IBM Power Systems

Scale Out Servers

Cloud-ready servers built for

mission-critical applications
 Power Systems Product Portfolio
POWER9 servers and solutions are built to crush today’s most advanced data applications …
from the mission critical applications you run today to the next generation of AI workloads

Mission Critical Workloads Big Data Workloads Enterprise AI Workloads

Entry Mid Enterprise
S922/S914/S924 E950 E980 LC922/LC921 AC922
H922/H924/L922 Q3 2018 Q3 2018 Q2 2018 Q4 2017
Q1 2018

Core Infrastructure Next Gen AI Workloads

 Private Cloud Secure by Designed for
Ready Design Mission Critical
Future- Applications
forward
infrastructure

Built-in PowerVM
virtualization, IBM
POWER9-based Power
Systems are cloud-ready, The ideal foundation Delivered secure for Performance and value
enabling you to deploy for deploying a cloud mission-critical data. for mission-critical
the right cloud strategy. applications like SAP
environment to meet HANA, Oracle, Db2,
your organization’s as well as noSQL and
needs. SQL open source
(MongoDB, MariaDB,
and others) databases.
Private
Cloud Built-in Up to 4TB of Infrastructure
Ready PowerVM Memory for IBM Cloud
Private
Superior virtualization Data intensive IBM Cloud Private
density for higher workloads love delivers a full cloud
utilization and more memory and POWER9 stack and POWER9
predictable response delivers up to 4TB per provides the high
time. server – allowing performance
applications to scale infrastructure to
higher. support the most
demanding workloads.
Bucking the public cloud trend to improve performance and reduce costs
When delivering solutions to the healthcare industry, high reliability and fast, consistent
performance are an absolute necessity. By migrating its platform from cloud-based services to
private cloud, on-premise infrastructure based on IBM solutions, CipherHealth achieved huge
gains in performance, improved reliability, and dramatically reduced costs.

50%+ 88% Eliminated

“We see IBM Power
reduction in monthly drop in time for data deviations in Systems delivering
costs on infrastructure preparation (ETL) performance variability 5x the capabilities of
processes, allowing our previous cloud-
for real time big hosted infrastructure
data processing
at half the price.”
Secure and
available by Secure by Cloud Always
design Default Availability ON!

Pre-loaded with Increase availability Stay online 24/7 with

firmware and operating with integrated RAS and high
system security workload mobility, availability features.
patches that mitigate rapid capacity
known Meltdown and expansion and
Spectre vulnerabilities. disaster recovery
capabilities.
HR Group - Delivering instant sales and stock analytics with SAP HANA on IBM
Power Systems. By migrating SAP HANA to the IBM Power Systems platform,
HR Group accelerated key analytics processes, delivering near-instant insight
into market trends at lower operational costs.

“Having all of our SAP

Near-instant 60% faster Optimizes applications on the
insight into market Business processes SAP system landscape single, highly reliable
trends to respond with half the to reduce cost and IBM Power Systems
fast to shifting processor cores increase reliability server platform helps
retail demand us standardize
systems management
and increase
productivity within the
IT team. “
Mission
Critical High High Accelerated
Applications Scalability Availability Interfaces
Take advantage of Increase availability Smart acceleration
4TB in-memory, 2 with integrated enabled by CAPI
sockets and 12 workload mobility, technologies to
cores/socket for rapid capacity improve data
database workloads expansion and processing speeds.
(Db2, HANA, Oracle, disaster recovery
MongoDB, and more). capabilities.
UOL Group - Opens the door to more holistic reporting and higher productivity. In the
face of competitive pressures in the retail and hospitality industries, UOL Group uses
SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA running on state-of-the-art IBM Power Systems
servers to facilitate analysis of data from its shopping malls, offices and hotels.

