Linux Everywhere? Matching the Workload to the Computer

1 Red Hat Summit 2009 | Dr. Robert Sutor, IBM

Linux Everywhere?
Matching the Workload to the Computer

Dr. Robert Sutor
VP, Open Source and Linux, IBM SWG

September 2, 2009


Agenda

Linux, and

Building a smarter planet, that is increasingly:

Instrumented

Interconnected

Intelligent
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Matching workloads to platforms
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Virtualization

Horizontal clusters and grids

Vertical symmetrical multiprocessing
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Centralized computing
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Cloud computing


Building a smarter planet
“Every human being, company, organization, city, nation,
natural system and manmade system is becoming
interconnected, instrumented and intelligent.

This is leading to new savings and efficiency—but perhaps
as important, new possibilities for progress.”

The world is
flatter.

The world is Because it can.
smaller. Because it must.
The world is Because we want it to.
getting smarter.


An instrumented planet, and Linux
What’s new?
•
Powerful computing on ubiquitous handheld devices and
netbooks

Fedora Moblin Android
•
Embedded sensors provide a wealth of data, much of it
realtime

Linux brings: Small size, modularity, and the ability to run
on multiple platforms

An interconnected world, and Linux
What’s new?
•
High speed, reliable connectivity with ubiquitous access

•
Ability to optimize mix of personal computing and
shared access to big computing

Linux brings: Crossplatform portability, scalability, and
much of the fabric of the internet


Impire AG
Sports television company providing intelligent, realtime 3D graphics and statistics for
professional sporting events to TV broadcast companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

✱ Business Challenge
– Needed highperformance database platforms providing management, processing

and mining of data for instantaneous play analysis and statistical content

✱ Solution
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux

– IBM BladeCenter

– IBM Informix Dynamic Server

– IBM DB2 Alphablox

– IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Edition

– IBM WebSphere Portal Express

✱ Benefits
– Improved ability to provide information on demand

– Higher system availability and reliability

– Faster and more indepth analysis with data mining

– Improved employee productivity

– Better collaboration with employees and customers


An intelligent world, and Linux
What’s new?
•
Vast and increasing amounts of data not yet interpreted

•
Scalable computing power available on demand

Linux brings: Supercomputing power at affordable cost,
parallel computing clusters, stream computing


IBM and Linux take on “Jeopardy!”
Challenges include:

variety of subjects

speed of responses when
competing against humans

“subtlety” of the questions
Two years to develop “question
answering” system that determines
precise answers to natural
language questions, and computes
accurate confidences in the
answers
“Watson” system incorporates
massively parallel analytical
systems, and is not connected to
the internet or other outside help.


Matching the workload to the computing platform

Small computing: (portability, personal use)

Big computing: Scalability, resilience,
flexibility, manageability

Shared access to big computing, where
appropriate and costeffective

Different ways to achieve this …


Virtualization helps you rightsize your
computing
IBM has been doing virtualization for more than 40 years

Originally developed to make better use of critical
hardware

IBM runs Linux as a virtualized OS across entire
hardware portfolio

Innovation continues
VMware Xen KVM

PLPAR PHYP

CP/CMS VM/370 VM/ESA Z/VM

1967 1972 1990 2000 2002 2009


Virtualization can mean different things
Trap and Emulate Translate, Trap, and Emulate
Virt Mach Virt Mach • VM runs in user mode
• VM runs in user mode
Load • All privileged instructions Load • Some IA32 instructions must
Add cause traps Add be replaced with trap ops
Store Store
PrivOp Trap Hypervisor PrivOp TrapOp Trap Hypervisor PrivOp
Load emulation code Load emulation code
... ...
Examples: CP67, VM/370 Examples: VMware, Microsoft VS
Benefits: Runs unmodified OS Benefits: Runs unmodified, translated OS
Issues: Substantial overhead Issues: Substantial overhead

Hypervisor Calls (“Paravirtualization”) Direct Hardware Virtualization
Virt Mach Virt Mach • VM runs in normal modes
• VM runs in normal modes
Load Load
• Hardware does most of the
• OS in VM calls hypervisor
Add Add virtualization (SIE architecture)
to access real resources
• Hypervisor provides control
Store Store
Hcall Call Hypervisor PrivOp
Exit Hypervisor Hypervisor calls
Load service Load
service also supported
... ...
Examples: POWER Hypervisor, Xen Examples: System z LPAR, z/VM, KVM, HyperV
Benefits: High efficiency Benefits: High efficiency, runs unmodified OS
Issues: OS must be modified to issue Hcalls Issues: Requires underlying hardware support


Horizontal Clusters and Grids

Large numbers of loosely coupled similar systems

x86, some RISC

Suitable for parallel tasks

Low cost, high performance

Low update to query ratio

Typical workloads
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Web serving

Analyzing trends

Developing new drugs

Sample industries
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Financial Services

Life Sciences

Education

Media and Entertainment


Astellas Pharma, Inc.
A worldwide pharmaceutical company in Japan reduces operation time for new drugs from one
year to one month, increasing research efficiency with IBM and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

✱ Company Profile
– Based in Japan, Astellas Pharma Inc. is a global company involved in

manufacturing, marketing, importing and exporting pharmaceuticals.

