primary server must be a POWER7 720, 740, 750 or

POWER8 S814, S824 with equal or higher IBM i software tier.

Must purchase minimum of one IBM i processor license entitlement for new CBU server

Registration of primary system and CBU is required prior to CBU order being manufactured

#0444Primary for 6/8-core (P10) = Power 720, 740, 750, S824 or S814 (a P10 or P20)-----------------------------------------Primary for 4-core (P05) = Power 720, S814 ( a P05 or P10 )

IBM i processor license entitlement

IBM i user entitlements

Offering AdvantagesTemporary transfer of unused IBM i

processor license entitlement from primary to CBU server

Temporary transfer of unused IBM i user license entitlements

Note: no lower-priced hardware or lower priced IBM i licensing – savings is in transferability. Can not transfer user entitlements from primary servers which have no user entitlements.

Temporary transfers

CBU Power S814

See S814 sales manual for more details

New 10 JuneSame as for POWER7+ except no POWER6 as primary


Memory Card for 4-core Power S814

Card capacity: 16 GB … feature code #EM8B (no other memory features supported on 4-core)

Up to 4 Cards --- Max 64GB1600 MHzMemory Sparing - RAS improvement vs POWER7+Plugs into backplane (no riser card)

4-core usage announced 10 June


4-core S814 Storage Backplanes

Op-panel

DVD

Backplanes provide High performance integrated SAS controller(s) built on IBM industry

leading PCIe Gen3 SAS adapter technology All include RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10. Plus hot spare capability Split backplane option with zero-write cache controllers

Make sure performance ok without write cache Easy Tier® function* (AIX/Linux)

10** SAS bays for 2.5-inch (SFF) HDD or SSD One DVD bay

* With dual IOA, expanded function backplane with write cache for AIX/LInux** Physically more SAS bays are present, but only 10 bays are supported

4-core announced 10 June with

full set of backplane features


Availability plan: - eConfig 15 July- GA Sept

4-core S814: 4U Storage Backplane Options

Must select one

10* SFF SAS bays 1 SAS controllerNo write cache

RAID-0,1,5,6,10DVD bay

10* SFF SAS baysDual SAS controllers

7.2**GB cacheRAID-0,1,5,6,10

DVD bayEasy Tier function

BaseExpandedFunction *

5+5* SFF SAS bays2 SAS controllers

No write cacheRAID-0,1,5,6,10

DVD bay

Split

* Physically more than 10 SAS bays are present, but use of max of 10 are supported. Also note the split backplane could be split 6+4 in addition to 5+5. ** 1.8GB physical write cache provides up to 7.2GB effectively with compression

4U server

Stagedavailability

4-core announced 10 June


S814 / S824


PCIe Slots & Expanded Function Backplane for 4U

4U1S 4U 2S 4U

Total PCIe slots(all hot swap)

7 11Required* LAN adapter (available for client use) 1 1

PCIe slots after required* LAN adapter 6 10However if use high performance, expanded function backplane AND DECIDE NOT TO USE #EJ0Z

6 without EJ0Z 10 without EJ0Z

PCIe slots after required* LAN and if using high performance backplane 5 with EJ0Z 9 with EJ0Z

• PCIe slots are all Gen3 slots • 4U are all full high• There is no PCI expansion drawer announced. There is an SOD.

* required for IBM Manufacturing

July 2014 news: optional #EJ0Z


General Scale-out

server info


Additional Scale-out Server AIX Support

On August 29, 2014, AIX 7.1 Technology Level (TL) 1 Service Pack (SP) 10, or later, AIX 7.1 TL 2 SP 5, or later, AIX 6.1 TL 7 SP 10, or later, and AIX 6.1 TL 8 SP 5, or later, will extend support for the following IBM Power Systems:

IBM Power System S822 Server (8284-22A) IBM Power System S814 Server (8286-41A) IBM Power System S824 Server (8286-42A)


