IBM Power Systems Outlook and Roadmap

© IBM Corporation, 2016

IBM Power Systems Outlook and Roadmap

6th June 2017

Presented by David Spurway

IBM Power Systems Product Manager

IBM Systems, UK and Ireland

Expose systems

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composable

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Architects of the future

require IT infrastructure

that can do more than

‘just work’

Servers and storage are no longer

inanimate.

They can understand, reason, and

learn.

Today, they can think.

Outthink status quo.

Think IT infrastructure for the

cognitive era.

Detect

anomalies to

proactively

resolve issues

Move data to

right location

based on usage

patterns

Deliver real-time

insights from

oceans of data

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Who is the boss?

Robert Picciano

SVP IBM Cognitive Solutions

IBM Systems

Stefanie Chiras

Vice President, Power Systems Hardware

Offerings


Rethinking insurance: How cognitive computing enhances

engagement and efficiency (Updated 30 Nov 2016)

In a world of data explosion,

empowered customers

and ecosystem disruption, insurers

should ask,

“What is the cost of not knowing?”


Agenda

• Strategic Context

• Strategic Posture: Intel and IBM

• POWER Roadmap & Technology Outlook


Exciting times in our industry

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Exciting times in our industry


Today’s challenges demand innovation – data expansion!

Performance: needs full system optimisation augmented by accelerators


Data Explosion – Why is it happening?

Pervasive high performance data comms & access devices

• Affordable high performance mobile devices

• Pervasive data comms (3G & 4G)

• Advances in security and encryption

• Ericsson demo: 5Gbps pre-standard 5G network technology

– Feb17: partnership SK Telecom/BMW peak downlink 3.6Gbps for a connected vehicle at 170km/hr

• Huawei is trialling 5G technology:

– Mar17: max speed 70Gbps in a 5G demo with Norway’s Telenor


High consumer expectations for service and access

• High consumer expectations of Service

– Large element of Organisation’s brand value

– “no place to hide” competition

• The rise of social platforms

– Huge unstructured data growth

• Massive rise in transaction and search rates

• Changed technology consumption models

– Cloud: Data and Compute (On premise, Hybrid, 3rd party HyperDC)

– Back-end systems access (APIs & Microservices)

• Changing consumer and institutional purchase patterns

• (instrumented world: the internet of things more data oceans)


Since the IBV 2012 study, the cloud technology has

become much more mainstream

1IBV report: “The Power of Cloud - Driving Business Model Innovation”, 2012. Link: https://ibm.biz/Bd4uzw

Today, 78% says cloud initiatives

are coordinated or fully integrated

In 2012, only 34% said they had

a solid plan in adopting cloud1

10%0% 30%20% 50%40%

Fully integrated as part of an

overall strategic transformation

Multiple related initiatives

within a coordinated program

Ad hoc initiatives with some

coordination among business

group

Ad hoc initiatives with no

coordination among business

group

44%

34%

3%

19%

10%0% 30%20%

We have redesigned our

business process due to cloud

We have redesigned out IT

infrastructure due to cloud

We have adopted or plan to

adopt cloud 21%

7%

6%

How enterprise cloud initiatives are viewed

within respondent’s organization

Level of cloud adoption in respondent’s organization

https://ibm.biz/Bd4uzw


Though cloud adoption is maturing, nearly half of

workloads are expected to remain on on-premise dedicated

servers

45%

workloads will continue to be on

dedicated servers demanding

executives to be fully cognizant of

what value an optimal combination of

cloud and traditional IT can deliver

Third party hosted cloud

Self hosted private cloud

On-premise dedicated

servers

10%

0%

30%

20%

50%

40%

60%

80%

70%

100%

90%

2 years ago Today 2 years from

now

26%

30%

44%

25%

31%

44%

25%

30%

45%

Percentage distribution of respondent’s IT

infrastructure workloads


What workloads and who is the competition?


