The IBM System z10 EC is a world-class enterprise server designed to meet your business needs. The System z10 EC is built on the inherent strengths of the IBM System z platform and is designed to deliver new technologies and virtualization that provide improvements in price/performance for key new workloads. The System z10 EC further extends System z leadership in key capabilities with the delivery of expanded scalability for growth and large-scale consolidation, improved security and availability to reduce risk, and just-in-time capacity deployment, helping to respond to changing business requirements.

IBM z10 Mainframe Server At a Glance:

• Improved total system capacity in a 64-way server, offering increased levels of performance and scalability to help enable new business growth.
• z10 quad-core 4.4 GHz processor chips that can help improve the execution of CPU-intensive workloads.
• Up to 1.5 terabytes of available real memory per server for growing application needs (with up to 1 TB real memory per LPAR).
• Increased scalability with 36 available subcapacity settings.
• Just-in-time deployment of capacity resources which can improve flexibility when making temporary or permanent changes. Activation can be further simplified and automated using z/OS^® Capacity Provisioning (available on z/OS V1.9 with PTF and on z/OS V1.10, when available).
• New temporary capacity offering Capacity for Planned Event (CPE), a variation of Capacity Back Up (CBU). CPE can be used when capacity is unallocated, but available, and is needed for a short-term event.
• A new 16 GB fixed Hardware System Area (HSA) which is managed separately from customer memory. This fixed HSA is designed to improve availability by avoiding outages.
• Memory and books that are interconnected with a point-to-point symmetric multi processor (SMP) network running with an InfiniBand host bus bandwidth at 6 GBps designed to deliver improved performance.
• The new InfiniBand Coupling Links (planned to be available second quarter 2008) with a link data rate of 6 GBps, designed to provide a high-speed solution and increased distance (150 meters) compared to ICB-4 (10 meters).
• The new OSA-Express3 10 GbE LR (planned to be available second quarter 2008) with double the port density, increased throughput, and reduced latency.
• HiperSockets improvements with Multiple Write Facility for increased performance and Layer 2 support to host IP and non-IP workloads.
• Encryption accelerator provided on quad-core chip, which is designed to provide high-speed cryptography for protecting data in storage. CP Assist for Cryptographic Function (CPACF) offers more protection and security options with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 192 and 256 and stronger hash algorithm with Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-512 and SHA-384).
• HiperDispatch for improved efficiencies between hardware and the z/OS operating system (z/OS 1.7 and above).
• Hardware decimal floating point unit on each core on the Processor Unit (PU), which can aid in decimal floating point calculations and is designed to deliver performance improvements and precision in execution.
• Large page support (1 megabyte pages).
• Up to 336 FICONâ„¢ Express4 channels.
• Fiber Quick Connect (FQC), a fiber harness integrated in the System z10 EC frame for a 'quick' connect to ESCON^® and FICON LX channels.
• Support for IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager (AEM) for Linuxâ„¢ on System z for a single view of actual energy usage across multiple heterogeneous IBM platforms within the infrastructure. AEM V3.1 is a key component of IBM's Cool Blue portfolio within Project Big Green.¹
• The IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC) and System z9 Business Class (z9 BC) servers are the last servers to support participation in the same Parallel Sysplex with IBM eServer zSeries 900 (z90), IBM eServer zSeries 800 (z800), and older System/390 Parallel Enterprise Server systems. This direction was announced in Hardware Announcement 107-190 , dated April 18, 2007.

¹ This satisfies the direction announced in Software Announcement 207-289 , dated November 13, 2007, for IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for POWERâ„¢, V3.1, which stated: Future System z servers plan to support the monitoring functions of IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager.

IBM z10 Enterprise Mainframe Server Overview:

The System z10 EC is a marriage of evolution and revolution, building on the inherent strengths of the System zâ„¢ platform, delivering new technologies and virtualization that are designed to offer improvements in price / performance for key workloads as well as enabling a new range of solutions. The z10 EC further extends the leadership of System z in key capabilities with the delivery of expanded scalability for growth and large-scale consolidation, availability to help reduce risk and improve flexibility to respond to changing business requirements, and improved security. The z10 EC is at the core of the enhanced System z platform that is designed to deliver technologies that business needs today along with a foundation to drive future business growth.

With a modular book design, the z10 EC E64 is designed to provide up to 1.7 times the total system capacity of the z9 EC Model S54 and up to three times the available memory of the z9 EC. Significant steps have been taken in the area of server availability in the z10 EC design. Preplanning requirements are minimized by delivering a fixed, reserved Hardware System Area (HSA) and new capabilities intended to allow you to seamlessly create logical partitions (LPARs), include logical subsystems, change logical processor definitions in an LPAR, and add cryptographic capabilities for an LPAR without a power-on reset.

z10 EC introduces just-in-time deployment of capacity resources designed to provide more flexibility to dynamically change capacity when business requirements change. You are no longer limited by one offering configuration; instead you can define one or more flexible configurations that can be used to solve multiple temporary situations. You can now have multiple configurations active at once and the configurations themselves are flexible so you can activate only what is needed from your defined configuration. As long as your total z10 EC infrastructure can support the maximums that are defined, they can be delivered. A significant change is the ability to add permanent capacity to the server when you are in a temporary state. The combination of these updates can change the way you think about on demand capacity.