Additional Scale-out Server VIOS Support

On August 29, 2014, VIOS 2.2.2.5, or later, and VIOS 2.2.1.9, or later will extend support for the following IBM Power Systems: IBM Power System S822 Server (8284-22A)IBM Power System S814 Server (8286-41A)IBM Power System S824 Server (8286-42A)IBM Power System S812L Server (8247-21L)IBM Power System S822L Server (8247-22L)


SOD for PCIe3 Expansion Drawers

The following information is not publically announced and is shared only for sales planning purposes. If sharing with clients, it needs to be under non-disclosure

PCIe drawer for Scale-out server attachment is not planned for 2014 announce

A drawer will connect to server using two x16 PCIe slots

Note this future drawer is for PCIe slots. The POWER8 servers already have support for the EXP24S disk/SSD only drawer.

Unannounced and subject to change

Repeating information shared in April – no change


Dual port 10GBase-T RJ45 ports - Ethernet NIC trafficPorts default to auto negotiate the highest speed:

10Gb (10GBaseT), 1Gb (1000BaseT) or 100Mb (100BaseT) full duplex.

Port's configuration are independent of the one other, but both ports owned by one partitions or one VIOS

CAT-6A cabling supported

NIM/Linux Install support announced July 2014 (planned GA 29 Aug)

PCIe2 2-port 10/1GbE BaseT RJ45 Adapter

Supported on POWER8 SystemsOperating System support:AIX 6.1 & AIX 7.1 or laterIBM i via VIOS Linux

RHEL 6 or laterSLES 11 or later

PowerKVM HostVIOS

#EN0W (FH) / #EN0X (LP)CCIN 2CC4

Only $950

Plus inexpensive cabling

Prices are USA list prices and are subject to change. Reseller prices may vary.


PCIe2 4-Port (10Gb+1GbE) Copper SFP+RJ45 Adapter

#EN0V (FH) / #EN0U (LP)CCIN 2CC3



PowerKVM HostVIOS

Quad ports: Two 10GbE Copper SFP+ optical Plus Two 1GbE RJ45 Ethernet NIC traffic10Gb Copper SFP+ ports does not include transceiver – transceivers provided with active twinax cables for up to 5m cable distance (Cables = #EN01, #EN02, #EN03)RJ45 are 1Gb or 100Mb and use CAT-5 or CAT-6A UTP cablingPort's configuration are independent of the one other, but all four ports owned by one partitions or one VIOS CAT-6A cabling supportedNIM/Linux install support announced July 2014 (planned GA 29 Aug)

Only $1200



PCIe2 4-Port (10Gb+1GbE) SR+RJ45 Adapter

#EN0S (FH) / #EN0T (LP)CCIN 2CC3



PowerKVM HostVIOS

Quad ports: Two 10GbE SR optical Plus Two 1GbE RJ45 Ethernet NIC traffic10Gb SR ports include optical transceiver for up to 100m cable distance RJ45 are 1Gb or 100Mb and use CAT-5 or CAT-6A UTP cablingPort's configuration are independent of the one other, but all four ports owned by one partitions or one VIOS CAT-6A cabling supported

NIM/Linux Install support announced July 2014 (planned GA 29 Aug)

Only $1600


SR transceivers not shown in picture, but would be included in

shipment


AIX NIM and Linux Network Install Support 29 August

Lack of current function fixed with microcode change to the three adapters: PCIe2 2-port 10/1GbE BaseT RJ45 Adapter PCIe2 4-Port (10Gb+1GbE) Copper SFP+RJ45 Adapter PCIe2 4-Port (10Gb+1GbE) SR+RJ45 Adapter

Fix planned to be available 29 August 2014Newly shipped above adapters will have the fix loaded on the adapter by that time (end August).

