| The name of the base system (platform): | IBM Power Systems |
| Developers: | IBM |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | September, 2010 |
| Last Release Date: | 2011 |
| Technology: | Server platforms |
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2016
IBM Power 780
IBM Power 780 - for large-scale consolidation of the servers supporting workloads of UNIX, IBM i and Linux.
- For servers of large databases
- For large transaction processing systems, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM)
- For creation of the complex business system including all aspects of corporate IT infrastructure.
The IBM Power 780 server is developed for consolidation of the major workloads on the basis of virtualization, provides the unique performance, availability, efficiency and virtualization. Technologies of virtualization PowerVM are provided by a possibility of permanent, dynamic redistribution of resources within all sections and operating environments, irrespective of their physical placement, for the purpose of optimization of performance and minimization of energy consumption. In one system applications AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 of Linux are supported.
IBM Power 780 also perfectly is suitable for application as the server of large databases, being the system designed for accomplishment of the major workloads, exacting to resources. Ensuring work of the most valuable IT resource of the companies – databases – is an optimal task for IBM Power 780. The server shows the highest performance during the work with different databases and different operating systems.
This new version of popular modular construction available in the configurations including up to 64 main cores of POWER7 provides higher power and efficiency. As a result performance of each system, all solution and, what is the most important, performance per watt of the consumed energy increases. The innovation design also provides almost linear scalability and a possibility of building of resources of a system without work violation that allows to gain maximum benefit from investments. The POWER7 technology, virtualization of PowerVM and Power 780 is an optimal combination for the IT environment.
| Characteristics | Advantages |
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| Leading capacity of POWER7 processors |
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| Excellent opportunities of virtualization of PowerVM |
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| characteristics of reliability Inherited from mainframes |
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| Opportunities for growth without violation of work of systems |
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| EnergyScale Technology |
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| the Innovative technology of Active Memory Expansion |
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| Support of a broad spectrum of business applications |
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| configuration Options | In one block | Max. in a system |
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| Processors | Two processor modules POWER7 with a frequency of 3.8 GHz of 8 cores in everyone or Two processor modules POWER7 with a frequency of 4.1 GHz of 4 cores in everyone | 8 processor modules POWER7 with a frequency of 3.8 GHz of 8 cores in everyone or 8 processor modules POWER7 with a frequency of 4.1 GHz of 4 cores in everyone |
| Sockets | Two | Eight |
| Cache memory of the 2nd level (L2) | 256 CBs a cache memory 2 levels on a core | 256 CBs a cache memory 2 levels (L2) on a core |
| Cache memory of the 3rd level (L3) | 4 MB a cache memory 3 levels (L3) on a core (eDRAM) or 8 MB a cache memory 3 levels (L3) on a core (eDRAM) | 4 MB a cache memory 3 levels (L3) on a core (eDRAM) or 8 MB a cache memory 3 levels (L3) on a core (eDRAM) |
| Memory | Up to 256 GB of memory of Double Data Rate (DDR) 3 with a frequency of 1066 MHz or Up to 5121 GB of memory of DDR3 with a frequency of 800 MHz | Up to 1 TB memories of DDR3 with a frequency of 1066 MHz or Up to 2 TB1 memories of DDR3 with a frequency of 800 MHz |
| Solid state drives (SSD) | Up to 6 drives SFF | Up to 24 drives SFF |
| Disk storage modules | Up to 6 drives SFF Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) | Up to 24 disks SFF SAS |
| Compartments for carriers | Один Slimline для Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) DVD-Random Access Memory (RAM) | 4 Slimline for the disks SATA DVD-RAM |
| Connectors for PCI adapters | 6 PCI Express 8x connectors | 24 PCI Express 8x connectors |
