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IBM BladeCenter® QS21

August 29
th
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Contents


Cell/B.E.™ technology is gaining traction



The Cell/B.E. processor



IBM BladeCenter QS21 and SDK 3.0



Industries and workloads



Other offerings


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From chip to production
-
ready system in 2 years

2005

2006

2007

Revealed first
Cell/B.E.

specs

IBM SDK for
Multicore
Acceleration 3.0
announced

BladeCenter QS21
and

Cell/B.E. solutions for High Performance Computing

Cell/B.E. technology is gaining market acceptance

Announced
Cell/B.E.

processor
commercialization
with Sony

SDK 1.0 (beta)

•
Linux® OS

•
C compiler

SDK 1.1 (beta)

•
GNU toolchain

•
Performance
enhancements

•
Linux® OS

•
C compiler

SDK 2.0 (beta)

•
IDE

•
Library
enhancements

•
GNU toolchain

•
Performance
enhancements

•
Linux updates

•
XL C/C++

Announced
commercialization of IBM
Cell/B.E. system

Introduced the first
Cell/B.E. based system
BladeCenter QS20

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Building a Cell/B.E. ecosystem


Customer solution enablement

–
IBM is working with 24 customers to enable and optimize key applications for Cell/B.E. technology

–
IBM is working with 30 ISVs/Partners to enable and optimize key products for Cell/B.E.
technology



Tools and library enablement on Cell/B.E.

–
Over 10 code libraries have been ported for Cell/B.E.

–
Over 5 ISV products are running on Cell/B.E.



Cell/B.E. advanced programmer education

–
IBM has trained 1231 advanced programmers to take advantage of Cell/B.E. technology

–
Including programmers from 210 ISVs

–
Over 70 universities from around the world have signed on to learn and teach Cell/B.E.
programming concepts

RapidMind™ is a multi
-
core software platform that simplifies the
development of high
-
performing applications… Over
300 developers
are using RapidMind today to create applications for the Cell/B.E.
Processor

Michael McCool, RapidMind, Founder and Chief Scientist

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Cell/B.E. solutions offer breakthrough results

Industry

Application Area

Potential Business Breakthrough

Defense

Nuclear arsenal
stewardship

Can help provide dramatic reduction in
compute time and power consumption via Cell
B.E.
-
based hybrid computing system

Petroleum
exploration

Seismic migration
analysis

Order of magnitude improvement in analysis
fidelity has the potential to provide greater
accuracy and efficiency

Financial services

Options and
derivatives pricing

Enables fast decisions on financial market
trading actions to help you maintain a
sustained competitive advantage

http://www
-
03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20210.wss

*For more information about the “Roadrunner” hybrid supercomputer at Los
Alamos National Laboratory, read the press release here:

… and many more:

Over 65 customers have installed IBM Cell/B.E. processor
-
based systems

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Cell/B.E. processor benefits


Sets a new performance standard

–
Supercomputer attributes with high performance floating point
capabilities

–
Efficient computation per watt

–
Outstanding bandwidth capability


Designed for flexibility

–
Wide variety of application domains

–
Cell can cover a wide range of application space with its
capabilities in

–
floating point operations, integer operations

–
data streaming / throughput support

–
real
-
time support

–
Exploits C/C++, Fortran programming models


Enhanced security capability

–
Virtual trusted computing environment for security

First Generation Cell/B.E. processor


90 nm


241M transistors


235mm2


9 cores, 10 threads


>200 GFlops (SP)


>20 GFlops (DP)


Up to 25 GB/s memory B/W


Up to 75 GB/s I/O B/W


>300 GB/s EIB


Top frequency >4GHz

(observ ed in lab)

Cell Broadband Engine Architecture
combines a general
-
purpose Power Architecture™ core of modest
performance with streamlined processing elements which greatly accelerates computationally intense
workloads such as analytics, multimedia and vector processing.

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Cell/B.E. processor highlights


Cell/B.E. is 64
-
bit Power Architecture
TM

-
Path for OS, legacy apps, and SW development


Cell/B.E. is a streaming architecture

-
128+ concurrent transactions to memory per
processor


Cell/B.E. is an efficient architecture

-
200+ GFlops (SP) for 85Watts


Cell/B.E. is a real
-
time architecture

-
Resource allocation, and replacement
management


Cell/B.E. is a security
-
enabled
architecture

-
SPUs individually programmable as secure
processors

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Cell/B.E. performance summary

Notes: * Hardware measurement , ** Simulation results, *** assume Linpack efficiency same as MatMult **** code not optimized
for

multi
-
core or its SIMD


MBOPS: Million Blackscholes opertaions per sec; MVPS (Million Vertex per Sec); fps: frames per sec

Type

Algorithm

3.2 GHz GPP ****

3.2 GHz Cell/B.E.
Processor

Comparison
Factor

HPC


Matrix Multiplication (S.P.)