Already shipped adapters will need to have the clients download the fix from IBM and apply to the adapter to gain the function

For PCIe2 4-Port (10Gb+1GbE) SR+RJ45 Adapter (#EN0S, #EN0T) and PCIe2 4-Port (10Gb+1GbE) SFP+ Copper+RJ45 Adapter (#EN0U, #EN0V) the latest level of adapter microcode, level 20100130, or later, is required.

For PCIe2 LP 2-port 10/1GbE BaseT RJ45 Adapter (#EN0W, #EN0X, and #EL3Z) the latest level of adapter microcode, level 30080130, or later is required.

For download: http://www-933.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fixcentral


Additional Config Option for “base” Ethernet

For Scale-out servers: Before July annc: Must include a 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter (#5899 or #5260)

After July annc with 29 Aug 29 ship dates For AIX/Linux/VIOS: Must include either one 4-port 1Gb Ethernet adapter

(#5899/5260) or one 2-port 10/1Gb Ethernet adapter (#EN0W, #EN0X, #EL3Z) For IBM i: no change, must include a 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter (#5899 or #5260) (#EN0W IBM i support through VIOS, can not be LAN console)

4-port 1Gb 2-port 10/1GbFeat code #5899, 5260 #EN0W, EN0X, EL3Z

NIC 1Gb 10GBase-T

speed 1Gb or 100Mb or 10Mb 10Gb or 1Gb or 100Mb

NIM, Linux install Yes Yes *

ports RJ45 RJ45

cabling CAT5/6 CAT6A

List price on S814/S822 $315 $950

USA list prices. Subject to change without notice. Reseller prices may vary.

* with latest fixes planned 29 August


#5289/5290 2-port Async Adapter Update The above adapter was announced as supported in the April 2014

announcement. However in mid May, testing found a problem which requires the adapter to not be supported on POWER8 servers. (The problem is an adapter problem, but the problem fortunately does not occur when used in the POWER6/7/7+ servers or their I/O drawers.)

As a result we will not be shipping any POWER8 servers which have a #5289/5290 adapter in their configuration and we will be removing #5289/#5290 from the POWER8 product structure. eConfig will be updated as soon as possible, but as of today still shows these adapters as valid options.

If you have a POWER8 proposal which uses one of these adapters, you should re-run the configuration without the adapter. No change is required for POWER6/7/7+ servers.

We are working to replace #5289/5290 with a future similar product, but it’s not ready to announce as of June.

Interim to that future product, if you need async ports: For AIX/LInux ... The 4-port Async card #5785/#5277 is was announced/supported

on the POWER8 on 10 June. For IBM i ... The #2893/2894 communications adapter was always supported, but

was made orderable for the POWER8 server on 10 June. If IBM i 7.2, consider a WAN over LAN option.

As of 13 June

July announce:

#EN27/#EN28 2-port Async Adapter announced

Equivalent to #5289/5290 – same function, same everything

(except is supported on POWER8 servers)

#EN27/EN28 support not announced on POWER7/POWER7+

servers. Continue to use #5289/5290 on POWER7+ servers


CNA = Converged Network Adapter Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and NIC traffic simultaneously NIC = Network Interface Card “Like 3 cards in one” …

A 2-port 10Gb Ethernet NIC card A 2-port 8Gb Fibre Channel Card A 2-port 1Gb Ethernet NIC card Save by buying one card vs 2 or 3 cards – lower price

Save up 2 PCIe slots … 66% reduction !!!

4-port 10GbE CNA (NIC/FCoE) & 1GbE Adapter

#EN0M – full high#EN0N – low profile

2 ports 10GbE CNA

2 ports 1GbE NIC only

For POWER8 Scale-out server10Gb optical Fibre LR ports

New 15 July 2014Long Range optical fibre

Very similar to#EN0H/EN0J/EL3B – optical SR#EN0K/EN0L/EL3C – copper twinax

LR = long range optical fiberUp to 10 km (NIC)

Not announced on POWER7+ serversMax 300m if using FCoETransceiver included in #EN0M/EN0N


