The document provides an agenda and overview for a presentation on Power8 hardware enhancements and updates. The presentation will cover the Power S814 announcement, Power8 processor and I/O enhancements including the new 4-core Power S814 system, Corsa and FPGA overview, and IBM Rackswitches transitions. Details on the Power S814 such as specifications, models, and pricing will be discussed. Comparisons to other Power systems will also be included.
The following words taken from the document which will be the 720 annc letter and sales manual.
POWER 720 CAPACITY BACKUP (CBU) CAPABILITY
(Applies to IBM i only)
The Power 720 system's CBU designation can help meet your requirements
for a second system to use for backup, high availability, and disaster
recovery. It enables you to temporarily transfer IBM i processor license
entitlements and IBM i user license entitlements purchased for a primary
machine to a secondary CBU-designated system. Temporarily transferring
these resources instead of purchasing them for your secondary system may
result in significant savings. Processor activations cannot be trans-
ferred.
1 The CBU specify feature 0444 is available only as part of a new server
1 purchase or during a model upgrade from a Power 520 into the Power 720.
1 Certain system prerequisites must be met and system registration and ap-
proval are required before the CBU specify feature can be applied on a
new server. Standard IBM i terms and conditions do not allow either IBM
i processor license entitlements or IBM i user license entitlements to
be transferred permanently or temporarily. These entitlements remain
with the machine they were ordered for. When you register the associ-
ation between your primary and on-order CBU system, you must agree to
certain terms and conditions regarding the temporary transfer.
After a CBU system designation is approved and the system is installed,
you can temporarily move your optional IBM i processor license
entitlement and IBM i user license entitlements from the primary system
to the CBU system when the primary system is down or while the primary
system processors are inactive. The CBU system can then better support
failover and role swapping for a full range of test, disaster recovery,
and high availability scenarios. Temporary entitlement transfer means
that the entitlement is a property transferred from the primary system
to the CBU system and may remain in use on the CBU system as long as the
registered primary and CBU system are in deployment for the high avail-
ability or disaster recovery operation.
2 The primary system for a 4-core Power 720 (8202-E4B) server with its IBM
2 i P05 software tier can be a POWER6 or POWER7 server with a P05, P10, or
2 P20 software tier listed below:
Power 520: 9407-M15, 9408-M25, 8203-E4A (1-core, 2-core, 4-core)
Power 720: 8202-E4B (4-core, 6-core, 8-core)
1 Power 740: 8205-E6B
Power 750: 8233-E8B
Power 550: 9409-M50, 8204-E8A
Power 560: 8234-EMA
2 The primary system for a 6-core or 8-core Power 720 (8202-E4B) server
2 with its IBM i P10 software tier can be a POWER6 or POWER7 server with a
P10, P20, or P30 software tier listed below:
Power 520: 9408-M25, 8203-E4A (2-core, 4-core)
1 Power 720: 8202-E4B (6-core, 8-core)
1 Power 740: 8205-E6B
Power 750: 8233-E8B
Power 550: 9409-M50, 8204-E8A
Power 560: 8234-EMA
1 Power 570: 9406-MMA, 9117-MMA
Power 770: 9117-MMB
1 The primary machine must be in the same enterprise and country as the
CBU system.
Before you can temporarily transfer IBM i processor license entitlements
from the registered primary system, you must have more than one IBM i
processor license on the primary machine and at least one IBM i
processor license on the CBU server. An activated processor must be
available on the CBU server to use the transferred entitlement. You can
then transfer any IBM i processor entitlements above the mimimum one,
assuming the total IBM i workload on the primary system does not require
the IBM i entitlement you would like to transfer during the time of the
transfer. During this temporary transfer, the CBU system's internal re-
cords of its total number of IBM i processor license entitlements are
not updated, and you may see IBM i license noncompliance warning mes-
sages from the CBU system. These warning messages in this situation do
not mean you are not in compliance.
