Power 7 Overview

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Enterprise Power Systems Transition to POWER7 technology

…the next generation


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Agenda

IntroductionsJim McGuire, IBM Client Executive – Lockheed Martin AccountTom Lambert, IBM Hardware Sales Leader – Lockheed Martin AccountLarry Mills, IBM IT Architect – Lockheed Martin AccountBill Linn, IBM Power Technical Specialist – Lockheed Martin AccountJeff Fier, IBM Computational Scientist Marc West (on phone), IBM HPC Sales

Power 7 Introduction – focus on 32 way and higher systemsPower 7 750/755Power 7 770Power 7 780 IBM HPC solutions

Open Discussion on Lockheed Martin’s MM3D Application Server


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IBM Power Systems continues to grow…gaining market share and outselling HP and Sun

Industry’s most popular UNIX enterprise servers

Sustained performance leadership

Leadership virtualization with PowerVM

Innovative modular flexibility

Application availability through Live Partition Mobility

Non-disruptive growth with CoD

Broad application support through AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and Lx86


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IBM POWER Processor Roadmap - 3 Year Revolution - 18 month “+” evolution

2004 2001 2007 2010

POWER4/4+

Dual Core Chip Multi Processing Distributed Switch Shared L2 Dynamic LPARs (32)180nm,

POWER5/5+

Dual Core & Quad Core MdEnhanced Scaling2 Thread SMTDistributed Switch +Core Parallelism +FP Performance +Memory bandwidth +130nm, 90nm

POWER6/6+

Dual Core High Frequencies Virtualization + Memory Subsystem + Altivec Instruction Retry Dyn Energy Mgmt 2 Thread SMT + Protection Keys 65nm

POWER7/7+

4,6,8 Core 32MB On-Chip eDRAM Power Optimized Cores Mem Subsystem ++ 4 Thread SMT++ Reliability + VSM & VSX Protection Keys+ 45nm, 32nm

POWER8

Future

First Dual Corein Industry

HardwareVirtualizationfor Unix & Linux

FastestProcessorIn Industry

MostPOWERful &ScalableProcessor inIndustry

IBM is the leaderin Processorand Serverdesign

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POWER7 Processor Chip

Physical Design:567mm2 Technology: 45nm

lithography, Cu, SOI, eDRAM1.2B transistors

Equivalent function of 2.7B eDRAM efficiency

* Statements regarding SMP servers do not imply that IBM will introduce a system with this capability.

Features:Eight processor cores

12 execution units per core 4 Way SMT per core 32 Threads per chip 256KB L2 per core

32MB on chip eDRAM shared L3

Dual DDR3 Memory Controllers 100GB/s Memory bandwidth per chip

sustained

Scalability up to 32 Sockets 360GB/s SMP bandwidth/chip 20,000 coherent operations in flight

Two I/O Mezzanine (GX++) System Buses

Binary Compatibility with POWER6


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POWER7 Core

64-bit Power ISA Architecture v2.06

Out of Order Execution

Wider Dispatch & Issue Capability 6 Wide Dispatch (2 branches per group) 8 Wide issue

12 Execution Units• 2 Fixed Point Units• 2 Load Store Units also do Simple FX ops• 4 Double Precision Floating Point Units• 1 Vector Unit• 1 Branch• 1 Condition Register• 1 Decimal Floating Point Unit

Units include distributed Recovery Function

Cache Design:• L1 32KB 4-way set associative I-Cache• L1 32KB 8-way set associative D-Cache

• L1 cache latency reduced from 4 to 2 cycles• L2 256KB 8-way associative (i & d combined)

• Tightly coupled to core. 8 cycles away

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The CompetitionNehalem-EP (Xeon 5570) for 2 socket servers45nm, 269mm2, 4 cores, 8MB cache

Westmere-EP (Xeon 5680) for 2 socket servers32nm, 240mm2, 6 cores, 12MB cache

Nehalem-EX (Xeon 7560) for up to 8 socket servers45nm, 684mm2, 8 cores, 24MB cache

Tukwila (Itanium 9350)65nm, 700mm2, 4 cores, 30MB cache


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Memory Controller Fabric Controller

Fundamental Computer ArchitecturePOWER7 (Intel Nehalem)

8 cores X

4w SMT(8 core 2w SMT)

32MB L3EDRAM

(24MB SRAM)

360GB/s(103GB/s)

105GB/sMemory BW

(32GB/s)

3.86 Ghz(2.26 Ghz)

7 8B SMP interconnect buses8 DDR3 buffered memory channels

980GB/sCache BW


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Fundamental Computer ArchitecturePOWER7 Edge

2X coresin SMT

1.3X largerL3 Cache

3.5X IO B/W

3.3X LargerMemory B/W

1.7X higherfrequency

7 8B SMP interconnect buses8 DDR3 buffered memory channels

980GB/sCache BW


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“Mainframe-class”, a term used by Intel to describe processor enhancements, is derived from the IBM innovations that built the legendary RAS mainframes provide

