ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced the new IBM Power E1080 server, the first in a
new family of servers based on the new IBM Power10 processor,
designed specifically for hybrid cloud environments. The IBM
Power10-equipped E1080 server is engineered to be one of the most
secured server platforms and is designed to help clients operate a
secured, frictionlessiii hybrid cloud experience across
their entire IT infrastructure.
The IBM Power E1080 server is launching at a critical time for
IT. As organizations around the world continue to adapt to
unpredictable changes in consumer behaviors and needs, they need a
platform that can deliver their applications and insights securely
where and when they need them. The IBM Institute of Business
Value's 2021 CEO Study found that, of the 3,000 CEOs surveyed, 56%
emphasized the need to enhance operational agility and flexibility
when asked what they'll most aggressively pursue over the next two
to three yearsiv.
Many see the answer to this need in a hybrid cloud computing
model, which combines on-premises resources with cloud-based
infrastructure and can offer up to 2.5x greater value than a public
cloud-only approachv. However not all hybrid cloud
models are designed equally.
"When we were designing the E1080, we had to be cognizant of how
the pandemic was changing not only consumer behavior, but also our
customer's behavior and needs from their IT infrastructure," said
Dylan Boday, VP of Product
Management for AI and Hybrid Cloud. "The E1080 is IBM's first
system designed from the silicon up for hybrid cloud environments,
a system tailor-built to serve as the foundation for our vision of
a dynamic and secure, frictionless hybrid cloud experience."
The new IBM E1080 was designed to introduce several key features
including:
- Enhancements for hybrid cloud like planned
industry-first, by the minute metering of Red Hat software
including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 4.1x
greater OpenShift containerized throughput per core vs x86-based
serversvi, and architectural consistency and cloud-like
flexibility across the entire hybrid cloud environment to drive
agility and improve costs without application refactoring.
- New hardware-driven performance improvements that
deliver up to 50% more performance and scalability than its
predecessor the IBM Power E980vii, while also reducing
energy use and carbon footprint of the E980, allowing customers to
do more with less. The E1080 also features four matrix math
accelerators per core, enabling 5x faster inference performance as
compared to the E980viii.
- New security tools designed for hybrid cloud
environments including transparent memory encryption so there
is no additional management setup, 4x the encryption engines per
core, allowing for 2.5x faster AES encryption as compared to the
IBM Power E980ix, and security software for every level
of the system stack.
- A robust ecosystem of ISVs, Business Partners, and
support to broaden the capabilities of the IBM Power E1080 and
how customers can build their hybrid cloud environment, including
record-setting performance for SAP® applications in an
8-socket systemii. IBM is also launching a new tiered Power Expert
Care service to help clients as they protect their systems against
the latest cybersecurity threats while also providing hardware and
software coherence and higher systems availability.
Frictionlessiii Hybrid Cloud Experience
Drives Modernization on IBM Power E1080
The IBM Power E1080
server helps deliver on the customer demand for a frictionless
hybrid cloud experience, with architectural consistency across the
entire hybrid cloud estate to simplify management and seamlessly
scale applications to meet the dynamic needs of today's world.
"We have been long time IBM Power users and are looking forward
to being one of the first organizations to test the new IBM
Power10-based E1080 system with our mission-critical applications,"
said Klaus Fehlker at Finanz
Informatik. "The new server addresses our demands to continue
delivering our services at scale with high resiliency requirements,
including new levels of security and improved energy-efficiency. We
are also keen to see how the new features can accelerate our
journey to hybrid cloud and the infusion of AI into our business
applications."
When leveraging an IBM Power10-based server, like the E1080,
with the cloud-based IBM Power Virtual Server in a hybrid cloud
format, the architectural consistency across resources means the
often-bespoke mission-critical applications that tend to reside
on-premises can be moved into the cloud as workloads and needs
demand. This is designed to help clients avoid the prohibitive
costs and time required associated with refactoring for a different
architecture.