POWER8 PCIe Adapters Adds: June 2014

June AdditionsCommunications 2-port Async/Bisync (IBM i) #2893, #2894 Add orderableCommunications 4-port Async (AIX / Linux) #5277, #5785 Add support & order

Graphics 3D graphics for RHEL7 #EC42, #EC41 Linux REH7 only


POWER8 PCIe Adapters Adds: July 2014

July AdditionsEthernet NIC 2-port 1GbE RJ45 #5767, #5281Ethernet NIC 2-port 1GbE SX optical #5768, #5274Ethernet NIC 4-port 1Gbe RJ45 #5717, #5271Ethernet NIC 1-port 10GbE SR optical #5769, #5275 Ethernet NIC & FCoE 2-port 10GbE SR optical #5708, #5270Ethernet NIC & FCoE 4-port 10GbE+1GbE Copper Twinax+RJ45 #EN0K, #EN0L, #EL3CEthernet NIC & FCoE 4-port 10GbE+1GbE LR+RJ45 #EN0M, #EN0N NEW adapter

Ethernet NIC & RoCE 2-port 10GbE Copper twinax #EC28, #EC27, #EL27

Fibre Channel 2-port 4Gb #5774, #5276, #EL09

SAS RAID 2-port 380MB cache PCIe1 HDD/SSD #5805 Add support onlySAS RAID 3-port large cache PCIe2 HDD/SSD #5913 Add support onlySAS RAID 3-port large cache PCIe2 HDD/SSD #ESA3 Add support only

Communications 2-port Async (AIX / IBM i / Linux ) #EN27, #EN28 NEWReplace 5289/5290


POWER8 PCIe Adapters Adds: June/July 2014

June AdditionsCommunications 2-port Async/Bisync (IBM i) #2893, #2894 Add orderableCommunications 4-port Async (AIX / Linux) #5277, #5785 Add support & order

Graphics 3D graphics for RHEL7 #EC42, #EC41 Linux REH7 only

July AdditionsEthernet NIC 2-port 1GbE RJ45 #5767, #5281Ethernet NIC 2-port 1GbE SX optical #5768, #5274Ethernet NIC 4-port 1Gbe RJ45 #5717, #5271Ethernet NIC 1-port 10GbE SR optical #5769, #5275 Ethernet NIC & FCoE 2-port 10GbE SR optical #5708, #5270Ethernet NIC & FCoE 4-port 10GbE+1GbE Copper Twinax+RJ45 #EN0K, #EN0L, #EL3CEthernet NIC & FCoE 4-port 10GbE+1GbE LR+RJ45 #EN0M, #EN0N NEW adapter

Ethernet NIC & RoCE 2-port 10GbE Copper twinax #EC28, #EC27, #EL27


SAS RAID 2-port 380MB cache PCIe1 HDD/SSD #5805 Add support onlySAS RAID 3-port large cache PCIe2 HDD/SSD #5913 Add support onlySAS RAID 3-port large cache PCIe2 HDD/SSD #ESA3 Add support only

Communications 2-port Async (AIX / IBM i / Linux ) #EN27, #EN28 NEWReplace 5289/5290


POWER8 PCIe Adapters as of July (page 1)

Ethernet NIC 4-port 1GbE RJ45 #5899, #5260Ethernet NIC 2-port 10GbE 10GBase-T RJ45 #EN0W, #EN0X, #EL3ZEthernet NIC & FCoE (CNA) 4-port 10GbE+1GbE SR+RJ45 #EN0H, #EN0J, #EL3BEthernet NIC 4-port 10GbE+1GbE SR optical #EN0S, #EN0TEthernet NIC 4-port 10GbE+1GbE Copper twinax #EN0U, #EN0VEthernet NIC & RoCE 2-port 10GbE SR optical #EC29, #EC30, #EL2ZEthernet NIC 2-port 10GbE SR optical iSCSI TOE #5744, #5280Ethernet NIC 2-port 10GbE SR optical #5284, #5287, #EL2PEthernet NIC 1-port 10GbE LR optical (IBM i native) #5772Ethernet NIC & OpenOnload 2-port 10GbE Copper twinax #EL39, #EC2J, #EC2GEthernet NIC & RoCE 2-port 40GbE QSFP+ #EC3A, #EC3B