RAS Feature POWER7™ SPARC Integrity Xeon Application/Partition RAS Live Partition Mobility Yes No No Yes Live Application Mobility Yes No No No Partition Availability priority Yes No No No System RAS OS independent First Failure Data Capture Yes No No No Memory Keys Yes No No No Processor RAS Processor Instruction Retry Yes Yes No No Alternate Processor Recovery Yes No No No Dynamic Processor Deallocation Yes Yes Yes No Dynamic Processor Sparing Yes Yes2 Yes2 No Memory RAS Chipkill Yes Yes Yes Yes Survives Double Memory Failures Yes No No No Selective Memory Mirroring Yes No No No Redundant Memory Yes Yes Yes Yes

I/O RAS Extended Error Handling Yes No No No

#1,2,3 - See “POWER6 RAS” in backup; See the following URLs for addition details:http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/systems/power/availability.htmlhttp://www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/systems/power/virtualization.html

The same people who develop mainframes develop Power Systems


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IBM’s SOI SRAM cells 9x more robust than bulk SRAM cells*

IBM’s SOI latches are 6x more robust than bulk latches*

P7 is IBM’s 4th POWER generation where emission testing was part of the design process to go beyond baseline technology advantages

* Statements based on comparisons of IBM’s 65nm SIO and bulk technologies.


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Power Systems with AIX deliver 99.997% uptime- 54% of IT executives and managers say that they require 99.99% or better availability for their applications

Power Systems with AIX® Best availability of UNIX,

Linux®, Windows choices Only 15 minutes of

downtime per year Best reliability

No severe outages Best serviceability

Systems with Call Home have 1/3 the unscheduled repair actions

Source: ITIC 2009 Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey Results, July 7, 2009

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Tier 3 incidents 0 0.195 0.395 0.1 0.14

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Security

PowerVM has never had a single reported security vulnerability.

Source: National Vulnerability Database, http://nvd.nist.gov/

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POWER7 Has Clear Performance Leadership On Major Workloads

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* Source: http://www.spec.org/ IBM p570 POWER6 results to be submitted on 5/21/07: All other results as of 04/27/07; ** Source: www.tpc.org/ IBM p570 POWER6 result to be submitted on5/21/07; All other results as of 04/27/07See next page for full detail


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POWER 7 Workload Optimization Intelligent threads pick ST/SMT2/SMT4 mode of operation

Automatic, dynamic movement of thread vs. throughput performance across 2x range Intelligent Cache technology optimizes cache utilization flowing it from core to core Turbo Core Mode enables max core performance for databases

Active Cores have a 2X increase in L3 Cache size per core Chips run at increased frequency 3.86 vs 4.14Ghz Provides up to 1.5X per core to core performance gain over P6.

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POWER 7 Dominates Intel’s Offerings

POWER 7 vs. Nehalem-EX

(Xeon 7560)

POWER 7 vs. Westmere-EP

(Xeon 5680)

POWER 7 vs. Nehalem-EP

(Xeon 5570)

POWER 7 vs. Tukwila

(Itanium 9350)

Core Count = 1.33x 2x 2x

Micro-Architecture ++ ++ ++ ++++

Frequency 1.7x 1.16x 1.3x 2.25x

# of Threads / Core 2x 2x 2x 2x(+ SMT vs. HMT)

Cache 1.33x(+ DRAM advantage)

2.67x(+ DRAM advantage)

4x(+ DRAM advantage)

1.1x(+ DRAM advantage)

Memory Bandwidth 3x 5x 5x 3x

SMP Bandwidth 3.5x (+coherency

advantage)

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Max Glueless SMP 4x(32 vs. 8)

16x(32 vs. 2)

16x(32 vs. 2)

4x(32 vs. 8)


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Power is the innovation that will fuel the growthThe future of UNIX provides virtualization without limits and exponential ROI

Virtualization without Limits increases flexibility and reduces costs

Workload-optimizing systems improve service levels with assured performance

Consolidation that delivers exponential ROI

Dynamic Energy Optimization that balances performance and efficiency

Resiliency without Downtime


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IBM Power 755 ServerHigh Performance Computing with POWER7

Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet


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Weather & Environmental models

Focus Application Areas for IBM Power HPC Systems

Medical and Life Sciences

Basic Research

Engineering / Scientific and emerging technologies

Predicting the path of the next hurricane

Modeling the Human Brain

Discovering the secrets of the Universe

Tomorrow’s technologies today

BRINGING OUR STRENGTH TO BEAR


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HPC Market Opportunity

Source: IDC Worldwide Technical Computing Server 2009 – 2013 Forecast Update – March, 2009

IDC Segment DefinitionsSuperComputing: Systems configured for large problems and high throughput, >$500KDivisional: Systems for throughput environments, $250K>ASP>$499KDepartmental: Systems for throughput environments, $100K<$250KWorkgroup: Systems for throughput environments, ASP<$100K

