Cloud Platform Evaluation
2 x Intel Xeon E5540 testing with a Dell 0N582M and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Ubuntu 10.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Ukko Cluster: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0N582M, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH9, Memory: 8 x 4096 MB, Disk: 80GB FUJITSU MHZ2080B, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709S Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-28-server (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext4

Dell Desktop: 

	Processor: Intel Core 2 6400 @ 2.13GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0RF703, Chipset: Intel 82Q963/Q965 + ICH8/R, Memory: 2 x 1024 MB DDR-800MHz, Disk: 2 x 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JS-75N, Graphics: Intel 82Q963/Q965 IGP, Audio: Analog Devices AD1983, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit PCI

	OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-33-server (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 1566.82 |=======================================================
Dell Desktop . 25.50   |=


Apache Benchmark 2.2.17
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 14196.78 |======================================================
Dell Desktop . 6402.89  |========================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 2.6.25
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 189.39  |========
Dell Desktop . 1283.80 |=======================================================


7-Zip Compression 9.13
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 17336 |=========================================================
Dell Desktop . 3262  |===========


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.98.2
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 30.32 |=======================================
Dell Desktop . 44.05 |=========================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 6.58  |=========
Dell Desktop . 42.37 |=========================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 2813333 |=======================================================
Dell Desktop . 2244333 |============================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 12443 |=========================================================
Dell Desktop . 9159  |==========================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 726 |===========================================================
Dell Desktop . 550 |=============================================


NGINX Benchmark 0.8.53
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 11147.40 |======================================================
Dell Desktop . 10754.14 |====================================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 9611.06 |=======================================================
Dell Desktop . 3531.89 |====================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 9007.95 |=======================================================
Dell Desktop . 3507.43 |=====================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 9598.98 |=======================================================
Dell Desktop . 4246.96 |========================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 10024.64 |======================================================
Dell Desktop . 4285.26  |=======================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 10.98 |============================================
Dell Desktop . 14.23 |=========================================================


Loopback TCP Network Performance
Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 21.92 |=============================
Dell Desktop . 42.51 |=========================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 3526 |==========================================================
Dell Desktop . 1923 |================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 74  |=======
Dell Desktop . 587 |===========================================================