| Built-in Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter | A possibility of the choice of one of the following options on the system unit:
| A possibility of the choice of four on a system:
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| the Integrated controller of SAS | Two SAS DASD/SSD controllers One controller for SATA carriers | 8 SAS DASD/SSD controllers 4 controllers for SATA carriers |
| Other built-in ports | Three USB; two HMC; two SPCN
| 9 USB; 4 HMC; 4 SPCN | |
| GX (12X) Connectors | Two | Eight |
| expansion Options (are purchased separately – depending on the operating system) | ||
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| Expansion of a subsystem of input-output | Up to 4 sliding sections of a subsystem of input-output of PCI-e 12X Up to 8 sliding sections of a subsystem of input-output of PCI-X DDR 12X | Up to 16 sliding sections of a subsystem of input-output of PCI-e 12X Up to 32 sliding sections of a subsystem of input-output of PCI-X DDR 12X |
| High-performance PCI adapters | 8 Gigabit FC 10 GbE | |
| Other supported PCI adapters | SAS, SCSI, Wide Area Network (WAN)/Async, USB, Crypto, iSCSI | |
| Technologies of virtualization PowerVM | ||
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| POWER Hypervisor | LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (VLAN) (interaction between sections "memory memory") | |
| PowerVM Standard Edition (опция) | Micro-Partitioning technology with a possibility of creation to 10 micropartitions into each processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; VIOS; Shared Dedicated Capacity; PowerVM Lx86 | |
| PowerVM Enterprise Edition (опция)
| PowerVM Standard Edition плюс LPM3 и AMS4 | ||
| Possibilities of Capacity on Demand (option) | The option CUoD for activation of processors and/or memories The option On/Off CUoD for activation of processors and/or memories | |
| Operating systems
| AIX, IBM i и Linux for Power5 | ||
| High availability | IBM PowerHA family | |
| Energy consumption | Operating voltage: 200 V - 240 V of alternating current Energy consumption: max. 1600 W on the module | |
| Dimensions | The Power 780 block for rack-mounting:
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| Guarantee (limited) | For one year; the round-the-clock service with reaction on the same day; service on site installations (depending on the country) Service updates and service on a guarantee are available. | |
2011
IBM Power 730 Express
The IBM corporation announced in June, 2011 results of a number of key reference tests for the Linux® operating system executed on the IBM Power 730 Express server which exceeded results of the comparable competing hardware platforms working running Linux or Windows. Having higher high-speed performance counting on the server, scalabler virtualization platform at smaller costs and more effective capability to horizontal scaling of computing resources in need of control of smaller number of servers, the IBM Power Linux systems help the enterprises to implement innovations and economy of "intellectual calculations" through the improved performance.
The IBM Power Linux system with ease exceeded results of the comparable systems of Dell, HP and Oracle in the following reference tests:
- The IBM Power 730 Express system achieved the best result among all 12-core systems in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution (SD), having provided support of 5250 users of SAP SD Benchmark. [1] The IBM Power 730 Express system (2 processors, 12 cores, 48 flows) with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server OS (SLES) 11 and IBM DB2 DBMS provided support for 10% of bigger number of users of SAP SD Benchmark, than the 12-core system of HP of ProLiant DL380 G7 with SLES 11 OS. [3] The IBM Power 730 Express system also exceeded the best result of the HP ProLiant system with Windows Server 2008 OS. [3]
- According to the published results of the standard industry reference SPECint® tests_rate2006, SPECfp®_rate2006 and SPECompM®2001, the server IBM Power 730 Express system with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6 OS showed higher high-speed performance (on value from 14 to 56%), than comparable Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers, HP ProLiant and Oracle Sun. [4]
As show new results of tests, the IBM Power Linux systems are more powerful, than traditional x86 servers which are applied to accomplishment of applications of Linux. It is connected with a prize in the "net" performance which is provided by POWER7® processors, from the memory increased by capacity and also with the integrated technologies of optimization to certain workloads, such as technology of virtualization PowerVM™.
