Introducing IBM NeXtScale System - The new IBM NeXtScale System™ is designed for flexibility, simplicity and scalability to lower operating costs for compute and data-intensive workloads such as technical computing, big data, and cloud. The system simplifies adoption through an open design that seamlessly fits into your current infrastructure. The NeXtScale System delivers the density, agility, and scale you need for today’s most demanding workloads.in a flexible cost optimized platform. -Architected for now and the future -Better density and flexibility -Compatible with standard racks -Optimized for top of rack switching -Software Defined Networking (SDN) ready -Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v2 product family -Powerful roadmap -Business partner friendly Watch our North America webcast replay here: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=670225&s=1&k=FC5CD17AB42385B40BCED29B8B61E2E8&partnerref=IBM09

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IBM Hyperscale Computing Solutions
Systems and Technology Group
Introducing IBM NeXtScale SystemTM
Gaurav Chaudhry
WW Product Marketing – NeXtScale System

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Compute
Chassis
Storage
Acceleration
More Coming
Standard Rack
Primary Target Workloads
 Architected for now and the future
 Better density and flexibility
 Compatible with standard racks
 Optimized for top of rack switching
 Software Defined Networking
(SDN) ready
 Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v2
product family
 Powerful roadmap
 Business partner friendly
2013 – Introducing IBM NeXtScale
A superior architecture for scale-out computing
Public
Cloud
High
Performance
Computing
Private
Cloud

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 6U Chassis, 12 bays
 Half width component support
 Up to 6 900W power supplies
N+N or N+1 configurations
 Up to 10 hot swap fans
 Fan and power controller
 Mix and match compute,
storage, or GPU nodes
 No built in networking
 No chassis management required
IBM NeXtScale n1200
Fan and power
controller
Front view
6 x 900W
power supplies
10 x 80mm
fans
Rear view
NeXtScale – Dense Chassis
Optimizedsharedinfrastructure

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Simplearchitecture
Power button and
information LED
Dual-port mezzanine
card (IB/Ethernet)
KVM
connector
Labeling
tag
1 GbE
ports
IMM v2
port
PCIe 3.0
Slot
x24 PCIe
3.0 slot
x8 mezz.
connector
2 x CPU 8 x DIMMs
Power
Interposer
Flexible
Drive bay(s)
x16 PCIe
3.0 slot
NeXtScale – The Compute Node
 New ½ Wide 1U 2 socket server
 Intel®
Xeon®
Processor E5-2600 V2
 Flexible slot-less I/O design
 Generous PCIe capability
 Open design, works with existing
x86 tools
 Versatile design with flexible Native
Expansion options
 32TB local storage (November)
 GPUs/Phi adapters (2014)
IBM NeXtScale n360 M4
Hyperscale Server

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IBM NeXtScale – Simplicity
Native eXpansion – Adding Value, not Complexity
 Base node delivers robust and dense raw compute capabilities
 NeXtScale’s Native Expansion capability allows seamless upgrades
of the base to add common functionalities
– Storage
– Graphics Acceleration or Co-Processing
 What is Native Expansion?
No Exotic Components. No Mid-plane Dependencies.
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nx360 M4
IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4
with Storage NeX
Storage NeX
+
RAID Card +
SAS Cable + HDDs
+
nx360 M4
PCI NeX
+
GPU Riser Card +
GPU/Phi
IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4
with Accelerator NeX

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Number of part numbers
needed for the entire
solution – no matter the
brand of component
SAVE
Faster Time from arrival
to production readiness
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IBM NeXtScale – Flexibility
How Do You Want Your IT to Arrive?
 NeXtScale can be shipped fully configured
and ready to power on
– Fully racked and cabled
– Labeling with user supplied naming
– Pre programmed IMMs and addresses
– Burn in testing before shipment at no added cost
 Prefer to receive systems in boxes –
no problem
IBM Intelligent Cluster
1Per Rack
105 lbs of cardboard1
54.6 ft3
of styrofoam
288 linear feet of wood
21,730 less paper inserts
Customer Benefits

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IBM NeXtScale – Scale
Start at any size. Grow in any increment you want.
Growing node by node?
 Available direct from IBM
 Optimized for availability through our partners
 Install the chassis today, grow into it tomorrow
Single nodes
and chassis
Configured
racks or chassis
Complete
clusters and
containers
Want to speed how quickly you can grow?
 Shipped fully assembled
 Client driven, choice optimized
 “Starter Pack” solutions are appliance easy, yet flexible
Growing by leaps and bounds?
 NeXtScale can arrive ready to power on – ‘personality’ applied
 Racks at a time or complete infrastructure ready containers
Single Nodes
Rack (s)
Chassis or Departmental
Solutions
Containers –
‘NeXtPods’

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IBM NeXtScale – Open
Designed on Open Standards = Seamless Adoption
IBM ToolsCenter OpenStack Ready
• Consolidated, integrated suite of mgmt tools
• Powerful bootable media creator, FW updating
• Deploy OpenStack with Chef or Puppet
• Mirantis Fuel, SuSE Cloud, IBM SmartCloud
UEFi and iMM IPMI 2.0 Compliant
• Standards-based hardware that combines
diagnostic and remote control; No embedded SW
• Richer management experience and
future-ready
• Use any IPMI compliant mgt. software – Puppet,
Avocent, IBM Director, iAMT, xCAT, etc.
• OpenIPMI, ipmitool, ipmiutils, FreeIPMI compatible
xCAT System Monitoring
• Provides remote & unattended methods to
assist with Deploying, Updating, Configuring,
and Diagnosing
• Friendly with open source tools like Ganglia,
Nagios, Zenoss, etc.
• Use with any RHEL/SuSE (and clones) or
Windows based tools
Platform Computing SDN Friendly
• Workloads managed seamlessly with
Platform LSF
• Deploy clusters easily with Platform HPC
• Networking direct to system; no integrated
proprietary switching
• Support for 1/10/40Gb, Infiniband, FCoE, and VFAs

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