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Power 755 Market Opportunity

HPC has been traditional strength for Power Architecture™:

Blue Gene®/P debuted at #2 in Nov, 2007 with 5 systems in the TOP500

Power® 575 debuted at #18 in June, 2008 with 7 POWER6™ systems in the TOP500

Cell/BE debuted at #1 in June, 2008 with 3 Cell/BE systems in the TOP500

Power 755 targets broader market opportunity in Divisional and Departmental Computing segments

Source: IDC Worldwide Technical Computing Server 2009 – 2013 Forecast Update – March, 2009

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Power Systems HPC RoadmapPower 755, Blue Gene, Power 575

Mid Range Departmental & Divisional Systems

Extreme Scaling

Mid to High-end Capability

2010 20122011

Blue Gene/Q

Power 575 (POWER6™)

Blue Gene/P

POWER7 (P7 IH)

Power 755

Power 755

For information only – subject to change without notice


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Performance per node

• 2X improvement in Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) acceleration

− Full AltiVec™ (VMX) instruction set support

− Extended VSX instruction set

• Up to 8.4 TFlops per Rack (10 nodes per Rack) • Cluster Interconnect

− 2-Port InfiniBand 12X DDR

• IBM HPC software stack • Boost frequency for better performance & performance/watt

IBM Power 755

IBM Power 755(8236-E8C)

4-socket, 4U server

8-core POWER7 processors

32-core 3.3GHz configuration

Up to 256GB of memory

Up to 64 clustered nodes

Energy Star-qualified

GA: 2/19/2010


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1.7 TimesMore floating point operations per watt performed by the

Power 755 compared to Sun Blade X6440*

1.55 TimesMore performance than Sun X6270 Blades with Intel’s fastest Xeon X5570 processor on NAMD molecular dynamics simulation

The fastest, most energy efficient 4-socket system on the planet

* Based on Little Green500. http://www.green500.org* Based on Little Green500. http://www.green500.org

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Power 755 boosts NAMD performance over Sun X6275 - Xeon X5570 results

• The Power 755 increases performance by over 55% on NAMD’s molecular dynamics simulations.

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Four Power 755 nodes versus eight X6275 nodes


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Power 755 delivers superior SPECint_rate2006 performance compared to 4-socket HP x86 servers

Pow er 750 - 3.3GHz HP DL585 G6 -2.8GHz

HP DL580 G5 -2.66GHz

PerformanceSPECint_rate2006

• 2.4X more performance than HP DL585 G6

• 3.4X more performance than HP DL580 G5IBM Power 755


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Power 755 delivers superior SPECfp_rate2006 performance compared to 4-socket HP x86 servers

• 2.9X more performance than HP DL585 G6

• 5X more performance than HP DL580 G5

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Pow er 750 - 3.3GHz HP DL585 G6 - 2.8GHz HP DL580 G5 - 2.66GHz

PerformanceSPECfp_rate2006


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Power 755 Rack w/ 8 Nodes (6.8TF) and 76.8 TB (Usable)

Power 755 Rack w/8 Nodes (6.8 TF) & 76.8 TB (Usable)

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Power 755 Cluster w/ 34 Nodes (28.7 TF) & 326.4TB (Usable)

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Scaling64 nodes (32 Cores/node)

54 TFlops

Operating Systems

AIX 6.1 H

Linux

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xCAT v2.3.x

GPFS v3.3

PESSL v3.3

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Power 755 HPC Cluster Node Support

IB-DDR Interconnect

Up to 10 Nodes per Rack


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Power 755 – Performance and Energy Efficiency

Power 755 targets the growing Divisional and Departmental HPC Segments Weather Reservoir modeling Financial Services Selected Computational Chemistry/Molecular Dynamics

Power 755 offers leadership performance 1.7X greater floating point operations per watt performed

by the IBM Power 755 compared to Sun Blade X6440 1.55X better NAMD performance than Sun Blade X6275 Greater than 2.9X SPECfp_rate2006 versus HP DL580

and DL585

Power 755 compared to Power 575 delivers: 40% better performance per node 1/3rd less power consumption per node 37% less floor space for a 64 node configuration


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POWER7 Vector/Scalar Unit

64 Entry Vector/Scalar Register File 128-bit wide registers Used for 32b/64b scalar as well as

4x32B/2x64b SIMD instructionsFour floating-point execution units

Each FP unit capable of single or double precision

Each FP unit can complete a multiply-add instruction per cycle (2FLOPS)

Maximum throughput 2 FLOPS x 4 = 8FLOPS/cycle

Each FPU can also execute FP divide and sqrt

Floating Point Operations are ANSI/IEEE standard 754-1985 Compliant


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IBM Power 770 with POWER7 processorsEnhancing the industry’s most popular mid-range server with more performance, energy efficiency and scalability

