New Generation of SPARC Processors Boosting Oracle S/W Angelo Rajadurai

Infrastructure
‫אדון‬ ‫מלאכי‬-‫מלך‬

Infrastructure
Angelo Rajadurai

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Agenda
 Oracle SPARC T5
– Oracle hardware strategy
– Leading Performance for all Enterprise Applications
 Oracle Super Cluster T5-8
 Innovative Roadmap and Product Portfolio

Oracle SPARC Hardware Strategy
•Long-term Roadmap. Software in Silicon.INNOVATION
Leadership in all Enterprise Business ApplicationsPERFORMANCE
Simplified Administration, Designed-in Virtualization,
Scalable Data Management, Advanced Protection
BUILT FOR CLOUD
COMPUTING
Only Oracle provides a true integrated stack with
management visibility throughout the software and
hardware layers
INTEGRATED
SOFTWARE AND
HARDWARE STACK

SPARC Solaris Investment at Oracle
 Investment in Systems Hardware is Increasing since acquisition
– Over 2000 engineers work directly on SPARC products
– Over 1500 engineers work directly on Oracle Solaris
 Delivery to 5 Year Roadmap is on or ahead of schedule
– T5 is the Third Generation of SPARC delivered since Oracle/SUN Merger
– Six Oracle Solaris releases included Oracle Solaris 11: The First Cloud OS
 Complete “Red” Stack Integration
– Comprehensive Oracle Solaris, Oracle VM for SPARC, SPARC, Ops Center, Oracle SW testing
– Engineered Systems with SPARC SuperCluster
– Oracle Solaris 11.1 unique support for Oracle DB and Java
– Software-in-Silicon/Application Accelerators
SPARC: Scalable Processor Architecture. Solaris: #1 UNIX

SPARC T5-2
SPARC T5-4
SPARC T4-1B SPARC T4-1
SPARC T4-2 SPARC T4-4
SPARC T5-2
SPARC T5-8
Best Enterprise Portfolio
Entry Level Mid-Range High-End
SPARC
M5-32
NewNew

SPARC T5
Oracle SPARC T5 Processor
 16 S3 cores @ 3.6GHz
 8MB shared L3 Cache
 8 DDR3 BL8 Schedulers providing
80 GB/s BW
 8-way 1-hop glueless scalability
 Integrated 2x8 PCIe Gen 3
 Advanced Power Management
with DVFS
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
SPARC
Core
Cross BarMCU
Coherence
L3 L3 L3 L3
L3 L3 L3 L3
SerDes
SerDesSerDes MI/O
SerDes
SerDes
MCU MCU MCU
PCIe Gen3
Pwr

17 World
Record
Benchmarks
Up to 8x faster
than IBM P780
SPARC T5 Servers
Scaling Higher and Faster
Delivering more
value for
enterprise
applications
SPARC T5 Processor
• 3.6 GHz with OOO execution
• Dedicated L2 128KB cache
• Shared L3 8MB cache
• 16 Cores with Private L2 Cache
• Dynamic Threading
• Built-in Virtualization
SPARC T5 Systems
• Up to 4 TB of memory
• Built-in, no-cost virtualization
• High-bandwidth and high-capacity I/O
• Enhanced Built-in Encryption
• Solaris binary compatibility
SPARC T5-4
SPARC T5-2
SPARC T5-1B
SPARC T5-8
 Starts at $26K (T5-1B) – Virtualization & Security included!
 Now scales linearly to 8 sockets in an 8RU enclosure
 Up to 2.3x performance compared to T4 servers

