IBM POWER9 Server Update

IBM POWER9 Server Update Luc Cloutier Advisory I/T Specialist, Power Server luc@ca.ibm.com Charts by: Simon Porstendorfer Principal Offering Manager Cognitive Systems Dylan Boday, Ph.D. Offering Manager, IBM Cognitive Systems

Introducing POWER9 Future Forward Infrastructure Cloud and AI ready Technology Leadership (4 TB, PCIe Gen4, NVMe) Cloud ready (PowerVM integrated) AI connected (IBM i Watson API) Delivered secure for mission critical data Pre-loaded with firmware and operating system security patches that mitigate known Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Industry-leading performance and value Delivers 1.5X performance vs POWER8

POWER9: A Cloud Everywhere Solution Optimized for private, public, hybrid or multi-clouds PowerVM is built in, so every POWER9 workload is virtualized, mobile and cloud-ready PowerVC is pre-selected in POWER9 scale-out server orders, to speed private cloud deployments Easily upgradable to the new PowerVC for SDI for maximum flexibility in cloud configurations POWER9 Multi-Cloud Benefits Rapid provisioning of workloads Mobility for dynamic optimization Simplified workload recoverability Integration with multi-cloud managers VM or container-based cloud models Cloud-optimized user experience Optionally deploy IBM Cloud Private for an innovative container-based Power cloud solution Integrate with Power public cloud providers such as IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions 3

IBM i: the most integrated data platform for business, bringing cognitive insights Data Connect IBM DB2 for i The most integrated data platform for business Integrated Database (DB2 for i) Integrated Web Services Modern, Open Source applications development Secure Connectors to Watson for Cognitive Computing Data Connect for DB2 for i SQL Python, Node.JS Free form RPG Python, Node.JS, Ruby PHP Mobile application development

The new POWER9 processor ~1TB/s 1 st chip with PCIe4 4GHZ 2x Core performance vs x86 BW into chip 7TB/s On chip BW >15 MILES OF WIRE PEAK FREQUENCY 8 BILLION TRANSISTORS 17 LEVELS OF METAL >24B VIAS 1.5x 2x 1.4x performance vs POWER8 more memory vs POWER8 More memory bandwidth vs x86

POWER9 Processor The redesigned P9 core enables it to be optimized aligning with market needs Both SMT8 and SMT4 options available, which the SMT4 is ½ of a full SMT8 core 6

Targeted Implementations SMP scalability / Memory subsystem Up to 24 Cores / Chip / socket max of 4 threads per core Linux Ecosystem Optimized Up to 12 Cores / Chip / socket max of 8 threads per core PowerVM Ecosystem Continuity Scale-Out 2 Socket Optimized Robust 2 socket SMP system Direct Memory Attach Up to 8 DDR4 ports Commodity packaging form factor Scale-Up Multi-Socket Optimized Scalable System Topology / Capacity Large multi-socket Buffered Memory Attach 8 Buffered channels 8

Welcome to the Waitless World EnergyScale Mode Operation PowerVM Static Power Saver Mode Static Nominal Mode Idle Power Saver (IPS) can be on or off Dynamic Performance Mode Workloads run at highest frequency possible If all cores/socket idle for 128ms, drop to power save frequency CPU managed to nominal power draw Max Workload/Max Cores runs >= nominal in all environments Deterministic across full environment range The system performance for a given workload will be the same regardless of ambient temperature Idle Power Saver (IPS) can be on or off Maximum Performance Mode Workloads run at highest frequency possible No frequency drop if all cores/socket idle for 128ms CPU managed to higher power draw level Higher acoustics System performance is increased at lower ambient temperatures Idle Power Saver (IPS) can be on or off Frequency Max Nom P.S. 0 Ghz Static Nominal System Idle (if IPS on) Light Workloads or many Idle Cores Socket Idle OR System Idle (if IPS on) Dynamic Performance Light/Medium Workloads or a few Idle Cores High Ambient Range System Idle (If IPS on) Maximum Performance 9

Two Memory Architectures Scale Out Direct Attach Memory Scale Up Buffered Memory 8 Direct DDR4 Ports 8 Buffered Channels Up to 170 GB/s of bandwidth Up to 230 GB/s of bandwidth Low latency access Extreme capacity up to 8TB / socket Commodity packaging form factor Superior RAS with chip kill and lane sparing (HE) Adaptive 64B / 128B reads Compatible with POWER8 system memory Simplified Design Point Agnostic interface for alternate memory innovations 11