Modular scalability

Upgrades from POWER6

Capacity on Demand

Live Partition Mobility

PowerVM

Energy Efficiency

IBM extends performance leadership with POWER7 Multi-core delivers more total system AND per core performance

Over 4x total system aggregate throughput than 16 core 570’sMore performance per core than the 5.0 GHz 570 system

Similar portfolio of modular, scalable offerings as POWER6

New workload optimizing features expand flexibility Intelligent Threads™ utilize more threads when workloads benefit Active Memory Expansion™ provides more effective memory

The Roadmap to Continuous Availability Redundant system clocks with dynamic fail-over Hot-node Repair available for all nodes*

Upgrades available for POWER6 570 systems (9117-MMA)

Increased Energy Control and Automation Over 3X improvement in performance per watt Dynamic Energy Optimization maximizes performance or energy

efficiency as thermal conditions and policy allow

* Hot Node Repair planned for 4Q 2010


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IBM Power 780 with POWER7 processorsA new option for growth supporting the highest performance per core and per system with enterprise class features

Extreme scalability TurboCore flexibilityCapacity on DemandPowerCare ServicePowerVM

IBM extends performance leadership EVEN MORE Multi-core delivers more total system AND per core performance

Over 4.8X total system aggregate throughput than the 5.0 GHz 16 core 570 system

Over 2X the performance per core than today’s 32 core 570New workload optimizing features expand flexibility

TurboCore™ for max per core performance for databases Intelligent Threads™ utilize more threads when workloads benefit Active Memory Expansion™ provides more effective memory

Enterprise Features24 x 7 standard warranty

PowerCare included with every system Upgrades available for POWER6 570 systems (9117-MMA)

The Roadmap for Continuous Availability Redundant system clocks with dynamic fail-over Hot-node Repair available for all nodes*

* Hot Node Repair planned for 4Q 2010


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POWER7 Innovations available with Power Modular Systems

Technology / Performance for Faster ROIOptions for 4-cores, 6 cores, & 8 cores per socketSupport for up to 2 TB* DDR3 memory per systemDual memory controllers for increased memory bandwidth

Frequency boost for increased performance eDRAM technology for on-chip L3 cache

Workload Optimizing Features for Added FlexibilityExclusive new TurboCore mode available with Power 780

Intelligent Threads (SMT-4) for additional capacity Active Memory ExpansionTM for increased effective memory

Integrated split back plane for dedicated partition support Integrated, separate media controller for partition flexibility

Availability Features for Today’s 24 X 7 Workloads Integrated RAID support

Redundant clock failoverHot Node Repair for all nodes**

Hot Repair for GX adapters GX++ support for pureScale availability

Dynamic Energy Optimization for Increased Efficiency Enhanced TPMD chip for thermal/energy monitoring and control Frequency reduction during low demand for energy reduction SFF SAS drives for increased energy efficiency

* Large DIMM planned for 4Q 2010** Hot Node Repair planned for 4Q 2010


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IBM Power 780 delivers performance with efficiency

780 delivers over 3X the performance per core of HP Superdome and Sun M9000780 delivers over 5.8X the performance per watt of HP Superdome and Sun M9000

System Chip/Core/Thread Date SPECint_rate2006 Per core

Maximum energy

requirement (WATTs)

Per KWatt

IBM Power 780 (3.8 GHz POWER7) 8/64/256 February 2010 2530 39.5 6,400 395 IBM Power 570 (4.2 GHz POWER6) 16/32/64 October 2008 832 26 5,600 148Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 64/256/512 October 2009 2586 10.1 44,800 58HP Integrity Superdome (1.6 GHz Itanium 2)

64/128/128 September 2006 1648 12.875 24,392 68

Performance Per Core Performance Per Watt

Source: http://www.spec.org IBM results available at announcement. All other results as of 01/27/10. Not all results listed. Performance per KWatt is calculated by dividing the performance by the recommended maximum power usage for site planning. This defines the requirement for the power infrastructure. Actual power used by the systems will be less than this value for all of the systems. For HP systems, this information is contained in the QuickSpecs available through www.hp.com. For Sun systems, this information is available through the respective Site Planning Guides available through www.sun.com.

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Why TurboCore?

TurboCore mode extends per core performance Clock speed increases from 3.8 to 4.1 GHz L3 cache doubles from 4 MB per core to 8 MB per core Memory bandwidth per core doubles I/O bandwidth per core doubles Physical memory per core doubles

TurboCore mode provides the best option for minimizing software costs Provides over 2X the rPerf per core as the POWER6 32 core 570

TurboCore mode allows clients choice and minimizes risk Clients purchase the system with identical components Clients choose the mode they wish to run Clients can change the mode at any time

TurboCore mode eases the transition to highly parallel multi-core systems Start with TurboCore mode when transitioning from POWER6 systems Turn off and grow system when application environment is ready to leverage greater levels of parallel

computing


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What is TurboCore?

