Cisco UCS Claims Four World Record Benchmarks with the Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 Family

On September 8th, 2014 Cisco announced support for the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 product family on the Cisco Unified Computing System . Simultaneously, Cisco unveiled a significant expansion of the Cisco UCS portfolio based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 product family for cloud-scale computing and workloads at the enterprise edge. For additional details on the new Cisco UCS servers launch with the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 product family check the blog by Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior “Introducing New Computing Platforms for the Internet of Everything”

On the same day as the Intel announcement, Cisco captured four World Records on industry benchmarks on Cisco UCS to highlight the way in which Cisco UCS can accelerate performance across the data center. As we know, there is no better way to compare performance than by using industry-standard benchmarks, and with FOUR new World Record benchmark performance results Cisco has demonstrated Cisco Unified Computing System’s outstanding performance and IT productivity across key data center workloads.

Cisco UCS World record Benchmark results announced this week includes:

SPECjbb®2013 MultiJVM– Number-one 2-socket server result for critical-jOPS Result:: Cisco UCS® C220 M4 Rack Server delivered 58,478 critical-jOPS and160,283 max-jOPS- a 248 percent increase in critical-jOPS results compared to Cisco’s recent results with previous processor generations. Check out the Performance Brief and the detailed official benchmark disclosure report for additional information on the benchmark configuration.

SPEComp®G_base2012– Number-one 2-socket server for SPECompG_base2012 Result: Cisco UCS C220 M4 delivered Java transactions at the rate of 160,283 concurrent Java operations per second (jOPS) and 58,478 concurrent critical jOPS on the SPECjbb®2013 benchmark. Check out the detailed benchmark disclosure report for additional information on benchmark configuration.

Oracle E-Business Suite Extra-Large Model Payroll– Number-one server Result: The Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server delivered world-record results on the Payroll Extra-Large Model Benchmark, exceeding one million employees per hour with a score of 1,125,281 and outperforming the IBM Power System S824, setting the standard for performance on this benchmark. This result is an 11 percent improvement over the previous-generation Intel Xeon processor running on the same Cisco UCS server and a 3 percent improvement over the IBM Power System S824.The Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server result of 1,125,281 employees per hour outperformed all competitive solutions. Check out the Performance Brief and detailed official benchmark disclosure for additional information on the benchmark configuration.

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-to-Cash– Number-one server Result: The Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server set up a world record on the Order-to-Cash workload with a result of 243,803 order lines per hour, outperforming the same server configured with previous-generation processors by 5 percent on the Order-to-Cash Large Model Benchmark, processing more than 11,000 more order lines per hour. Check out the Performance Brief and official benchmark disclosure report for additional information on the benchmark configuration.

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. Cisco’s results demonstrate the degree to which Cisco servers deliver the power of the new Intel Xeon processor E5 v3 family. Cisco UCS maximizes Intel innovations and with performance improved up to 145 percent since the last processor generation, you can count on both innovation and versatile performance from Cisco UCS servers.

Cisco UCS delivers versatility with performance leadership across a wide range of workloads, enabling customers to eliminate infrastructure silos historically driven by unique application needs. Todd Brannon sums up in his blog post Cisco UCS: Powering Applications at Every Scale

The architectural advantages of a single cohesive system optimized for virtualized environments coupled with the industry leading benchmark performance results makes the Cisco Unified Computing System an “infrastructure platform of choice” to provide industry-leading performance in your data center. For additional information on Cisco UCS and Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure solutions please visit Cisco Unified Computing & Servers web page.

Disclosure

The Java application performance improvement of 145 percent compared the critical-jOPS score of the Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server with the Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server, a SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM result that was available on February 5, 2014.

The parallel processing performance improvement of 39 percent compared the SPECompG_ peak2012 score of the Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server with the Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server, a result of that was available on September 13, 2013.

The batch processing performance improvement of 11 percent compared the Oracle E-Business Suite Benchmark results of the Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server with the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server, a result that was available on September 10, 2013.

SPEC, 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 September 8, 2014.