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IBM Hyperscale Computing SolutionsSystems and Technology Group

Introducing IBM NeXtScale SystemTM

Gaurav ChaudhryWW Product Marketing – NeXtScale System

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Compute

Chassis

Storage

Acceleration

More Coming

Standard Rack

Primary Target Workloads

Architected for now and the future Better density and flexibility Compatible with standard racks Optimized for top of rack switching Software Defined Networking

(SDN) ready Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v2

product family Powerful roadmap Business partner friendly

2013 – Introducing IBM NeXtScaleA superior architecture for scale-out computing

PublicCloud

High Performance Computing

Private Cloud

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6U Chassis, 12 bays

Half width component support

Up to 6 900W power supplies N+N or N+1 configurations

Up to 10 hot swap fans

Fan and power controller

Mix and match compute, storage, or GPU nodes

No built in networking

No chassis management required

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6 x 900W power supplies

10 x 80mm

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Power button and information LED

Dual-port mezzanine card (IB/Ethernet)

KVM connector

Labeling tag

1 GbE ports

IMM v2 port

PCIe 3.0 Slot

x24 PCIe 3.0 slot

x8 mezz. connector

2 x CPU 8 x DIMMs

Power Interposer

Flexible Drive bay(s)

x16 PCIe 3.0 slot

NeXtScale – The Compute Node

New ½ Wide 1U 2 socket server

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 V2

Flexible slot-less I/O design

Generous PCIe capability

Open design, works with existing x86 tools

Versatile design with flexible Native Expansion options

32TB local storage (November)

GPUs/Phi adapters (2014)

IBM NeXtScale n360 M4Hyperscale Server

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IBM NeXtScale – Simplicity Native eXpansion – Adding Value, not Complexity

Base node delivers robust and dense raw compute capabilities NeXtScale’s Native Expansion capability allows seamless upgrades

of the base to add common functionalities– Storage– Graphics Acceleration or Co-Processing

What is Native Expansion?

No Exotic Components. No Mid-plane Dependencies.No Exotic Components. No Mid-plane Dependencies.

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GPU Riser Card + GPU/Phi

IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4 with Accelerator NeX

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Number of part numbers needed for the entire

solution – no matter the brand of component

SAVEFaster Time from arrival to production readiness

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IBM NeXtScale – FlexibilityHow Do You Want Your IT to Arrive?

NeXtScale can be shipped fully configured and ready to power on

– Fully racked and cabled– Labeling with user supplied naming– Pre programmed IMMs and addresses– Burn in testing before shipment at no added cost

Prefer to receive systems in boxes – no problem

IBM Intelligent ClusterIBM Intelligent Cluster

1Per Rack1Per Rack

105 lbs of cardboard1

54.6 ft3 of styrofoam 288 linear feet of wood

21,730 less paper inserts

Customer Benefits

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IBM NeXtScale – Scale Start at any size. Grow in any increment you want.

Growing node by node?

Available direct from IBM Optimized for availability through our partners Install the chassis today, grow into it tomorrow

Single nodesand chassis

Configured racks or chassis

Complete clusters and containers

Want to speed how quickly you can grow?

Shipped fully assembled Client driven, choice optimized “Starter Pack” solutions are appliance easy, yet flexible

Growing by leaps and bounds?

NeXtScale can arrive ready to power on – ‘personality’ applied Racks at a time or complete infrastructure ready containers

Single NodesSingle Nodes

Rack (s)Rack (s)Chassis or Departmental SolutionsChassis or Departmental Solutions

Containers – ‘NeXtPods’Containers – ‘NeXtPods’

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IBM NeXtScale – Open Designed on Open Standards = Seamless Adoption

IBM ToolsCenter OpenStack Ready

• Consolidated, integrated suite of mgmt tools• Powerful bootable media creator, FW updating

• Deploy OpenStack with Chef or Puppet• Mirantis Fuel, SuSE Cloud, IBM SmartCloud

UEFi and iMM IPMI 2.0 Compliant

• Standards-based hardware that combines diagnostic and remote control; No embedded SW

• Richer management experience and future-ready

• Use any IPMI compliant mgt. software – Puppet, Avocent, IBM Director, iAMT, xCAT, etc.

• OpenIPMI, ipmitool, ipmiutils, FreeIPMI compatible

xCAT System Monitoring

• Provides remote & unattended methods to assist with Deploying, Updating, Configuring, and Diagnosing

• Friendly with open source tools like Ganglia, Nagios, Zenoss, etc.

• Use with any RHEL/SuSE (and clones) or Windows based tools

Platform Computing SDN Friendly

• Workloads managed seamlessly with Platform LSF

• Deploy clusters easily with Platform HPC

• Networking direct to system; no integrated proprietary switching

• Support for 1/10/40Gb, Infiniband, FCoE, and VFAs

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