ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced new Linux servers that perform data analytics
workloads faster and cheaper than a comparable x86-based
server.
The new Power Systems LC servers were designed based on
technologies and development efforts contributed by OpenPOWER
Foundation partners – including Canonical, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan
and Wistron. The OpenPOWER Foundation, an organization with more
than 150 members worldwide, builds solutions on top of the open
architecture of IBM's POWER processor. This open and collaborative
model allows for rapid innovation not currently available using
alternative, closed innovation methods.
The LC servers bring the higher performance of POWER CPUs to the
broad Linux community, in particular to data analytics, cloud, and
high performance computing (HPC) workloads. For example, based on
IBM internal testing, a new Power Systems LC server can complete an
average of select Apache Spark workloads – including analyzing
Twitter feeds, streaming web page views and other data-intensive
analytics – for less than half the cost of an Intel E5-2699 V3
processor-based server, providing clients with 2.3X better
performance per dollar spent. Additionally, the efficient design of
a Power Systems LC server allows for 94% more Spark social media
workloads in the same rack space as a comparable Intel-based
server. (1) (2)
"Clients need cognitive systems that are reliable, cost
effective and capable of ingesting and making sense of incredible
amounts of structured and unstructured data," said Doug Balog, General Manager of IBM Power
Systems. "Embracing an open model of innovation has enabled us to
build systems that help translate mountains of data into actionable
business insight. By collaborating with partners from the OpenPOWER
Foundation, our new line of servers provides clients with the
performance they need to analyze and act on their data in real
time."
Allegiant Air, a leading low-cost American airline carrier, is
among the clients running Linux on Power Systems to analyze
data. The airline is able to immediately analyze customer
behavior on its website, looking for trends like price sensitivity
in order to adjust quickly and provide on-the-spot promotional
marketing offers to help convert a potential customer's online
browse into a purchase.
"All enterprises are facing growing amounts of data," said
Brian O'Neil, Director of Data
Architecture, Allegiant Travel. "It's how you analyze---and what
you do with--- the results that allows you take the lead.
Leveraging Linux on IBM Power Systems, we have been able to
immediately glean valuable insights from a number of data sources,
enabling us to take action quicker and more efficiently than ever
before."
Three Linux Server Choices as part of Power Systems LC
Lineup
Generally available later this year, the Power Systems LC line
of servers will be offered in three different variations; the Power
Systems S812LC, the Power Systems S822LC for commercial computing
and the Power Systems S822LC for high performance computing.
The S812LC is a 1-socket 2U system, equipped with up to 10
cores, 1TB of memory, 115GB/sec memory bandwidth, and up to 14 disk
drives. The S812LC is a Linux system optimized for workloads that
are memory and storage rich, such as Spark and Hadoop to provide
immediate insights with incredible efficiency.
The 2-socket 2U Power Systems S822LC for commercial computing
and high performance computing come similarly configured with up to
20 cores, 1TB of memory and 230GB/sec memory bandwidth. The S822LC
for high performance computing also comes with two integrated
NVIDIA® Tesla® K80 GPU accelerators, the flagship offering of the
NVIDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform. The two S822LC
variants will offer over 2X performance per core, 40% better price
performance and more than 2X memory bandwidth (with fully
configured memory) compared to similarly configured x86-based
E5-2699 V3 machines. (3)
New Digital experience for ease of use and purchasing
servers
Implementing design thinking and agility in all aspects of the
development of these new servers, IBM is also providing clients
with a new purchasing experience on their mobile devices or on the
web. From developers to small businesses to organizations of all
sizes, this new digital experience gives access, visibility and
transparency of simple pricing to purchase Power Systems. Rapidly
evolving, later this year, the digital experience will include a
"click to buy" option enabling clients to purchase these systems on
the web with a credit card.
These new servers leverage standard Linux deployment tooling for
ease and speed of deployment, bringing the benefits of POWER8 to
clients without changing their operating model.
The new client experience is complemented by IBM's global
Business Partner network, providing customers with the ability to
work with IBM Business Partners to create fully customized
solutions. To experience the new Power Systems please visit
www.ibm.com/power/announcement/
(1) Results are based on IBM internal testing of the average of
10 SparkBench benchmarks consisting of SQL RDD Relation, Twitter,
Pageview Streaming, PageRank, Logistic Regression, SVD++,
TriangleCount, SVM, MF, SQL Hive
IBM Power System S812LC 10 cores / 80 threads, POWER8; 2.9GHz,
256 GB memory, Ubuntu 15.04, Spark 1.4, OpenJDK 1.8
Intel Xeon; 24 cores / 48 threads, E5-2690 v3; 2.3GHz , 256 GB
memory. Ubuntu 15.04, Spark 1.4, OpenJDK 1.8
Pricing is based on HW list prices of Intel-based server and
estimated prices of IBM Power S812LC and both include the OS
(2) Power System S812LC and Intel server are 2U servers.
(3) Results are based on IBM internal testing of single system
running multiple virtual machines with pgbench select only work
load and are current as of October 5,
2015. Performance figures are based on running a 300 scale
factor. Individual results will vary depending on individual
workloads, configurations and conditions.
IBM Power System S822LC; 16 cores / 128 threads, POWER8; 3.6GHz,
256 GB memory, PostgreSQL 9.5 Alpha2, RHEL 7.1, PowerKVM
Competitive stack: 36 cores / 72 threads; Intel E5-2699
v3; 2.3 GHz; 256 GB memory, PostgreSQL 9.5 Aplha2, RHEL 7.1,
RHEV
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IBM Media Relations
tfdavids@us.ibm.com
914-766-4605
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