Ethernet NIC 2-port 1GbE RJ45 #5767, #5281Ethernet NIC 2-port 1GbE SX optical #5768, #5274Ethernet NIC 4-port 1Gbe RJ45 #5717, #5271Ethernet NIC 1-port 10GbE SR optical #5769, #5275 Ethernet NIC & FCoE 2-port 10GbE SR optical #5708, #5270Ethernet NIC & FCoE 4-port 10GbE+1GbE Copper Twinax+RJ45 #EN0K, #EN0L, #EL3CEthernet NIC & FCoE 4-port 10GbE+1GbE LR+RJ45 #EN0M, #EN0NEthernet NIC & RoCE 2-port 10GbE Copper twinax #EC28, #EC27, #EL27

w/ NIM

w/ NIM

w/ NIM

* Late change to drop. See details in following chart

Jul



Fibre Channel 2-port 8Gb #5735, #5273, #EL2NFibre Channel 4-port 8Gb (FH) #5729Fibre Channel 4-port 8Gb (LP) #EN0YFibre Channel 2-port 16Gb #EN0A, #EN0B


Communications 1-port Bisync (IBM i) #EN13, #EN14Communications 2-port Async/Bisync (IBM i) #2893, #2894Communications 4-port Async (AIX / Linux) #5277, #5785

Communications 2-port Async RS232 5289/5290 replace #EN27, #EN28

SAS RAID 4-port no-cache PCIe3 for SSD/HDD #EJ0J, #EJ0M, #EL3BSAS Tape/DVD 4-port tape/DVD PCIe3 #EJ10, #EJ11, #EL60SAS RAID 4-port huge-cache PCIe3 for SSD/HDD #EJ0LSAS RAID/Tape/DVD 2-port no-cache PCIe1 for HDD #5901, #5278, #EL10

SAS RAID 2-port 380MB cache PCIe1 HDD/SSD #5805SAS RAID 3-port large cache PCIe2 HDD/SSD #5913SAS RAID 3-port large cache PCIe2 HDD/SSD #ESA3

Jun

Jul

Jul

Jul



Infiniband (IB) 2-port QDR IB SR optical #5285, #5283

Graphics 2D graphics for general use #5748, #5269Graphics 3D graphics for RHEL7 #EC42, #EC41

Encryption Crypto Coprocessor 4765-001 #4807

USB 4-port USB-3 #EC45, #EC46

Programmable FPGA PCIe3 FPGA Accelerator #EJ12, #EJ13

Jun


PCIe Adapters NOT Supported: July 2014

Ethernet NIC 2-port 10GbE copper twinax #5288, #5286 old

Ethernet NIC 1-port 10GbE CX4 #5732, #5272 Old

Ethernet NIC 4-port 10GbE+1GbE Copper twinax+ RJ45 #5745, #5279 Old

Ethernet NIC 2-port 10GbE Copper twinax #EL3A, #EC2K, #EC2H Use OpenOnload

Fibre Channel 1-port 4Gb #5773 Old, use 8Gb or if must, use 2-port 4Gb

Communications 2-port Async RS232 5/2014 add to list #5289, #5290 Use EN27/EN28

SAS RAID 2-port 380MB cache PCIe1 HDD/SSD #5903 Use PCIe3, or use #59805 if you must

SAS RAID 2-port zero cache PCIe2 SSD #ESA1, #ESA2, #EL2K Use PCIe3 EJ0J/M

USB 4-port USB-2 #2728 Old, use USB-3

SSD on PCIe card 4-slot 1.8-inch SSD on SAS adapter #2053, #2054, 2055 Use controller in storage backplaneFlash on card Flash Adapter 90 #ES09