Key SPARC T5 System Advantages
Optimizing the Datacenter
Feature Attribute Benefit
3.6 GHz clock speed Faster single threaded processing
Shorter application boot times, rapid batch processing
for quicker results
Large memory footprint up to 4TB
Enables higher degree of
consolidation and virtuallization
Reduces need to procure extra compute power, lowers
cost of acquisition and operation
8-way scalability in 8 RU enclosure
Higher performance in a compact
sized system
Vastly improved TCO for tech refresh and consolidation
projects
Secure Live Migration with Oracle VM
Server for SPARC
Availability and Serviceability
Customers can reduce downtime when servicing of
systems components is needed
Built-in Virtualization with Oracle VM
Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris
Zones
Flexible logical partitioning and live
application mobility
Improved uptimes for critical services and higher system
utilization rates
Oracle Solaris 11
and Oracle Solaris 10 01/13
Simplified Administration,
Built in Virtualization,
Advanced Protection,
Scalable Data Management
Faster system updates and reboots to shrink
maintenance windows and recovery time. Secure
multitenant virtualized environments with compliance
reporting. Built-in data services save licensing fees

Oracle SPARC Solaris Portfolio
13
Oracle Solaris Advantage for SPARC T5 Servers
Oracle Solaris 11
Higher Performance
Zero overhead virtualization
4x faster software updates
8x faster Oracle Database startup/shutdown
Bigger Data
128 bit ZFS default file system
10x storage savings for virtualized
environments, 2x storage compression
Industry’s first FedFS for cloud management
Greater Application Consolidation
Scale to 1000s of Oracle Solaris Zones
Secure multitenant virtualization

Oracle SPARC Portfolio
2012 T-Series
 High Performance
 Big Data
 Great Application Consolidation
SPARC T4-1
8-cores @ 2.85GHz
512GB Memory
SPARC T4-2
16-cores @ 2.85GHz
1TB Memory
SPARC T4-4
32-cores @ 3GHz
2TB Memory
SPARC T4-1B
8-cores T4-1B /
512GB Memory

Oracle SPARC Portfolio
2013 T-Series
 Higher Performance
 Bigger Data
 Greater Application Consolidation
SPARC T4-1B
8-cores T4-1B /
512GB Memory
SPARC T4-1
8-cores @ 2.85GHz
512GB Memory
SPARC T4-2
16-cores @ 2.85GHz
1TB Memory
SPARC T4-4
32-cores @ 3GHz
2TB Memory
SPARC T5-4
64-cores @ 3.6GHz
2TB Memory
SPARC T5-8
128-cores @ 3.6GHz
4TB Memory
SPARC T5-2
32-cores @ 3.6GHz
512GB Memory
SPARC T5-1B
16-cores T5-1B
256GB Memory

SPARC T5-8 Datacenter Server
The Industry’s First Multithreaded Enterprise Datacenter Server for
Mission Critical Workloads
 Compute
– 8x SPARC T5 16-core CPU (1024 threads); partially populated
configurations to be supported in the future
– 128x DDR3 DIMMs; 2TB (16GB DIMM) or 4TB (32GB DIMM) total
system memory
 I/O and Storage
– 16x PCIe 3.0 x8 slots, with PCIe hot plug carriers
– 4x 10GbE ports
– 8x 2.5” SAS 3.0 or SSD drives
 Availability and Management
– RAID 0/1, Hot-swap fans & PSUs
– Hot-plug Disks, PCIe cards
– Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager Service Processor
– Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

Fastest Server for Database
The Server for the Flash-Storage Revolution
IBM Power 780
3 Node Cluster – AIX
$5,830,000
7XOracle
Advantage
Database
$620,000
Oracle SPARC T5-8
Oracle Solaris
See benchmark disclosure slide
Server Cost

Fastest Server for Middleware
Faster, More Efficient Application Infrastructure
IBM P780
AIX
16,646
$990,000
12XOracle
Advantage
EjOPs 57,422
$270,000
Oracle SPARC T5-8
Oracle Solaris
SPARC T5-8, 57,422.17 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; IBM Power 780, 16,646.34 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS.
See benchmark disclosure slideSee benchmark disclosure slide
Server Cost

Fastest Raw Performance
Basic Benchmark, Outstanding Results
IBM P780
AIX
2,770
$1,900,000
9XOracle
Advantage
SPECint_rate 2006 3,750
$270,000
Oracle SPARC T5-8
Oracle Solaris
Comparable Configurations See benchmark disclosure slideSee benchmark disclosure slide
Server Cost