22 Gflops* (3GHz Woodcrest)

200 GFlops* (8SPEs)

9x

Linpack (S.P.)

22 GFlops*** (3GHz Woodcrest)

156 GFlops* (8SPEs)

7x

Earthquake prediction

552 sec* (3GHz Woodcrest)

59 sec* (8 SPEs)

9x

Molecular Dynamics Sim.

318 sec*
(3GHz Woodcrest)

32 sec* (8 SPEs)

10x

FSS

BlackScholes (S.P.)

9.3 MBOPS*
(3GHz Woodcrest)

330 MBOPS* (8 SPEs)

35x

BlackScholes (D.P.)

8.5 MBOPS*
(3GHz Woodcrest)

34.8 MBOPS* (8 SPEs)

4x

Medical Imaging

3D Image Reconstruction

98.7 sec*
(3GHz Woodcrest)

5.47 sec* (8 SPEs)

18x

Graphics

Transform
-
light

170 MVPS* (G5/VMX)

256 MVPS* (per SPE)

12x

TRE

1 fps* (G5/VMX)

30 fps* (Cell/B.E.)

30x

Security

AES encryp. 128
-
bit key

1.03 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)

2.06Gbps** (per SPE)

16x

AES decryp. 128
-
bit key

1.04 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)

1.5Gbps** (per SPE)

11x

TDES

0.12 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)

0.16 Gbps** (per SPE)

10x

DES

0.43 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)

0.49 Gbps** (per SPE)

9x

SHA
-
1

0.85 Gbps* (3.2GHz Pentium4)

1.98 Gbps** (per SPE)

18x

Video
processing

mpeg2 decoder (CIF)

mpeg2 decoder (SDTV)

mpeg2 decoder (HDTV)


----


354 fps (3.2GHz Pentium4)


----


1267 fps* (per SPE)

365 fps** (per SPE)

73 fps* (per SPE)

--

8x

--

The Cell/B.E processor with its PPU and 8 SPUs, can perform about an order of magnitude better than
traditional single
-
core GPPs for media and other applications that can take advantage of its SIMD capability

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Cell/B.E.
–

performance summary


Cell/B.E. performance is about an order of magnitude better than GPP for
media and certain applications that can take advantage of its SIMD capability

–
Performance of its simple PPE is comparable to a traditional GPP performance

–
Each SPE is able to perform mostly the same as, or better than, a GPP running at the same
frequency

–
Key performance advantage comes from its eight de
-
coupled SPE engines with dedicated
resources including large register files and DMA channels



Cell/B.E. can cover a wide range of application space with its capabilities in

–
Floating
-
point operations

–
Integer operations

–
Data streaming / throughput support

–
Real
-
time support



Cell/B.E. micro
-
architecture features are exposed to not only its compilers
but also its applications

–
Performance gains from tuning compilers and applications can be significant

–
Tools/simulators are provided to assist in performance optimization efforts

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IBM BladeCenter QS21


QS21 is the
RIGHT

choice for streaming
and/or single
-
precision floating point
workloads

–
Signal processing, image processing
applications



QS21 is
OPEN

–

based on Power
Architecture and running Linux® OS



QS21 is
EASY

to deploy and to integrate
into the existing IT infrastructure and/or
workloads:

–
Co
-
exist and complement all other Blade
servers offerings (Intel®, AMD®, POWER®)

–
Ready to scale out and deploy in production
environments



QS21 is
GREEN

–

1.05 GFLOPS per
watt.

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IBM BladeCenter QS21


Core electronics


–
Dual 3.2GHz Cel/B.E. Processor Configuration

–
2GB XDRAM (1GB per processor)

–
Dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) controllers

–
Single
-
wide blade (uses 1 BladeCenter H slot)

–
InfiniBand™ 4x channel adapters / (optional)

–
Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand HCA Expansion
Card for BladeCenter (32R1760)

–
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) daughter card
(39Y9190) / (optional)


BC Chassis Configuration


–
Standard IBM BladeCenter H

–
Max. 14 QS21 per chassis

–
2 Gigabit Ethernet switches

–
External IB switches required for IB option

–
Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand Switch Module
for BladeCenter (32R1756)


Peak performance

–
Up to 460 GFLOPS per blade

–
Up to 6.4 TFLOPS (peak) in a single BladeCenter
chassis

–
Up to 25.7 TFLOPS in a standard 42U rack

Cell/

B.E.

