Cisco UCS Delivers Industry-Leading SPECjbb2013 Results

On April 17th, 2013 Cisco announced SPECjbb2013 results with the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivering top SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM 2-socket x 86 performances.

Cisco’s results on the SPECjbb®2013 benchmark—41,954 maximum Java operations (max-jOPS) and 16,545 critical Java operations (critical-jOPS)— demonstrate that the Cisco UCS® C220 M3 Rack Server and Oracle Java Standard Edition (SE) 7u11 can provide an optimized platform for Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) and deliver accelerated response to throughput-intensive Java applications.

Exercising new Java SE 7 features, the SPECjbb2013 benchmark stresses the CPU processing, memory speed, and chip set performance capabilities of the underlying platform. The result consists of two metrics: the full capacity throughput (max-jOPS) and the critical throughput (critical-jOPS) under service-level agreements (SLAs), ranging from 10 to 500 milliseconds (ms) from request issuance to receipt of a response indicating operation completion.

To compete in the SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM category, the tested configuration consisted of a controller and two groups each consisting of a transaction injector and back-end, all running across multiple JVM instances within a single operating system image. The JVM instances ran on a Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server. Two 2.90-GHz, 8-core Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2690 CPUs powered the Cisco UCS C220 M3 server running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 operating system and Java HotSpot 64-Bit Server Virtual Machine Version 1.7.0_11. The Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server and Oracle Java SE 7u11 delivered fast response times and high transaction throughput on the SPECjbb2013 benchmark. The system supported 41,954 max‑jOPS and 16,545 critical-jOPS,  representing  the best critical-jOPS 2-socket x86 result in the MultiJVM category

The “Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server Delivers Industry-Leading SPECjbb2013 Results” Performance Brief provides additional benchmark configuration details. Official Benchmark Certification is available at the SPECjbb2013 official web site at: http://www.spec.org/jbb2013/results/res2013q2/jbb2013-20130403-00028.html.

Cisco UCS based SPECjbb2013 benchmark results show that the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivers excellent scalability to JVMs and applications. SPECjbb2013 benchmark results show that the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivers more throughput within specified time frames than solutions from other vendors.

Cisco UCS delivers the scalability needed for large-scale Java application deployments. The dramatic reduction in the number of physical components results in a system that makes effective use of limited space, power, and cooling by deploying less infrastructure to perform more, work. Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Servers can operate in standalone deployments or be managed as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System for increased IT operation efficiency. For additional information on Cisco UCS and Cisco UCS solutions please visit www.cisco.com/go/ucs

Girish Kulkarni

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Unified Computing System

gikulkar@cisco.com

SPEC and SPECjbb are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The performance results described are derived from detailed benchmark results available at http://www.speck.org/ as of April 22, 2013.