IBM z13 Hardware Innovation

Matthias R. Bangert

Executive IT-Specialist IBM z Systems, Europe

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The market is moving, forcing businesses to transform

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Explosion in transaction growth

driven by mobility and the Internet of Things

Analytics is moving to real time

to capture new opportunities at the point of impact

Hybrid cloud is the new standard

for delivering service, agility, trust and efficiency

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Introducing the z13

Removing constraints on growth through innovation

Greater Workload Performance, Capacity and Scale in the same energy footprint

40% more configurable cores (up to 141 vs 101) New built in vector facility (SIMD) for faster mathematical computation 3+ x more memory to reduce latency (10 TB vs 3 TB) New multithreading (SMT2) to expand IFL (Linux) and zIIP capacity 40% more logical partitions to securely host more cloud tenants (85 vs 60)

Resilient and Secure Growth

Designed for Highest level of Security (PR/SM EAL5+) Next Generation Hardware Cryptography

Better Economics, Flexibility and Efficiency

zKVM and GDPS virtual appliance for Linux on IBM z Systems opens the door for more Linux Standalone zBX support for more flexibility New resilient IO Infrastructure addresses Skills, Complexity, Cost and Availability Price Performance gains for Linux, zIIP, mobile and new SW workloads Investment protection with full upgradeability from z196 and zEC12 Best ever System z RAS with enhanced integrated sparing

z13: An innovative, intelligent and integrated system that provides a trusted foundation for sustainable growth today and in the future

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Performance delivered through multiple dimensions

• • • • • •

40%

more total capacity

2X

performance boost for cryptographic coprocessors

50-80%

more bandwidth per I/O domain

2X

increase in channel speed

3X

increase in memory

2X

increase in cache • Lower cloud cost • Faster fraud detection • More scale for mobile transactions • Faster data sharing between systems • Less exposure to regulatory penalties • Faster decision making with data-in-memory Hardware/ software integration leads to richer optimization © 2015 IBM Corporation 4

Integrated system design

I/O and coprocessors bring RAS, cost savings and added compute power to workloads

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Up to 141 cores on a CPC Up to 25 cores for offload system processing Plus up to 320 POWER

®

cores: I/O and Coprocessors Plus up to 322 RAS cores 24 SAPs 1 IFP

• Share up to 141 processors with up to 85 LPARS • Configure the processors as CPs, IFLs, zIIPs, or ICFs

320 I/O RAS cores 2 Spares

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Designed for transaction processing and data serving

Substantial economies of scale with

simultaneous multi-threading delivering more throughput

for Linux and zIIP-eligible workloads Cognos ® on Linux under z/VM ® could see up to 60% increase in throughput with SMT on a z13 IFL 1 Larger

caches to optimize

data serving environments

Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)

improves performance of mathematical operations and string processing.

Up to 2X

improved cryptographic performance

with enhanced Central Processor Assist for Cryptographic Functions (CPACF)

Compress more data

helping to save disk space and cut data transfer time with improved

on chip hardware compression Better and faster memory management and execution time

with new hardware instructions and functional facilities to optimize compilers New

8-core

Processor Design in

22nm Silicon Technology

with

wider instruction pipeline

1 Results are based on internal lab measurements on a 4 core configuration on a single Linux guest running under z/VM and accessing DB2 on z/OS. Results may vary significantly depending on the workload and other factors.

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Node 1

GX Bus 2x PCIe Mem DIMMs GX Bus 2x PCIe

X-Bus

PU

Fully Populated Drawer

Mem PU GX Bus 2x PCIe

S-Bus

GX Bus 2x PCIe PSI Mem PU

X-Bus

Mem PU

Node 0

GX Bus 2x PCIe PU

A-Bus A-Bus

Mem Mem

To other drawers To other drawers Physical node:

(Two per drawer) 

Chips

– Three PU chips (with up to 8 active cores each) – One SC chip (480 MB L4 cache) 

RAIM Memory

– Three Memory Controllers: One per CP Chip – Five DDR3 DIMM slots per Controller: 15 total per logical node – Populated DIMM slots: 20 or 25 per drawer 

SC and CP Chip Interconnects

– – –

X-bus: SC and CPs to each other (intra node) S-bus: SC to SC chip in the (intra drawer) A-bus: SC to SC chips in the remote drawers (intra box)

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z13 Drawer Structure and Interconnect

Node 1 Node 0

Drawer

Node 1 Node 0

Drawer

Node 1 Node 0

Drawer

Node 1 Node 0

Drawer

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SIMD Exploitation

Integer Ops Floating Point Ops String Ops Mathematical Optimization Large Matrix Math FP, String, Int String, Int Large String Ops Predictive IT Analytics Adv Security/ Crypto Security/ Crypto Next Best Action Competitive Algorithms What will happen next?