Much shorter list of “not supported” adapters now


Integrated Ports on the System UnitNo port feature codes (except 4U SAS ports) 4U 2U

USB-3 with full client usage2 front2 rear

2 front,2 rear

USB-2 primarily IBM use, limited client use supported*. Ports off Service Processor card 2* rear 2 rear

HMC ports - 1Gb Ethernet RJ45 2 rear 2 rearSerial / System port - RJ45 ** 1 rear 1 rear2 SAS ports with high performance, dual IOA controller storage backplane on 2-socket servers – can attach one EXP24S drawer

2 rearMandatory #EJ0Z

feature. Ports take a PCIe slot

2 rearNo feat code. Ports do not take a PCIe

slot

* For IBM i Unlike POWER7 or POWER6, IBM i communication to UPS is NOT via the serial port on POWER8 server. POWER8 connection to UPS for IBM i is over the USB-2 ports off the service processor card. A converter cable #ECCF should be used to convert USB port to 9-pin D-Shell connector which can be connected to the UPS cable. The cable can be attached after the server is powered up and running. Once the cable is plugged in, the service processor to which the USB-2 ports are attached senses the cable and its integrated cable type ID information and then sets the USB-2 port up for UPS communications.

** For AIX/Linux For attaching serial devices like a Async console which doesn’t have a RJ45 interface. Just like on POWER7/POWER7+, use #3930 converter cable to provide a 9-pin D-Shell connector.

Depending on country, #ECCF availability varies


ECCF Cable Details

Late breaking news in late May 2014. Testing/approvals by different certification organizations around the world for the #ECCF cable didl not support a 10 June 2014 GA. Functionally the cable has been tested and is ready for GA. However, cables have to be approved by different organizations with different standards around the world. We project to have certifications/approvals in place for this cable on the following schedule.

18 June Canada/USA 25 June Australia/Japan 9 July European Union 16 July remainder of the world except Korea/Taiwan 6 Aug Korea/TaiwanThe above projections are our current best estimates and are subject to change.

The UPS communication does NOT impact the ability of a 9910 UPS to provide power to the server. But the cable allows status information to be provided to the , the server, alerting it to the fact its electrical power is coming from a UPS. Assuming you‘ve set up your server to do so, it can more gracefully shut down if the UPS batteries are running out before regular power sources are restored. This is the only UPS communication mechanism for IBM i. AIX/Linux can alternatively implement an Ethernet-based option where UPS-provided appliction code runs on the server and talks to the UPS.

The cable can be attached without booting the server.


POWER7+EXP30 Ultra

Drawer


SSD Refreshed in EXP30 Ultra Drawer

New 1.8-inch SSD feature codes: #ES0J/ES0K and #ESRJ/ESRKNew CCIN 59BESame 387GB capacity as existing SSD featuresNewer eMLC3 technology, a little faster than eMLC2 SSD (#ES02/ES04) Almost 20% LOWER LIST PRICE than eMLC2 1.8-inch SSD

Can intermix eMLC2 and eMLC3 SSD in the same EXP30 drawer (#EDR1 or #5888) and can mix in the same array

Differs physically from previous features. New features require a carrier #EB2W to fit into EXP30 bay. Each SSD needs one carrier. Six pack SSD features need six #EB2W. Previous SSD included a carrier already

NOT used in POWER8 servers

June 10 annc


Reminder:the April 30th hardware deepdive pitch on

Scale-out servers and other April content has been updated w/ fixes & add’l content. Do you have the “update4” version?

