Intel Bay Trail NUC Kit Ubuntu Linux Update Testing by Michael Larabel of Phoronix for a future article on Phoronix of the Intel Bay Trail NUC Kit Celeron SoC and other hardware while running Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14: Processor: Intel Celeron N2820 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DN2820FYK, Chipset: Intel ValleyView SSA-CUnit, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: Intel ValleyView Gen7 (708MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC283, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 7260 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.14.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: intel 2.99.909, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-57f94bf saucy-oibaf-ppa), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15: Processor: Intel Celeron N2820 @ 1.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DN2820FYK, Chipset: Intel ValleyView SSA-CUnit, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB HGST HTS721010A9, Graphics: Intel ValleyView Gen7 (755MHz), Audio: Intel ValleyView HD Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 7260 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.15.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.911, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel (git-57730d6 trusty-oibaf-ppa), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 109.32 |========================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 100.25 |======================= PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Covariance Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 5.84 |=========================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 5.02 |======================= PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Correlation Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 5.85 |=========================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 5.04 |======================= PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 126.50 |========================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 126.12 |========================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 323.06 |======================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 355.66 |========================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 157.90 |====================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 177.43 |========================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 51.30 |========================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 51.28 |========================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 463.35 |======================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 498.87 |========================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 384.81 |======================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 422.87 |========================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 557.94 |====================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 627.84 |========================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 323454 |====================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 366598 |========================= Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 535.62 |======================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 594.89 |========================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 226.44 |========================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 210.23 |======================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 282.25 |========================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 269.47 |======================== Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 558.17 |========================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 543.21 |======================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 888 |============================ Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 845 |=========================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 31.50 |========================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 29.10 |======================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 19.28 |========================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 17.35 |======================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 48.00 |========================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 43.03 |======================= FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 55.35 |========================== Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 53.74 |========================= N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 + Mesa 10.2-devel + Linux 3.14 . 250.56 |========================= Ubuntu 14.04 + Mesa 10.3-devel + Linux 3.15 . 242.40 |========================