1. What's under the hood of
Exadata X2-2 and X2-8?
Steve.Stratton@intel.com
Sr. Field Application Engineer
Oracle Global Account
Intel

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4. What we will cover
• Intel and Oracle Collaboration
• What hardware is inside the Exadata
• The difference of Exadata x2-2 and
Exadata x2-8 hardware architectures
• Intel’s server processor roadmap
• Intel’s platform architecture
• Overview of Intel’s cpu architecture
and technology
• Which Intel processors for which
workloads
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5. INTEL and
ORACLE TOGETHER
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6. Oracle-Intel Collaboration Model
SYSTEM
ARCHITECTURE
DESIGNS
and
INFRASTRUCTURE
COMPILERS
and
TOOLS
OPERATING
ENVIRONMENTS
ENABLEMENT
MIDDLEWARE and APPs DATABASE
OPTIMIZATION OPTIMIZATION
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7. Database Workloads: Intel Technologies
Increased Bandwidth: Intel®
QuickPath InterConnect
Increased Security: Dramatic Performance
Technology
Intel® Advanced Enhancement
Enables internal scalability and
3X enhancement with Intel
higher performance on database Encryption Standards
Xeon processor 7500 series
clusters like Oracle RAC New Instructions (AES- launch (Nehalem-EX)
and IBM DB2 PureScale NI)
Intel® Turbo Boost Improves database software
Technology encryption and decryption by More Scalability: Multi-
Enables dynamic increase of up to 5X Core & Hyperthreading
frequency and performance of Intel Xeon processor E7 family
individual cores offers up to 10 physical cores,
Increased Performance running up to 20 threads per
Tick-Tock model processor
Roadmap balances advancements
in transistor density with new
microarchitecture innovations
Higher Availability
Memory Scalability with Consolidation
64-bit Itanium Intel Virtualization Technology Reliability: Enhanced
Intel address multiple brings High Availability, failover, Ecosystem Support for
terabytes of memory and consolidation of databases MCA-R
Scalability with NUMA onto a single server Intel Xeon processor E7 family
Enables high performance, low with advanced MCA-R helps
Intel® VT-x Introduced Higher Performance I/O enable SAP HANA database
latency, and highly parallelized
Intel virtualization technology VT-x memory access with Solid State Disks recovery from memory errors
introduced 35% higher and better
performance with Intel SSD for
OLTP environments
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8. THE HARDWARE
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9. Engineered Systems and x86 Portfolio
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10. Exadata Hardware
Complete, Pre-configured, Tested for Extreme Performance
• Database Servers (X2-2 and X2-8)
• Exadata Storage Servers
• InfiniBand Switches
• Ethernet Switches
• Pre-cabled
• Keyboard, Video, Mouse HW (some models)
• Power Distribution Units (PDU)
Ready to Deploy
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11. Exadata Database Machine 2-8
(full rack only)
• 2 Intel Xeon-based 8 Processor Database Servers (Sun Server X2-8)
• 16x Intel Xeon E7 – 8870 2.4 GHz CPUs = 160 cores, 320 threads
• 2x 2TB Memory = 4 TB
• 8x 10Gb Intel Ethernet Ports to Data Center
• 8x 1Gb Intel Ethernet Ports to Data Center
• 14 Intel Xeon-based 2 Processor Exadata Storage Servers X2-2
(Sun Fire X4270M2)
• 28x Intel Xeon E5 L5640 2.26GHz CPUs = 168 cores, 336 threads
• 14x 24 GB Memory = 336 GB
• 56x 1 Gb Intel Ethernet Ports
• High Performance 600GB SAS disks
Or
• High Capacity 3TB SAS disk
• 5.3 TB PCI Express High Speed Flash
• 3x Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36
• 36-port Managed QDR (40Gb/s) switch
• 1x “admin” ethernet switch
• Redundant Power distribution Units
Highest core count and memory capacity
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12. Exadata Database Machine 2-2
(full, half and quarter rack)
• 8x Intel Xeon-based 2 Processor Database Servers (Sun Fire X4170M2)
• 16x Intel Xeon E5 X5675 3.06 GHz CPUs = 96 cores, 192 threads
