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Better Together: Intel and IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration* White Paper Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v3 Family Capture and Capitalize on Business Intelligence with Intel and IBM Quickly add context to critical data with IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration* running on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family Almost everything you do in your business life generates tangible data that can be captured and analyzed. Every screen tap, every key stroke, every sensor reading contributes to the unending river of data flooding your servers. Organizations are placing more emphasis on business-intelligence (BI) strategies because being able to extract insights from data in real-time is crucial to maintaining a competitive edge. You might have a BI strategy in place, but is your hardware and database software capable of handling a daily deluge of data? In 2013, the world generated 5 exabytes—that’s five billion gigabytes—of data per day.1 Imagine the sheer quantity of data that will be surging into your company in five years, when 25 billion devices are connected to the Internet.2 The physical components of computing can limit processing speeds, memory capacity, and error-correction capabilities and can create bottlenecks in your data stream. As such, complex queries can take hours or days to derive the insights with the biggest business impact—and data grows stale fast. If your databases can’t analyze data as fast as the data is gathered, your business risks losing vital information. Mission-critical insights can make all the difference between developing a competitive advantage or losing business to the competition. Fast, Flexible Performance with gain with each new generation of Intel® Intel and IBM hardware and IBM software. The latest combination of hardware and software is Running enterprise applications like 246 times faster than the first pairing of enterprise resource planning (ERP) or the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family with online transaction processing (OLTP) IBM DB2*, four years ago.3a,f Big-data requires a server that can scale to fit the workloads also benefit from scalable workload. To ensure that businesses processing power, abundant memory, have the best tools to drive success, and high, consistent throughput. Intel and IBM have collaborated closely to bring you a hardware and software More Memory, Scalable Processing, combination that can accommodate and Streamlined Throughput any size workload and can help you to uncover the critical insights hidden in IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration* is big data. the next generation of database technology, and it’s changing the game Generational Gains for in-memory computing. IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration optimizes CPU The last five years have seen a cache and system memory to deliver consistently tremendous performance Capture and Capitalize on Business Intelligence with Intel and IBM Table of Contents breakthrough performance for speed- of-thought analytics. The four-socket Fast, Flexible Performance Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family with Intel and IBM . 1 can support up to 6 TB of memory, The Intel® Xeon® processor Benchmark Results . 3 whereas the eight-socket versions E7 v3 family enables you to: can use up to 12 TB. This makes it Better Together . 3 possible to put large, primary databases • Deliver faster query-response 3 Intel and IBM: Innovation directly into memory to radically boost times for Enterprise . 4 performance. The Intel Xeon processor • Run more concurrent queries E7 v3 family natively uses two, four, or in a multi-user environment3 eight sockets without any additional work, and third-party node controllers • Reduce the size of your server enable you to scale up to 256 sockets. stack while increasing its performance3 The Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family scales up to 18 cores to increase • Increase your memory bandwidth CPU scalability and throughput. This • Uncover mission-critical in- increase not only delivers faster query- sights as fast as data is created3 response times, but it enables you to run more concurrent queries in a multi- user environment. More cores also means that you need fewer processors, More Reliability, Availability, and so you can halve the size of your server Serviceability Features stack while increasing its performance. The Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family Improved Memory Support adds two new features to Intel® Run Sure Technology, which was introduced In addition to DDR3 memory, the Intel with the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 Xeon processor E7 v3 family supports family.4 Enhanced Machine Check DDR4 memory, which can increase your Architecture (eMCA) recovery Gen memory bandwidth and lower power 2 expands automatic error recovery consumption. DDR4 memory improves and enables firmware to recover from the scalability of your servers so that uncorrectable errors without impacting your business can balance the discovery uptime. Address Range Memory of critical business intelligence with Mirroring allows you to control which the speed at which data is created. memory