Business Intelligence Reporting Next Generation DW Traditional Algorithms Small Matrix Math Small Compress Small Sort Traditional IT Analytics Data Warehousing (DW) Large Compress Small String Ops Data Intensity Big Sort Big Scan

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Simultaneous Multi Threading (SMT)

Two Threads, One core

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Why only 50?

50

Well that‘s why !!!

Which approach is designed for the highest volume of traffic? Which road is faster?

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Application Serving – SSL Enabled Day Trader 3.0

2.62x improvement in throughput with IBM Java 8 and IBM z13

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More memory makes a difference

Enable totally new types of applications

Perform faster table scans with in memory data for faster response time; reduce CPU by avoiding IO, make possible new types of analysis

Support modern memory heavy computing languages and architectures

Larger Java ® heaps without an increase in paging Improves IBM MQSeries ® V8 ability to manage increasing messaging volumes generated by today's mobile and cloud applications

Accommodate growing workloads without changes to applications to gain benefits

Run sorts using large memory to improve elapsed times Keep the entire Cognos Dynamic Cubes end-to end application online for faster decision making Reduce need to fine tune memory and leverage the tuning capabilities in DB2®, IMS™ and CICS®

DB2 Buffer Pool simulator tool available as a DB2 (V11) deliverable. Provides an accurate benefit estimation of increasing buffer pool size for DB2.

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Resilient and intelligent I/O

New FICON Express16S links reduce latency for workloads such as DB2

Reduce up to 43% of DB2 write operations with IBM zHyperWrite

– technology for DS8000 ® and z/OS for Metro Mirror environment

First system to use a standards based approach for enabling Forward Error Correction for a complete end to end solution

Clients with multi-site configurations can expect I/O service time improvement when writing data remotely which can

benefit GDPS or TPC-R HyperSwap

®

Optimized for enterprise-scale data from multiple platforms and devices

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Extend z/OS workload management policies into SAN fabric

to manage the network congestion New Easy Tier ® API removes requirement from application/administrator to manage hardware resources

Improved and predictable performance for mission critical environments

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Specialty engines expand the use of the mainframe

While lowering the cost of ownership

zIIP*

•

Relieves

central processors of running specific workloads • Optimized for strategic web based applications with support for

Java and XML

processing • Focused on data and supporting workloads can help data

connect, manage, extend, and protect

IFLs and Enterprise Linux Server

• Special engine dedicated to

Linux workloads

on z Systems servers •

IT optimization and cloud computing

can deliver enhanced economics • Attractively priced and supported by the z/VM virtualization, the IBM Wave virtualization management and the Linux operating system

Coupling Facility

• CF allows multiple processors to access the same data • New with z13 is support for 256 CHPIDs (2X available on zEC12) •

New PCIe

based short range coupling links

zIIP and IFLs get throughput increase with simultaneous multithreading

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Linux on z Systems means an enterprise grade Linux solution

While “Linux is Linux”, z Systems server and virtualization technologies provide an enhanced Linux solution

Having an enterprise grade Linux solution brings:

• IT simplicity to run hundreds of workloads on one server • Workload integration of new and existing enterprise data and applications • Virtualization management for easy and flexible server provisioning • High productivity through efficient life cycle management • High utilization of shared resources

Linux on z Systems provides security, availability, and scalability to deploy and consolidate a variety of workloads

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Reinventing enterprise IT for digital business

Designed for data and transaction serving for the

mobile

generation Designed for integrating transactions and

analytics

for insight at the point of impact Designed for efficient and trusted

cloud

services to transform the economics of IT

The trusted enterprise platform for integrating Data, Transactions and Insight!

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Thank You

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