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

Antares: 

	Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 4180 @ 2.60GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0GXH08, Chipset: ATI RD890 + SB700/SB800, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 249GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 Gigabit

	OS: Linux, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3

Saturn-UpdatedBIOS-Debian: 

	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 5.0.9, Kernel: 2.6.32-bpo.5-686-bigmem (i686), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.3.2, File-System: ext3


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Stock-home ................ 29.88 |===========================================
Cement .................... 20.63 |==============================
Antares ................... 21.66 |===============================
Saturn-UpdatedBIOS-Debian . 30.39 |============================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Stock-home ................ 114.24 |===========================================
Cement .................... 16.88  |======
Saturn-UpdatedBIOS-Debian . 107.93 |=========================================


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 |===========================================
Antares ................... 57.64  |=========
Saturn-UpdatedBIOS-Debian . 6.72   |=


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 |=============================================
Antares ................... 0.60 |======
Saturn-UpdatedBIOS-Debian . 0.72 |=======


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 |=========================================
Antares ................... 12514.26 |===========================
Saturn-UpdatedBIOS-Debian . 8336.08  |==================


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 |=========================================
Antares ................... 8694.36  |===========================
Saturn-UpdatedBIOS-Debian . 7354.44  |=======================