Technology Four of the eight cores and L2 cache are turned off Shared L3 cache is now doubled for remaining cores Remaining cores run at 4.1 GHz frequency Remaining cores share memory and I/O bandwidth Provides up to 22% per core performance gain

compared to having all eight cores turned on Unused cores are powered off to improve energy

efficiency

Implementation 3.8 GHz processors are purchased with Power 780

system as needed Required number of activations are purchased with

Power 780 system System is configured by user for TurboCore mode

operations System is powered on and cores are made available in

TurboCore mode (up to 4 cores per processor) System can be reconfigured by user with a reboot The entire system is either in TurboCore mode or

MaxCore mode Unused Core

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POWER7 TurboCore Example

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Single Node Power 780 system (TurboCore mode)

One processor feature #4982 (0 of 16)Two POWER7 processors64 MB internal L3 cacheSystem is configured for TurboCore mode8 POWER7 cores @ 4.1 GHz availableUp to 8 CoD processor core activation features #5469Best performance per core configuration

Single Node Power 780 system (MaxCore mode)One processor feature #4982 (0 of 16)Two POWER7 processors64 MB internal L3 cacheSystem is configured for MaxCore mode16 POWER7 cores @ 3.8 GHz availableUp to 16 CoD processor core activation features #5469Best total system capacity configuration

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POWER7 TurboCore Pricing Example

Unused Core

TurboCoreCores

Single Node Power 780 system System configured for TurboCore mode

Eight cores are made available @ 4.1 GHz

One processor feature #4982 (0 of 16) @ $6.00

Eight CoD activation features #5469 @ $1.00 each

1 x $6.00 + 8 x $1.00 = $14.00

$14.00 / 8 = $1.75 per core

X X

X X

X X

X X

Single Node Power 780 system

System configured for MaxCore mode

Sixteen cores are made available @ 3.8 GHz

One processor feature #4982 (0 of 16) @ $6.00

16 CoD activation features #5469 @ $1.00 each

1 x $6.00 = 16 x $1.00 = $22.00

$22.00 / 16 = $1.375 per core

Pricing examples are for illustrative purposes only and do not reflect actual pricing


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Designed with the capacity for consolidation

= 4X memory per core than HP SD

> 15X memory bandwidth per core than HP SD

> 5.4X I/O bandwidth per core than HP SD

You can use the tremendous capacity of the IBM Power™ 780 to run challenging applications in every virtual server.

System data for HP from the HP Superdome Datasheet available at www.hp.com. System data for Sun from the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Datasheet available at www.sun.com. Both are current as of 1/27/2010

Memory per core

Memory bandwidthper core

I/O bandwidth per core

Capacity per core relative to the Power 780

IBM Power 780 HP SuperDome Sun M9000

Cores 32 128 256 Memory (GB) 2,048 2,048 4096 Memory Bandwidth (GB/s) 1,088 273 737 I/O Bandwidth (GB/s) 236 173 234

Memory (GB) per core 64 16 16 Memory Bandwidth (GB/s) per core 34 2.13 2.88 I/O Bandwidth (GB/s) per core 7.3 1.35 0.91

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Save up to 93% in annual energy costs!By consolidating nine 64-core HP Superdomes into ONE Power 780 system --Reduce floor space required by 91%

--Reduce processing cores by 88%

One Power 780 (@ 75% utilization)

576 total cores @ 1.6 GHz

9 HP Superdomes(@ 25% utilization)

64 total cores @ 3.8 GHz Only 1 Rack – 7.6 sq. ft of floor space

Up to $139k in energy savings per year!

See Power 780 comparisons in backup for full substantiation details.


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POWER7 continues to deliver more Performance per Watt

POWER4™p670

1.1 GHzrPerf: 24.46KWatts: 6.71

POWER4+™ p670


POWER5™p5-570


POWER5+™ p570


POWER6™ Power 570


POWER6™ Power 570


POWER7™ Power 780


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>3X increase in performance per watt over POWER6+>30X increase in performance per watt since POWER4 >10 years of changing the UNIX landscape


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Go Green and Save with IBM EnergyScale TechnologyManage your energy costs as never before

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ for POWER exploits POWER7 processor-based EnergyScale™ technology to help you reduce energy consumption

>3X improvement in performance per

watt over POWER6 570

TPMD chip in every 770/780 system for

monitoring and controlling thermal

output and energy efficiency

Dynamic Energy Optimization reduces

energy usage up to 50% when

workload or policy allows


IBM Power Systems


Growth you don’t have to wait on @ $16/day!

