Lenovo Dense Servers NeXtScale System Delivering Insight Faster Patrick Moakley, Director of Marketing – Flex and Dense Systems June 2015 2015 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Lenovo Dense ServersNeXtScale System Delivering Insight Faster
Patrick Moakley, Director of Marketing – Flex and Dense Systems
June 2015
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• Flexible and simple platform that delivers extreme density and easy scalability
• HPC capabilities for workloads in analytics, scientific, modeling and big data
• Scalable capabilities spanning small clusters to large grids
Lenovo dense servers
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nx360 M5 + PCI Expansion (NeX) with Graphics Processing Units (GPU’s)
NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure
NeXtScale nx360 M5 Node
Analytics Big Data
Modeling & Simulation
Scientific
High Performance Computing
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Lenovo NeXtScale System
• Make better decisions by running larger, more sophisticated models
• Spot trends faster and more effectively by reducing total time to results
• Manage Risk Better by increasing accuracy and visibility of models and datasets
• NeXtScale does this with efficient hardware, control beyond the server and powerful energy management
NeXtScale System provides the scale, flexibility and simplicity to help clients solve problems faster
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NeXtScale Highlights
Simple Addition of storage
and GPU’s
80% less racks per solution2
2Xthe density of 1U rack
servers40%
less weight per system1
90% fewer fans and
75% fewer power supplies than 1U rack servers
Less is More!
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Lenovo servers gain highest reliability rating
1 ITIC 2014-2015 Reliability Survey, May 2014, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/analyst-reports/XSL03126USEN.PDF 2 Based on percentage per install population of System x servers versus percentage per install population of HP ProLIant servers3 Based on percentage per install population of System x servers versus percentage per install population of Dell PowerEdge servers
ITIC Global Server Hardware, Reliability Report- 2014-2015
Downtime of more than four (4) hours on each server hardware platform (2014)
HP ProLiant has
10XFailure rate2HP Integrity
Fujitsu Primergy
IBM Power System i, p
13%10%
6%4%4%
3%3%3%
2%2%
1%1%
0%
Dell PowerEdgeHP ProLiant Servers
Oracle x86Oracle SPARC
Fujitsu SPARCToshiba Magnia
Fujitsu Priequest
Cisco UCS
Lenovo System x
IBM System z
Dell PowerEdge has
13XFailure rate3
#1 x86 server; #1 Reliability x86 Rating1
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Lenovo servers gain #1 customer satisfaction score
TBR Satisfaction Indices Rank
Overall Customer Satisfaction #1
Service Satisfaction #1
Product Satisfaction #1
Sales Responsiveness #1
1 TBR 1Q15 Customer Satisfaction Survey, May 2015, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/tbr_x86servers_top_csat_1q15_wp.pdf
#1for 13 out of 15 quarters for 22 elementsacross service, product and sales indices#1 Customer Satisfaction Rating1
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NeXtScale Value• Ultra-dense for customers who
want to quickly scale large numbers of systems
– 6U chassis with 12 node bays- Up to 84 servers per rack
• Streamlined “Essentials Only” design for extreme scalability
– Cost optimized chassis, server nodes and options- For customers who just need
“the basics”
• Optimized for power savings– Efficiency across chassis & nodes
- Lowers power consumed 8-18%
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Compute nodeNeXtScale nx360 M5
NeXtScale n1200 Chassis
Storage NeX nodenx360 M5 + Storage NeX
The NeXtScale infrastructure
Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 CPUs Up to 36 cores per node Dense Compute Energy Efficient DDR4 memory Investment Protection
Add RAID card + cable Dense 32TB in 1U Up to 8 x 3.5” HDDS Simple direct connect Mix and Match
PCI Nex node (GPU / Phi)nx360 M5 + PCI NeX
Add PCI riser + GPUs 2 x 300W GPU in 1U Full x16 Gen3 connect Mix and Match
One Architecture Optimized for Many Use Cases
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xCAT • Provides remote & unattended methods to
assist with Deploying, Updating, Configuring, and Diagnosing
ToolsCenter• Consolidated, integrated set of management tools• Powerful bootable media creator, FW updating
Platform Computing• Workloads managed seamlessly w/Platform LSF• Deploy clusters easily with Platform HPC
SDN Friendly• Networking direct to system; no integrated
proprietary switching• Support for 1/10/40Gb, InfiniBand, FCoE, & VFAs
UEFi and iMM• Standards-based hardware that combines
diagnostic and remote control; No embedded SW• Richer management experience and future-ready
OpenStack Ready• Deploy OpenStack with Chef or Puppet• Mirantis Fuel, SuSE Cloud, IBM SmartCloud
IPMI 2.0 Compliant• Use any IPMI compliant mgt. software –
Puppet, Avocent, IBM Director, iAMT, xCAT, etc.• OpenIPMI, ipmitool, ipmiutils, FreeIPMI
compatible
System Monitoring• Friendly with open source tools like Ganglia,
Nagios, Zenoss, etc.• Use with any RHEL/SuSE (and clones) or
Windows based tools.
