Server technology for the Cloud: A new breed of Platforms

Hugh JenkinsHead of Enterprise, EMEAIP Expo, October 2010

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Agenda

• Revolution & Evolution

• What’s driving it?

• Mainstreaming Custom designs– C6100/C6105– C1100/2100 – Fortuna to Viking

• Special cases– Designing for extreme performance: GPGPU Arrays

• Impacts

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Evolutionary• Virtualization based• Infrastructure oriented• Incremental Efficiency

gains

Designing for 2 paths to Clouds: Revolutionary & Evolutionary

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Revolutionary• Platform based• Application oriented• ‘Leapfrog’ Efficiency

gains

Converged operations

Intelligent& automated

Variable OpEX

SimpleSelf-service

Flexible Cloud sourcing

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Learning from the RevolutionariesFrom DCS Classic to PowerEdge C

CUSTOMER'S APPLICATION

HYPERSCALE

SCALE

SINGLEMACHINE

APPLICATIONSHARDWARE

RESILIENCYAND

AVAILABILITY

STANDALONE

HA CLUSTERS

VIRTUAL FARMS

HPCC

CLOUD

POWEREDGECORE

POWEREDGEM

POWEREDGEC

DCSCLASSIC

BROAD USAGE MODELS SPECIALIZED CUSTOMIZED

DESIGN & FEATURES

20 customers1000’s of servers

1000 customers Up to 1000’s of

servers

PLEASE NOTE THE DIAGRAM IS CONCEPTUAL AND NOT TO SCALE

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Mainstreaming the C6100 & C6105CLOUD AND CLUSTER OPTIMIZED, SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE SERVER

High Compute Density• Up to 4 independent 2-socket

server nodes in a 2U chassis• Xeon 5600 ‘Westmere’ or

Opteron 4000 ‘Lisbon’ (<6W per core)

• 12 x DDR3 slots; 1 x16, 1 x8 PCIe G2

• Higher density than modular designs – double density of traditional 1U

High Storage Density• Up to 6 x 2.5” or 3 x 3.5” HDD’s

per node. • High per server spindle count in

shared chassis

Highly Serviceable• Each independent server node

is hot-serviceable• Redundant 1100W power

supplies (x2), 470W & 750W options

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Why PowerEdge C1100 & C2100?

Core Performance• Dual Xeon 5600 ‘Westmere’• High performance multicore design;

low power consumption options

Memory Footprint• 144GB with 8GB DIMMs – 18 slot• DIMM flexibility – More slots means

lower cost at high memory configurations

Spindle Flexibility• 4 x 3.5” or 10 x 2.5” HDD (C1100) • 12 x 3.5” HDD (C2100)• Greatest amount of drive flexibility –

total size and drive size options

Virtualization Performance• 2 x GbE Intel 82576 (Kawela)• VMDq - Virtualization support • Dedicated mgt port – relieves

congestion

HIGH MEMORY CLUSTER OPTIMIZED COMPUTE NODE

HIGH PERFORMANCE ANALYTICSAND CLOUD SERVER

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Fortuna to Viking SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY

AND DENSITY

• 4x density of traditional 1U servers• 60% more dense than blades• 30% less cost to cool than comparable

1U servers• Shared infrastructure consumes less

floor space, power and cooling• 92% efficient hot-plug redundant power

supplies

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Power Envy

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Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager

• Available for PowerEdge C6100

• Server Power Capping

• Monitor & Cap dynamically

• Scale capping across server estate

• Power/Performance throttling Demo on

Dell StandManaging

C6100 Cloud Server

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Hot Markets

HPC WEB 2.0 & GAMING

CLOUD BUILDERS

PRIVATE CLOUDS• FINANCE

OIL & GAS• FEDERAL/NAT. LABS• HI-ED• EDA, RENDERING

• HOSTING 2.0• SYSTEM INTEGRATORS• TELCOS• NEW CLOUD

ENTRANTS

MAINSTREAM IT IN LE AND PUB

1.OPTIMIZEDHARDWARE

2.CLOUD SOFTWARESTACK

3.CLOUDSERVICES

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SCALABLE INFRASTRUCTURE POWEREDGE C (POWEREDGE, R/T/M, EQUALOGIC, POWERVAULT

Dell Cloud Solution for Web Apps

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CLOUD PARTNER PROGRAM: GREENPLUM, ASTER DATA, CANONICAL

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PowerEdge C410x Extreme Performance Expansion Chassis

PCIe EXPANSION CHASSIS CONNECTING 1-4 SERVERS TO 1-16 PCIe

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See Results Faster• 16.5 TFLOPs of compute throughput in SP

performance per host• Configs up to 16 GPUs to set right ratio to

maximize application performance

Mix and Match Flexibility• Enables 1-8 external hosts to attach to up to

16 PCIe devices• PCIe devices include GPUs, IB cards, Flash

Drives

Highly Serviceable• Provides to 3x the uptime of competing

chassis• Hot-add serviceable GPUs• Hot-plug redundant power supplies/fans

Vital Statistics• 3 U chassis, 19” wide, 143 lbs.• PCIe modules: 10 front, 6 rear; 225W/ module• PCIe inputs: 8PCIe x16 IPASS ports• GPUs supported: NVIDIA M1060, M2050;

M2070• Serviceable PCI module capable of supporting

any HH/HL or FH/HL cards• Thermals: high-efficiency 92mm fans; N + 1

fan redundancy• Hot-plug power supplies: 4 x 1400W hot-plug

GPU+CPU computing enables results, faster …• Standard dual socket 1U server = 80

GigaFlops• Standard dual socket 1U server + 1 NVIDIA

Tesla M2050 GPU (Fermi) = 652 GigaFlops

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Today’s data center complexity

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Design & Deploy: 18-24

months

Data center size: 465 M2

Dedicated

Fabric dependent

Utilization < 10%

Many architectures

Layered networks

Scale up

PUE = 2.0+

300 Svrs/admin

1000+ connection

points

Commissioned: 1-3 months

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Tomorrow’s data center opportunity

Dedicated

Fabric dependent

Utilization < 10%

Many architecture

Layered networks

Scale up

PUE = 2.0+

300 Svrs/admin

Virtual

Virtualized

Utilization > 60%

Standardized

Converged

Scale out

PUE < 1.2

3000 Svrs/admin

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Commissioned: 1-2 Days

Modular Data Centre size: 10 M2

Design & Deploy: 6 months

Virtually Integrated

System

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Thank You!

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Servers technology for the Cloud: A new breed of Platforms

• THURSDAY 21ST October 2010 15:10pm – 15.40pm

• Cloud Infrastructure Theatre - Seminar Slot

• Title: Servers technology for the Cloud: A new breed of Platforms

• PRESENTER: Hugh Jenkins (Head EMEA Enterprise Solutions) - Dell  

• Synopsis: This session explores the revolutionary changes taking place in server design, driven by the revolutionary business models driven by the largest cloud providers. These designs are now filtering into mainstream use for customers building their own cloud platforms. Those designs will be explored, as well as management tools for cloud infrastructure