X86 Technology Directions

The market is moving towards IBM’s Strengths

2000-2007

  • Virtualization Research
  • 1/2 core processors
  • 1u/2u & Blades
  • SCSI/SAS Disk
  • Blade Boot from SAN/iSCSI – 35%
  • iSCSI experimentation
  • Storage Virtualization
  • 1Gb Ethernet 2g/4g SAN
  • Virtual i/o – proprietary
  • 1x InfiniBand

Current

  • Virtualization Growing
  • 2/4 Core Processors
  • Powerful Blades & x4
  • SAS/Solid State Disk – 20% ship with Solid State – expect number to increase to 50% by 2010 Solid State Disks consume 2watts which is why Mac Book Air and new Lenovo Pen Thin laptops are so nice for battery capacity – SSD cuts 87% out of local storage power
  • Blade Boot From SAN/iSCSI – 50%
  • iSCSI Deployed
  • Storage Virtualization 1Gb/10Gb
  • 4Gb SAN
  • Virtual I/O – testing
  • 4x DDR InfiniBand

2008-2010

  • Virtualization wide spread
  • 4/8/16 cores
  • Scale up blades and x4
  • Solid state disks
  • Blade Boot from SAN/iSCSI 80%
  • iSCSI over 10g
  • Storage virtualization 10gb
  • 8/12 GB San
  • Virtual I/O Production
  • 4x QDR Infiniband

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Focus

Design Solutions to meet the varied needs of our diverse clients

  • Cost points
  • Performance needs
  • Any size
  • Placement flexibility
  • Precision optimized offerings where they make sense – virtualization leadership
  • Industry leading performance/watt

Tailor IT that is built from a small set of standard parts

  • 5 chassis
  • 5 blades
  • 5 fabrics
  • Nearly unlimited combinations

Deliver leadership IO that capitalizes on bladed architecture

  • Drive new performance
  • Reduce complexity
  • Lower Costs
  • Drive partner innovation around Blade Center

The smartest storage options available

  • Local options that deliver high availability
  • Easy migration to shared storage for maximum impact

Deliver the greenest IT available

  • Super energy efficient supplies, blowers, and distribution
  • Low voltage parts – processors, memory, Solid State Drives
  • Industry leadership power management/control

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Compute Strategy

Provide a comprehensive family of products that offer customers a choice of blades optimized for specific workloads and market segments General Purpose

  • 2-socket ultra-dense blade
    • Facilitates 1U rack to blade migration, perfect for Linux and Windows migrations
    • Focus on performance/watt leadership
    • High memory performance and average memory content 32-48g memory
    • 8 ports of IO, heavy focus on high speed 10Gb support
    • High availability SSD/SAS, continued focus on true high availability compute
  • Workloads – Web 2.0/Web 3D, Email/collaboration, HPC/Cluster business compute workhorse

1CPU Blade (announced – Soon to be Generally Available (GA) Virtualization and Memory/Balanced Performance

  • Performance balanced system
    • Higher memory and io capacity to core capacity
    • Designed to simplify virtualization via hosted hyper visor
    • Heavy leverage of shard storage
    • Potentially diskless or solid state only
  • Workloads business performance computing, virtualization

Scalable SMP

  • Leadership performance targeted at MP rack migration
    • Focus on commercial and hpc workloads
    • Double wide mechanical
    • Scalable design, high core count, high memory, high io
  • Workloads – HPC modeling and simulation, dbase, erp/SCM, BI, Virtualization

Special Purpose Blades

  • Targeted specialization solutions that provide significant price/performance advantage
    • Accelerators
    • Appliance blades
  • Examples Cell (avg 20-40 times better performance than AMD and Intel in a very narrow band of applications), VisBlade(workstation blade HC10), DataPower, PEU
  • Workloads – Medical imaging/Viz, Seismic analysis, Financial modeling/analysis, Digital Video Surveillance, on-line Gaming, XML acceleration, Security

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Chassis Strategy 2010+

  • A family of chassis to meet your specific IT needs
  • A common set of industry-standard switches & io fabrics
  • Common Intel, AMD, PowerPC, workstation and Cell Broadband Engine Blades
  • BladeCenter S: Distributed locations, Small office, easy to configure
  • BladeCenter E: Best energy efficiency, best density
  • BladeCenter H: High performance
  • BladeCenter T: Ruggedized, NEBs compliant
  • IBM BladeCenter HT: Ruggedized, high performance

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The Virtualization Question: To Blade or Not to Blade

The Smarter way to deliver Virtual machines BladeCenter

  • Total infrastructure consolidation
  • Best when concerned about aggregation “to many eggs in basket”
  • Choose when OS image requires 8g or less per system
  • Low Power heat super dense
  • Balance system performance

IBM 3850m2/3950m2

  • High-end virtualization
  • Best when hosting multiple high performance vm
  • Choose when os image requires more then 8g of memory per system
  • Least number of systems to manage
  • Truly scalable perfectly balanced memory cores io

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BladeCenter S and the NEW O.E.K.

Ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into office environments

  • Includes acoustical module built into the back
  • Optional Air Filter on the front
  • Locking door for security
  • Mobile with rollers
  • 33% 4U extra room to grow
  • 110v Power
  • Incredibly quite
  • Dust Filter