Fastest Mid-range Server for SAP
IBM Power 780
AIX
202,180 SAPs
Oracle
Advantage
SAP-SD 2-Tier 220,950 SAPs
Oracle SPARC T5-8
Oracle Solaris
See benchmark disclosure slideSee benchmark disclosure slide

COMPANY
• International financial services provider
optimizing datacenter with Oracle SPARC
• Testing SPARC T5-8 as a new mid-range
system with high scalability
OPPORTUNITY
• Proven faster real time streaming performance
with SPARC T5-8 over IBM Power 780
• Opportunity to displace IBM Power systems
based on price/performance superiority
RESULTS
• 6x larger available CPU headroom
• 5x space reduction based on rack unit capacity
• 7x lower server cost based on comparative
server pricing
SPARC T5-8 Beats IBM Power 780 in Real-time Streaming Performance
Financial Services Provider
0 2 4 6 8
Floor Space
CPU Headroom
Server Cost
SPARC T5-8
POWER 780

SPARC T5-4 Enterprise Server
 Compute
– 4x SPARC T5 16-core CPU (512 threads); partially populated
configurations to be supported in the future
– 64x DDR3 DIMMs; 1TB (16GB DIMMs) or 2TB
(32GB DIMMs) total system memory
 I/O and Storage
– 16x PCIe 3.0 x8 slots, with carrier cards
– 4x 10GbE ports
 Availability and Management
– RAID 0/1, Hot-swap fans & PSUs
– Hot-plug Disks, PCIe cards
4-Socket Enterprise-Class Datacenter Server for Consolidation and
Mission Critical Applications

COMPANY
• Large Oracle SPARC installed base financial
institution software ISV
• Requirement to reduce data center costs and
consolidate
OPPORTUNITY
• Redefine SPARC T5-8 as the new mid-range
system with proven performance against IBM
• Replace IBM Pure Flex with SPARC T5-8 higher
performance and better response times
RESULTS
• 8x price/performance advantage over IBM Pure
Flex
• 6x performance increase based on utilization
• 4x higher performance per core
• 4x additional agents supported
• 1.3x better application response times
Impressive Throughput Improvement of Core Banking Application
Core Banking Applications
0 2 4 6
Utilization
Performance/Core
Application Response Times
SPARC T5-8
IBM Pure Flex

SPARC T5-2 Mid-Range Server
 Compute
– 2 SPARC T5 16-core 3.6GHz CPUs (256 threads)
– 32x DDR3 DIMMs; 256GB (8GB DIMMs) or 512GB
(16GB DIMMs) total system memory
 I/O and storage
– 8x PCIe 3.0 slots
– 4x 10GbE ports
 Availability and management
– RAID 0/1
– Redundant, hot-plug fans and power supplies
2-Socket Datacenter Back-Office Server

Real World Java Benchmark
Faster than x86
1.9X
Oracle
Advantage Oracle SPARC T5-2
2 socket
Add in Jops
75,658
66,007
HP DL560p Sandy Bridge
4 socket
SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS

Fastest Server for Siebel
ERP at a Fifth of the Cost
IBM Power 750
AIX
$548,812
7XOracle
Advantage
$135,516
Oracle SPARC T5-2
Oacle Solaris
176,185 Tx/hr 333,339 Tx/hrSiebel PSPP
Server Cost

Oracle T5
Investment Protection
Your existing SPARC
apps just run.