• 8x 96 GB = 768 GB Memory for High Performance (1333MHz LP DDR3)
• Or
• 8x 144 GB = 1152 GB Memory for Increase Capacity (800MHz LP DDR3)
• 16x 10Gb Intel Ethernet Ports to Data Center
• 14x Intel Xeon-based 2 Processor Exadata Storage Servers X2-2
(Sun Fire X4270M2)
• 28x Intel Xeon E5 L5640 2.26GHz CPUs = 168 cores, 336 threads
• 14x 24 GB Memory = 336 GB
• 56x 1 Gb Intel Ethernet Ports
• High Performance 600GB SAS disks
• Or
• High Capacity 3TB SAS disk
• 5.3 TB PCI Express High Speed Flash
• 3x Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36
• 36-port Managed QDR (40Gb/s) switch
• 1x “admin” ethernet switch
• Redundant Power distribution Units
Highest processor and memory frequency
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13. Exadata Storage Expansion
(full, half, and quarter rack)
• 18x Intel Xeon-based 2 Processor Exadata Storage Servers X2-2
(Sun Fire X4270M2)
• 36x Intel Xeon E5 CPUs = 216 cores, 432 threads
• 18x 24 GB Memory = 432 GB
• 72x 1 Gb Intel Ethernet Ports
• High Performance 600GB SAS disks
Or
• High Capacity 3TB SAS disk
• 6.75 TB PCI Express High Speed Flash
• 648 TB of raw storage
• 3x Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36
• 36-port Managed QDR (40Gb/s) switch
• 1x “admin” ethernet switch
• Redundant Power Distribution Units
Additional storage for backups, historical
data, and unstructured data
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14. Exadata Database Machine HW Summary
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15. Exadata Storage Expansion Rack Summary
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16. INTEL EP AND EX
ARCHITECTURES
(AKA EXDATA 2-2 vs. 2-8)
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17. Product Numbering Conventions
Brand Prod Line Version
(E3, E5, E7) Prod Family (v2, v3, v4, etc)
Letter and hundreds digit
differentiated from CPUs
Intel® Xeon® processor E# – # # # # v#
Wayness, maximum number of CPUs in a node
Intel® C 6 0 0 chipset
(1, 2, 4, 8) PCH segment
(entry PCH=2; SKU
Socket type
datacenter PCH=6) Generation
(2, 4, 6, 8)
‘Low Power’ SKUs (within segment)
(after 4 digit numeric set):
Designator Actual Socket
Alpha Description
8 LS (Westmere EX) Processor SKU Suffix
6 R (Sandy Bridge)
(i.e. 10, 20, 30, etc…) L Low Power
4 B2 (Sandy Bridge)
2 H2 (Sandy Bridge)
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18. Tick-Tock Development Model
Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock
65nm 45nm 32nm 22nm
Intel® Core™ Nehalem Sandy Bridge
Microarchitecture Microarchitecture Microarchitecture
Sustained Microprocessor Leadership
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19. Intel® Datacenter and Connected Systems Group (DCSG) Public Roadmap
2012 2013/Future
Boxboro-EX Platform
Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800/2800 product families
Mission Critical
Expandable
Intel® 7500 chipset, Intel® 7510/7512 Scalable Memory Buffer
• Up to 10 Cores /20 Threads
(EX)
• 30MB Shared Cache
• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
• Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology
• Intel® VT-x, -d, & -c
• DDR3 1066/978/800 MHz memory (1.5V & DDR3L 1.35V) Future
• Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI) Intel®
• Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) Micro-
architecture
codename
Tylersburg Platform Romley-EP Platform Ivy Bridge
Intel® Xeon® processor X5600 productXeon® processor E5-2600 product family
Intel® family
Performance
Intel® 36D IOH series chipset Intel® C600 series chipset
Efficient
• Up to 8 cores/16 threads
(EP)
• Up to 6 cores/12 threads • Intel® Integrated I/O
• Intel® Turbo Boost • Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX)
• Intel • Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI)
® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX)
• Intel • IntelInstructions (Intel® AES-NI)
® Advanced Encryption Standard New ® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT)
• • Intel® Data