Notes
[1] Results of the IBM Power 730 system in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution (SD): 5250 users of SAP SD Benchmark, the average time of a response in a dialogue mode 0.98 seconds. Configuration: the POWER7 processor, clock rate of 3.7 GHz, (2 processors, 12 cores, 48 flows), OS SLES 11, IBM DB2 DBMS 9.7, the software package of the SAP Enhancement Package 4 expansions for SAP ERP Release 6.0. Certificate number: 2011022]
[2] Results of a system of HP of ProLiant DL380 G7 in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution (SD): 4757 users of SAP SD Benchmark, the average time of a response in a dialogue mode 0.98 seconds. Configuration: the Intel Xeon processor X5680, clock rate of 3.33 GHz, (2 processors, 12 cores, 24 flows), OS SLES 11, MaxDB 7.8 DBMS, the software package of the SAP Enhancement Package 4 expansions for SAP ERP Release 6.0. Certificate number: 2011001]
[3] Results of a system of HP of ProLiant DL380 G7 in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution (SD): 5220 users of SAP SD Benchmark, the average time of a response in a dialogue mode 0.99 seconds. Configuration: the Intel Xeon processor X5690, clock rate of 3.46 GHz, (2 processors, 12 cores, 24 flows), R2 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2008 OS, SQL Server DBMS 2008, the software package of the SAP Enhancement Package 4 expansions for SAP ERP Release 6.0. Certificate number: 2011005]
[4] More detailed information on reference tests of SAP can be obtained on the Website http://www.sap.com/benchmark. Results are valid as of June 15, 2011.]
[5] (4) As of June 8, 2011, results of the IBM Power 730 Express system (3.72 GHz, 12 cores, RHEL 6) in the reference tests SPECint_rate, SPECfp_rate, SPECompM exceeded the following results of the systems of HP, Dell and Oracle: SPECint_rate2006 test is result of the Dell PowerEdge R710 system (Intel Xeon X5690, 12 cores, 3.46 GHz) in 419 units for 14%; result of a system of HP of ProLiant DL380 G7 (Intel Xeon X5690, 12 cores, 3.46 GHz) in 418 units for 14%. SPECfp_rate2006 test is result of the Sun Fire X4270 M2 system (Intel Xeon X5690, 12 cores, 3.47 GHz) in 273 units for 54%; result of a system of HP of ProLiant DL380 G7 (Intel Xeon X5690, 12 cores, 3.47 GHz) in 270 units for 56%. The SPECompM test is result of the Sun Blade X6270 M2 system (Intel Xeon X5690, 12 cores, 3.47 GHz) in 57894 units for 37%. More detailed information on results is provided on the Website www.spec.org.]
2010
IBM POWER7
The corporation IBM announced in September, 2010 the new POWER7 systems intended for management of the most exacting workloads and perspective applications to resources. Among new products there is a powerful system of the class high-end offering considerably the best power efficiency in comparison with the competing systems from the companies HP and Oracle.
IBM also provided two developments which illustrate the continuing strengthening of positions of the company in the 13-billion market of UNIX-SYSTEMS where IBM since 2005 increased the market share on income by 14 points. Record number of clients (285) in the second quarter transferred this year the responsible workloads from the competing systems on servers and data storage devices from IBM, including: 171 clients from the systems of Oracle, and 86 clients from the systems of HP. For last four years, since start of the program of migration of IBM Migration Factory, over 2600 companies passed from competitors to the IBM Power Systems platform.
IBM Power 795 wins against Oracle/Sun and HP again
The IBM corporation announced on October 15, 2010 that the IBM Power 795 system achieved the good result of performance, from ever published, in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution (SD) with an indicator 70032 users of SAP SD Benchmark. the 128-core IBM Power 795 system showed support for 79% of bigger number of users, than the 256-core Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 system (the largest system of Oracle), and for 75% of bigger number of users in comparison with the result of 128-core cluster system of Oracle integrating four 32-core Sun Fire X4470 servers based on the Intel Xeon processor X7560 published in September parallel.
On November 23, 2010 it was reported that the 256-core IBM Power 795 system with DB2 DBMS almost twice improved a record of last month, having reached in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution (SD) of the highest result from ever published – supports of 126063 users of SAP SD Benchmark.