Designed on Open StandardsDelivering Seamless Integration
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NeXtScale DetailsProduct Descriptions, Benefits, Differentiators, Features, Specifications
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Characteristics 6U, 12 half-wide bays – 2X the density
of standard rack servers Enclosure delivers power and cooling
only- no chassis management needed Mix and match servers, storage, GPU’s
and PCI cards to customize configs Power Optimized design saves 8-18%3
80 Plus Platinum power supplies Smart sharing of fans and PSUs Extreme efficiency voltage regulation
Larger, more efficient heat sinks
NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure
Simplified design for optimal scale
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NeXtScale: Built for Density and Scale
• Small and powerful– Smaller footprint servers– Pack 2X the servers into the same
floor/rack space- Saves on real estate costs
– Enclosure integrated power & cooling - 75% fewer PSU’s - Energy efficient
• Easy Scalability– Add nodes to the enclosure– Add enclosures to the rack– Add racks to the data center
12U24 Power Supplies
12 2P Rack Servers
6U6 Power Supplies
12 2P NeXtScale Servers
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Customer Benefits Simple, “essentials only” half-wide
design saves cost, weight, & rack space
NeX (Native Expansion) to easily add storage or PCI, like GPU’s
Front access KVM, networking for easier management & deployment
Front-access labeling tag for easier asset tracking and management
Choice of either 2 HS HDD’s or single PCI models
NeXtScale nx360 M5 Compute Node
nx360 M5
2 Hot-Swap SFF HDDs or
SSDs
Std full-high, half-length PCIe
3.0 Slot
Great things come in small packages
Analytics Big Data Modeling & Simulation
ScientificHPC
Target Workloads
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Simple: “Essentials Only” Design
Only includes the essentials Two production 1Gb Intel NICs; dedicated or shared 1Gb
for management Standard PCI card support Flexible ML2/Mezzanine for IO expansion Power, Basic LightPath, and KVM crash cart access Simple ‘pull out’ asset tag for naming or RFID Not painted black just left as silver Clean, simple, and low cost Blade like weight/size – rack server like individuality/control
NeXtScale delivers basic, performance centric IT“I can’t see my servers, don’t care what color they are”
“I don’t use 24 DIMMs why pay for a system to hold them?”
“I only need RAID mirror for OS don’t want extra HDD bays”
“I only need a few basic PCI/IO options”
NeXtScale nx360 M5
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Analytics Big Data Modeling & Simulation
ScientificHPC
Target Workloads
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NeXtScale PCI Native Expansion (NeX)
Half Wide, 1U Tall PCI Native Expansion (NeX) 2 full height full length PCI slots for GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi adapters GPUs support: NVIDIA K80, K40, GRID K1, GRID K2 Intel Xeon Phi support: 7120p Requires 1300W PSUs in n1200 chassis
CUSTOMER BENEFITS: Simply attach NeX to the top of the compute node Single architecture for compute, storage, and acceleration Low cost PCI NeX that can be attached to existing nodes Sweet spot GPU density with up to 2 per node
PCIe Nodenx360 M5 server
+PCIe Native Expansion
(NeX)1/2 Wide, 2U Tall
PCIe Native Expansion (NeX) with
GPU’s
Achieve extreme acceleration with GPUs
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Modeling & Simulation
ScientificHPC
Target Workloads
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NeXtScale Storage Native Expansion (NeX)
Half Wide, 1U Tall Storage Native Expansion (NeX)
7 additional 3.5” drives (Total of up to11 per node) Up to 12Gb/sec data transfer rate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6TB HDDs
CLIENT BENEFITS: Simply attach NeX to the top of the compute node Single architecture for compute, storage, and acceleration Sweet spot storage density with up to 66TB capacity Low cost RAID/Non RAID option (RAID 0,1,5) >2VMs/Core with up to 256GB memory density
Storage Nodenx360 M5 server
+Storage Native Expansion (NeX)
1/2 Wide, 2U Tall
Storage Native Expansion (NeX)
Dense Storage Node with up to 66TB per node disk capacity
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Analytics Big Data HPC
Target Workloads
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NeXtScale vs. Flex SystemLenovo offers dense systems to address different customer needs
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Target Workloads
NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure
6U/ 12 servers max, up to 6 PSU’s Integrated, shared power & cooling Networking on Nodes No management “Just the Basics” design 2P nodes only
Analytics Big Data Modeling & Simulation
ScientificHPC
Flex System Enterprise Chassis
10U/ 14 servers max, up to 6 PSU’s Integrated, shared power & cooling,
networking and chassis management Carrier-Grade option Highly integrated, next-decade design 2P, 4P and scalable to 8P nodes
Target Workloads
Virtualization DatabaseMission Critical
Cloud
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Leading HPC ISVs using NeXtScale as their platform of choice
HPC Solutions built on NeXtScale
Genomic Research - Easy to use, performance optimized solution architected for CLC bio Genomic Server and Workbench software.