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) Direct I/O (Intel® DDIO)
• LR-DIMM
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20. Intel Efficient Performance 2 Processor
Exdata X2-2 and Storage servers
Today Future X2-2 & Storage
Xeon X5600 Xeon X5600
CORE 1 CORE 2 CORE 1 CORE 2
CORE 3 CORE 4 CORE 3 CORE 4
CORE 5 CORE 6 CORE 5 CORE 6
CACHE CACHE
PCIe 3.0
36D IOH
PCIe 2.0
E5-2600 will increase performace with more cores, more
memory and integrated, faster IO over X5600
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21. Intel Expandable 8 Processor
Exdata X2-8
I/O Hub
Intel E7 Intel E7
Intel E7 Intel E7 I/O Hub
Intel E7 Intel E7 I/O Hub
Intel E7 Intel E7
RAM
Xeon E7
I/O Hub CORE 1 CORE 2 Memory
Buffer
X4
ESI CORE 3 CORE 4
Memory
Buffer
ICH10 PCI Express CORE 5 CORE 6
Memory
CORE 7 CORE 8 Buffer
CORE 9 CORE 10
Memory
Buffer
CACHE
E7 performance with most cores, most memory and
fastest processor connections
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22. Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series
32nm Westmere High-k + Metal Gate Transistors
Memory Controller
M
Core Core Core Core Core Core
Q
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s e M
c u i
e s
I c
&
O
I
U O
& n
c &
Q
P
Shared L3 Cache** o
r
Shared L3 Cache** Q
I e P
I
Transistor count: 1.17B Die size: 248mm2
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23. Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800/2800 product
families(Westmere-EX) Overview
• CPU Refresh
 Next generation core design (“Westmere” uarch) C C C C C C C C C C
O O O O O O O
 32 nm process technology (new “Tick”) R R R
O
R R R R
O
R
O
R R
 Socket compatibility with Xeon® 7500 (“drop-in”) E E E E E E E E E E
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1
 10 Cores; 20 threads with Intel® Hyper-Threading 0
 30MB of last level cache (shareable across all cores)
30 MB Shared Last Level Cache
 Same TDP power levels as Xeon® 7500 processor
Integrated Memory Interconnect
• Additional Memory Support Controller controller
 RDIMM up to 1066MHz
 LV-DIMM support (DDR3L (1.35V) )
4 Intel®
 LR-DIMM support (Upto 32GB) Scalable Memory 4 Full-width
Interconnects up to Intel®
6.4GT/s QuickPath
• Key New Features Interconnects
 New processor & memory power management capabilities
 Security:
 Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT)
Mill Brook 2
Mill Brook 2
DDR3
 AES-NI (AES New Instructions – crypto acceleration)
RDIMM Mill Brook 2
Channel
DDR3
 RAS: New memory reliability features RDIMM Mill Brook 2
s DDR3
ChannelRDIMM
s DDR3
RDIMM Channel RDIMM
 VT: Next-gen performance improvements and latency s
RDIMMRDIMM Channel RDIMM
reductions RDIMM s
RDIMMRDIMM
RDIMM
Improved Performance, RDIMM RDIMM
RDIMM
Virtualization, Reliability, RDIMM
Security, and Power Efficiency
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24. Intel Performance Enhancements
Intel® Hyper-threading Intel® Turbo Boost
Technology Technology
Increases performance for threaded applications delivering Increases performance by increasing processor frequency
greater throughput and responsiveness and enabling faster speeds when conditions allow
<8C Turbo
8C Turbo
Normal
Frequency
Core1
Core8
Core0
Core1
Core8
Core0
Core1
Core0
All cores
… All cores
… Fewer cores
…
operate at operate at higher may operate at
rated frequency frequency even higher
frequencies
Higher Performance Higher Performance
For Threaded Workloads on Demand
Available in both E7 and E5 processors
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25. E7 Protecting Data Integrity
Memory Demand & Patrol
Scrubbing
Parity Checking And ECC Ensures that all memory
Detects and corrects soft errors locations contain valid data
in cache & data paths to
memory
Intel QPI Protocol Protection Via
CRC (8bit Or 16bit Rolling)
Corrupt Data Containment Mode Coverage of data paths for
Keeps data errors from transient errors
propagating across processors,
memory, I/O
Memory Thermal Throttling
Reduces errors by controlling
memory temperature
Reduces Circuit-level Errors, Detects & Corrects Data