Rambus XIO

Cell/

B.E.

Memory

1GB


(18x XDR)

Memory

1GB


(18x XDR)

Flash, RTC

& NVRAM

2 UART, SPI

Rambus FlexIO ™

South

Bridge

PCI
-
E x16

South


Bridge

PCI
-
E

x8

Optional IB

2 port

IB x4 HCA

HSDC

HSC:

2x PCI
-
E
x16

D

D

R

2

D

D

R

2

D

D

R

2

D

D

R

2

4x

USB

2.0

PCI

USB to

BC
-
H mid plane

SPI

PCI
-
X

Legacy Con

GbE to

BC
-
H mid plane

2x

1GbE


IB
-
4x to

BC
-
H high speed
fabric/mid plane

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IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration and related tools

Libraries and frameworks

IBM XL C/C++ compiler*

Optimized compiler for use in creating Cell/B.E. optimized applications. Offers:


* improved performance * automatic overlay support * SPE code generation

Accelerated

Library

Framework (ALF)

Data

Communication

and

Synchronization

(DaCS)

Basic Linear

Algebra

Subroutines (BLAS)

Standardized

SIMD math

libraries

GNU tool chain

Performance
Tools

The IBM SDK is a complete tools package that simplifies programming on IBM BladeCenter QS 21

XLC compiler is
a
complementary
product to SDK


Eclipse™
-
based IDE


Simulator

*XL C/C++ compiler single source is available in beta,
dual

source is planned to GA on 10/19/07 with an announce on 10/16/07

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IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration value


Designed to be highly reliable, simple
to acquire and easy to use

–
Complete, integrated kit

–
Production
-
ready tools from IBM

–
IBM warranty and support


Based on industry standards to ease
the transition to the Cell/B.E.

–
Eclipse
-
based Integrated Development
Environment

–
Standard, base libraries

–
Third
-
party libraries can be plugged in


Designed to make it easy to port and
optimize applications for the QS21

–
Performance tuning tools to help optimize
algorithms without re
-
writing the entire
application

–
Tools designed to help you partition an
application across a hybrid Cell/B.E. and x86
platform

Optimize code for the

BladeCenter QS21 with the IBM
SDK for Multicore Acceleration

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SDK 3.0 capabilities and features


Product
-
level tested


Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.1*

support


Platform support

–
QS21
–

Production Support

–
Cell/B.E. Linux Enhancements

–
IPMI support

–
I/O attached DDR2 Memory allocator /
mapper and swap
-
space support

–
IBM PowerExecutive™ Support


Programmer productivity
–

performance
tools

–
VPA
–

Visual Performance Analyzer

–
PDT
–

Performance Debugging Tool

–
PDT Reporter: Lock Analyzer & Trace Analysis
Tools

–
CodeAnalyzer

–
FDPR
-
Pro for Cell/B.E.

–
Hybrid Code Analyzer

–
Hybrid System Performance and Tracing Facility



Programmer productivity
–

development

–
Eclipse IDE plug
-
ins

–
Dual source XLC , Dual Source XLF
–

Fortran (beta),
Single Source XLC (beta)

–
Cell/B.E. and Hybrid HPC software sample code

–
Enhanced GNU toolchain support

–
GNU Fortran for PPE & SPE

–
GNU ADA (GNAT) for PPE

–
gcc autovectorization and performance
enhancements


Programmer productivity
-

runtime

–
Product Level ALF and DaCs for Cell/B.E.

–
Hybrid DaCS/ALF (Prototype)

–
Productization of combined ppe/spe gdb debugger

–
SPE
-
side Software Managed Cache (from iRT
technology)


Market segment library enablement

–
Highly optimized libFFT (binary only)

–
Highly optimized SIMD Math Libraries

–
Highly Optimized BLAS, Monte Carlo Random Number
Generator

–
Cell/B.E. Security Technology (prototype/preview)


*Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 is scheduled for availability on 10/26/07

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Supported software


OS Support

–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1*


Application Development and Enablement

–
IBM SDK for Multi
-
core Acceleration

–
IBM XL C/C++ compiler for PPU/SPU


Links

–
Cell/B.E. software website

–
http://www.ibm.com/technology/cell/software.html


–
Cell/B.E. resource center

–
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/


–
Cell/B.E. forum at developerWorks®

–
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=739&cat=46

*Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 is scheduled for availability on 10/26/07