POWER9 Server Highlights Full Portfolio refresh planned (2017 and 2018) CPU SCM packaging for all 2-socket and 4-socket systems Eliminates SW licensing issues associated with DCM designs Lowers latency for CPU to CPU xfers due to simpler CPU fabric topology Up to 4x increased CPU fabric bandwidth for max scalability Embedded Analytics and Algorithms on the chip help run POWER9 at an always optimized frequency Increased Memory capacities over POWER8 (2x and 4x) Leveraging IS RDIMMs to provide more competitive offerings in 2-socket and 4-socket space Increased I/O bandwidth with PCIe GEN4 Slots and future PCIe GEN4 Expansion Drawer 25Gb ports for High Speed GPU/OpenCAPI acceleration Integrated NVMe Flash device support Basic form factors and power requirements remain the same External DVD 12

Form Factor POWER9 2U / 4U Rack & Tower POWER8 2U / 4U Rack & Tower Comparison CPU Memory I/O 2U - 190W / 225W 4U - 225W / 300W 12 cores (SMT8) or 24 cores (SMT4) 2U - 190W / 225W 4U 225W / 260W 12 cores (SMT8) 74 GB/s - Fabric BW 38.4 GB/s - Fabric BW 4TB 2TB 170 GB/s socket 192 GB/s socket IS RDIMMs PCIe GEN3/4 80 GB/s peak BW Max total 26 PCIe Slots (Server + Drawers) CDIMMs PCIe GEN3 (48 lanes) 48GB/s peak BW Max total 31 PCIe Slots (Server + Drawers) 4 CAPI Slots (one x8 and 3 x16) 4 CAPI Slots (x16) 2U 8 SFF Bays 4U 12 / 18 SFF Bays 2U 12 / 8 SFF Bays 4U 12 / 18 SFF Bays 4 internal NVMe M.2 boot devices Not available RAS 6Gb SAS 2U Single & Dual RAID Write Cache 4U Dual Raid Write Cache 6Gb SAS 2U - Dual RAID Write Cache 4U - Dual RAID Write Cache

POWER9 Offering Roadmap 2017 2018 to date To come Robust 2-socket SMP Direct memory attach Scale Out 2-socket SMP Direct memory attach Large-scale multi-socket SMP Buffered memory attach & HSDC Midrange Modular High-End 2-socket AC922 HPC / HPDA 2-socket Scale Out 2-socket LC Infrastructure 14

IBM Power System and The Modern Data Center AC922 The Best Server for Enterprise AI LC922 The Big Data Crusher NEW Only server with 2 nd Gen NVLink between CPU-GPU in the industry delivering leadership acceleration Co-optimized infrastructure and software with PowerAI ~4x the performance over x86 for AI workloads (1) Combining the right balance of compute capabilities delivered with the P9 processor and up to 120TB of storage capacity Scaling efficiency with advanced IO (PCIe 4.0/CAPI 2.0) 2X the number of active users (2) 2X the price-performance (3) Servers synergistically designed to meet the vastly different requirements of the AI era 16

GPU Accelerator comparison POWER8 with NVLink 1.0 Pascal Technology POWER9 with NVLink 2.0 Volta Technology DDR4 P8 CPU DDR4 P9 CPU GPU NVLink GPU GPU NVLink GPU 80 GB/s 150 GB/s Graphics Memory Graphics Memory Graphics Memory Graphics Memory 2 Bricks per NVLink Duplex bandwidth 3 Bricks per NVLink Duplex bandwidth POWER9 with NVLink 2.0 delivers 87.5% increased bandwidth over POWER8 HPC Hardware / DOC v1.0 / Nov 10, 2017 / 2017 IBM Corporation 17

A portfolio for the AI Era From Mission-Critical workloads to AI and Cloud Computing leadership PowerVM and high RAS Accelerated Compute AC922 LC922 NEW Big Data L922 LC921 NEW Industry leading reliability and computing capability PowerVM ecosystem focus for outstanding utilization Focus on memory capacity with up to 4TB of RAM Industry first and only in advanced IO with 2 nd Generation CPU - GPU NVLink delivering ~5.6X higher data throughput Up to 4 integrated NVIDIA Volta GPUs air cooled (GTH) and up to 6 GPUs with water cooled (GTX) version Only platform with memory coherence for data capacity needed in the AI era Announce 5/8 GA 5/25 Highest storage capacity (120 TB) in the Power portfolio, KVM support, leveraging P9 compute for a composable design Advanced IO with PCIe 4.0/CAPI 2.0 Up to 44 cores and 2TB RAM Announce 5/8 GA 5/25 Density focused with 2 POWER9 sockets in a 1U form factor Up to 40 cores and 2TB RAM- ideal for environments requiring dense computing ~4x better performance for model training (1) Superior performance while having a list price which is ~30% less (4) 20