The system of IBM with ease exceeded results of Oracle/Sun in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of SD, having provided support more than three times more users of SAP SD Benchmark, than the 256-core Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server (the largest system of Oracle). [2] Also the result of Oracle published in September for the 128-core systems in the standard test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution-Parallel (SD-Parallel) achieved by cluster system from four 32-core Sun Fire X4470 servers with the Intel Xeon processors X7560 is exceeded. [3] The new record result of a system of IBM also more than exceeds result of a 128-core HP server of Integrity SD64B (the largest system of HP) in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of SD four times.
The IBM Power 795 systems which can support up to 256 main cores use the latest software for PowerVM virtualization, giving to clients the chance to execute more than 1000 virtual servers on one physical system. It provides significant improvement of operational efficiency and also virtualization at the levels of the server, a storage system and network – unlike the opportunities of virtualization offered VMware.
The 256-core IBM Power 795 server based on the POWER7™ processor, with AIX® 7.1 operating system, the software of DB2 9.7 database for information management and a storage system of IBM System Storage, also exceeded the own world record in the two-level test for SAP applications of SD reached last month in the 128-core Power 795 [5] configuration, having shown impressive 90%, almost linear, scaling. Besides, the new result of IBM for the first time overcame level in 500000 SAPS (SAP Application Performance Standard, "the standard of performance of SAP applications") for a single system, having shown value 688000 SAPS; this indicator characterizes capacity of a system at accomplishment of standard business operations, such, in particular, as order processing on purchase or invoices.
During the whole 2010 IBM expanded a line of the systems based on processor IBM POWER7 technology optimized for workloads. All these systems are available to acquisition now and are delivered to clients. These new systems can help clients to avoid expensive breaks and failures in operation of applications, to manage effectively huge data arrays and to gain valuable knowledge from these data. These systems can help clients with expansion of their business. Permanent investments of IBM into research and development in combination with practical experience of deployment of thousands of solutions for clients allow IBM to deliver systems with the best performance measures and cost efficiency.
[1] Configuration and results of the IBM Power 795 system in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution (SD) at accomplishment of a packet of the SAP Enhancement Package 4 expansions for SAP ERP of 6.0 (Unicode): 16 processors / 128 cores / 512 flows; POWER7 processors with clock rate of 4.0 GHz; 2048 GB of RAM; support 70032 users of SAP SD Benchmark; the average time of a response in a dialogue mode 0.93 seconds; 7686670 instructions of the command line which are completely processed within an hour; 23060000 dialogue steps per hour; 384330 SAPS; the average time of the addressing the database (dialog / updating) – 0.015 seconds / 0.028 seconds; utilization coefficient of processors of the central server – 99% at accomplishment of the software of DB2® 9.7 databases in operating environment of AIX® 7.1. Number of certification of SAP: 2010042. More detailed information can be obtained on the Website http://www.sap.com/benchmark. Results are valid as of October 7, 2010.]
[2] Configuration and results of the Sun SPARC Enterprise Server M9000 system in the standard two-level test for SAP applications of Sales and Distribution (SD) at accomplishment of SAP ERP 6.0: 64 processors / 256 cores / 512 flows; SPARC64 VII processors with clock rate of 2.52 GHz; 1024 GB of RAM; support of 39100 users of SAP SD Benchmark; software of the Oracle database 10g, Solaris 10 operating system; number of certification of SAP: 2008042.]
[3] Configuration and results of the Sun Fire X4470 system in the standard two-level test for SD-Parallel SAP applications at accomplishment of a packet of the SAP Enhancement Package 4 expansions for SAP ERP of 6.0 (Unicode): a cluster from 4 servers with 4 processors / 32 cores / 64 flows; the Intel Xeon processors X7560 with clock rate of 2.26 GHz; 256 GB of RAM; support of 40000 users of SAP SD Benchmark; software of Oracle databases 11g Real Application Cluster (RAC), Solaris 10 operating system.]