1 Before you can temporarily transfer IBM i user entitlements, you must
1 have more than the minimum number of IBM i user entitlements on a 9408,
2 8203, or 8202 primary server. You can then transfer any IBM i user
2 entitlements above the minimum, assuming the total IBM i users on the
2 primary system do not require the IBM i entitlement you want to transfer
2 during the time of the transfer. The Power 550, 560, 740, and 750 do not
have user entitlements that can be transferred and only processor li-
cense entitlements can be transferred. The minimum number of IBM i us-
2 ers on the POWER6 and POWER7 with i user entitlements are:
1 o Power 520 1-core (9407-M15, 8203-E4A): 5 users
1 o Power 520 2-core (9408-M25, 8203-E4A): 30 users
1 o Power 520 4-core (8203-E4A): 50 users
o Power 720 4-core (8202-E4B): 5 users
1 o Power 720 6-, 8-core (8202-E4B): 30 users
2 For example, if you have a 2-core Power 520 (8203-E4A or 9408-M25) as
2 your primary system with two IBM i processor license entitlements (one
2 above the minimum) and 50 IBM i user entitlements (20 above the mini-
2 mum), you can temporarily transfer up to one IBM i entitlement and up to
2 20 user entitlements. During this temporary transfer, the CBU system's
1 internal records of its total number of IBM i processor and user license
2 entitlements is not updated, and you may see IBM i license noncompliance
2 warning messages from the CBU system.
1 Note that if the Power 720 CBU server has just one partition and if it
1 is using the default parameters set by IBM Manufacturing, the IBM i li-
1 censing manager will ignore the temporary transfer and will not use ad-
1 ditional processors cores. To work around this restriction for valid
2 CBU situations, you can add a partition with no resource on your server
2 or implement a shared processor pool.
If your primary or CBU machine is sold or discontinued from use, any
temporary entitlement transfers must be returned to the machine on which
they were originally acquired. For CBU registration and further infor-
mation, visit
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/cbu
Late breaking news in late May 2014. Testing/approvals by different certification organizations around the world for the #ECCF cable will not support a 10 June 2014 GA. Functionally the cable has been tested and is ready for GA. However, cables have to be approved by different organizations with different standards around the world. We project to have certifications/approvals in place for this cable on the following schedule.
18 June Canada/USA
25 June Australia/Japan
9 July European Union
16 July remainder of the world except Korea/Taiwan
6 Aug Korea/Taiwan
The above projections are our current best estimates and are subject to change.
The UPS communication does NOT impact the ability of a 9910 UPS to provide power to the server. But the cable allows status information to be provided to the , the server, alerting it to the fact its electrical power is coming from a UPS. Assuming you‘ve set up your server to do so, it can more gracefully shut down if the UPS batteries are running out before regular power sources are restored. This is the only UPS communication mechanism for IBM i. AIX/Linux can alternatively implement an Ethernet-based option where UPS-provided appliction code runs on the server and talks to the UPS.
The cable can be attached without booting the server.
How do we do it?
Unit on CPU that extends on chip coherence to attached accelerator
Enables off-chip accelerator to act as an on-chip processor
Contains outward bus facing logic
Coherence directory, CAPP can respond for attached accelerator
Reduces burden on FPGA
FPGA does not need to implement coherent interconnect
No wasted IO bandwidth on system snoops
No increased coherence latency (resolved on chip).
No wasted FPGA resources on implementing complex multi-chip coherence protocol
Reduced IO overhead power, as only what is needed across interface is transferred
Retains Flexibility of PCIe based devices (up to Gen 3 x16)
Can choose from a large mix of FPGA devices
Enables correct mix of CPU and FPGA performance
Enables existing system to be an FPGA system with the addition of a PCIe card (which has the correct power profile compared to a CPU slot)
The “ask” is help with getting this technology, validated with the performance team and value communicated with the sales team
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