Power LC922 Server: Improved Price-Performance for Clients Better Performance and Lower Cost running YCSB with MongoDB than tested Intel Xeon SP servers Power LC922 472,927 Ops/sec Intel Xeon SP Gold 6150 server: $30,587 47% MORE Performance 1 28% LOWER Price 2,3,4 Power LC922 Delivers 2X Price-performance Intel Xeon SP Gold 6150 server: 322,738 Ops/sec Power LC922 $21,878 1. Based on IBM internal testing of MongoDB 3.6.2 using YCSB workload, Results valid as of 4/11/18 and conducted under laboratory condition with speculative execution controls to mitigate user-to-kernel and user-to-user side-channel attacks on both systems, individual results can vary based on workload size, use of storage subsystems & other conditions. 2. IBM Power LC922 (2x22-core/2.6 GHz/256 GB memory) using 2 x internal HDD, 10 GbE two-port, 1 x 16gbps FCA running 4VM s of Mongo 3.6 and RHEL 7.5 LE for Power9 3. Competitive stack: 2-socket Intel Xeon SP (Skylake) Gold 6150 (2x18-core/2.7 GHz/256 GB memory) using 2 x 300GB SATA 15K rpm HDD, 10 GbE two-port, 1 x 16gbps FCA, running 3 VM s Mongo 3.6 and RHEL 7.5 4. Pricing is based on Power LC922 http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/linux-lc.html and publicly available x86 pricing. 23

Power Systems LC922 Delivering enhanced price-performance for Apache Spark : Reduce operating costs and deliver results faster compared to tested Intel Xeon systems Power LC922 29.5 QpH Intel Xeon SP Gold 6150 server: $53,548 30% MORE Performance 1 18% LOWER Price 2,3,4 Power LC922 Delivers 1.59X Price-performance Intel Xeon SP Gold 6140 server: 22.6 QpH Power LC922 $43,948 1. Results are based IBM Internal Measurements running four concurrent streams of 99 TPC-DS like queries against a 3TB dataset. Results valid as of 4/25/18 and conducted under laboratory condition with speculative execution controls to mitigate user-to-kernel and user-to-user side-channel attacks on both systems, individual results can vary based on workload size, use of storage subsystems & other conditions 2. Hardware: 4 nodes IBM Power LC922 (2x22-core/2.6 GHz/512 GB memory) using 12 x 8TB HDD, 10 GbE two-port, RHEL 7.5 LE for Power9 and 4 nodes of Intel Xeon Gold 6140; 36 cores (2 x 18c chips) at 2.3 GHz; 512 GB memory, 12 x 8TB HDDs, 10Gbps NIC, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 3. Software: Apache Spark 2.3.0 located at http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html ; and open source Hadoop HDP 2.7.5 4. Pricing is based on Power LC922 http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/linux-lc.html and publicly available x86 pricing. 5. Apache, Apache Spark, and associated logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. No endorsement by The Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of these marks. 24

POWER9 Scale Out family L922 9008-22L S922 9009-22A S914 9009-41A S924 9009-42A H922 9223-22H H924 9223-42H 1,2-socket, 2U 8,10,12 cores/ socket 32 IS RDIMM slots 4TB memory 4 CAPI 2.0 Slots 1,2-socket, 2U 4, 8,10 cores/ socket 32 IS RDIMM slots 4TB memory 4 CAPI 2.0 Slots 1-socket, 4U & Tower 4,6,8 cores/ socket 16 IS RDIMM slots 1TB memory 2 CAPI 2.0 Slots Internal RDX Media 2-socket, 4U 8,10,12 cores/ socket 32 IS RDIMM slots 4TB memory 4 CAPI 2.0 slots Internal RDX Media 1,2-socket, 2U 4, 8,10 cores/ socket 32 IS RDIMM slots 4TB memory 4 CAPI 2.0 Slots 2-socket, 4U 8,10,12 cores/ socket 32 IS RDIMM slots 4TB memory 4 CAPI 2.0 slots Internal RDX Media Linux only PowerVM KVM (GA2) AIX, IBM i, & Linux PowerVM AIX, IBM i, Linux PowerVM AIX, IBM i, Linux PowerVM AIX, IBM i up to 25% Linux PowerVM AIX, IBM i up to 25% Linux PowerVM Technology Leadership Cloud enabled - Embedded virtualization capabilities with PowerVM Up to 4TB in 2 socket - DDR4 Industry Standard memory RDIMMs High Speed 25Gb/s external ports one per socket 2 Internal NVMe Flash boot adapters Embedded Analytics and Algorithms on the chip help run POWER9 at an always optimized frequency 25