Turning data in to insight: generating value

• Advanced analytics insights is

enabling:

–More efficient supply chain

–Greater customer intimacy

–Faster time-to-market

–Better products/services and

portfolio

–Higher quality citizen

experience

– Improved branding

–Better targeted marketing

• High performance computing

enabling

–Greater product quality

–Lower costs (improved

competitive posture)

• Cognative era: AI becoming

more mainstream

–Machine learning, deep learning

–Neural networks, natural

language processing

–Automated decision making


Agenda





How are IBM POWER and Intel reacting to trends


Intel’s Business:

Design and manufacture of integrated circuits

• Huge manufacturing footprint

• Develop proprietary IP

• Aggregation of technologies

–Memory

–GPU

–FPGA

• Chipsets and Architecture

• Key metrics:

–Volumes

–YieldSource: Intel website


Intel MUST lead in the mobile processor & IoT markets to be

successful in it’s vision and investments (growth)

• Intel MUST be successful in mobile and IoT marketplace against ARM

• Mobile and IoT generate massive chip volumes


Intel Strategy overview – Technology and Manufacturing

Strategy Day 2017


Si technology is becoming rare


Growth through incorporating capabilities within the Intel

chipset (Strategic Vectors: Integration)


“Intel loses its ARM wrestling match, kicks out Atom mobile

chips” The Register on 30 Apr 2016

• “Intel has thrown in the towel on smartphone processors after losing round

after round against the ARM architecture”

• “Intel today scrapped the development of its Atom processor codenamed

Broxton, which was aimed at powering high-end smartphones and tablets”

• “[Intel] hopes instead to sling Goldmont-based Apollo Lake Pentiums and

Celerons, plus Skylake Core M components, at tablets and slab-like PCs

• Despite spending millions of dollars on x86 smartphone chips, Intel has

managed to gain only a minute market share X


Intel regarded “Mobile” as a must win marketplace

• Faced very able and well entrenched competition for phones & tablets

–ARM Technologies

• Intel leaves “mobile” to focus on IoT

• Intel has entered into a new licensing agreement with competitor ARM to

produce ARM-based chips in Intel factories (The Verge, 16 Aug 2016)


Intel must bet (and bet big) to break in to new markets that

drive enough growth


Intel Strategy – Investor Meeting February 2017

https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/files/doc_presentations/2017/2017_Intel_Investor_Meeting_Krzanich.pdf



Intel Strategy – Investor Meeting February 2017




PC Performance Improvements…


Intel’s Xeon performance/core remains “flat”

Innovation in server-side compute has been limited


Intel: Strategic Posture Summary

• Intel continue to be a massive technology manufacturer

–Use own proprietary intellectual property

–Need large volumes to sustain margins

• Intel chip-volume growth is challenging

–Static Xeon market (market share high)

–Declining PC desktop and laptop to power-user levels

–Poor performance in Mobile market to date

• Intel must take large slice of Mobile & IoT market – primary area of focus

–Recently rebalanced strategy to achieve this objective

–Recently rebalanced investments/projects

–Halt decline in PC business


How are IBM POWER and Intel reacting to trends


IBM POWER strategy

(almost complete opposite of Intel)• Platform of choice for important and differentiated workloads

• Primary focus: Server-Side/DataCenter Computing

• Open up POWER Architecture and interfaces

• Recognition of importance of community, partnership, ecosystem to Innovation

• Applicability of Amdahl’s Law to workload performance

– Address systems price/performance curve + data ocean


Industry Trends: Server-Side/DataCenter Computing

• Strong general purpose processor cores

• Open high-performance low-latency device interfaces

• Accelerators for specific work-load types

–GPUs (e.g. NVIDIA Tesla P100)

–FPGAs (e.g. Xilinx devices)

• Next generation I/O controllers

–Storage

–Networking

• Emerging storage-class memory technologies


POWER thread performance is increasing; strong general

purpose compute cores deliver workload throughput


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


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


OpenCAPI Consortium: What is OpenCAPI ?

• OpenCAPI technology is an Open Interface Architecture that allows any microprocessor to attach to:

– Coherent user-level accelerators and I/O devices

– Agnostic to processor architecture

• Device attach

– Memory

– Accelerators

– Network

– Storage

– Etc.

