Cloud Platform Evaluation
2 x Intel Xeon E5540 testing with a Dell 0N582M and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Ubuntu 10.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Ukko Cluster: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0N582M, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH9, Memory: 8 x 4096 MB, Disk: 80GB FUJITSU MHZ2080B, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709S Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-28-server (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext4


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 1566.82 |=======================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.2.17
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 14196.78 |======================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 2.6.25
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 189.39 |========================================================


7-Zip Compression 9.13
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 17336 |=========================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.98.2
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 30.32 |=========================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 6.58 |==========================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 2813333 |=======================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 12443 |=========================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 726 |===========================================================


NGINX Benchmark 0.8.53
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 11147.40 |======================================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 9611.06 |=======================================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 9007.95 |=======================================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 9598.98 |=======================================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 10024.64 |======================================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 10.98 |=========================================================


Loopback TCP Network Performance
Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 21.92 |=========================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 3526 |==========================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster . 74 |============================================================