⇧30% 65% cut 50% savings

“We felt that IBM
in performance: in energy on space: offered a
drives rapid insight for consumption: helps helps the company combination of
decision-makers the company pursue a postpone reliability,
greener approach to IT enlargements to its performance and
data center value for money.”
Evolving from Compute Systems to Cognitive Systems
Dev Ecosystem

Industry Alignment Not Just About Hardware Design

Partnerships

Open Frameworks It’s about co-optimization

IBM Software
software

P8 P9 P10 hardware
+
Open Accelerator which just works for mission critical applications
Interfaces
Accelerator Roadmaps
POWER9 processor

~1TB/s
BW into chip
7TB/s
on chip
BW

The entire US Library Of Congress

can be processed on a POWER9
core chip in just over 1 second.
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POWER9 processor
Others
PCIe Gen3
1 st
chip
with PCIe4
~1TB/s
BW into chip
7TB/s POWER9
on chip
BW 2x faster
PCIe Gen4

State of the Art I/O

and Acceleration
Attachment Signaling
PCIe Gen 4 x 48 lanes
192 GB/s duplex bandwidth
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 More than one
POWER9 processor transistor for every
person on the planet
1st chip

~1TB/s
with PCIe4
4GHZ
7TB/s
BW into chip PEAK
FREQUENCY

on chip
BW
8
BILLION
TRANSISTORS

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POWER9 processor
1st chip

~1TB/s
with PCIe4
4GHZ
7TB/s
BW into chip PEAK
FREQUENCY

on chip
BW 8
BILLION

>15 TRANSISTORS
>24B
MILES OF VIAS Innovation that makes a
WIRE
17 difference for mission
critical applications
LEVELS OF
METAL

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POWER9 processor POWER9 vs.
x86 Xeon SP (Skylake)

1 st
chip
2x 1 performance
per core

~1TB/s
with PCIe4
4GHZ 2.6x 2 more RAM
per socket
7TB/s
BW into chip PEAK
FREQUENCY

1.8x
on chip 3
memory bandwidth
BW 8 per socket
BILLION

>15 TRANSISTORS
>24B POWER9 with NVLink
vs. x86 Xeon
MILES OF VIAS
WIRE
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9.5x 4 CPU to accelerator
LEVELS OF bandwidth
METAL

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Industry leading 2-socket vs x86. Designed to meet highest performance and
security needs, within a dense form factor, and a memory footprint up to 4TB.

S914 L922 S922 S924

• 1-socket, 4U / Tower • 1,2-socket, 2U • 1,2-socket, 2U • 1,2-socket, 4U

• 4, 6 and 8 cores • 8,10, and 12 cores • 4, 8, and 10 cores • 8, 10, and 12 cores
per socket per socket per socket per socket
• 1TB memory • 4TB memory • 4TB memory • 4TB memory

• AIX, IBM i, & Linux • Linux only • AIX, IBM i, & Linux • AIX, IBM i, & Linux
• PowerVM • PowerVM • PowerVM • PowerVM
Evolving from Compute Systems to Cognitive Systems
Dev Ecosystem

Industry Alignment Not Just About Hardware Design

Partnerships

Open Frameworks It’s about co-optimization

IBM Software
software

P8 P9 P10 hardware
+
Open Accelerator which just works for mission critical applications
Interfaces
Accelerator Roadmaps

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 H922 H924

• 1,2-socket, 2U • 2-socket, 4U
• 4, 8, and 10 cores • 8, 10, and 12 cores
Optimized for SAP HANA in- per socket per socket
memory database workloads • 4TB memory • 4TB memory

Up to 2-socket, 12 cores per socket with • Linux • Linux

4TB memory for SAP HANA workloads • Max. 25% of cores Max. 25% of cores
for AIX or IBM i for AIX or IBM i

Highly flexible systems with

best in class virtualization
Consolidate workloads to
reduce data center footprint 1.3x more memory capacity than x86 Xeon
SP (Skylake) 2-socket platform

Only 2-socket Scale-out SAP HANA system

(TDI5 or Appliance) with 4TB of memory
Mission Critical Databases
Guess what?
In memory databases…love memory!
With 4TB of memory in a 2U form factor,
POWER9 runs in-memory databases
better than anyone else
Just as important, databases love high
bandwidth and large caches. POWER9
delivers 1.8x more bandwidth than x86
“I was asked to help one of our analysts
who gave up on something he was
executing across a billion records,
because after 3 hours, the answer didn’t
come back. We took that query (which
involved a big join) & ran it on Db2 with
BLU Acceleration and it finished in 10
seconds — 1080x faster.”
Randy Wilson
Lead Db2 DBA
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 Leading Open Source Technologies
Available and Optimized for Linux on Power

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 Details on benchmarks in speaker notes.

