Scalable Highest Performing Clusters at Value Pricing

Scalable Highest Performing Clusters at Value Pricing

Abstract:
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