IBM Unleashes World's Most Powerful Server(1)
Tuesday, 25 July 2006 by application, business unit, division, department, cost center, or project. ITUAM collects information from operating systems, databases, networks, storage systems, applications and virtualized environments and "understands" which part of an organization consumes each of these resources, enabling administrators to charge the appropriate department for such resource usage.
For example, a financial services company's commercial loan business might involve thousands of employees using dozens of applications running across several virtual servers. ITUAM will report total IT costs charged to the commercial loans unit and allow the company to drill down to see how much of the total is spent on databases, email, printing, servers, and all other resources. Amazingly granular in the reports it generates, ITUAM can break down database statistics, say, by mainframe, UNIX and Windows®, Linux®, etc. The database costs can be further parsed by server, giving the client specifics on the individual resource level for each server.
Combining the functionality of the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager with the existing AIX 5L technology offered by System p servers provides clients a proportioning capability with unsurpassed flexibility, which helps them to accurately anticipate and meet their resource demands. The two features together allow virtually instantaneous creation, deletion and movement of partitions as well as workload reallocation.
IBM Usage and Accounting Manager's simple GUI enable changes to be easily made in real time and often automatically, helping users realize greater efficiency and resource usage.
IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems on System p
IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems will be included on the new System p servers as a no-charge, preinstalled product. The security software helps to defend against many of the top internal and external security threats facing enterprises today such as insider threats and identity theft. The security software helps prevent unauthorized access to valuable customer, employee and business data and facilitates compliance with corporate security policy and regulatory requirements.
IBM Server Consolidation Factory for System p
The combination of Usage and Accounting Manager with the virtualization capabilities of System p servers creates a powerful opportunity to consolidate customers currently using large numbers of smaller, less efficient servers, which in aggregate can consume vast quantities of floor space and electricity in addition to being hard to manage. To that end, IBM is launching the IBM Server Consolidation Factory for System p. The Factory delivers a complete solution including hardware, middleware, consulting and deployment services, together with financing to help customers move to a virtualized environment on System p. The Factory can also mitigate risks to IT operations both during and after the deployment. The result is a data center where all elements are configured to be reusable, shared and optimized.
IBM System p5 590 and 595 Designed for Scalability
The new servers are built with 16-core units called "books," each containing two 8-core multichip modules (MCMs) with four dual-core POWER5+™ processor chips. Processor clock speeds available on the 64-core p5-595 are 2.3 GHz or 2.1 GHz, while the 32-core p5-590 offers 2.1 GHz processors. Each processor chip contains 1.9MB of Level 2 (L2) cache and an integrated memory controller. In addition, the MCM contains 36MB of L3 cache per dual-core processor chip, for a total of 144MB L3. Each book provides 16 memory card slots, allowing 8GB to 512GB of high-speed 533 MHz DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory per book. So a p5-590 can scale up to 32 cores and 1TB of memory, while the p5-595 goes all the way to a 64-core system and an amazing 2TB of total memory capacity.
IBM SPEC results were submitted to SPEC on 7/25/06.
All competitive benchmark results current as of 7/25/06.
Source of TPC-C results is http://www.tpc.org.
Source of SPEC results is http://www.spec.org.
Source of SAP results is http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/index.epx
(1) IBM TPC-C result of 4,016,222 tpmC, $2.98 on a 64-core (32 processor chips, 128 threads) 2.3 GHz POWER5+ System p5-595 (configuration planned to be available 12/20/06) running DB2 9.1 on AIX 5L V5.3 vs. HP TPC-C result of 1,231,433 tpmC, $4.82/tpmC on a 64-core (64 chips, 64 threads) 1.6 GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 Integrity Superdome (configuration available 6/05/06)
(2) Based on IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 1Q06, issued on May 24, 2006
(3) IBM TPC-C result of 4,016,222 tpmC, $2.98 on a 64-core (32 processor chips, 128 threads) 2.3 GHz POWER5+ System p5-595 (configuration planned to be available 12/20/06) running DB2 9.1 on AIX 5L V5.3 using IBM System Storage DS4800;
The IBM System p5 595 (2.3 GHz) two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark result of 23,456 SD Benchmark users running DB2 Universal Database 9.1 on AIX 5L V5.3, MySAP™ ERP 2004 Application. (1.98 second average response time, 2,350,330 Fully processed Order lines items/hours, 7,051,000 Dialog steps/hour, 117,520 SAPS, 0.019 sec / 0.016 sec Average DB request time (dia/upd), 99% CPU utilization of central server, SAP ECC Release 5.0, 64 cores, 128 threads, The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at: http://www.sap.com/benchmark;
IBM System p5-595 1-core (2.3 GHz, 1 thread) SPECfp2000 result of 3,642;
IBM System p5-595 64-core (2.3 GHz, 128 threads) SPECompMpeak2001 result of 157,880;
IBM System p5-595 64-core (2.3 GHz, 128 threads) SPECompLpeak2001 result of 1,056,459
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