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-new-disks: 

	Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 4122 @ 2.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0GXH08, Memory: 8 x 2048 MB 1333MHz, Disk: 146GB Virtual Disk

	OS: Linux, Kernel: 2.6.32-trunk-686 (i686), 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-new-disks . 30.12 |=====================================================


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 |==========================================================
Antares .... 57.64  |============


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 |========


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 |=====================================


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  |====================================