COMPUTE BLADE
Symmetric Multi Processing
Hitachi CB 2000 and VSP Management
Compute Blade 2000
With SMP
Extreme Scalability
‒ Scale up to 32-way SMP
‒ Scale out to 128 cores
Extreme Flexibility
‒ Hybrid I/O
‒ SAS local disk storage
blades
‒ I/O Expansion Capability
Extreme Performance
Extreme Virtualization
Extreme Reliability
What is SMP?
SMP -- Symmetrical Multi-Processing
Mainstream now with multi-
core chips
Single system image
Shared memory across
processors / cores
Performance scales with
number of processors
Requires multi-threaded
applications for maximum
performance
Formerly the province of
proprietary “big iron”
Why is SMP important
SMP means Enterprise
SP ECint 2006
SMP gives scalable 1400
performance for single 1200
1000
large applications 800
600
‒ Databases, ERP instance, 400
DW/BI 200
0
1 (8 co re ) 2 (16 co re s ) 4 (32-co re s ) 8 (64 co re s )
SMP systems provide
superior reliability, Until you’re up over 100GB
availability and serviceability of data, SMP really is the
SMP systems are the best option for BI/DW
standard for mission-critical systems
business systems – BI/DW blogger
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 SMP
It’s about Scale
Scale Out, Scale Up
Hitachi Compute Blade 9
8
provides superb scalibility 7
6
Systems
No Blades
5
‒ All from one platform 4
3
Scale Up Systems
Scale Out Systems
2
1
Flexibility in compute, I/O, 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Blades
and RAM to meet dynamic
requirements
Scale In
Superior RAS and Security 140 600
120 500
100
Expansion Capabilities in
400
80 No Blades
Cores
VMs
300 No Cores
60
locals disk and I/O to match 40
200
Scale In Systems
high-end proprietary servers 20
0
100
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Blades
SMP Scalability
Aggregate resources up to 4 blades into one environment
1 Blade 2 Blades 4 Blades
Sockets 2 4 8
Cores 16 32 64
Memory Slots 32 64 128
Memory Size 256GB 512GB 1TB
Mezzanine Slots 2 (4) 4 (8) 8 (16)
PCIe Slots 2 (4) 4 (8) 8 (16)
(with optional I/O
expansion module)
Scale from 1 to 2 or 4 blades via a front-side SMP connector
Horizontal Scaling
From one to 8 blades in a single 10u
chassis
Up to 128 total cores and 256 threads
Massive numbers of nodes in a grid or
cluster for compute
Pool of compute resources for highly
flexible web and compute tiers
Sophisticated power management
It’s About Flexibility
Multiple architectural options in one chassis
Scale Out Scale Out -- Scale Up Scale In
HPC
Application Web Tier HPC, Massive Enterprise Private Cloud,
Scale Decision Mission Critical Dev and Test,
Cloud Svcs Support DB mobile back-
(>100GB) ends
Required Agility Flex workloads, Project-driven Gradual with Self-serve,
OS, to meet predictable instant
changing bus bumps - ie: create/destroy
needs quarter-end of instances
Typical # of 1 instance / 1 instance / Up to four Up to hundreds
instances blade -- dozens blade -- blades per of instances per
hundreds instance blade
I/O Minimal High Generally very Very high for
requirements high virtualization
Reliability and Minimal -- Minimal Very high -- HA Minimal
Availability Rqts resilient sw arch cluster
HITACHI COMPUTE BLADE 2000 X57A1
BLADE
SMP Scalability
Aggregate resources up to 4 blades into one environment
1 Blade 2 Blades 4 Blades
Sockets 2 4 8
Cores 16 32 64
Memory Slots 32 64 128
Memory Size 256GB 512GB 1TB
Mezzanine Slots 2 4 8
PCIe Slots 2 4 8
Scale from 1 to 2 or 4 blades via a front-side SMP connector
CPU
MEMORY
Memory Memory Memory Memory
Memory Memory Memory Memory
Memory Memory Memory Memory
Memory Memory Memory Memory
Processor Processor
X57A1 BLADE
I/O Chipset
Memory Memory Memory Memory
Memory Memory Memory Memory
Memory Memory Memory Memory
Memory Memory Memory Memory
System Architecture – X57A2
NIC
MEZZANINE MEZZANINE
SLOT 2 SLOT 1
ON-BOARD
MIDPLANE
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57A2 blade
PCI-Card
PCI-Card
PCIe SLOTS
PCIe-SLOTS
SWITCH BAY 6
SWITCH BAY 5
SWITCH BAY 4
SWITCH BAY 3
SWITCH BAY 2
SWITCH BAY 1
DIRECT SWITCHED
I/O
I/O
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57A2 I/O Expansion Module
CB2000 Chassis
w/o I/O Expansion Unit
Two 4 Blade SMP
Sockets 4
Cores 64
Memory Slots 128 4 Blade SMP
Memory Size 1TB
Mezzanine 8
Slots to
Integrated
switches
PCIe Gen2 8
Slots
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57A2 I/O Expansion Module
CB2000 Chassis
With I/O Expansion Unit
Two 4 Blade SMP
Sockets 4
Cores 64 4 Blade SMP
Memory Slots 128
Memory Size 1TB
Mezzanine 8
Slots to
Integrated
switches
PCIe Gen2 Up to 64 slots
Slots
SUMMARY
Hitachi Compute Blade Symmetric Multi Processing
‒ Scale up the core processing
‒ Maximize performance in application and database
‒ Reducing cost power consumption
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