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Applications well
-
suited for Cell/B.E. systems


Data Manipulation

–
Digital media

–
Image processing

–
Video processing

–
Visualization of output

–
Compression / decompression

–
Encryption / decryption

–
DSP

–
Audio processing, language translation



Graphics

–
Transformation from different domains (time vs.
space; 2D vs. 3D, viewpoint transformation)

–
Lighting

–
Ray
-
tracing / ray
-
casting



Floating
-
point Intensive Applications



Pattern Matching

–
Bioinformatics

–
String manipulation (search engine)

–
Parsing, transformation, and translation (XSLT)

–
Audio processing, language translation

–
Filtering and pruning



Offload Engines

–
TCP/IP

–
Compiler for gaming applications

–
XML

–
Network security and intrusion


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Industry workloads well
-
suited to Cell/B.E. technology

Visualization

Presentation of Data

Modeling, Simulation,

Image processing, Rendering

Real
-
time Analytics

Processing of Data

Information Synthesis

Analysis

Focused Common Workload Characteristics/Requirements

Financial

markets

Media &
Entertainment

Medical

Imaging

Digital Video
Surveillance

Seismic

A&D

EDA

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Digital content creation for digital media companies

You need:

–
Speed to market

–
Lower costs of production

–
Better visual effects

–
More realistic simulation


IBM solutions can help deliver:

–
An open and flexible solution based on
standards

–
Scalability and reliability

–
Lower total cost of ownership and
improved ROI

–
Performance advantage

–
1080p Ray
-
traced images computed in ms.

–
1080p Ambient Occlusion images computed
in seconds.

–
Image processing
–

up to 50x of GPP

Solution elements

Systems

–
BladeCenter QS21

–
Cluster 1350

–
IBM IntelliStation®

–
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755

–
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21

Storage

–
IBM System Storage™ DS4000 family

–
LTO™ tape drives, etc.

Software

–
IBM SDK 3.0

–
IBM iRT scalable real
-
time ray tracer

–
RapidMind development tools

Cell/B.E. solutions enable Media and Entertainment companies to produce the
next generation of animated feature films, games, and advertising content.

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Digital content creation for industrial sector

You need:

–
Speed to market

–
Lower costs of production

–
Better visual effects

–
More realistic simulation


IBM solutions can help deliver:

–
An open and flexible solution based on
standards

–
Scalability and reliability

–
Lower total cost of ownership and improved
ROI

–
Performance advantage

–
1080p Ray
-
traced images computed in ms.

–
1080p Ambient Occlusion images computed in
seconds.

–
Image processing
–

up to 50x of GPP

Solution elements

Systems

–
BladeCenter QS21

–
Cluster 1350

–
IntelliStation

–
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755

–
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21

Storage

–
DS4000 series, LTO, etc.

Software

–
IBM SDK 3.0

–
IBM iRT scalable real
-
time ray tracer

–
RapidMind development tools

Cell/B.E. solutions enable automotive, aerospace, and consumer goods
companies to design next generation of products.

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Digital video surveillance

You need:

–
Encoders for analog cameras

–
Transcoding to save storage and

network costs

–
Decoding acceleration to reduce
workstation costs and improve

robustness

–
Better management and scalability

–
Network
-
based surveillance


IBM solutions can help deliver:

–
H.264 encoding

–
Complete solutions based on BladeCenter

–
High
-
density encoder solution

–
Close ties to Tivoli and Storage

–
Performance advantage

–
High density: 288 encoders/chassis

–
H.264 encoding (up to 2.5X
advantage over MPEG2)

–
Standard definition (4CIF)

–
Up to 30 fps (full motion
)

Solution elements

Systems

–
BladeCenter QS21

–
BladeCenter H Chassis

–
System x 3455, x3550

–
Frame grabber cards and enclosures

Storage

–
DS4000 series, LTO, etc.

Software

–
IBM SDK 3.0

–
Codec libraries

–
Video distribution software

Cell/B.E. solutions deliver hardware and enablement for high
-
density, highly
scalable encoding, transcoding, and compositing for digital video surveillance.