Enterprise Power Systems offer Capacity on Demand for growth, flexibility and availability

Growth• Start your system with as few as four cores• Grow to 64 cores without disruption

Most importantly, grow when you want to: quickly and without disruption to your operation

Flexibility• Activate resources in increments of one core and one GB memory• Chose between permanent activations (purchase) or temporary activations

(by the day or by the minute)• Prices start as low as $8 per day (per core) and $1 per day (per GB)

Try out that new application today for as little as $16* ($8 for one core and $8 for 8 GB memory for one day)

Availability• Inactive resources are used for processor and memory sparing• Inactive resources can be used for free trials of new applications• Inactive resources can be used with temporary activations for emergency backup

http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/flickr-finds/flickr-

finds-diy-growth-chart-040628

* US list price at announce for Power 770 with 3.1 GHz processors and AIX


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Move up to Enterprise Class Features

Power 750

Power 770

IBM Installed

Two dedicated high speed GX++ adapter slots

Six dedicated PCI Express adapter slots

Up to 32 GB POWER7 memory per core

Up to 16 GB standard memory per core

Five PCI adapter slots (two PCI X and three PCI Express - two shared)

One high speed GX++ adapter and one standard GX adapter slots shared with two PCI Express slots

Integrated split backplane support and dedicated media controller

Client Installed

Capacity on Demand processors start at four cores


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Power Systems Commercial Portfolio – Enterprise and Express

BladeCenter

Power 750/755Express

Power 770

Power 520Express

Power 595 Enterprise systems• Extreme Performance and Scalability• Highest memory and I/O bandwidths• Capacity on Demand• Hot-node Add & Repair• Greatest Redundancy• POWER7 Memory• System Upgrades• CE setup & service• Granularity of capacity

Express systems• Choice – AIX, i, and/or Linux• Flexibility – Rack, Tower, Blades• Industrial Strength Virtualization

Power 780


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RAS Item Power 750 Power 770 Power 780

Redundant / Hot Swap Fans & Blowers

Hot Swap DASD / Media / PCI Adapters

Concurrent Firmware Update

Redundant / Hot Swap Power Supplies

Dual disk controllers (split backplane)

Processor Instruction Retry

Alternate Processor Recovery

Storage Keys

PowerVM™/Live Partition Mobility/Live Application Mobility

Redundant Service Processors * *

Redundant System Clocks * *

Redundant / Hot Swap Power Regulators

Dynamic Processor Sparing

Memory Sparing

Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair

Hot-node Add / Cold-node Repair * *

Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add * *

POWER7 Enhanced Memory

Dynamic Service Processor and System Clock Failover * *

Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add for all nodes** * *

Hot GX Adapter Repair

Move up to enterprise class RAS OptionalStandard

Not available

* Requires two or more nodes** Planned for 4Q 2010


IBM Power Systems


Two really are better than one!

Availability with two nodes• Redundant service processors with dynamic failover• Redundant system clocks with dynamic failover• Additional inactive processors for sparing• Additional inactive memory for sparing• Allows for continued use if one node fails• Hot-node Repair available

Performance with two nodes• More memory bandwidth• More I/O bandwidth• Easier growth with CoD• Use for balancing workload from other systems• Dynamic Energy Optimization assists in maintaining energy efficiency

High-availability with two systems• Use two systems with PowerHA SystemMirror for high-availability• Use Live Partition Mobility for workload balancing and availability during

service or upgrades

x2 2


IBM Power Systems


“…we would have a disk go bad on a Friday night. No one would have known

it had happened except for the fact that Electronic Service Agent™ called out

and we got a call back from IBM alerting us to

the problem. That protection alone, the risk prevention factor, makes

the product hugely valuable to us."

Hang up your phone and let your systems do the talking

Benefits: System contacts IBM Support for you Immediately uploads error logs Faster diagnosis and time to repair Improved availability for your systems Customized maintenance information End to end, automated, closed loop support

process Complimentary installation for P6 570 and P6 595

Features: Automatic reporting for your IBM Systems Secure, encrypted transmission to IBM Support Inventory at your fingertips Enables IBM Electronic Services Built into the HMC, AIX and IBM i for easy

installation

Nick Gimben,Sr. Systems Admin,Fossil Inc.

Power = Support + Automation


IBM Power Systems


What’s in it for me?

High availabilitySecure, 24x7 proactive monitoring: downtime avoidance

Less personnel time gathering information and reporting problems

Accurate fixesFaster on-site response with parts, location, and problem information

Automatic sending of system logs for problem determination and resolution

Enables proactive toolsMy Notifications: customized, proactive recommendations

Performance Management: manage system capacityMy Systems: compare firmware levels across your datacenter


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“We recently completed an analysis of ESA onPOWER6 processor-based Power 595 systems.One finding was dramatic: clients who didn’tactivate ESA account for 70 percent of unexpectedmachine outages.”

Ross MauriGeneral ManagerIBM Power Systems


IBM Power Systems


“ESA and Call Home follow the industry norms for protecting data during network transport by using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. It also protects Call Home / IBM Support accounts by generating unique passwords for these accounts.

Call Home uses protected channels (e.g. TLS, VPN) to transfer data from the HMC to IBM Support. The channels provide confidentiality and integrity protection of the data sent between the two entities.”

