Scientific Linux 6.9 vs. 6.10 vs. EL 7.5 Scientific Linux 6.9, 6.10, 7.5 benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com. Scientific Linux is derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources.. Scientific Linux 6.9: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 2.00GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Scientific 6.9, Kernel: 2.6.32-696.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME, Display Server: X Server 1.17.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600 Scientific Linux 6.10: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 2.00GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Scientific 6.10, Kernel: 2.6.32-754.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME, Display Server: X Server 1.17.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600 Scientific Linux 7.5: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Scientific Linux 7.5, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.6.3.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.25.4, Display Server: X Server 1.19.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 46.22 |============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 47.70 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 48.57 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 1546.48 |============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 1451.88 |=========================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 1445.84 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 301.36 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 263.68 |========================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 205.07 |================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 955.07 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 733.71 |==================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 664.16 |================================= Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 23.05 |================================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 23.17 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 21.63 |============================================= LuaJIT 2.0.5 Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 1331.91 |============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 1333.90 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 1328.55 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 28899 |============================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 23146 |======================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 48187 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 99565833 |=========================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 26832000 |======= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 160748667 |============================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 956832 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 235504 |============ 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 152144 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 147565 |============================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 153362 |=============================================== asmFish 2017-09-19 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 83234507 |============================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 82021027 |============================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 83841033 |============================================= ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 59913 |====== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 53955 |===== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 486578 |=============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 25.11 |=========================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 27.09 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 27.97 |================================================ Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 38.41 |========================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 39.41 |========================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 44.91 |================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 2.21 |============================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 2.19 |============================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 2.44 |================================================= Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 42.68 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 43.01 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 43.21 |================================================ Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 112.80 |============================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 118.83 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 107.66 |=========================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 12.61 |================================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 12.72 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 11.97 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 33.01 |================================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 32.80 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 32.82 |================================================ Hackbench Count: 8 - Type: Thread Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 36.29 |============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 37.83 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 15.10 |=================== Hackbench Count: 8 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 11.87 |============================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 12.84 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 10.73 |======================================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 5094.37 |============================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 5128.70 |============================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 7921.87 |============================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 524043.96 |========================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 463490.74 |===================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 553239.06 |============================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 8732.02 |============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 8220.48 |=========================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 8805.31 |============================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 1530771.92 |=========================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 1446213.06 |========================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 1486675.83 |========================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 1050434.81 |======================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 1000310.29 |===================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 1158207.41 |=========================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 157558 |==================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 155830 |=================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 207520 |=============================================== Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 5.72 |============================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 5.93 |============================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 6.40 |================================================= Schbench Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 109 |============================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 121 |================================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 119 |================================================= Schbench Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 6 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 125 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 132 |================================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 133 |==================================================