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

Saturn-cp: 

	Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 4122 @ 2.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0GXH08, Chipset: ATI RD890 + SB700/SB800, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 146GB 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-new-disks . 29.73 |====================================================
Saturn-cp ........ 30.04 |=====================================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Stock-home ....... 114.24 |====================================================
Cement ........... 16.88  |========
Saturn-new-disks . 20.51  |=========
Saturn-cp ........ 22.81  |==========


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-new-disks . 68.39  |=============
Saturn-cp ........ 66.42  |=============


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-new-disks . 1.79 |======================
Saturn-cp ........ 1.73 |======================


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-new-disks . 7979.81  |=====================
Saturn-cp ........ 8420.85  |======================


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-new-disks . 6471.47  |========================
Saturn-cp ........ 7321.61  |===========================