Proven SecurityNo customer business data transmitted to IBMConnectivity Methods

Internet, VPN, Dial-up Proxy & authenticating firewall support

Security Protocols https (SSL and TLS) 128 bit encryption; uses

keys, certificates and tokens Secure storage

System information stored in secure database behind 2 firewalls accessible by you with a protected password

Accessible only by authorized IBM Support Representatives

Atsec Information Security Corp.

Oct 2008 assessment

Did you know?

3,344 banks worldwide use Electronic Service Agent… because it’s secure.

•11 million+ secure transactions per month

•300 million+ total transactions


IBM Power Systems


Power 750 Power 755 Power 770 Power 780

Nodes One One Up to four Up to fourCores

(single system image)6, 12, 18, 24 or

8, 16, 24, 3232 4 – 64 4 – 64

Frequency3.0, 3.3, 3.55

GHz3.3 GHz 3.1, 3.5 GHz 3.8, 4.1 GHz

SMP buses 4 byte 4 byte 8 byte 8 byte

System memory Up to 512 GB Up to 256GB Up to 2 TB* Up to 2 TB*

Memory per core 16 or 21 GB 8GB 32 or 42 GB 32 or 64 GB

Memory Bandwidth (peak) 273 GB/s 273 GB/s 1088 GB/s 1088 GB/s

Memory Bandwidth per core (peak)

8.5 GB/s 8.5 GB/s 17 or 22 GB/s 17 or 34 GB/s

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

I/O Bandwidth (peak) 30 GB/s 30 GB/s 236 GB/s 236 GB/s

I/O Bandwidth per core (peak)

0.9GB/s 0.9GB/s 3.6 or 4.9 GB/s 3.6 or 7.3 GB/s

rPerf per core Up to 11 Up to 11 Up to 11 Up to 13

Maximum LPARs Up to 320* 1 Up to 640* Up to 640*

RAS Standard Standard

P7 Enhanced Memory

Dynamic FSP & clocks

P7 Enhanced Memory

Dynamic FSP & clocks

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

PowerCare No No No Yes

IBM Power Systems Comparisons

* Planned availability in 4Q 2010


IBM Power Systems


POWER7 High-end Server

Massive throughput, performance and scalability in a new POWER7 high-end system with up to 256 POWER7 processors and support for up to 1,000 partitions

Large-scale consolidation of energy-wasting, under-utilized servers onto an energy-efficient high-end POWER7 system running AIX, i and/or Linux applications

Improve infrastructure resilience – Enterprise Power Systems & Software are engineered to deliver the highest levels of Power Architecture™ reliability, availability & serviceability

Enable rapid service delivery – Industry-leading virtualization and Capacity on Demand for processors and memory help provide seamless, non-disruptive growth

Upgrades from Power 595 will enable clients to leverage their investment in POWER6 systems to deploy POWER7 performance, scalability and efficiency within their enterprise

Delivering extraordinary scalability, performance and availability for Data Centers with the most demanding Unix, Linux and i applications


IBM Power Systems


Power is the innovation that will fuel the growth in 2010

Power is effortlessly balancing hundreds of workloads

Power is operating at over 90% utilization

Power is Management with Automation

Power is Intelligent Energy Optimization

Power is Virtualization without Limits

Power is Resiliency without Downtime


IBM Power Systems


Backup


IBM Power Systems


IBM Power 780 comparisons

System Name Cores ChipsCores /

ChipThreads /

Core Peak Published WattagePerformance

per wattPerformance

per coreIBM Power 780 64 8 8 4 2530 February 2010 6,400 395.31 39.53HP Integrity Superdome 64 32 2 1 824 October 2006 12,196 67.56 12.88HP Integrity Superdome 128 64 2 1 1648 September 2006 24,392 67.56 12.88Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 256 64 4 4 2586 October 2009 44,800 57.72 10.10

SPECint_rate2006 Results

Performance per watt is calculated by dividing the performance in the table above by the recommended maximum power for site planning. Actual power used by the systems will be less than this value for all of the systems. The maximum power requirement for the Power 780 is 6,400 Watts and is available at http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss - search for Power 780.

Power consumption figures of 6400 W for the IBM Power 780, 12,196 W / 24,392 W for the HP Superdome and 44,800 W for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 were based on the maximum rates published by IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems, respectively. The information for the HP Integrity Superdome is in “QuickSpecs HP Integrity Superdome Servers 16- processor, 32-processor, and 64- processor Systems” available at www.hp.com. The information for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 is in the "Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide" available at www.sun.com.


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IBM Power 780 comparisons

The virtualized system count and energy savings were derived from several factors:

A performance ratio factor was applied to the virtualization scenario based on SPECint_rate2006. The performance factor is simply the SPECint_rate2006 result per core of the Power 780 divided by the per core result of the HP or Sun system.