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Financial markets

You need:

–
To address massive growth in
computational requirements due to
complex new financial instruments

–
To comply with regulatory demands

–
To address power, space and cooling
challenges

–
To support in
-
house code enabled by

–
Math libraries

–
Grid middleware


IBM solutions can help deliver:

–
Manageable Hybrid infrastructure

–
Low latency data / compute engine

–
Excellent performance per Watt

–
Financial algorithm acceleration and
typical functions

–
Monte Carlo
-
based option pricing
–

up to
40x of GPP


Solution elements

Systems

–
BladeCenter QS21

–
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21

Software

–
IBM SDK 3.0

–
IBM DAV

Services

–
Systems integration

–
GBS derivatives consulting

–
HPC trading systems design

–
Cell/B.E. Implementation

Cell/B.E. solutions enable companies to harness real
-
time market data and high
-
performance analytics, understand risk in real time and drive larger trade volumes.

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Electronic design automation

You need:

–
Shorter production run times

–
Reduced cost of ownership

–
Improved application results

–
To provide realistic simulations

–
Software from key ISVs

–
Mercury Computer Systems

–
Mentor Graphics

IBM solutions can help deliver:

–
Significant run time acceleration

–
Lower total cost of ownership

–
Scalability and reliability

–
Better simulation results

Solution elements

Systems

–
BladeCenter QS21

–
Cluster 1350

–
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755

–
BladeCenter HS21 XM, LS21

Storage

–
DS4000 series, N series, DDN

Software

–
IBM SDK 3.0

–
Mercury Multicore Framework

–
RTOS: Wind River® VxWorks®, Mentor
Graphics® Nucleus®

Services

–
Custom board design

–
Application porting

Cell/B.E. solutions enable an efficient hybrid architecture to accelerate EDA
applications and reduce total cost of ownership

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Seismic processing

You need:

–
Faster seismic imaging

–
Increased shot accuracy

–
Reduced cost of compute technology

IBM solutions can help deliver:

–
Open and flexible solutions based on
standards

–
Scalability and reliability

–
Lower total cost of ownership and improved
ROI

–
Performance advantage

–
PFA
-

FFT
-

12x Woodcrest and 18x
Opteron

–
IMA
-

7.2x Woodcrest and 8.8x Opteron

Solution elements

Systems

–
BladeCenter QS21

–
Cluster 1350

–
IntelliStation

–
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755

–
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21

Storage

–
DS4000 series, LTO, etc.

Software

–
IBM SDK 3.0

–
FFT

Services

–
Application porting

Cell/B.E. solutions enable petroleum companies to economically run complex
algorithms faster and more accurately than existing computing architectures.

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Medical imaging

You need:

–
To enable increased usage of imaging for
medical treatment

–
3D imaging capabilities

–
Increased quality of imaging

–
Decreased processing time

IBM solutions can help deliver:

–
Higher computation power for faster image
processing

–
Capabilities that enable enhanced image
analysis and treatment

–
Performance advantage
-
The Mayo
application running on a typical processor
configuration completed the registration of all
98 sets of images in approximately 7 hours.
The same application optimized for Cell/B.E.
the registration for all 98 sets of images in
just 516 seconds,

Solution elements

Systems

–
BladeCenter QS21

–
Cluster 1350

–
Integrated storage

–
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21,
LS20, LS21

Software

–
IBM SDK 3.0

Services

–
Hardware Design

–
Cell/B.E. porting and education

–
Algorithm Development

Cell/B.E. solutions enable dramatic performance and accuracy improvements
for medical imaging processing and analysis.

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Aerospace & defense and public sector

You need:

–
Real
-
time signal/image processing (radar,
satellite imagery, infrared, sonar)

–
Computational Intensive Computing

–
H/W Security

–
Rapid Code Development

–
Software libraries

IBM solutions can help deliver:

–
High bandwidth capability

–
Scalability and reliability

–
Cell/B.E. security features

–
Performance advantage

–
FFT 2D Complex up to 15x faster than
Intel® Xeon® 5100 series processor
(single core operation)

–
1024x1024 Matrix Multiplication up to
8.6x faster than Intel Xeon 5100 series
processor (single core operation)

Solution elements

Cell/B.E. solutions enable A&D, government agencies and Universities to tap
into the high
-
performance capabilities of Cell/B.E. technology.

Systems

–
BladeCenter QS21

–
Cluster 1350

–
IntelliStation

–
System x 3455, x3550, x3650, x3755

–
BladeCenter HS20, HS21, JS20, JS21, LS20, LS21

Storage

–
DS4000 series, LTO, etc.

Software

–
IBM SDK 3.0

–
IBM Cell/B.E. Math Library

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Gedae stream, image and signal programming
environment

–
RapidMind development tools

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Wind River VxWorks RTOS and WorkBench Tools

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QS21 summary


QS21 is the RIGHT choice for

–
Selected workloads that are aligned with streaming
data and/or single
-
precision floating point
performance and 2GB of main memory.

