Cisco UCS® Claims SAP SD and SPECjbb 2013 World- Record Benchmarks

Cisco UCS continues its tradition of performance leadership with the announcement of three world –record benchmark performance results:

Cisco UCS B260 M4 blade servers achieved the best 2-processor 2-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark performance

Cisco UCS C460 M4 Rack Server set new world-record SPECjbb®2013 MultiJVM 4-socket max-jOPS performance result.

Cisco UCS  B260 M4 Blade Server claimed  a new world-record SPECjbb®2013 MultiJVM 2-socket x86/64 max-jOPS performance result

Let’s take a closer look at each of these world-record benchmark performance results:

1.      World-Record: Fastest Two-Processor Result for SAP

Cisco UCS B260 M4 blade servers delivered the best 2-processor SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark result, in a two-tier configuration, with performance accelerated by Cisco UCS Invicta Series Solid State Systems. The Cisco UCS B260 M4 Blade Server running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 delivered a world-record two-tier SAP SD Benchmark result on SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The solution supported 12,280 SAP SD Benchmark users while maintaining a consistent application response time of less than one second. Published results can be found on the SAP website at http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx, SAP SD Benchmark Result Certificate Number 2014018.

Cisco UCS B260 M4 delivered a SAPS score of 67,020. This result is an 18 percent improvement over the 54,700 SAPS score delivered by IBM x3690 X5 servers configured with previous-generation processors and a 22 percent improvement over an IBM FlexSystem p260 running two IBM POWER 7+ processors as reflected in the graph below:

Check out the Performance Brief for additional information on the benchmark configuration. The detailed official benchmark disclosure report is available at the SAP website.

2.       The Same Processors: Greater SPECjbb2013 Performance with the Cisco UCS C460 M4

Cisco UCS C460 M4 Rack Server captured the top 4-socket MultiJVM score for maximum Java operations (max-jOPS)  with results of 201,117 max-jOPS and 52,784 critical-jOPS.

The test configuration consisted of a controller and four groups, each consisting of a transaction injector and back end, all running across nine JVM instances within a single operating system image. The JVM instances ran on a Cisco UCS C460 M4 Rack Server powered by four 2.8-GHz, 15-core Intel Xeon processor E7-4890 v2 CPUs running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 operating system and 64-bit Oracle Java HotSpot Virtual Machine (VM) server on Linux Version 1.8.0.

The benchmark results of 201,117 max-jOPS and 52,784 critical-jOPS place the Cisco UCS C460 M4 at the top of the max-jOPS scores for 4-socket servers running multiple JVMs  and outperforms the Dell PowerEdge R920 and HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 servers, as shown in the graph below:

Check out the Performance Brief for additional information on the benchmark configuration. The detailed official benchmark disclosure report is available at spec.org website.

3.      Cisco Improves Performance by Up to 47 Percent in World-Record SPECjbb2013 Results

Cisco UCS  B260 M4 Blade Server captured the top 2-socket x86/64 MultiJVM score for maximum Java operations (max-jOPS)  with results of 91,499 concurrent Java operations per second and 30,021 concurrent critical Java operations per second on SPECjbb2013.

The Cisco 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 B260 M4 Blade Server powered by two 2.8-GHz, 15-core Intel Xeon processor E7-4890 v2 CPUs running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4 operating system and Oracle Java HotSpot 64-Bit Server Virtual Machine (VM) on Linux Version 1.8.0.

The benchmark result of 91,499 max-jOPS and 30,021 critical-jOPS places the Cisco UCS B260 M4 at the top of the max-jOPS scores for 2-socket x86/64 servers running multiple JVMs  delivering  a 47 percent increase in SPECjbb®2013 max-jOPS and a 28 percent increase in critical-jOPS compared to Cisco’s recent results with the Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 powered servers as depicted in the graph below:

Check out the Performance Brief for additional information on the benchmark configuration. The detailed official benchmark disclosure report is available at spec.org website.

These results join the more than 90 previous world-record performance results set by Cisco UCS since it was announced five years ago. Many of these world-record results use real-world workloads, including business applications, Java middleware, database performance, high-performance computing, and virtualized and cloud computing environments. Check out the Cisco UCS Performance Benchmarks website for additional details.

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Competitive claims based on results posted at http://www.spec.org/, and at http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/industry_benchmarks.html as of 05/29/2014. SPEC and SPECjbb are trademarks or registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.

SAP Results referenced are from the SAP website at http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx and are current as of 5/29/2014: Cisco UCS B260 M4, 2 Processors / 30 Cores / 60 Threads, Intel Xeon Processor E7-4890 v2, 2.8 Ghz, 64 KB L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core, 37.5 MB L3 cache per processor, 512 GB of main memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0; certification number 2014018, IBM Flex System p260 Compute Node, 2 processors, 16 cores, 64 threads, IBM POWER7+, 4.10 GHz, 32-KB (I) and 32-KB (D) L1 cache and 256-KB L2 cache per core, 10- MB L3 cache per core, 256 GB of main memory, IBM AIX 7.1, IBM DB2 10, and SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0; certification number 2012035, IBM System x3690 X5, 2 processors, 20 cores, 40 threads, Intel Xeon processor E7-2870, 2.40 GHz, 64- KB L1 cache and 256-KB L2 cache per core, 30-MB L3 cache per processor, 256 GB of main memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, IBM DB2 9.7, and SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0; certification number 2011032

Girish Kulkarni

Senior Marketing Manager,

Unified Computing System

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