Power 780 (64-core, 8 chips, 8 cores per chip, 3.8 GHz) SPECint_rate2006 2,530 peak as of 2/8/2010. HP Superdome (64-core, 32 chips, 2 cores per chip) 1.6 GHz, SPECint_rate2006 824 peak published October 2006.Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (256-core, 64 chips, 4 cores per chip) 2.88 GHz, SPECint_rate2006 2,586 peak published October 2009. SPEC® results available at: www.spec.org

A virtualization factor of 3.157X was applied to the virtualization scenario using utilization assumptions derived from an Alinean white paper on server consolidation. The tool assumes 19% utilization of existing servers and 60% utilization of new servers. Source - www.ibm.com/services/us/cio/optimize/opt_wp_ibm_systemp.pdf.

Air conditioning power requirement estimated at 50% of system power requirement.

Energy cost of $.1031 per kWh is based on 2009 YTD US Average Retail price to commercial customers per US DOE at http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_b.html as of 1/27/2010.

The reduction in floor space, power, cooling and software costs depends on the specific customer, environment, application requirements, and the consolidation potential. Actual numbers of virtualized systems supported will depend on workload levels for each replaced system.

System data for HP from the HP Superdome Datasheet and HP Integrity Superdome Server — specifications both available at www.hp.com. System data for Sun from the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Tech Specs available at www.sun.com. Data is current as of January 27, 2010.


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The information contained in this document has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees either expressed or implied.

All examples cited or described in this document are presented as illustrations of the manner in which some IBM products can be used and the results that may be achieved. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations and conditions.

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IBM is not responsible for printing errors in this document that result in pricing or information inaccuracies.

All prices shown are IBM's United States suggested list prices and are subject to change without notice; reseller prices may vary.

IBM hardware products are manufactured from new parts, or new and serviceable used parts. Regardless, our warranty terms apply.

Any performance data contained in this document was determined in a controlled environment. Actual results may vary significantly and are dependent on many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Some measurements quoted in this document may have been made on development-level systems. There is no guarantee these measurements will be the same on generally-available systems. Some measurements quoted in this document may have been estimated through extrapolation. Users of this document should verify the applicable data for their specific environment.

Revised September 26, 2006

Special notices


IBM Power Systems


IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com AIX, AIX (logo), AIX 6 (logo), AS/400, Active Memory, BladeCenter, Blue Gene, CacheFlow, ClusterProven, DB2, ESCON, i5/OS, i5/OS (logo), IBM Business Partner (logo), IntelliStation, LoadLeveler, Lotus, Lotus Notes, Notes, Operating System/400, OS/400, PartnerLink, PartnerWorld, PowerPC, pSeries, Rational, RISC System/6000, RS/6000, THINK, Tivoli, Tivoli (logo), Tivoli Management Environment, WebSphere, xSeries, z/OS, zSeries, AIX 5L, Chiphopper, Chipkill, Cloudscape, DB2 Universal Database, DS4000, DS6000, DS8000, EnergyScale, Enterprise Workload Manager, General Purpose File System, , GPFS, HACMP, HACMP/6000, HASM, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, iSeries, Micro-Partitioning, POWER, PowerExecutive, PowerVM, PowerVM (logo), PowerHA, Power Architecture, Power Everywhere, Power Family, POWER Hypervisor, Power Systems, Power Systems (logo), Power Systems Software, Power Systems Software (logo), POWER2, POWER3, POWER4, POWER4+, POWER5, POWER5+, POWER6, POWER7, pureScale, System i, System p, System p5, System Storage, System z, Tivoli Enterprise, TME 10, TurboCore, Workload Partitions Manager and X-Architecture are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. If these and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with a trademark symbol (® or ™), these symbols indicate U.S. registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published. Such trademarks may also be registered or common law trademarks in other countries. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at "Copyright and trademark information" at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml

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Revised February 9, 2010

Special notices (cont.)


IBM Power Systems


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 reseller 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 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 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 March 12, 2009

Notes on benchmarks and values


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Revised March 12, 2009

Notes on HPC benchmarks and values

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 reseller 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 or AIX 5L were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2000, 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.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 STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ Fluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm TOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/ AMBER http://amber.scripps.edu/ FLUENT http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/index.htm GAMESS http://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamess GAUSSIAN http://www.gaussian.com ANSYS http://www.ansys.com/services/hardware-support-db.htm

Click on the "Benchmarks" icon on the left hand side frame to expand. Click on "Benchmark Results in a Table" icon for benchmark results.ABAQUS http://www.simulia.com/support/v68/v68_performance.php ECLIPSE http://www.sis.slb.com/content/software/simulation/index.asp?seg=geoquest& MM5 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/ MSC.NASTRAN http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/prod%5Fsupport/nastran/performance/v04_sngl.cfm STAR-CD www.cd-adapco.com/products/STAR-CD/performance/320/index/html NAMD http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd HMMER http://hmmer.janelia.org/

http://powerdev.osuosl.org/project/hmmerAltivecGen2mod


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Revised April 2, 2007

Notes on performance estimatesrPerf 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 system announcement. 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

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