POWER9 2U Scale Out Server S922 9009-22A H922 9223-22H 2U server - 19 Rack enclosure POWER9 Scale-Out SMT8 processor (Up to 10 cores per socket) Up to 4TB Total DDR4 Industry Standard memory RDIMMs Up to 340 GB/s total system memory bandwidth 32 IS RDIMM slots (no Risers) 9 PCIe Gen3/Gen4 slots, Low Profile (2-sockets populated) Five PCIe GEN4 slots (4 CAPI enabled) Four PCIe GEN3 slots (1 reserved for Ethernet adapter) Two High Speed 25Gb/s external ports 8 SFF (2.5 ) bay option (6 are front accessible) Two internal storage controller slots Single or Split backplane or Single RAID write cache support 2 Internal NVMe Flash boot adapters (two M.2 devices per card) External DVD I/O Expansion Drawer Support H922 supports up to 25% IBM i / AIX cores 29

POWER9 4U Scale Out Server S914 9009-41A 4U server - 19 Rack enclosure POWER9 Scale-Out SMT8 processor (4-core, 6-core, 8-core offerings) Up to 1TB Total DDR4 Industry Standard memory RDIMMs Up to 170 GB/s total system memory bandwidth 16 IS RDIMM slots (no Risers) 4-core offering limited to 64GB max memory 8 PCIe Gen3/Gen4 slots, Full Height, Half Length Two PCIe GEN4 slots (CAPI enabled) Six PCIe GEN3 slots (1 reserved for Ethernet adapter) High Speed 25Gb/s port for OpenCAPI / GPU Acceleration 12 or 18 SFF (2.5 ) bay options Two internal storage controller slots Single or Split backplane or Dual RAID write cache support 2 Internal NVMe Flash boot adapters (two M.2 devices per card) Internal RDX Media Bay (DVD External) I/O Expansion Drawer support (for 6,8 core offerings) 31

POWER9 4U Scale Out Server S924 9008-42A H924 9223-42H 4U server - 19 Rack enclosure POWER9 Scale-Out SMT8 processor (12-core, 10-core, 8-core offerings) Up to 4TB Total DDR4 Industry Standard memory RDIMMs Up to 340 GB/s total system memory bandwidth 32 IS RDIMM slots (no Risers) 11 PCIe Gen3/Gen4 slots, Full Height, Half Length (2-sockets populated) Five PCIe GEN4 slots (4 CAPI enabled) Six PCIe GEN3 slots (1 reserved for Ethernet adapter) 2 High Speed 25Gb/s ports for OpenCAPI / GPU Acceleration 12 or 18 SFF (2.5 ) bay options Two internal storage controller slots Single or Split backplane or Dual RAID write cache support 2 Internal NVMe Flash boot adapters (two M.2 devices per card) Internal RDX Media Bay (DVD External) I/O Expansion Drawer support H924 supports up to 25% IBM i / AIX cores 33

Unleash POWER9 on SAP HANA with H922 and H924 2-socket 4TB systems for SAP HANA* Excellent competitor in 2-socket space Attractively priced systems for Linux-minded clients S922/S924 can also run SAP HANA for clients requiring a higher % of AIX, IBM i cores Highly flexible systems with best in class virtualization Consolidate workloads to reduce data center footprint High utilization through mixed workloads with production SAP HANA, traditional, and non-production SAP running side-by-side *IBM intends to support SAP HANA on the IBM Power System H922 (9223-22H) in production mode, with the following Linux operating systems, following near term certification of the environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Power LE version 7.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 35

IBM Operating System Plans for POWER9 Power Systems 7.4 16.04.4 12SP3 AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1 AIX 7.2 IBM i 7.1 IBM i 7.2 IBM i 7.3 POWER9 POWER8 37

10+ years roadmap for IBM i and AIX AIX Highlights AIX Security: PowerSC and PowerSC MFA updates for malware intrusion prevention and for strong authentication New workload acceleration with Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R) Availability: AIX Live Update Enhancements; GDR 1.2; PowerHA 7.2 Cloud Managementt: IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager for SDI; Import/Export; AIX 7.2 native support for POWER9 e.g. enabling NVMe P9 Enablement SP IBM i Highlights POWER9 exploitation Expanding the secure-ability of IBM i with TLS, secure APIs, logs for SIEM solutions Expanded Install Options installation process using USB 3.0 media Encryption and compression for cloud storage Increasing Productivity of Developers & Administrators IBM i 7.3 TR4 & IBM i 7.2 TR8 AIX 5.3 requires full I/O virtualization on POWER8 7.1 Versioned WPARs are an option to run AIX 5.3 env. on P8/P9

IBM HMC Plans for POWER9 Minimum Requirement: HMC HW 7042-CR7 / 7063-CR1 or Later HMC FW 910 HMC SFW V9.R910.0 or Later Power FW PSVxxxxxxx PowerVM/VIOS VIOS 2.2.6.21, or later This table from 2014 some later enhancements such as adding PCIe Gen3 I/O drawers will require higher levels of firmware

. your takeaway Delivers industry-leading value & Technology Leadership Easy integration into clients cloud & cognitive strategy Secure platform for enterprise workloads 40

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