Posted on SSI / PartnerWorld IBMers: http://w3.ibm.com/sales/support/ShowDoc.wss?

docid=SGDF097039N48949N97&node=brands,B5000|brands,B5Y00|clientset,IA (http://w3.ibm.com/sales/support/ShowDoc.wss?docid=SGDF097039N48949N97&node=brands,B5000%7Cbrands,B5Y00%7Cclientset,IA)

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Corsa and FPGA Overview

Robert SherwoodProduct Offering Manager, IBM

Corsa 5 A7 Altera Stratix V PCIE Gen 3 card Supports both PCIe I/O & CAPI models Initial offering with Z gzip use case for JAVA Dual 10 GB (lower latency internal PHY)

Not currently supported on Power 8 GB DDR3 1600 SDRAM Full Card Level RAS Partial Reconfiguration

Attributes FPGA base accelerator card PCIe gen3 x8, ranges between 25W & 40W depending on application

~21W for gzip application Follows Altera Stratix roadmap

PCIe base I/O adaptor JAVA 7.1 gzip acceleration use case Single root I/O virtualization, 15 virtual functions

Future support for Power Server CAPI Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface

OS Support AIX 7.1

Software/Firmware Support eFW 8.1

RAS Evaluation in progress of existing device driver features

This application not reprogammable by customers

Energy Efficiency / Power Management FPGA thermals are use-case dependent

Certifications FCC Class A Environmental Support TBD (pending compliance test) Acoustic Category – TBD (pending thermal eval)

Corsa PCI-E FPGA JAVA gzip adapter

PoC Ready May 2013, general use caseTransparent zlib HW acceleration integrated into JAVA 7.1Driving PCIe Tuleta AIX attach 2Q14 JAVA use caseFuture RPQ: Driving PCIe Tuleta RHEL 6.6 attach JAVA use case


CustomHardware

Application

POWER8

CAPP

Coherence Bus

PSL

FPGA or ASIC

Customizable HardwareApplication Accelerator • Specific system SW, middleware, or user application• Written to durable interface provided by PSL

POWER8

PCIe Gen 3Transport for encapsulated messages

Processor Service Layer (PSL)• Present robust, durable interfaces to applications• Offload complexity / content from CAPP

Virtual Addressing• Accelerator can work with same memory addresses that the

processors use• Pointers de-referenced same as the host application• Removes OS & device driver overhead

Hardware Managed Cache Coherence• Enables the accelerator to participate in “Locks” as a normal

thread Lowers Latency over IO communication model

POWER8 CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)



Processor Enablement

CAPP

PCIe

Power Processor

CAPI overPCIe

Coherently AttachedDevice

Coherent Attached Processor Proxy (CAPP) in processor– Unit on processor that extends coherency to an attached device– On processor directory responds on behalf of off-chip device

(Filtering snoops)

Coherency protocol tunneled over standard PCIe– Eliminates the need for special I/Os and protocol logic

• CAPI utilizes standard Posted Write and Non-posted Reads– Reduces the complexity and bandwidth requirements of the

attached device

Enables attached device to be a peer to the processor– Simplifies programming model between application– Enables device to use same effective address as application

running in processor– Eliminates the cumbersome I/O Device Driver requirements

• Pinned memory not required

Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) Overview

CAPP PCIe

Power Processor

FPGA

Function n

Function 0

Function 1

Function 2

CAPI

IBM Supplied POWER Service Layer

Typical I/O Model Flow

Flow with a Coherent ModelShared Mem.

Notify Accelerator Acceleration Shared MemoryCompletion

DD Call Copy or PinSource Data

MMIO NotifyAccelerator Acceleration Poll / Int

CompletionCopy or Unpin

Result DataRet. From DDCompletion

Advantages of Coherent Attachment Over I/O Attachment

Virtual Addressing & Data Caching– Shared Memory– Lower latency for highly referenced data

Easier, More Natural Programming Model– Traditional thread level programming– Long latency of I/O typically requires

restructuring of application

Enables Applications Not Possible on I/O– Pointer chasing, etc…

Actual feature(s)

Interface logic


IBM PowerLinux FPGA Development Kit (RPQ 8A2158)

• Provides a platform which allows programmers to develop OpenCL code which targets IBM PowerLinux processors and accelerator cards with Altera FPGAs

• Utilizes the Nallatech “Power OpenCL Development Kit” PN: P385-A72-SYSP-01 with an IBM PowerLinux 7R2.

