Vernon Turner Group Vice President, Global Enterprise Server Solutions vturner@idc.

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InfiniBand - The Future Aquaduct For The Future Data Center

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Infrastructures Didnt Start With The Internet...

The Aquaduct Is An Architecture That Has Survived The Test of Time Ancient Rome Had Eleven major Aqueducts, Built Between 312 B.C. And 226 A.D The Distribution System Was Able To Provide Over One Cubic Meter Of Water Per Day For Each Inhabitant: More Than We Use Today

The Technology Mega-trends In The Data Center

The Evolution Of The Server Switch-based Server Processing Fabric For The Masses Everything Wants To Be Virtual Datacenter Manageability

All Could Be Influenced By InfiniBand

Shifting Infrastructure Functionality... First Servers

The Beginning Of Server Disaggregation

70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 Q100 Q200 Q300 Q400 Q101 Q201 Appliance Units

...Then Storage...

...Gives You A New Server Platform

CPU/Memory I/O

Switch

Disagregate The Key Server Components Allows Processing To Perform Work Rather Than Waiting Allows Devices To Access Memory Of Remote Devices Allows Remote Devices To Have Access To Local Memory

Storage

A Corner Stone For Grid Computing

The Early Implementation Path Of The New Server

2002 Processor Storage Processor Storage Processor Storage Processor
Network Switch Storage Switch

Server to server interconnect

Channel/ Switch architecture FibreSCSI SCSI Processor embedded on server Processor single fabric out of the Storage chassis for connection to storage, network & servers Native InfiniBand storage? Processor Fibre Channel/

Management 2005

Its All In The Switch

Servers

Servers

Servers

FC FC Switch Switch

IPC IPC Switch Switch

IP IP Switch Switch

Application Application Clustering Clustering

Router/Switch Router/Switch

Its All In The Switch

Today..

Servers using a 20-year-old input/output paradigm Segregation of server, network, and storage traffic

All fabrics connected to every node Scalability by adding bus and I/O adapter cards

Cannot meet requirements of next-generation servers Power, area, and scaling limitations

Its All In The Switch

Servers
500 500 million million to to 6 6 billion billion bytes/second bytes/second

Servers

Servers

Switch Switch

Router Router Switch Switch

Todays Internet Data Center

Todays Internet Data Center

Tier 1

Web Hosting/ Serving Application Hosting Data Base / Transaction Processing Over Provisioned For Fail Over Usually TCP/IP Over Ethernet Between Tiers Persistent Connections Between Tiers The Web Is Shielded From The Complexity

Tier 2

Tier 3

Characteristics

Todays Internet Data Center

Its Not Just The Hardware That Is Hetrogeneous

Fibre Channel Switches 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s Gb Ethernet Switches 1Gb/s and 10Gb/s PCI-X 8.5 Gb/s PCI 4.2 Gb/s Independent Networks For Different Storage Solutions Network Attached Storage Storage Area Network The Virtualization Race Is On

InfiniBand Value Proposition #1: Resources Beyond The Box Today

Application/Data Sockets TCP IP Network Driver Network Hardware

Tomorrow
Application/Data VI Network Hardware

Workload Profile In 2000: Data Base Distribution Across Platforms

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%
S4 00 S3 90 O 20 00 et W ar e Li U th er O nu x ni x

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Non-Database Database

InfiniBand Value Proposition #1 Resources Beyond The Box

Data Center Benefits

Significant CPU Cycles Saved Transparent Implementation For Applications Using Hardware Implementation

Reduces Complexity With DB2, Oracle and SQL

You Can Do This Today!

Dont Repeat A Management Process Over & Over

Terminate The TCP connection at the network edge Speed Up The Information Flow Inside The Data Center

Take Away Points:

Build Better Servers, Data Bases, Networks Your Data Bases Can Actually Benefit Today

Your CPU Utilization Will Be Significantly Reduced

A Switch-based Infrastructure Creates Self Healing Environments Lower The Total Cost Of Computing Build A Better Data Center!

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