The IBM Power E1080 also has the capability to scale instantly
with Power Private Cloud for Dynamic Capacity, allowing users to
scale up and down with unused CPU capacity as needed and only pay
extra for the additional resources they used. This can help improve
operational efficiency and flexibility while avoiding server sprawl
and lengthy procurement processes by bringing a cloud-like payment
model to the datacenter.
Further enhancing the cloud-like economics for local hardware,
the IBM Power E1080 is the first on-premises system planned to
support metering by the minute for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and Red Hat OpenShift, extending capabilities already available on
IBM Power Virtual Server. Together, this is designed for even
greater customer control of when, how, and where their applications
are deployed.
"Red Hat has long been committed to delivering choice to our
customers, a critical component in how these organizations approach
open hybrid cloud deployments. Our collaboration with IBM on
Power10 will serve as a continuation of this commitment to support
a broad range of architectures," said Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president,
Platforms Business Group, Red Hat. "As an architectural foundation
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift deployments
on-premises metering, IBM Power will offer the scale and
flexibility to help customers realize the benefits of open hybrid
cloud."
Through the close synergy with Red Hat, the IBM Power E1080
offers 4.1x greater OpenShift containerized throughput per core vs
compared x86-based serversvi, allowing for more
workloads to be deployed simultaneously within a single system.
The Power of Ten for Efficiency, Security, and Enterprise
AI
The IBM Power E1080 server is built around the
revolutionary IBM Power10 processor. Designed by IBM and
manufactured by Samsung using 7nm EUV process technology, IBM
Power10 is IBM's first commercially available 7nm processor.
With IBM Power10 at the heart of the system, the IBM Power E1080
server can deliver up to 30% more performance per core and over 50%
better total capacity at the socket and system level as compared to
the previous generation IBM Power E980 servervii. This
translates to 33% lower energy consumption for the same workload on
the IBM Power E1080 as compared to the IBM Power E980x,
giving customers the platform to consolidate workloads and save on
hardware and software costs. For example, an IBM Power customer
projected that they could consolidate an industry-standard
transactional database running across 126 x86-based servers down to
two IBM Power E1080 servers. This projection would translate to an
80% reduction in server energy use and a 70% reduction in per-core
software licenses for the customer.
IBM Power10 also provides new enhancements for securing
consolidated workloads. The Power10 processor has the capability to
scale with transparentxi memory encryption, which is
designed to simplify and support end-to-end security without
impacting performance. Compared to IBM Power9, accelerated
encryption performance is enabled by IBM Power10 having 4x the
number of encryption engines per core, and translates into a 2.5x
faster per core performance for AES encryption compared to the
previous generation of IBM Power serversix.
IBM offers security control solutions at every level of the
system stack, from the foundational hardware like the processor and
memory, to key software like the operating system, hypervisor, and
applications. The E1080 uses IBM PowerVM as its built-in
hypervisor, which has significantly fewer Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures (CVE) than competitive hypervisors as catalogued by
the US Government National Institute of Standards and Technology's
National Vulnerabilities Database (NVD)xii .
Finally, the IBM Power E1080 server and Power10 processor bring
new enterprise AI capabilities right to where the data resides, on
the server. IBM Power10's four Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA)
engines per core that can drive up to 5x improvements for AI
inference as compared to the IBM Power E980 serverviii.
While the new increased MMAs provide hardware-focused improvement,
the IBM Power E1080 also supports bring-your-own-model capabilities
with IBM Auto-AI and "no-code" tools. The IBM Power E1080 also
supports the Open Neural Network Exchange, or ONNX. Trained AI
models available on ONNX, using some of the most popular frameworks
like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and more, can be deployed on the IBM
Power E1080 from x86-based servers with no code changes
required.
Ecosystem of ISVs and Channel Partners Enhance Capabilities
for IBM Power E1080 and IBM Power10
The new IBM Power10
family is supported by a wide range of ISVs, IBM Business Partners,
and other external stakeholders that recognize the value of the new
platform's capabilities for their customers.