✱ Business Challenge
– Ongoing changes in the pharmaceutical industry have had a major

impact on drug discovery
– Government requirements on pharmaceutical effectiveness, safety, and

ADME disposition have dramatically increased
– In 10 years, the number of chemical compounds to be screened out

has increased 1,000%

✱ Solution

– IBM BladeCenter, IBM System x HS20 blades

✱ Benefits
– Drug discovery simulation time reduced from one year to one month,

ensuring much greater productivity for Astellas’ research staff
– High efficiency and space savings drive infrastructure savings


Vertical Symmetrical MultiProcessing

High performance systems with shared resources

RISC, some x86

Suitable for transactional and database tasks

High update to query ratio

Virtualization increasingly important

Typical workloads

Centralized databases

ERP, CRM, SCM applications

Computeintensive applications

Sample industries

Manufacturing

Transportation

Banking

Government


Volkswagen AG
Consolidation and virtualization improves efficiency, competitiveness

Business challenge

76 standalone competitive UNIX servers with different web application middleware
supported several Volkswagen applications. These were difficult to scale as needed,
driving up maintenance costs and lowering efficiency.

Volkswagen was determined to find a more manageable and scalable underlying
hardware and software solution capable of enabling it to reduce total cost of
ownership while boosting competitiveness.

Solution

Consolidate from 76 servers down to six System p5 570 servers and the migration of
77 web based applications running a mixture of Red Hat Linux and AIX

IBM also helped standardize the company’s operational processes and WebSphere
middleware stack.

Benefits

Significantly reduced the complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO) of its global IT
infrastructure

Enables the automobile manufacturer to more quickly respond to changing market
conditions

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Centralized Computing

Massively consolidated systems

Mainframes, some RISC

Suitable for mixed workloads

High utilization, reliability, security, energy efficiency

Virtualization essential

Typical workloads

Web Commerce, Web Applications

ERP, CRM applications

Consolidation of multiple applications

Sample industries

Banking

Insurance

Energy

Telecomms


Bank of New Zealand
A bank uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux on System z10 to reduce their carbon
footprint, and address datacenter cost and capacity concerns
The Bank of New Zealand reduce their datacenter footprint by 30%, heat
output by 33%, carbon footprint by 39%, and expects a 20% ROI

The Challenge

A datacenter with 200 Sun servers was at capacity
“Deploying IBM mainframes

Bank of New Zealand needed to grow, reduce with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
emissions and costs, become more open, and seeks
to become carbonneutral by 2010 to address our carbon footprint
and cost savings concerns

The Solution was a very big deal,

Consolidate 200 Sun servers down to just 1 IBM especially at the
System z10 mainframe running Red Hat Enterprise senior management level.”
Linux

The Benefit
Lyle Johnston

Bank of New Zealand reduced power consumption by Infrastructure Architect
close to 40%, heat output by 33% Bank of New Zealand


Just one administrator is needed per 200 virtual
servers

New environments are deployed in minutes, not days
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Salt River Project
Utility company in central Arizona: more than 4,000 employees, serving over 925,000 customers,
covering 2900 square miles
✱ Challenge
– Deliver everimproving contributions to the people SRP servers through the

provision of lowcost, reliable water and power, and community programs
– Reduce server sprawl of distributed HPUX systems

– Increase utilization, flexibility and management

– Consolidate workloads and run more workloads per server

✱ Solution

– IBM System z mainframe

– Red Hat Network Satellite

✱ Benefits
– Stable and predictable solution, easily managed via Red Hat Network Satellite

– Cost savings through eliminating license costs


Cloud Computing

Shared, scalable systems

x86, RISC, Mainframes

Suitable for mixed workloads

Dynamic provisioning

Virtualization essential

Typical workloads

Infrastructure

Development and Test

Collaboration

Sample industries

Banking

Software development

Universities

Government


China Services Cloud – A Cloud for Developers
Goal
“IBM has its vision to help the
• Stimulate software startup company growth
Chinese government, as well as the
• Launch new business models
company to use the resource in a
• Accelerate transformation to a servicesled
smarter way. Cloud computing is
economy
one of the most important platforms
that enables us to do so.” Paul Lu,
Pain Points CEO, Wuxi Lake Tai Cloud
• Efficiently provide software development and test Computing Service
tools to software startup companies
• Provide competitive services to internet users

Benefits
• Accelerates development and test cycles through
quick resource onboarding
• Public cloud: Access through internet or secure
connection
• Virtualized, secure, network isolated environments
with Rational development and test tools IBM CloudBurst
• Backup/restore capabilities with Tivoli Storage
Management to protect customer assets


Matching the Workload to the Linux Computer


Linux runs on more processors than anything else

Flexibility

Scalability

Availability of skills and applications

Choose the right computer for the workload, not vice
versa

Personal vs. Shared

Local vs. Remote

Ownership vs. Cost

Small is beautiful, and …

…big is beautiful as well

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NOTES:
Linux penguin image courtesy of Larry Ewing (lewing@isc.tamu.edu) and The GIMP
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