Docker 2 x AMD Opteron 2376 HE testing with a IBM Server Blade and 128MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Docker: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2376 HE @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: IBM Server Blade, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 4 x 1797GB 1814 FAStT + 147GB CBRBA146C3ETS0 N, Graphics: 128MB OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 KVM: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 23xx (Gen 3 Class Opteron) @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Fedora OpenStack Nova, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM, Disk: 5GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-46-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Docker . 92.06 |=============================================================== KVM .... 27.16 |=================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Docker . 408.16 |============================================================ KVM .... 425.11 |============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Docker . 260.61 |============================================================== KVM .... 259.73 |============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Docker . 54.93 |======================================================== KVM .... 62.13 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Docker . 483.50 |======================================================== KVM .... 535.63 |============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Docker . 746.56 |============================================================= KVM .... 759.24 |============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Docker . 495.22 |============================================================ KVM .... 508.80 |==============================================================