Cisco UCS continues its world record tradition!

Contributing author: Vijay Durairaj

Today we are announcing our latest generation of UCS servers based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family and 6 industry standard world record benchmarks. Since Cisco first entered the server business, we’ve been setting records and our new M5 servers are no exception.

For details on the new Cisco UCS M5 servers, check out Satinder Sethi’s blog, watch the TechWiseTV episode, or go to www.cisco.com/go/ucs.

Using industry-standard benchmarks is a great way to compare performance. With our 6 world records, Cisco continues to show how customers can accelerate their performance and get faster time to value with UCS.

Cisco UCS World record benchmark results announced this week include:

SAP SD 2-tier benchmark – #1 2-socket server for SAP SD 2-tier. The Cisco UCS C240 M5 delivered 31855 SD users – a 50% increase when compared to Cisco’s previous result.1
Detailed official benchmark disclosure report.

SPECjbb®2015 MultiJVM – #1 2-socket server result for Max-jOPS. The C240 M5 delivered 179,534 max-jOPS – a 52% increase when compared to Cisco’s previous result.2
Detailed official benchmark disclosure report.

SPECjbb®2015 MultiJVM – #1 2-socket server result for critical-jOPS. The C240 M5 delivered 118,551 critical-jOPS – a 65% increase when compared to Cisco’s previous result.3
Detailed official benchmark disclosure report.

SPECjbb®2015 CompositeJVM – #1 2-socket server result for Max-jOPS. The C240 M5 delivered 155,296 max-jOPS – a 45% increase when compared to previous generation #1 result.4
Detailed official benchmark disclosure report.

SPEComp®G_base2012 – #1 2-socket server for SPECompG_base2012. The C240 M5 delivered 23.1 ompG base – an 86% increase when compared to Cisco’s previous #1 result.5
Detailed official benchmark disclosure report.

SPECfp®_base2006 – #1 4-socket server for SPECfp_base2006. The Cisco UCS C480 M5 delivered 150 floating point base – a 17% increase when compared to Cisco’s previous result.6
Detailed official benchmark disclosure report.

It is interesting to note that although all vendors have access to same Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, only Cisco UCS unleashes their power to deliver high performance to applications through the power of unification. The unique, fabric-centric architecture of Cisco UCS integrates the CPUs into a system with a better balance of resources that brings processor power to life. Cisco’s results demonstrate the degree to which Cisco servers deliver the power of the new Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Cisco UCS maximizes Intel innovations and with improved performance of up to 86%. You can count on both innovation and versatile performance from Cisco UCS: It’s not a server. It’s a system.

For additional information on Cisco UCS and Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure solutions please visit Cisco Unified Computing & Servers web page.

Additional Disclosures

The SAP SD 2-tier benchmark with Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack server improvement of 50% in comparison to a Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server equipped with the previous-generation Intel Xeon processors. These results are available at http://www.sap.com/benchmark

The Java application performance improvement of 52% compared the SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM max-jOPS score of the Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server with the previous-generation Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server, a result that was available on March 1, 2016.

The Java application performance improvement of 65% compared the SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM critical-jOPS score of the Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server with the previous-generation Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server, a result that was available on March 10, 2016.

The Java application performance improvement of 46% compared the new benchmark SPECjbb2015- Composite max-jOPS score of the Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server with the previous #1 platform result that was available on Nov 6, 2016.

The rack server parallel-processing performance improvement of 86% compared the SPECompG_base2012 score of the Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server with the previous-generation Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server, a result that was available on Mar 16, 2016.

The floating-point throughput performance improvement of 17% compared the SPECfp_base_base2006 score of the Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack Server with the previous-generation Cisco UCS C460 M4 Rack Server, a result that was available on May 17, 2016.

SPECfb, SPECjbb, and SPEComp are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The benchmark results used to establish world-record status are based on those available at http://www.spec.org as of July 11, 2017.