SPARC Solaris Investment Protection
 Preserve existing investment
– Move older Oracle Solaris environments forward
– P2V and V2V tools make it easy
 Applications since 1997 guaranteed to work
– Plus source code compatibility for developers
Safe, Easy Consolidation On SPARC T5 and SPARC T4 Servers
Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Oracle Solaris 10Oracle Solaris 11
Solaris 11 Zone
Solaris 10
Zone
Solaris 8
Zone
Solaris 9
Zone
Solaris 10
Zone

Agenda
 Oracle SPARC T5

Powered By The World’s Fastest Processor
T5 Improvements Over T4
 2X cores
 Higher clock speed
 2.5X memory bandwidth
 2X cache
System Improvements
 5X memory bandwidth
 4X I/O bandwidth
 2X memory capacity
 5X application performance
17+WORLD RECORD
BENCHMARKS
Oracle SPARC T5

Oracle SuperCluster T5-8
 The best system for
running databases and
applications
 Ideal for consolidation
and cloud
 Best for IBM/HP and
SPARC refreshes and
new deployments
Oracle’s Fastest Engineered System
COMPLETE
Servers
Storage
Software
Networking
+
+

What is Oracle SuperCluster T5-8?
 2x SPARC T5-8
– Each with same performance as an IBM Power 780+
 288TB Exadata & 60TB ZFS Storage
– 16.8TB Flash Cache
– Executes Oracle Database and I/O operations
 Low Latency Network Fabric
– Massive bandwidth enabling the fastest network
 Management Software
– Cloud ready, zero overhead virtualization
Best of Breed Technology Engineered to Work Together

The New SuperCluster T5-8
 2,272 CPU Threads
 4.7 TB DRAM
 356 TB Hard Disk
 16.8 TB Flash
 1.2M IOPS
 62 GB/SEC Storage Bandwidth
 960 Gbps Infiniband Interconnect
Fastest Servers. Fastest Storage. Fastest Network.

SuperCluster T5-8 Product Enhancements
Compared to SuperCluster T4-4
33%
STORAGE CAPACITYPERFORMANCE
2.5X

SuperCluster T5-8
Complete: Servers, Storage, Networking and Software. Optimized. Ready to Run.
Infiniband
COMPARED TO SUPERCLUSTER T4-4
3X
PRICE/
PERFORMANCE

Agenda
 Oracle SPARC T5

Investing in Systems Leadership
2010
ACQUIRE OPTIMIZE
2011
FOCUS
2012
COMPETE
2013
ACCELERATE
SPARC T3
SPARC T-Series
IBM
SPARC T4
SPARC T5
Oracle
+100% performance
each generation
IBM Power & x86
+30–50% performance
each generation
x86
Future
3 Years of
Investment
Technology
Leadership

Oracle SPARC Processor Roadmap
Solaris 11 Update
Solaris 10
Solaris 11 Update
Solaris 10 Update
Solaris 11 Update
Solaris 10
Solaris 11 Update
Solaris 10
Solaris 11
Solaris 10 U10
T4
+1x Throughput
+5x Thread Strength
In Test
M-Series
+6x Throughput
+1.5x Thread Strength
In the Lab
M-Series
+2x Throughput
>1x Thread Strength
M-Series
+2x Throughput
In Test
T-Series
+2.5x Throughput
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Delivered T-Series
+2x Throughput
Oracle Application
Accelerators
Database Query
Compression
Encryption
Cluster Interconnect
Application Data Protection
Public SPARC roadmap as of September 2012

