Saturn 2 x AMD Opteron 4122 testing with a Dell 0GXH08 and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 [Hermon] - Winbond/Nuvoton on Debian 5.0.8 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Stock-home: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 4122 @ 2.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0GXH08, Chipset: ATI RD890 + SB700/SB800, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 159GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 [Hermon] - Winbond/Nuvoton, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 Gigabit OS: Debian 5.0.8, Kernel: 2.6.32-bpo.5-686-bigmem (i686), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.3.2, File-System: ext3 Cement: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5606 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 00NH4P, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH9, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 67GB PERC H700 + 1933GB PERC H700, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit OS: Linux, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock-home . 29.88 |=========================================================== Cement ..... 20.63 |========================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock-home . 114.24 |========================================================== Cement ..... 16.88 |========= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock-home . 6.85 |= Cement ..... 270.59 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock-home . 0.72 |========== Cement ..... 4.34 |============================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock-home . 8537.22 |========================= Cement ..... 19020.23 |======================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Stock-home . 7330.69 |=============================== Cement ..... 13380.17 |========================================================