Cisco UCS Claims 100th World-Record Benchmark Result with SPECjbb®2013 MultiJVM Benchmark

One hundred is one of the most ubiquitous numbers in life. We see it on money, best-of lists, memorials, compilations, scoring systems, and many other benchmarks. Cisco Unified Computing System reached this significant milestone as Cisco UCS claimed its 100th world-record performance result with the fastest 2-socket server on the SPECjbb®2013 MultiJVM benchmark for the max-jOPS metric.

A Cisco UCS® C220 M4 Rack Server powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 family delivered  four times the max-jOPS rate that Cisco measured using previous processor generations to set a new world record.  This dramatically increased performance of 195,119 max-jOPS is the top 2-socket MultiJVM score for maximum Java operations (max-jOPS).

This world-record of 195,119 max-jOPS is more than three times better than Cisco UCS C240 M3 with Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 family-based result from just 10 months ago, and more than four times better than our Intel Xeon processor E5 family –based result from 18 months ago. This consistent record-setting performance from Cisco UCS blade and rack servers ensures that Cisco will stay ahead of competitors in delivering high performance for Java virtual machines (JVMs) and throughput-intensive Java applications.

The JVM instances ran on a Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server powered by two 18- core Intel Xeon processor E5-2699 v3 CPUs running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Server 6.5 and Oracle Java HotSpot 64-Bit Server Virtual Machine (VM) Version 1.8.0_20. Check out the Performance Brief and the detailed official benchmark disclosure report for additional information on the benchmark configuration.

Let’s see, what does this latest result mean for our customers? This result proves that IT departments that deploy Java applications on Cisco UCS can deliver more throughput and support more users while reducing the complexity of the data center. For customers assessing infrastructure for Java applications, this result demonstrates Cisco’s capability to consistently deliver record-setting performance with every new generation of processor.

It is interesting to note that although all vendors have access to same Intel processors, 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 Intel Xeon processors into a system with a better balance of resources that brings processor power to life. . For additional information on Cisco UCS and Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure solutions please visit Cisco Unified Computing & Servers web page.

Disclosure

SPEC, and SPECjbb, is 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 October 6, 2014.