Iseries Presentation

8/17/2019 Iseries Presentation

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What you wanted to know about the iSeries

hardware POWER 5, POWER 6 and POWER 7

IBM Power Platform


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Myths Versus Reality

Is IBM i a dying platform, or still going strong?

Myth: Organizations are no longer investing in thisplatform. The install base is shrinking quickly.


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Reality: An Info-Tech survey found that only 4% of

organizations are planning to migrate away from IBM i,while 64% are planning to upgrade to new

hardware/software. (28% are staying with their current

version for the foreseeable future, while 3% are

exploring Managed Services/Hosting providers.)


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Myth: IBM i and its Power Systems hardware platform areold technology.


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Reality: IBM has consistently delivered new Power-

based processors every three years since 2001, and hasconsistently introduced new features ahead of mostcompetitors (e.g., 64-bit processing since 1995, andvirtualization via logical partitioning since 1988).


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Myth: IBM i (and its predecessors such as the

iSeries) only run applications that provide green

screen interfaces.


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Reality: 39% of respondents to an Info-Tech surveyare running web applications on an IBM i/iSeriessystem. The release of IBM i v6.1 for Power Systems(in 2007) added support for languages such as Java,PHP, and C++, expanding the ability to providemodern interfaces.

In addition, development tools are available to

create modern, web-based interfaces for interactingwith a legacy application, making even RPG-basedsoftware accessible to tablets and smartphones.


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What is the canary in the mineshaft for IBM

Power Systems?


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The first sign that IBM i may in fact be dying andfollowing the path of OS/2 will be when major ISVs

stop supporting this platform.At this time, the ISV market is still strong, especiallywhere it matters for this platform — enterprisesoftware. IBM counts over 2,500 ISVs and 5,000

solutions available for Power Systems overall, andover 850 ISVs and 2,300 applications for IBM i 6.1and 7.1.


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IBM POWER 5

• Introduced in 2004, supported 2 cores

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Clock rate 1.5 Ghz to 2.3 Ghz• 130 nm to 90 nm Feature Size

• On the left a QCM with 4 POWER 5 chipsand 4 Level 3 cache memory of 36 Mb

• Power Architecture

• Microarchitecture Power PC

V2.02

• 276 million transistors and

has an area of 389 mm2


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IBM POWER 6

• Introduced in 2007

• Dual core processor, with each capableof SMT.

• Clock rate 3.5 Ghz to 4.7 Ghz

• 65 nm Feature Size


• Power ISA V2.05

• 790 million transistors and is

341 mm2


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POWER7® System RAS

Reliability, Availability, and

Serviceability

• Eight processor cores, 4 SMT threads

per core, 32 things at once!

• Integrated L3 cache

• Introduced in 2010


• Power ISA V2.06

•45nm technology

–567 mm2


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POWER 7 Proton Bombardment•

Because the real world can trip up the fastest computer, testing includes real world elements.• Solar flares, cosmic particles can cause temporary and permanent failures.

• Errors generated in memory, registers and on the processor are detected, avoided,

recomputed ands if necessary the component is taken out of service automatically and the

problem logged and service call placed.


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