Risk Management - Optimized high-performance solution for risk analytics
Modeling - high-performance simulation environment for Computational Fluid Dynamics and Structural Mechanical
Links to papers and reference architectures in footnote section
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Customer Reference: Caris Life Sciences Rapidly deploys a high-performance computing solution to advance
personalized care for patients
Client success summaryAs it worked to transform personalized cancer treatment, Caris Life Sciences needed to more efficiently process, analyze, manage and store terabytes of laboratory-generated data each day. The NeXtScale solution enabled Caris Life Sciences to speed up the quest for better treatment options for patients with an improved ability to make sense of vast, complex and ever-changing volumes of molecular data
“One of the key features of the architecture that attracted us to the NeXtScale System was the fully integrated information storage system. Couple that with the underlying core processing speed and you have a very robust system capable of doing a massive amount of multi-threaded analysis on this incredible dataset that we generate every day” — Dr. David Spetzler, Vice President of Research and Development, Caris Life Sciences
Solution components
Hardware
• NeXtScale System nx360 M4
Software
• IBM® General Parallel File System (GPFS™)
• IBM Platform™ HPC
Business Partner
• Re-Store
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Customer Reference: University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing
Building a high-performance computing landscape for multi-disciplinary research
Client success summaryThe Center for Research Computing (CRC) at the University of Notre Dame is an innovative and multidisciplinary research environment in data intensive areas spanning engineering, life and geospatial sciences. With the NeXtScale System cluster in place, the CRC is able to support exciting new research projects in a wide variety of fields. For example, as part of the multi-scale/multi-physics initiative, materials science researchers at Notre Dame are working on shockwave processing of advanced reactive materials.
““Over the past five years, our user-base has grown five-fold, from 300 to 1,500, and the number of cores in our cluster has grown from 8,000 to more than 20,000. The NeXtScale System gives us the platform we need to keep up with ever-growing demands.Dr. Jarek Nabrzyski, Director of the Center for Research Computing,University of Notre Dame
Solution components
Hardware
• NeXtScale System nx360 Nodes with Intel Xeon processors
• 10 Cores per CPU/20 per node
• 2GB of memory per node
• Mellanox FDR Infiband
Software
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.X
• Extreme Cluster/Cloud Administration Toolkit (xCAT)
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Customer Reference: STFC Hartree CentreAdvances UK business with high-performance computing on
NeXtScale System
Client success summaryThe Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a publicly funded research council based in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest multi-disciplinary research organizations in Europe. The STFC Hartree Centre needed a powerful, flexible server system with maximum usable density that could drive research in energy efficiency as well as economic impact for its clients By combining computing power with reduced energy use, the STFC Hartree Centre expects the NeXtScale System to drive its research in energy efficiency.
““We can do more in simulation and modeling than by traditional methods. And because we’re not creating a physical object, we can actually reduce the cost to the client. We anticipate that the NeXtScale System will give us a number of opportunities to tune software code to be more efficient, run faster and consume less energy,” Cliff Brereton, director of the STFC Hartree Centre.
Solution components
Hardware
• NeXtScale System nx360 M4 Nodes
• Intel Xeon processors
• System x GPFS Storage Server
Software
• IBM® Platform™ Computing
• IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS™)
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SummaryLenovo NeXtScale System was designed to be an ultra-dese solution for customer who
want large, affordable scalability, without frills or extras. NeXtScale delivers the affordability of rack servers with the power savings of a blade architecture, with better
density than both. NeXtScale delivers high-performance computing in a small package.
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Useful Links
Product Information Datasheets, brochures, Videos, Case Studies and Papers are all located in the Lenovo Server & Storage Resource Library lenovo.com
For more information contact your Lenovo sales
representative
• Caris Life Sciences Solution Case Studyand Video Overview• SFTC Hartree Case Study• University of Notre Dame CTC Case Study• CLC Bio solution brief and reference
architecture • Algorithmics analyst paper and reference
architecture• Ansys solution brief and reference architecture.
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Footnotes
1. As compared to a a traditional 1U server like HP DL360 Gen 8 Weight (maximum config) 17.69kg (39lbs) nominal configuration 13Kgs for comparison. Versus NeXtScale nx360 M4 (6 kg) + apportioned chassis (39kg/12 or 3.25kg) = 9.25kg maximum. 9.25 v 13= 40% more weight using 1Us versus NeXtScale nx36 M4for similar processing power.
2. Based on the comparison between an equivalently configured NeXtScale system with Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 over the June 2014 #99 entry on the Top500 (www.top500.org) which uses Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2.
3. 8-18% figure from the following:A. 80 Plus Platinum power supplies at over 94% efficiency – saves 3-10%B. Extreme efficiency voltage regulation – saves 2-3% C. Larger, more efficient heat sinks require less air – saves 1-2%D. Smart sharing of fans and power supplies reduce power consumption – saves 2-3%
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