c2 Running pts/compress-gzip-1.1.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. a: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 @ 3.30GHz (40 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10DRU-i+ v1.01, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 387072MB, Disk: 3 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection + Mellanox MT27500 Family OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.21.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 abc: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Google Compute Engine, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 55296MB, Disk: 16GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-32-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better a ... 14.23 |=============================================================== abc . 14.88 |==================================================================