–
Signal processing, image processing applications


QS21 is OPEN because it encourages any
and all clients to port, to experiment, and
to adopt this powerful computing solution:

–
LINUX is the primary supported operating system…
but others can run

–
IBM released thousand of pages of technical
documentation on Cell/B.E. architecture to the public

–
IBM Cell/B.E. full system simulator (aka MAMBO) is
freely available to any and all

–
The production, fully supported version of the IBM
SDK is available for purchase on Passport
Advantage® Online,

and a trial version is available for academics,
researchers and individual developers on
developerWorks.


QS21 is EASY to deploy and to
integrate into the existing IT
infrastructure and/or workloads:

–
More scalable, programmable and reliable (ECC
on main memory) than exotic technologies like
graphics processing units (GPU), digital signal
processors (DSP) or field
-
programmable gate
arrays (FPGA).

–
Co
-
exist and complement all other Blade servers
offerings (Intel, AMD, POWER)

–
Excellent platform for porting and testing targeted
workloads/applications for Cell/B.E. systems (e.g.
it can be used to evaluate how much of any
workload/application should be ported to
Cell/B.E. systems and how much should remain
on traditional systems).

–
Ready to scale out and deploy in production
environments


QS21 is GREEN:

–
At 1.05 GFLOPS per watt, it is a very power
efficient computing platform.

Cell/B.E. solutions for your HPC challenges

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IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration summary


Designed to be highly reliable, simple to acquire and easy to use

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Complete, integrated kit

–
Production
-
ready tools from IBM

–
IBM warranty and support



RHEL5.1 Enterprise support



Based on industry standards to ease the transition to the Cell/B.E.

–
Eclipse
-
based Integrated Development Environment

–
Standard, base libraries

–
Third
-
party libraries can be plugged in



Designed to make it easy to port and optimize applications for the QS21

–
Performance tuning tools to help optimize algorithms without re
-
writing the entire application

–
Tools designed to help you partition an application across a hybrid Cell/B.E. and x86 platform

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Contact us for further information


Visit us on the web at
ibm.com/technology/cell



Contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner for more
information


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Additional offerings

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Systems

–
IBM BladeCenter QS21

–
IBM servers based on traditional processors

–
IBM System Storage

Custom Hardware Solutions

–
Board level products

–
Custom Cell/B.E. based Solutions

–
Board level and system level design and
manufacturing

–
Cell/B.E. “Chipset” design services

Enabling Software

–
Cell/B.E Software Development Kit (SDK)

–
Development Environment, Tools

–
Libraries

–
Simulator

–
Third party software:
Mercury Multicore Framework,
Wind River VxWorks, Mentor Nucleus, RapidMind
development tools, CodeSourcery™ Image Libraries

Cell/B.E. Engineering Services

–
Cell/B.E. Architecture Education & Training

–
Consulting

–
Application Optimization & Migration Svcs

–
Application Development Services

Industry Solutions

–
Financial Markets

–
Seismic


–
Electronic Design Automation

–
Aerospace & Defense

–
Medical Imaging

Cell/B.E. offerings


–
Digital Media

–
Digital Video Surveillance

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IBM Global Engineering Services


Education / Training


Tools & Methodology


Problem resolution


System design &
Architecture


Assist with solution


Solve a particular issue


Advance design to new
technology


Enhance a current product


Collaborate on future
product development



Do full design


Deliver finished product

Consulting



Collaboration



Turn key solution

Specialized and experienced engineering teams

Ownership

We can help you do
it better

We can work side

by side with you

We can do it for you

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Cell/B.E. architecture training and consulting


Architecture training:

–
Education services to provide in
-
depth training on the hardware architecture,
programming for Cell/B.E., the software development kit (SDK), the simulator and
performance analysis.

–
Aids evaluation of the technology

–
Jump
-
starts Cell/B.E. software development activity



Architecture consulting

–
Architecture evaluation and development assistance.

–
Provides code porting and testing

–
Helps optimize performance

–
Assists with hardware and software development

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Cell/B.E. Customized System Capabilities


Customized board and system capabilities:

–
PCI Express® Board

–
Professional Workstations

–
Developer Workstations

–
Embedded Devices

–
Medical

–
Ruggedized



Engineering Services Engagements

–
Board Design, Test, bring
-
up

–
System design

–
Firmware / Software

–
Prototype and production manufacturing

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