Scalable Highest Performing Clusters at Value PricingAbstract:Oracle
presented another milestone achievement in their 5 year SPARC/Solaris road map with Fujitsu. John Fowler stated: "Hardware without Software is a Door-Stop, Solaris is the gateway."
High-Level:The following is a listing of my notes from the two sessions. The notes have been combined, with Larry Ellison outlining the high-level and John Fowler presenting the lower-level details. SPARC T3 making world-record benchmarks. New T3 based integrated products. Oracle's Sun/Fujitsu M-Series gets a speed bump. SPARC T4 is on the way.
Presentation Notes:
New TpmC Database OLTP Performance- SPARC Top cluster performance
- SPARC Top cluster price-performance
- (turtle)
HP Superdome Itanium 4 Million Transactions/Minute - (stallion)
IBM POWER7 Power 780 10 Million Transactions/Minute
(DB2 clustered through custom applications) - Uncomfortable 4 month for Oracle, when IBM broke the Oracle record
- (cheetah)
Sun SPARC 30 Million Transactions/Minute
(standard off-the-shelf Oracle running RAC) - Oracle/Sun performance benchmark => ( IBM + HP ) x 2 !
- Sun to IBM Comparison:
3x OLTP Throughput, 27% better Price/Performance, 3.2x faster response time - Sun to HP Comparison:
7.4x OLTP Throughput 66 Better Price/Performance, 24x compute density - Sun Supercluster:
108 sockets, 13.5 TB Memory, Infiniband 40 Gigabit link, 246 Terabytes Flash, 1.7 Petabytes Storage, 1 Quadrillion rows, 43 Trillion transactions per day, 0.5 sec avg response
New Gold Release- Gold Standard Configurations are kept in the lab
- What the customer has, the support organization will have assembled in the lab
- Oracle, Sun, Cisco, IBM will all keep their releases and bug fixes in sync with releases
SPARC Exalogic Elastic Cloud- Designed to run Middleware
- New T3 processor based
- 100% Oracle Middleware is Pure Java
- Tuned for Java and Oracle Fusion Middleware
- Load-balances with elasticity
- Ships Q1 2011
- T3-1B SPARC Compute Blades based
30 Compute Servers, 16 cores/server, 3.8 TB RAM, 960 GB mirrored flash disks, 40 TB SAS Storage, 4 TB Read Cache, 72 GB Write Cache, 40 Gg/sec Infiniband, 10 GigE to Datacenter
SPARC Supercluster- New T3 processor based and M processor based
- T3-2 = 2 nodes, 4 CPU's, 64 cores/512 threads, 0.5 TB RAM, 96 TB HDD ZFS, 1.7TB Write Flash, 4TB Read Flash, 40 Gbit Infiniband
- T3-4 = 3 nodes, 12 CPU's, 192 cores/1536 threads, 1.5 TB RAM, 144 TB HDD ZFS, 1.7TB Write Flash, 4TB Read Flash, 40 Gbit Infiniband
- M5000 = 2 nodes, 16 CPU's, 64 core/128 threads, 1 TB RAM, 144 TB HDD ZFS, 1.7TB Write Flash, 4TB Read Flash, 40 Gbit Infiniband
T3 Processor in production- Releases already, performing in these platforms
- 1-4 processors in a platform
- 16 cores/socket, 8 threads/core
- 16 crypto-engines/socket
- More cores, threads, 10 GigE on-chip, more crypto engines
T4 Processor in the lab!- Thousands under test in the lab, today
- To be released next year
- 1-4 processors
- 8 cores/socket, 8 threads/core
- faster per-thread execution
M3 Processor from Fujitsu- SPARC VII+
- 1-64 SPARC64 VII+ Processors
- 4 cores, 2 threads/core
- Increased CPU frequency
- Double cache memory
- 2.4x performance of original SPARC64 VI processor
- VII+ boards will slot into the VI and VII board chassis
Flash Optimization- Memory hierarchy with software awareness
Infiniband- Appropriate for High Performance Computing
- Dramatically better performance than Ethernet for linking servers to servers & storage
New Solaris 11 Release- Next Generation Networking
re-engineered network stack
low latency high bandwidth protocols
virtualized
- Cores and Threads Scale
Adaptive Thread and Memory Placement
10,000's of core & threads
thread observability with DTrace
- Memory Scale
Dynamic optimization for large memory configs
Advanced memory placement
VM systems for 1000's TB memory configs
- I/O Performance
Enhanced NUMA I/O framework
Auto-Discovery of NUMA architecture
I/O resources co-located with CPU for scale/performance
- Data Scale
ZFS Massive storage for massive datasets
- Availability
Boot times in seconds
Minimized OS Install
Risk-Free Updates with lightweight boot and robust package dependency
Extensive Fault Management with Offline failing components
Application Service Managemment with Restart failed applications and associated services quickly
- Security
Secure by default
Secure boot validated with onboard Trusted Platform Module
Role Based Root Access
Encrypted ZFS datasets
Accelerated Encryption with hardware encryption support
- Trusted Solaris Extensions
Dataset labels for explicit access rules
IP labels for secure communication
- Virtualization
Network Virtualization to add to Server and Storage Virtualization
Network Virtualization includes Virtual NIC's and Virtual Switches
SPARC Supercluster Architecture- Infiniband is 5x-8x faster than most common Enterprise interconnects
Infiniband has been leveraged with storage and clustering in software
- Flash is faster than Rotating Media
Integrated into the Memory AND Storage Hierarchy
SPARC 5 Year Roadmap- SPARC T3 delvered in 2010
- SPARC VII+ delivered in 2010
- Solaris 11 and SPARC T4 to be delivered in 2011
Next generation of mission critical enterprise computing- Engineer software with hardware products
- Deliver clusters for general purpose computing
- Enormous levels of scale
- Built in virtualization
- Built in Security
- Built in management tools
- Very Very high availability
- Tested with Oracle software
- Supported with Gold Level standard
- Customers spend less time integrating and start delivering services on systems engineered with highest performance components
