High-End Intel Xeon testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. VM1: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Google, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB RAM, Disk: 537GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-56-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4 DC1: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Google, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 537GB PersistentDisk OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-56-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: aufs DC2: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Google, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 537GB PersistentDisk OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-56-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: aufs VM3: Processor: 2 x Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB DRAM, Disk: 537GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Ensoniq ES1371 / Creative, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-30-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: vmware 13.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: VMware DC3: Processor: 2 x Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 537GB VMware Virtual S OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-30-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: aufs, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 2042.30 |================================================================ DC2 . 1987.79 |============================================================== VM3 . 722.25 |======================= DC3 . 577.02 |================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 22830.32 |==================================================== DC1 . 27541.02 |=============================================================== DC2 . 25197.66 |========================================================== VM3 . 14072.95 |================================ DC3 . 14295.06 |================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 22266.94 |================================================== DC1 . 28335.18 |=============================================================== DC2 . 24893.59 |======================================================= VM3 . 13966.14 |=============================== DC3 . 14177.08 |================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 25229.67 |=================================================== DC1 . 31417.57 |=============================================================== DC2 . 27310.88 |======================================================= VM3 . 15596.32 |=============================== DC3 . 15692.34 |=============================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 24858.80 |=================================================== DC1 . 30808.87 |=============================================================== DC2 . 26926.53 |======================================================= VM3 . 15542.06 |================================ DC3 . 15623.00 |================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 1047.36 |======================================================== DC1 . 1051.53 |======================================================== DC2 . 1053.61 |======================================================== VM3 . 1199.50 |================================================================ DC3 . 1176.46 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 415.31 |=================================================== DC1 . 411.00 |================================================== DC2 . 407.81 |================================================== VM3 . 532.22 |================================================================= DC3 . 512.19 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 259.32 |============================================================== DC1 . 261.31 |=============================================================== DC2 . 258.16 |============================================================== VM3 . 269.80 |================================================================= DC3 . 256.43 |============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 1805.43 |=========================================================== DC1 . 1790.32 |=========================================================== DC2 . 1797.48 |=========================================================== VM3 . 1943.37 |================================================================ DC3 . 1876.06 |============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 1965.21 |=========================================================== DC1 . 1998.45 |============================================================ DC2 . 2013.10 |============================================================ VM3 . 2135.04 |================================================================ DC3 . 2126.48 |================================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 800.71 |============================================== DC1 . 796.59 |============================================== DC2 . 791.53 |============================================= VM3 . 1117.08 |================================================================ DC3 . 1111.16 |================================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better VM1 . 62.16 |================================================================== DC1 . 61.98 |================================================================== DC2 . 61.99 |================================================================== VM3 . 35.46 |====================================== DC3 . 34.80 |===================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better VM1 . 10.43 |================================================================== DC1 . 10.40 |================================================================== DC2 . 10.46 |================================================================== VM3 . 7.78 |================================================= DC3 . 7.78 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better VM1 . 18.36 |================================================================== DC1 . 18.05 |================================================================= DC2 . 18.15 |================================================================= VM3 . 14.08 |=================================================== DC3 . 14.02 |==================================================