Required Benchmark Disclosure Statement
 Copyright 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Results as of 3/26/2013.
 TPC Benchmark C, tpmC, and TPC-C are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). SPARC T5-8 (8/128/1024) with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition
with Partitioning, 8,552,523 tpmC, $0.55 USD/tpmC, available 9/25/2013, New Order 90th% Response Time 0.410sec. IBM Power 780 Cluster (24/192/768) with DB2 ESE 9.7, 10,366,254 tpmC,
$1.38 USD/tpmC, available 10/13/2010, New Order 90th% Response Time 2.10 sec. IBM x3850 X5 (4/40/80) with DB2 ESE 9.7, 3,014,684 tpmC, $0.59 USD/tpmC, available 7/11/2011. IBM x3850 X5
(4/32/64) with DB2 ESE 9.7, 2,308,099 tpmC, $0.60 USD/tpmC, available 5/20/2011. IBM Flex x240 (2/16/32) with DB2 ESE 9.7, 1,503,544 tpmC, $0.53 USD/tpmC, available 8/16/2012. IBM Power
780 (2/8/32) with IBM DB2 9.5, 1,200,011 tpmC, $0.69 USD/tpmC, available 10/13/2010. Source: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc, results as of 3/26/2013.
 SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjEnterprise are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 3/26/2013. SPARC T5-8,
57,422.17 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; SPARC T4-4, 40,104.86 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; Sun Server X2-8, 27,150.05 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; Cisco UCS B440 M2, 26,118.67
SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; IBM Power 780, 16,646.34 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. SPARC T3-4 9456.28 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. SPARC T5-8 (SPARC T5-8 Server base package,
8xSPARC T5 16-core processors, 128x16GB-1066 DIMMS, 2x600GB 10K RPM 2.5. SAS-2 HDD, 4x Power Cables) List Price $268,742. IBM Power 780 (IBM Power 780:9179 Model MHB, 4x3.8GHz
16-core, 64x one processor activation, 4xCEC Enclosure with IBM Bezel, I/O Backplane and System Midplane,16x 0/32GB DDR3 Memory (4x8GB) DIMMS-1066MHz Power7 CoD Memory, 12x
Activation of 1 GB DDR3 Power7 Memory, 5x Activation of 100GB DDR3 Power7 Memory, 1x Disk/Media Backplane. 2x 146.8GB SAS 15K RPM 2.5. HDD (AIX/Linux only), 4x AC Power Supply
1725W) List Price $992,023. Source: Oracle.com and IBM.com, collected 03/18/2013.
 SPEC & the benchmark name SPECjbb are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). Results as of 3/26/2013, see http://www.spec.org for more information.
SPARC T5-2 75,658 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 23,334 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Sun Server X2-4 65,211 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 22,057 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM
critical-jOPS. Sun Server X3-2 41,954 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 13,305 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. SPARC T4-2 34,804 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 10,101
SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. HP ProLiant DL560p Gen8 66,007 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 16,577 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 40,047
SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 12,308 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Supermicro X8DTN+ 20,977 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 6,188 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. HP
ProLiant ML310e Gen8 12,315 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 2,908 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Intel R1304BT 6,198 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 1,722 SPECjbb2013-
MultiJVM critical-jOPS.
 Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application benchmarks SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 as of 3/26/13:SPARC M5-32 (32 processors, 192 cores, 1536 threads)
85,050 SAP SD users, 32 x 3.6 GHz SPARC M5, 4 TB memory, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Solaris 11, Cert# 2013009. SPARC T5-8 (8 processors, 64 cores, 1024 threads) 40,000 SAP SD users,
8 x 3.6 GHz SPARC T5, 2 TB memory, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Solaris 11, Cert# 2013008. IBM Power 760 (8 processors, 48 cores, 192 threads) 25,488 SAP SD users, 8 x 3.41 GHz IBM
POWER7+, 1024 GB memory, DB2 10, AIX 7.1, Cert#2013004. Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application benchmarks SAP Enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 as of
4/30/12:IBM Power 795 (32 processors, 256 cores, 1024 threads) 126,063 SAP SD users, 32 x 4 GHz IBM POWER7, 4 TB memory, DB2 9.7, AIX7.1, Cert#2010046. SPARC Enterprise Server M9000
(64 processors, 256 cores, 512 threads) 32,000 SAP SD users, 64 x 2.88 GHz SPARC64 VII, 1152 GB memory, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Solaris 10, Cert# 2009046. SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG
in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark
 SPEC and the benchmark names SPECfp, SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of March 26, 2013 from www.spec.org and this
report. SPARC T5-8: 3750 SPECint_rate2006, 3490 SPECint_rate_base2006, 3020 SPECfp_rate2006, 2770 SPECfp_rate_base2006; SPARC T5-1B: 467 SPECint_rate2006, 436
SPECint_rate_base2006, 369 SPECfp_rate2006, 350 SPECfp_rate_base2006. IBM Power 780 8-chip 3.92GHz: 2770 SPECint_rate2006. IBM Power 710 Express 1-chip 3.556GHz: 289
SPECint_rate2006.
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