Ubuntu vs. EL 7 vs, Clear Linux On Broadwell-EP Tests for a future article. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 @ 1.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12288MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160823, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Clear Linux 10040: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 @ 1.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux 10040, Kernel: 4.7.1-257.native (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 12.0.0, Compiler: GCC 6.1.0 + Clang 3.8.1 + LLVM 3.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Scientific Linux 7.2: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 @ 1.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Scientific 7.2, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.28.3.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.6.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 34.69 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 33.53 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 32.57 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 113.50 |=============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 107.47 |============================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 115.81 |================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 60.88 |================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .. 62.43 |=================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 51.73 |================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .. 52.40 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 404.21 |======================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 850.50 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 329.36 |=================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 216.79 |===================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 282.81 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 103.43 |================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 2103.52 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .. 2112.53 |================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 98.32 |======================= Clear Linux 10040 .. 212.78 |================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 4695.21 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .. 4706.96 |================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 11991.45 |============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .. 12541.37 |================================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 1708.62 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .. 1697.29 |================================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 47.99180 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 9.76354 |========= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 6.54740 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 6.10703 |============================================ HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: EP-DGEMM GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 6.57820 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 1.32970 |========== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 17.70 |============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 15.85 |========================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 18.86 |================================================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 19.70 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 18.97 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 19.02 |=============================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 96.18 |======================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 88.05 |===================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 114.45 |================================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 312.46 |================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 320.09 |================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 886.79 |================================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 70.64 |======================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 53.98 |=============================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 85.85 |================================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 32.90 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 33.18 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 33.32 |================================================= CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 5.84 |================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 1.06 |========= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 5.05 |=========================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 48.19 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 43.45 |============================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 46.21 |=============================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 2659.00 |============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 2711.83 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 2715.08 |=============================================== FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 1D FFT Size 4096 Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 10179.28 |============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 10184.00 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 10202.00 |============================================== FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 4096 Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 7104.06 |============================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 7309.88 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 7376.38 |=============================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 18.53 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 12.52 |================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 6.06 |============================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 5.97 |=========================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 6.89 |================================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 25.27 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 15.75 |=============================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 16.79 |================================= Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 6821.30 |============================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 6944.93 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 7161.57 |=============================================== Botan 1.11.6 Test: Tiger Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 206.87 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 203.87 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 207.65 |================================================ Botan 1.11.6 Test: KASUMI Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 37.43 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 37.94 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 34.48 |============================================= Botan 1.11.6 Test: AES-256 Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 2558.93 |=============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 2556.09 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 2488.26 |============================================== Botan 1.11.6 Test: Twofish Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 97.72 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 99.62 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 96.77 |================================================ Botan 1.11.6 Test: CAST-256 Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 50.23 |=========================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 56.99 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 39.81 |================================== Botan 1.11.6 Test: X9.19-MAC Mbytes/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 38.70 |============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 40.90 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 39.77 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 677.81 |=========================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 762.99 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 654.17 |========================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 228.96 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 229.15 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 198.99 |========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 1044.23 |==================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 1373.00 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 1044.24 |==================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 581234 |============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 594279 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 608594 |================================================ TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 164.90 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 149.24 |=========================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 144.38 |========================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 145.10 |================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .. 144.83 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 74 |=================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 76 |==================================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 46 |=============================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 94 |================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 97 |==================================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 86 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 102 |================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 105 |=================================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 99 |================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 997.67 |=========================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 1082.88 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 993.91 |=========================================== ebizzy 0.3 Phoronix Test Suite v6.6.0m2 Records/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 155575 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 152047 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 138006 |=========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 126.33 |========================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 143.03 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 127.98 |=========================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 33.79 |==================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 46.31 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 36.31 |====================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 25.32 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 25.41 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 25.55 |================================================= Primesieve 5.4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 93.01 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 92.09 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 93.06 |================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 113 |=================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 31 |============== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 113 |=================================================== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 7242 |================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 7055 |================================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 6998 |================================================ LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 553.57 |============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 577.86 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 513.62 |=========================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 147.91 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 146.42 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 148.08 |================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 13.12 |======================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 12.87 |======================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 16.00 |================================================= N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 56.89 |=================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .. 55.60 |================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 572.17 |================================================ Clear Linux 10040 .... 573.10 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 565.13 |=============================================== Caffe AlexNet 2016-06-11 Build: CPU AlexNet Milli-Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 826190 |================================================== Clear Linux 10040 .. 123215 |======= Caffe AlexNet 2016-06-11 Build: CPU Googlenet Milli-Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 1601480 |================================================= Clear Linux 10040 .. 614057 |=================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 1981.97 |=============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 1616.27 |====================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 1902.32 |============================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 421.05 |========================================= Clear Linux 10040 .... 489.77 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 373.48 |===================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 1233116.75 |======================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 1345363.09 |============================================ Scientific Linux 7.2 . 1100206.21 |==================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 903203.65 |=========================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 935278.14 |============================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 788643.92 |====================================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 177722134.80 |========================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 165809250.09 |======================================= Scientific Linux 7.2 . 178519436.63 |========================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ... 30252.27 |============================================== Clear Linux 10040 .... 24330.69 |===================================== Scientific Linux 7.2 . 12347.85 |===================