Recently, the international authoritative standard performance evaluation agency SPEC updated the SPEC Cloud IaaS 2018 test results, as the only cloud vendor to obtain Huawei Kunpeng Legalated certification, cloud axis technology (ZStack) submitted based on ZStack Cloud cloud platform and Kunpeng server test results refreshed two historical records: in the case of the same hardware scale, the performance increased to 40.5 as the world's highest score, scalability increased to 93.4% The highest in the world!
（https://www.spec.org/cloud_iaas2018/results/cloudiaas2018.html）
Based on Kunpeng hardware, combined with the low loss and high performance of ZStack Cloud cloud platform, the SPEC Cloud results obtained not only increased the performance of similar cloud vendors on Kunpeng servers by 40% to 382%, but also improved the performance of similar cloud vendors on X86 servers of the same scale by 56%.
ZStack + Kunpeng test results display
As the world's first cloud computing platform test benchmark developed by SPEC, SPEC Cloud fully considers the new requirements of performance testing in the cloud computing era, and can make fair judgments on the performance and resiliency of various IaaS platforms from the aspects of comprehensive performance, scalability and instance deployment time. The benchmark uses the following two tools to simulate IO-intensive and compute-intensive workloads:
IO Intensive Load Testing – YCSB: Build a Cassandra instance to simulate a standard social media NoSQL database scenario with test items including throughput, database insertion, read response time, and application instance configuration time.
Compute-intensive load testing – KMeans: Build multiple instances of the big data benchmarking tool HiBench for K-Means algorithm testing, including completion time, hadoop iteration count of instance runs, and application instance configuration time.
SPEC Cloud provides 4 main metrics to measure IaaS platform capabilities:
Number of application instances copied: Indicates the total number of instances that have completed at least one valid application at the end of the test, which is the sum of the valid application instances of YCSB and KMeans, but the effective application instances of either of them cannot exceed 60% of the total.
Performance Score: The sum of the scores of the above valid application instances represents the overall performance of YCSB and KMeans in the cloud environment, and the higher the score, the better the performance.
Scalability: Spec Cloud test execution consists of two phases – baseline benchmark data collection and scale-out extended performance data collection. Scalability is the percentage of the same performance output that each application instance in the scale-out process can provide as the application instance in the baseline stage, and the higher the result, the better the scalability.
Average Instance Configuration Time: The average configuration time of all valid application instances is the interval between the instance deployment request submitted to the instance launch and taken over by the test control node.
In the IaaS private cloud big data and comprehensive computing scenarios, ZStack carried out full-stack optimization based on the virtualization acceleration technology of Kunpeng Application Enablement Suite BoostKit, which increased the comprehensive performance of the cloud platform by 55.8%, the performance of YCSB (social media database application scenario) by 46.6%, and the performance of KMeans (Hadoop big data computing) by 64.6%.
Compared with other manufacturers in the same scenario, ZStack + Kunpeng performed equally well, with the comprehensive performance of the cloud platform increasing by 40.6% to 56.4%, the performance of YCSB increasing by 38.5% to 83.1%, and the performance of KMeans increasing by 39.6% to 42.4%.
ZStack + Kunpeng benchmarking practice
ZStack+ Kunpeng's full-stack optimized cloud platform solution can efficiently accelerate applications such as big data, distributed storage, native applications, high-performance computing and databases, and is designed to meet the needs of diversified computing and green computing in data centers.
At present, the program has been richly implemented in many fields such as government, finance, and manufacturing. thereinto:
Excellent practice in the financial industry: In the construction practice of postal savings bank Shanghai branch, based on the localization software and hardware environment such as Kunpeng's ZStack Cloud, the application of the retail credit bank-enterprise cooperation platform business system and other applications has been launched, building a new generation of business support platform, saving more than 30% of IT construction and use costs, which is also an excellent practice of financial localization scenarios, and has been shortlisted for the "2020 Xinchuang Solution Typical Case" of the Cyber Security Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Intelligent manufacturing practice: In the construction of Changhong Industrial Internet big data platform, based on the localization software and hardware environments such as Kunpeng hardware, Tiangong server, and ZStack Cloud, the first "5G + industrial Internet" production line in China was built, and the per capita efficiency was increased by 65%, which effectively promoted the landing of intelligent manufacturing applications.
epilogue
This time, ZStack and Kunpeng won the world's highest score in the SPEC Cloud test, which fully demonstrated the independent innovation strength in the field of cloud computing and provided a solid performance guarantee for promoting the localization of cloud computing.
In the future, ZStack will continue to focus on the Kunpeng computing industry ecology, further strengthen the performance advantages of the ZStack Cloud cloud platform in domestic hardware and software scenarios, and let domestic government and enterprise users enjoy the world's leading cloud computing platform in the process of digital construction!