Don’t rip & replace existing infrastructure to transform a business

put data intensive workloads on the servers that were born to run them

68% 112% 84%

more operations more operations more virtual machines
per dollar per dollar for per dollar
virtualized environments

40% 74%
better performance 62% more throughput per
per system more operations per dollar dollar in a virtualized
for single image configuration for Cloud

on average IBM Power Systems deliver

80% more performance per dollar vs. x86-based servers
 Transaction Processing
Intel Xeon Skylake
POWER9 S924 Platinum 8180

126.2 tps per $K 51.8 tps per $K

2.43x better price

performance

32,221 tps (24 cores) (56 cores) 21,888 tps

3.4x per core

performance
Details on benchmarks in speaker notes.
 Data Warehousing
Intel Xeon SP
POWER9 L922 Platinum 8168

3.74 QphH per $K 1.53 QphH per $K

2.44x better price

performance

3064 QphH (20 cores) (48 cores) 2891 QphH

2.54x per core

performance
Details on benchmarks in speaker notes.
 IBM Cloud Private
Intel Xeon SP
POWER9 L922 Gold 6130

203.1 tps per $K 122.5 tps per $K

1.66x better price

performance

36,566 tps (16 cores) (32 cores) 39,312 tps

1.86x per core

performance
Details on benchmarks in speaker notes.
Excitement for POWER9 Client POWER9
“POWER9 will help Mark III clients realize the true Advocacy Innovation
benefits of AI today by enabling a speedy, agile workflow
for creating and iterating AI models that run at the speed
of digital businesses today.”
– Andy Lin, Mark III
Industry leading NPS The only processor
specifically designed
for the AI era.
“POWER9 will propel the IBM i platform into the
future. It will take software like our 3D configurator
to another level by combining it with artificial
intelligence and provide new insights.”
- Koen Decorte, CD Invest

“POWER9 is an absolute beast when it

comes to moving data, a critical point for
AI-processes.”
- Charles King, Pund-IT Inc.

“With the new POWER9 technology, I expect to achieve

better performance, keep the same enterprise standards of
availability and reduce maintenance costs.”
– Dmitry Mironov, Raiffeisenbank
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Transition Map to POWER9 from Midrange & High-end Systems
(Step 1) POWER8 (Step 2) POWER9
POWER7+
POWER7
Power Enterprise Pools & Mobile COD Power Enterprise Pools
& Mobile COD
2:1 Capacity Reset to Mobile COD
Model Upgrade MES
Power 795
9119-FHB Model Upgrade MES
Power 780
9179-MHD 2::1 Capacity Reset

POWER9
Power E880C
eset 9080-MHE High-end
pacity R
2::1 Ca
Power 780
9179-MHB
9179-MHC
Model Upgrade MES Model Upgrade MES
Power 770
9117-MMD 2:1 Capacity Reset
POWER9
Power E870C High-end
set
acity Re 9080-MME
2::1 Cap
Power 770
9179-MMB Box Swap
9117-MMC 2:1 Capacity Reset
Power E850C POWER9
Power 750 8408-44E Midrange
8233-E8B
8408-E8D

IBM Internal and Business Partners

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POWER9 Processor

redesigned core provides improved efficiency

and workload alignment with market needs
POWER9 Processor Family

Core Count / Size

SMT8 Core SMT4 Core
SMP scalability 12 SMT8 Cores / Chip 24 SMT4 Cores / Chip
Memory subsystem PowerVM Ecosystem Linux Ecosystem
Continuity Optimized
Scale-Out – 2 Socket Optimized
Robust 2 socket SMP system
Direct Memory Attach
• Up to 8 DDR4 ports
• Up to 170 GB/s memory
bandwidth
• Commodity packaging form factor
Scale-Up – 4+-Socket Optimized
Scalable System Topology /
Capacity
• Large multi-socket
Buffered Memory Attach
• 8 Buffered channels
• Up to 230 GB/s memory
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Understanding Power X – the first Y – the 2nd
Systems server naming number in the number in the
server name name represents
represents the the number of
AXYZ POWER version: sockets:
• 7 = POWER7
• 8 = POWER8 e.g. : S924 has 2
• 9 = POWER9 sockets while the L914
has one socket

A – the first letter in the offering Z – the final number in the name
name is set to the type of server: refers to the height of the server in
• LC = Linux only server U
• H = SAP HANA optimized server
• AC = Accelerated Computing server
(focused on AI workloads)
• S = Scale Out server e.g.: the S924 is 4U high while the AC922 is 2U
• E = Enterprise scale up server high
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