• The Nallatech Power OpenCL Development Kit includes - PCIe-385 Card PN: P385-A72-0813P-81 w/CCR (A7 Card) - USB Blaster II (UB2) Development and debug Card PN NT101-0563-03 - Altera Quartus II DKE License - Altera OpenCL SDK - Altera provided Power Linux device driver

• The IBM PowerLinux FPGA Development Kit also includes 8 hours of on site IBM Lab Services expertise

• The kit requires a separate purchase of an IBM PowerLinux 7R2 server (8246-L2D with 4.2GHz processors)

• To order the IBM PowerLinux FPGA Development Kit– Order the PowerLinux 7R2– Order and Apply RPQ 8A2158 to the PowerLinux 7R2– Order the Nallatech Power OpenCL Development Kit directly from Nallatech– Call IBM Lab Services to schedule installation and set up.



IBM GZIP Acceleration Adapter (EJ13)

• Corsa card with GZIP compression/decompression

• Useful for customers running workloads which require frequent GZIP compression and decompression such as WebSphere

• Customers running JAVA/Util/GZIP will also see significant performance improvements

• Feature is particularly effective for workloads requiring transfer of large buffers

• Utilizing this adapter can reduce both the storage requirements and congestion in a customer’s environment

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Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

Hardware-back Java compression APIs

Work sent to custom card firmware rather than the CPU.

Not only does it run faster on the card, but it frees up the CPU to do other things.

Benchmarking Liberty Power Linux shows high performance extensible log (HPEL) engine writes compressed logs as quick as uncompressed



Store your Data - Power Data Compression and IBM Java 7R1

** IDC: The Digital Universe in 2020: Big Data, Bigger Digital Shadows, and Biggest Growth in the Far East

With IBM Java 7R1 :Java application to compress files using java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream classUp to 91% reduction in CPU time using zEDC hardware versus zlib softwareUp to 74% reduction in Elapsed time (not shown)Compression ratio up-to ~5x

Every day over 2000 petabytes of data are created Between 2005 to 2020, the digital universe will grow by 300x, going from 130 to 40,000 exa-bytes** 80% of world's data was created in last two years alone

(Controlled measurement environment, results may vary)

What is it? zEDC Express is an IO

adapter that does high performance industry standard compression

Applications can use zEDC via industry standard APIs (zlib and Java)

Raw throughput up to 1 GB/s per zEDC Express Hardware Adapter

CPU Time for Software versus zEDC Hardware CompressionUsing - java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream Class

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Public Domain Books SVC Dump SMF Data

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zEDC Hardware

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HW Exploit of FPGA Compression on POWER

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IBM RackswitchesMTM Transitions

Pramodh MallipatnaNetworking Products

7272

SND Switch OEM-out to Power - MTM Transitions

Name MTM Current MTM New

IBM RackSwitch G8264 1455-64C 7120-64C

IBM RackSwitch G8124E 1455-24E 7120-24E

IBM RackSwitch G8052 1455-48E 7120-48E

IBM RackSwitch G7028 1455-24L 7120-24L

IBM RackSwitch G8264T 1455-48T 7120-48T

IBM RackSwitch G8264CS 1455-64F 7120-64F

IBM RackSwitch G8316 1611-16E 7120-16E

7 current MTMs will be withdrawn from Power WTAAS; Announced 05/13 with Effective Date 07/31.7 MTMs will be re-introduced in 2 stages.

• Stage 1: 4 MTMs to be re-released. • G8264, G8124W, G8052, G7028 - Announce 08/12; GA 09/01

• Stage 2: 3 MTMs to be re-released• G8264T, G8264CS, G8316 - Announce & GA TBD (GCOIM align).


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