IBM Power750
Power blade servers and the upgraded Power servers are developed for management of the most exacting to computing resources by up-to-date applications which are used in scientific research, in health care, in the field of financial services. Specific requirements of these applications are connected with processing of huge number in parallel of the performed transactions and enormous amounts of data in the simultaneous analysis of this information in real time.
Besides, the new systems based on POWER7 can provide to clients higher levels of virtualization and consolidation of servers that "price/performance", to increase in power efficiency and economy of useful area of the premises allocated under the equipment of a data processing center can lead to improvement of a ratio.
Market researches show that the increasing number of clients selects IBM Power Systems™ for accomplishment of the business applications. According to analytical company IDC, in the fourth quarter 2010 of IBM increased the leadership in an UNIX®-серверов segment by 5.9 points, having reached a 53.9% market share on income and being ahead of the closest competitor taking the second position, more than for 30%.
The new and upgraded servers of the Power Systems family:
- New 16-core ultrathin (single-wide are unary width) the IBM BladeCenter® PS703 and 32 blade server the nuclear IBM BladeCenter PS704 blade server of the double standard width (double-wide) which expand for clients the choice on hardware racks. PS704 system provides a 60% performance benefit at the expense of the doubled number of main cores, occupying, at the same time, and consuming the same space of the premises as much the electric power, as well as the previous generation of blade servers with POWER7 processors. [1] New POWER7 blade-systems support more large-scale consolidation of servers with the best indicator of power efficiency.
- The advanced IBM Power 750 Express server which is the basic system of the Watson supercomputer is in addition optimized for support of the majority of resource-intensive analytical applications now. The Power 750 server is complemented with a number of options, including faster POWER7 processor providing more than triple performance benefit in comparison with 32-core servers, comparable on configurations, such as Oracle SPARC T3-2 server, and more than double performance benefit in comparison with a HP server of Integrity BL890c i2. [2]
- The advanced IBM Power 755 system is a high-performance computing cluster node in a 32-core configuration with faster POWER7 processor.
IBM also provided the new managing Systems Director Management Console console which allows administrators of data processing centers to manage blade servers and rack servers of the Power family via the unified intuitive interface uniform for the physical and virtualized server resources.
IBM Power 710, 720, 730 и 740
On September 27, 2010 it was announced release of the new systems of initial level to propose the inexpensive and simple infrastructure solutions in management optimized for accomplishment of new workloads including consolidation of IT resources, the analysis in real time, mobile applications, information management and accomplishment of the regulating regulations. New servers based on the IBM POWER7 processor allow to satisfy requirements of medium-sized companies for deployment of infrastructures.
The implemented through business partners of IBM, new servers simplify IT infrastructures, allowing the companies to consolidate a set of workloads on smaller quantity of systems for reduction of the server park, IT costs and volumes of the consumed electric power. Four Express servers — IBM Power 710, 720, 730 and 740 — can execute up to 30000 applications, providing to medium-sized companies of advantage of POWER7 technologies. Offers of IBM Express meet strict criteria concerning reliability, availability and convenience of using to provide benefits to medium-sized companies.
These servers with a high density of installation offered at the price from 6500 dollars allow to simplify as much as possible IT infrastructure and offer the amounts of RAM, options of internal storage, expansibility of a subsystem of input-output and the RAS function necessary for accomplishment of exacting workloads in the modern, quickly developing companies from the sphere of medium business. The Power 710 and Power 730 systems with one or two processor connectors, in the compact body 2U high, are ideal infrastructure servers. The Power 720 and Power 740 models with a form factor 4U intended for rack-mounting or the Tower body provide additional flexibility thanks to large volumes of RAM and resources of internal storage for the distributed applications, databases of the average size and consolidation.
Besides, IBM announced release of four new solutions of IBM i Solution Editions based on these new POWER7 Express servers. These solutions are integrated and optimized for operational deployment of ERP systems based on the software of SAP, JD Edwards, Lawson and Infor. They are specially developed for reduction of cost, complexity and time of deployment in medium-sized companies.
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