• Latency: 10s of ns interface overhead (Typical PCIe round trip latency: ~100s ns)

• Bandwidth: 25G+ differential signalling

• Flexibility: One interface scaling from low latency memory to sophisticated accelerators


IBM and Nutanix Launch Hyperconverged Initiative to bring

Enterprises into the Cognitive Era

Watch the joint announcement video: https://youtu.be/qYiBYLuW53M

https://youtu.be/qYiBYLuW53M


The Intended Outcome of this Initiative

• An IBM branded offering that combines IBM Power Scale out Servers with

Nutanix Hyperconverged Software

• This offering will be IBM Branded and supported and sold through IBM routes

to market for Power Offerings


What this means for POWER Clients

• A new deployment model to access the value of IBM Power Systems with the

simplicity and scalability of Nutanix Hyperconverged Private Cloud

management

What this means for Hyperconverged Clients

• The opportunity to expand the workloads on a hyperconverged private cloud

to compute and data intensive workloads


What does Nutanix offer?


*Only available on

Nutanix branded

systems



Nutanix software


Scalable Distributed System Design

VM VM VM CVM

KVM based Hypervisor

VM VM VM CVM

KVM Based Hypervisor

Tier 1 Workloads(running on all nodes)

Nutanix Controller VM(one per node)

VM VM VM CVM

KVM Based Hypervisor

Distributed Storage Fabric

Snapshots Clones Compression Deduplication

Locality Tiering Erasure Coding Resilience

Node 1 Node 2 Node N

P8 P8 P8


What is next?


Agenda





Processor Technology RoadmapContinued Investment in POWER

2014

12 Cores SMT8 2X DPFP PCIE Gen 3 Coprocessor (CAPI) Enhanced Prefetch

NVLink 1.02X CAPI

2020+

24 Cores New µArchitecture Direct-attach DDR4 Gen4 PCIe CAPI 2.0 OpenCAPI 3.0 NVLink 2.0

650mm2

POWER822 nm

POWER8 w/ NVLink

22 nm

POWER914 nm

659mm2

2016 2017

POWER10

48 Cores New µArchitecture Enhanced Memory OpenCAPI 4.0 Future NVLink

695mm2

Future

POWER11

>48 Cores New µArchitecture 2x SIMD width Future NVLINK Future OpenCAPI


Watson Puts On A Show At COMMON

• From Therese Eaton’s Pick ‘n’ Mix

• https://www.itjungle.com/2017/05/08/

watson-puts-show-common/

• “…mentioning the introduction of

Power9 servers would come late in

2017, with IBM i versions unavailable

until early 2018.”

https://www.itjungle.com/2017/05/08/watson-puts-show-common/


IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA awarded

$325M U.S. Department of Energy’s Super Computer bids

Two super computers for Oak Ridge

and Lawrence Livermore Labs in 2017. Sequoia (LLNL)

2012 - 2017

Mira (ANL)

2012 - 2017Titan (ORNL)

2012 - 2017

Current DOE Leadership Computers

5x – 10x Higher Application Performance versus Current Systems

>100 PF, 2 GB/core main memory, local NVRAM,

Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand,

IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA Tesla GPUs


“ZAIUS”, the next Google machine fueled with IBM POWER9

April 2016, during OpenPOWER Summit 2016, Google annonced a partnership

with Rackspace to develop a new server plateform, based on IBM POWER9,

code-named ZAIUS.

More information:

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/06/inside-future-

google-rackspace-power9-system/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/open_power_s

ummit_power9/

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/06/inside-future-google-rackspace-power9-system/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/open_power_summit_power9/

50 © IBM Corporation, 2016http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/24/big-blue-aims-sky-power9/

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/24/big-blue-aims-sky-power9/


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Phone: 07717 892 896

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Thank you!David Spurway – IBM Power Systems Product Manager

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 07717 892 896

Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube

mailto:[email protected]

https://twitter.com/d_spurway

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/david-spurway-870869

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