New integrated clear-key encryption security features on z10 EC include support for a higher advanced encryption standard and more secure hashing algorithms. Performing these functions in hardware is designed to contribute to improved performance.

Integrated on the z10 EC processor unit is a Hardware Decimal Floating Point unit to accelerate decimal floating point transactions. This function is designed to markedly improve performance for decimal floating point operations which offer increased precision compared to binary floating point operations. This is expected to be particularly useful for the calculations involved in many financial transactions.

New innovations on the z10 EC are designed to give needed capacity and memory along with the just-in-time management of resources. Advanced virtualization technologies aid in server consolidation, satisfying high I/O requests and dynamic provisioning of new servers.

IBM Financing can provide attractive low-rate financing for all new and upgraded z10 EC products, storage, software, and services. For more information, contact us now.

IBM z10 Enterprise Mainframe Server Description:

The IBM System z10 Enterprise Class — A total systems approach to deliver leadership in enterprise computing: With a total systems approach designed to deploy innovative technologies, IBM System z introduces the z10 EC, supporting z/Architecture™, and offering the highest levels of reliability, availability, scalability, clustering, and virtualization. The z10 EC just-in-time deployment of capacity allows improved flexibility, administration, and the ability to enable changes as they happen. The expanded scalability on the z10 EC facilitates growth and large-scale consolidation. The z10 EC is designed to provide:

• Uniprocessor performance improvement up to 62% (based on LSPR mixed workload average)
• Non-uniprocessor performance improvement up to 50% (based on LSPR mixed workload average) for configurations with the same number of processors
• Up to 1.7 times the total system capacity of the z9 EC
• Up to 64 Processor Units (PUs) compared to a maximum of 54 on the z9 EC
• Up to 3 times as much total server available memory — up to 1.5 terabytes of total memory
• Up to 50% more subcapacity choices as compared to z9 EC
• Increased host base bandwidth using InfiniBand at 6 GBps
• Coupling with InfiniBand for improved distance and potential cost saving
• Performance improvements with HiperSockets Multiple Write Facility
• Improved Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 192 and 256 and stronger hash algorithms with Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) 384 and 512
• HiperDispatch for improved efficiencies between hardware and the z/OS operating system (z/OS 1.7 and above)
• Hardware Decimal Floating Point unit for improved numeric processing performance
• Reduction in the availability impact of preplanning requirements
  • Fixed Hardware System Area (HSA) designed so the maximum configuration capabilities can be exploited
  • Designed to reduce the number of planned Power-on-Resets
  • Designed to allow dynamic add/remove of a new logical partition (LPAR) to new or existing logical channel subsystem (LCSS)
• Open Systems Adapter-Express3 (OSA-Express3) 10 Gigabit Ethernet with double the port density and improved performance
• Up to 336 FICON channels
• Large page support (1 megabyte pages)
• Energy efficiency displays on System Activity Display (SAD) screens
• Just-in-time deployment of capacity for faster activation without dependency or referral to IBM
• Store System Information (STSI) change to support billing methodologies
• New temporary offering Capacity for Planned Event (CPE) available to manage system migrations, data center moves, maintenance activities, and similar situations
• Support for the IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager (AEM) for Linux on System z

Model summary matrix

Model  PUs       Memory           IB     I/O cages   CHPIDs
 
E12    1 to 12   16 to  352 GB    16     1 to 3       960
E26    1 to 26   16 to  752 GB    32     1 to 3      1024
E40    1 to 40   16 to 1136 GB    40     1 to 3      1024
E56    1 to 56   16 to 1520 GB    48     1 to 3      1024
E64    1 to 64   16 to 1520 GB    48     1 to 3      1024

 

Notes:

• Memory reserved for the fixed HSA is in addition to the purchased entitlement.
• The addition of the third and fourth books requires a reduction in the number of fanout cards plugged, to increase cooling around the MCM.
• Each LCSS supports up to 256 CHPIDs.

The performance advantage

IBM's Large Systems Performance Reference (LSPR) method is designed to provide comprehensive z/Architecture processor capacity ratios for different configurations of Central Processors (CPs) across a wide variety of system control programs and workload environments. For z10 EC, z/Architecture processor capacity indicator is defined with a (7XX) notation, where XX is the number of installed CPs.

In addition to the general information provided for z/OS 1.8, the LSPR also contains performance relationships for z/VM^® and Linux operating environments.

Based on using an LSPR mixed workload, the performance of the z10 EC (2097) 701 is expected to be:

Moving from a System z9 partition to an equivalently-sized System z10 partition, a z/VM workload will experience an ITR ratio that is somewhat related to the workload's instruction mix, MP factor, and level of storage over commitment. Workloads with higher levels of storage over commitment or higher MP factors are likely to experience lower than average z10 EC to z9 ITR scaling ratios. The range of likely ITR ratios is wider than the range has been for previous processor migrations.

The LSPR contains the Internal Throughput Rate Ratios (ITRRs) for the new z10 EC and the previous-generation zSeries^® processor families based upon measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput that any user may experience will vary depending upon considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user's job stream, the I/O configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve throughput improvements equivalent to the performance ratios stated. For more detailed performance information, consult the Large Systems Performance Reference (LSPR) available at

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/lspr/