ranges are mirrored rather The latest generation of Intel Xeon than having to mirror all memory. By processors introduces lockstep mode, mirroring critical data, you can avoid which can halve memory bandwidth to uncorrectable memory errors that increase error recovery. might have otherwise caused a platform IBM DB2 with BLU IBM DB2 with BLU IBM DB2 10.1* Acceleration* Acceleration* 118x 2.07x Intel® Xeon® speedup3a,d speedup3d,f Figure 1 . Overall performance Intel® Xeon® Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 gains during five years of the processor E7-4870 processor E7-8890 v3 Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family and IBM DB2* software collaboration 246x speedup3a,f 2 Capture and Capitalize on Business Intelligence with Intel and IBM to fail while leaving more memory bigger chunks of data, which translates A software-only upgrade, moving available for other workloads. to better customer experiences, new from IBM DB2 10.1 to IBM DB2 with market opportunities, reduced risk, and BLU Acceleration, on the Intel Xeon The new reliability, availability, and more efficient operations. processor E7-8890 v3 increased serviceability (RAS) features built query speed 187 times (Figure 2).3c,f into the Intel Xeon processor E7 The increased core count and scalable Tests reveal a 2.07x performance gain v3 family help improve uptime and sockets of the Intel Xeon processor when servers running IBM DB2 with reduce maintenance costs. Multiple E7 v3 family boost the flexibility BLU Acceleration are upgraded from rank sparing provides a second level and features of IBM DB2 with BLU the Intel Xeon processor E7-4870 to of dynamic fail-over behind the same Acceleration to help you find real-time the Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v3 memory controller and supports insights faster and make more informed (Figure 3).3d,f Another test showed that two spare ranks per DDR channel. business decisions. switching from running IBM DB2 with DDR4 recovery enables your system BLU Acceleration on the Intel Xeon to recover from parity errors found Benchmark Results processor E7-4890 v2 to the Intel in command and address features, Intel and IBM used the internal Proof Xeon processor E7-8890 v3 boosted lessening the risk of a system crash. of Performance and Scalability (POPS) response times 1.21 times (Figure 3).3e,f Better Energy Efficiency benchmark to measure database- query performance between different Better Together Servers running Intel Xeon processors combinations of the Intel Xeon processor Pairing the Intel Xeon processor E7 benefit from a number of features family and IBM DB2. Combining the v3 family with IBM DB2 with BLU that lessen power consumption, and Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family with Acceleration produces a processing the Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration showed powerhouse that adeptly adjusts to introduces one more: Per Core P-states performance improvements across the workload size and CPU demand. (PCPS). PCPS enables the CPU to board. The tests demonstrated that IBM control the power consumption of DB2 with BLU Acceleration running on More Speed, Less Cost individual CPU cores, so your servers the Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v3, in can remain energy efficient even when four-socket mode, processed the same IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration is workload demands are high. workload 246 times faster than IBM DB2 quick and easy to deploy, so you can 10.1 running on the Intel Xeon processor fulfill business needs even as they IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration E7-4870 (Figure 1 and Figure 2).3a,f change and evolve. With DB2 with BLU IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration combines innovations from IBM Research and Development Labs to dramatically simplify and speed-up IBM DB2 with BLU the discovery of insights hidden in big IBM DB2 10.1* data. DB2 BLU with Acceleration is easy Acceleration* to deploy and improves performance 187x Intel® Xeon® speedup3c,f and storage efficiency by eliminating Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 the need for indexes, aggregates, and processor E7-8890 v3 constant fine-tuning. While other in-memory databases rely solely on in-memory data storage, IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration automatically optimizes the flow of data between IBM DB2 10.1* storage, system memory, and the 3a,f CPU cache. This patented IBM design Intel® Xeon® 246x speedup enables DB2 with BLU Acceleration to processor E7-4870 maintain the performance of in-memory computing even when datasets exceed system memory capacity. This allows businesses to derive insights faster from Figure 2 . Experience major performance gains when you use the latest IBM DB2* software and Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 families 3 Capture and Capitalize on Business Intelligence with Intel and IBM IBM DB2 with BLU IBM DB2 with BLU IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration* Acceleration* Acceleration* 1.7x 1.21x speedup3d,e speedup3e,f Intel® Xeon® Intel® Xeon® Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 processor E7-4890 v2 processor E7-8890 v3 2.07x speedup3d,f Figure 3 .
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