Leveraging the SAP Application Performance Standard values
benchmark, which measures performance for key SAP applications, the
IBM Power E1080 has set a record for an 8-socket system, achieving
over 174,000 2-tier benchmark users, 40% greater than the closest
x86-based platformxiv.
"The IBM Power10-based E1080 is an ideal platform for clients
looking to modernize by running SAP applications in hybrid cloud
environments," said Lalit Patil,
CTO, Enterprise Cloud Services & HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAP.
"With the E1080's record-setting SAPS benchmark score, we look
forward to continuing to expand our relationship with IBM to better
serve our mutual customers."
In addition to SAP, several other ISVs that provide a wide range
of services including databases, secure medical records processing,
security, AI, and more have announced support for IBM Power10. To
read more of their perspectives on this new announcement, please go
to:
http://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/innovating-with-isv-partners/
To help these services get into the hands of customers, IBM is
working closely with our channel partners so that they can work
closely with customers and build solutions that work for them.
"As one of the leading IBM Power Business Partners in
Europe, we recognize the
differentiated value that IBM Power can deliver to our customers,"
said Udo Sachs, Head of Competence
Center for Power Systems at SVA. "In addition to increased
performance, the IBM Power10-based E1080 server is designed to help
our clients take their core business applications to new levels of
security and allow for much more energy efficiency. Both are very
critical issues for our customers in today's world."
IBM is taking orders for the IBM Power E1080 now, with shipments
expected to begin before the end of the month. IBM is also
introducing Power Expert Care, which offers a tiered approach to
service including Advanced and Premium Expert Care tiers. The
simple service tiers and pricing facilitate straight-forward
support options for the IBM Power E1080 server, and additional
add-ons such as hardware and software system health checks and
regular security updates are designed to ensure that the systems
stay protected against the latest cybersecurity threats, while also
providing software and hardware coherence and higher systems
availability.
Read more from IBM Power General Manager Ken King on this announcement, here:
http://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/announcing-ibm-power-e1080-engineered-for-agility/.
For more information please visit:
http://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power/power10.
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i SPECInt Math: (Power10 2170 peak /120 core)/(1620
peak/224 cores)=2.5
Max System SPECint IBM Power E1080 (3.55-4,0 GHz, Power10) 120
Cores, 8 CPUs SPECint Score 2170 per CPU Score 271.25 per Core
Score 18.08 Date: Audit submitted. Max System SPECint Hewlett
Packard Enterprise Superdome Flex 280 (2.90 GHz, Intel Xeon
Platinum 8380H) 224 Cores, 8 CPUs Intel Xeon Platinum 8380H Speed
2900 Mhz SPECint Score 1620.00 per CPU Score 202.50 per Core Score
7.23 Date: Feb-2021 Link: CPU2017 Integer Rate Result: Hewlett
Packard Enterprise Superdome Flex 280 (2.90 GHz, Intel Xeon
Platinum 8380H) (test sponsored by HPE) (spec.org)
ii IBM Power E1080; two-tier SAP SD standard
application benchmark running SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5; Power10 3.55-4.0
GHz processor, 4,096 GB memory, 8p/120c/960t, 174,000 SD benchmark
users (955,050 SAPS), AIX 7.2, DB2 11.5. Certification #
2021059. All results can be found at sap.com/benchmark Valid as of
8/27/21
iii IBM Power help deliver a frictionless experience
in extending mission-critical workloads across hybrid cloud,
without requiring additional middleware or application
refactoring
iv
https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/report/ceo
v https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/QMRQEROB