Errors Across The System, Limits The Impact Of Errors
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26. Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 Family
Complete Portfolio of RAS Support
• Parity Checking And ECC
Reduce circuit-level errors • Memory Thermal Throttling
• Memory Demand & Patrol Scrubbing
Detect and correct data errors • Corrupt Data Containment Mode
• Viral Mode
• Intel QPI Protocol Protection Via CRC (8bit Or 16bit
Contain uncorrected errors Rolling)
• MCA Recovery With SW layer Support
Heal failing data connections • Intel® SMI Lane Failover
• Intel® SMI Clock Fail Over
• Intel® SMI & QPI Packet Retry
Support redundancy and failover for key system • QPI Clock Fail Over
components • QPI Self-healing
• Enhanced DRAM Single Device Data Correction
• Enhanced DRAM Double Device Data Correction
Recover from uncorrected data errors • Fine-Grained Memory Mirroring
• Memory DIMM And Rank Sparing
• Dynamic CPU And Memory Migration
Help predict failures before they happen • Electronically Isolated (Static) Partitioning
• MCA Error Logging (CMCI) With OS Predictive Failure
Analysis
Maintain partitions instead of systems • Memory Board Hot Add
• OS Memory On-lining*
• CPU Board Hot Add At QPI
Proactively replace failing components • OS CPU On-lining
Advanced RAS For Highly Available Deployments
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27. E7 Machine Check Architecture Recovery
How It Works
MCA Recovery
System works in
conjunction with OS, VMM, System Normal Status
or DBMS to recover or
restart processes and Recovery With Error
continue normal operation with SW Prevention
Error information
passed to SW layer
Bad memory location
flagged so data will not be Error Error Error
used by OS or applications Contained Detected1 Corrected
Un-correctable Errors Errors
HW Un-correctable HW Correctable Errors
1 Errors detected using Patrol Scrub or Explicit Write-back from cache
Allows Recovery From Otherwise Fatal System Errors
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28. E7 Advanced Reliability Requires An
Ecosystem
Mission Critical OS/VMM/Application
Software
OEM Innovation
Systems
Silicon
Integrated Solutions To Deliver Maximum Results
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29. CHOICES
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30. Which Intel® Xeon® Processor Family is Best for
Which Workload?
Workload / Usage
Business Processing (DB, ERP, CRM, Batch)1
Workloads
Xeon E7
Larger
Decision Support (Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence)
4S & 8S
Large-Scale Consolidation (Including Virtualization & Multi-tier) Servers
Application Development
High Performance Computing
Collaboration 2S
Mid/Smaller
Workloads
Volume
Web Infrastructure Servers
IT Infrastructure
Development/Quality Assurance
Fewer/Smaller More/Larger
Instances/Users Instances/Users
1 For directional guidance only. This is not a server selection guide. Actual server sizing is a relatively complex effort involving workload characterization including such
considerations as type of application, size of workload, number of users, type of transaction, SLA response times, targeted utilization, level and estimation accuracy of
workload baseline/peak/growth, physical or managerial constraints, need to maintain a single state at all times to ensure all users see the same results at any given time,
30 cost to migrate to a scale-out alternative, and system availability requirements.

31. IN CLOSING
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32. Summary
• Exadata X2-8 for
– Scale up (8 processors, highest per processor core count)
– Maximum Memory Capacity
– Mission Critical (RAS)
– Large Database, Virtualization, Consolidation
• Exadata X2-2 for
– Scale out (clustering 2 processor systems, highest single
thread performance)
– Fastest memory
– Multiple Smaller Database, Traditional Clustering
– Multiple Configurations (quarter, half, and full rack)
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