vi 1. Based on IBM internal testing of Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.2 worker nodes running 80 pods
each with 10 users using the Daytrader7 workload
(https://github.com/WASdev/sample.daytrader7/releases/tag/v1.4 )
accessing AIX Db2 databases. Average cpu utilization for the
OCP worker nodes is > 95%. Comparison: E1080 running OCP
accessing AIX Db2 on an S922 versus OCP on Cascade Lake accessing
AIX Db2 on the same S922. Valid as of 8/26/2021 and conducted under laboratory
conditions. Individual result can vary based on workload size, use
of storage subsystems & other conditions. 2.IBM Power E1080 (40
cores/3.8 GHz/2 TB memory) in maximum performance mode, 25 Gb
two-port SRIOV adapter, 1 x 16Gbs FCA, with PowerVM. E1080
configuration consists of 2 OCP worker lpars each with 10 cores
running SMT8 with 256GB of memory and a VIOS lpar with 4 cores and
8GB of memory. PowerVM LPARs were also affinitized on their respect
sockets/NUMA nodes. IBM Power E1080 worker nodes run CoreOS Linux
4.18.0-305.10.2.el8_4. CentOS based DayTrader7 containers
with Open Liberty 21.0.0.6, IBM Semeru Runtime
Open Edition (build 1.8.0_302-b08) Eclipse OpenJ9 VM (build
openj9-0.27.0, JRE 1.8.0 Linux ppc64le-64-Bit Compressed References
20210728_167 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled), JVM flag
within jvm.options file within containers when starting
JVM-->"-XX:-PortableSharedCache". 3.Competitive system: Intel(R)
Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU (Cascade Lake) in performance mode, 40
cores/3.9GHz/512GB memory), 25Gb two-port SRIOV adapter, 1 x
16Gbps FCA, RHEL 8.4 KVM. Cascade Lake competitive configuration of
2 KVM guests as OCP worker nodes with 20 cores running
hyperthreading (HT) with 256GB of memory. SRIOV device passthrough
from host to KVM guest. The KVM guest's CPU & memory are pinned
to host's CPU with respect to their associated NUMA nodes. Cascade
Lake worker nodes run worker node OS CoreOS Linux
4.18.0-305.10.2.el8_4. CentOS based DayTrader7 containers
with Open Liberty 21.0.0.6, IBM Semeru Runtime Open
Edition (build 1.8.0_302-b08) Eclipse OpenJ9 VM (build
openj9-0.27.0, JRE 1.8.0 Linux amd64-64-bit Compressed References
20210723_193 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled) JVM flag within
jvm.options file within containers when starting
JVM-->"-XX:-PortableSharedCache. 4.Database system S922: Model
9009-22G with 22 cores (2400 MHz) and 1TB of memory. S922
configuration consists of 2 AIX lpars each with 8 cores running
SMT8 with 131GB of memory, and a VIOS lpar with 2 cores and 16GB of
memory.
vii Based on published rPerf results for Power
E980/12 core compared to IBM Internal rPerf measurements (using the
same methodology) for Power E1080/15 core
viii 5x improvement in per socket inferencing
throughput for large size 32b
floating point inferencing models from Power9 E980 (12-core
modules) to Power10 E1080 (15-core modules). Based on IBM testing
using Pytorch, OpenBLAS on the same BERT Large with SqUAD v1.1 data
set.
ix AES-256 in both GCM and XTS modes runs about 2.5
times faster per core when comparing Power E1080 (15-core modules )
vs. Power E980 (12-core modules) according to preliminary
measurements obtained on RHEL Linux 8.4 and the OpenSSL 1.1.1g
library.
x Power9 (12c) is 5081 rPerf @ 16,520 Watts (0.31
rPerf/Watt), Power10 (15c) is 7998 rPerf @ 17,320 Watts (0.46
rPerf/Watt)
xi Transparent Memory encryption means that the
capability does not need any user configuration
xii Based on results for keyword "powervm" in
National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) "National
Vulnerability Database
xiv HPE Superdome Flex; two-tier SAP SD standard
application benchmark running SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5; Intel Xeon Platinum
8380H 2.9 GHz, 8p/224c/448t, 122,300 SD benchmark users (670,830
SAPS), Windows Server 2016 and Microsoft SQL Server 2012,
Certification # 2021006.
Sam Ponedal
IBM Media Relations
sponeda@us.ibm.com
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