CentOS 6.2 - Core i5/i7 Testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 x86_64 (RHEL 6.2) on Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge systems along with CentOS 6.2 and Scientific Linux 6.2 and Oracle Linux Server 6.2. Testing by Michael Larabel of Phoronix for a future article.
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Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network Monitor OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X Scientific Linux 6.2 CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 CentOS 6.2 Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores) HP 161C Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM 1 x 4096 MB 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160 Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) Intel 6 /C200 Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 Scientific 6.2 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) GNOME 2.28.2 X Server 1.10.4 intel 2.16.0 2.1 Mesa 7.11 GCC 4.4.6 ext4 1600x900 CentOS 6.2 Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP IDT 92HD81B1X5 OracleServer 6.2 2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek.x86_64 (x86_64) 1024x768 Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) Intel 6 /C200 RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.2 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) 1600x900 Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Intel DX79SI Intel Sandy DMI2 4 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/702MHz) Intel Patsburg HD Audio DELL P2210H Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection Scientific 6.2 nouveau 0.0.16 1920x1080 CentOS 6.2 OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Core i5 2520M: Scientific Linux 6.2: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. SELinux: Enabled. - Core i5 2520M: CentOS 6.2: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. SELinux: Enabled. - Core i5 2520M: Oracle Linux 6.2: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. SELinux: Enabled. - Core i5 2520M: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. SELinux: Enabled. - Core i7 3960X: Scientific Linux 6.2: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. SELinux: Enabled. - Core i7 3960X: CentOS 6.2: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. SELinux: Enabled.
c-ray: Total Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 encode-flac: WAV To FLAC compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile john-the-ripper: Traditional DES john-the-ripper: MD5 john-the-ripper: Blowfish openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance apache: Static Web Page Serving postmark: Disk Transaction Performance iozone: 4Kb - 8GB - Write Performance iozone: 4Kb - 8GB - Read Performance mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment hmmer: Pfam Database Search himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver npb: BT.A npb: CG.B npb: IS.C npb: LU.A npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X Scientific Linux 6.2 CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 CentOS 6.2 126.57 234 16.58 7.52 8214 22.05 202.08 4357667 12267 751 74.98 10456.90 3988 112.34 254.36 25.87 27.32 1273.11 5374.84 1226.98 127.52 3497.04 2774.49 2458.32 16.66 126.60 237 16.91 7.51 8182 21.82 200.09 4359333 12254 748 75.10 10970.89 3869 112.47 254.15 24.12 26.53 1346.93 5390.53 1226.64 119.52 3481.83 2780.52 2460.63 16.69 126.56 234 16.79 7.62 8022 21.55 204.66 4290000 12194 745 73.88 9693.98 3348 111.86 245.31 24.39 26.28 1371.59 5298.30 1274.01 155.59 3604.53 2814.19 2433.95 16.71 126.71 234 16.57 7.50 8112 22.36 200.00 4364333 12249 752 74.83 10723.00 3928 112.27 254.27 24.12 26.51 1322.49 5323.71 1233.32 119.53 3521.35 2783.36 2484.30 16.64 39.56 74 16.60 7.50 25221 6.05 64.28 4356000 12275 752 75.25 14933.78 4166 369.53 7164.65 22.71 9.67 1454.52 16321.50 3308.42 122.45 13654.12 10413.15 9547.88 72.69 39.59 73 16.59 7.50 25699 6.20 64.00 4366333 12286 751 75.08 15481.54 4249 371.72 7500.06 22.74 9.67 1448.54 16666.64 3300.18 122.45 13725.93 10466.17 9493.57 72.29 OpenBenchmarking.org
C-Ray Total Time Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 126.60 126.56 126.71 126.57 39.59 39.56
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 237 234 234 234 73 74
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.22, N = 10 SE +/- 0.04, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 16.91 16.79 16.57 16.58 16.59 16.60
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 7.51 7.62 7.50 7.52 7.50 7.50
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K SE +/- 27.33, N = 3 SE +/- 10.15, N = 3 SE +/- 115.66, N = 3 SE +/- 26.50, N = 3 SE +/- 434.08, N = 6 SE +/- 491.73, N = 3 8182 8022 8112 8214 25699 25221
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 SE +/- 0.38, N = 4 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 21.82 21.55 22.36 22.05 6.20 6.05
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.81, N = 3 SE +/- 0.84, N = 3 SE +/- 1.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.82, N = 3 SE +/- 0.59, N = 3 SE +/- 0.69, N = 3 200.09 204.66 200.00 202.08 64.00 64.28
John The Ripper Test: Traditional DES Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 900K 1800K 2700K 3600K 4500K SE +/- 7535.10, N = 3 SE +/- 16643.32, N = 3 SE +/- 1333.33, N = 3 SE +/- 1855.92, N = 3 SE +/- 333.33, N = 3 SE +/- 10503.97, N = 3 4359333 4290000 4364333 4357667 4366333 4356000
John The Ripper Test: MD5 Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 15.94, N = 3 SE +/- 57.30, N = 3 SE +/- 18.66, N = 3 SE +/- 5.86, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 SE +/- 10.48, N = 3 12254 12194 12249 12267 12286 12275
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 160 320 480 640 800 SE +/- 2.52, N = 3 SE +/- 4.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 748 745 752 751 751 752
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.23, N = 4 SE +/- 0.17, N = 4 SE +/- 0.16, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.22, N = 4 SE +/- 0.18, N = 4 75.10 73.88 74.83 74.98 75.08 75.25
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 174.59, N = 4 SE +/- 150.74, N = 6 SE +/- 126.45, N = 3 SE +/- 184.73, N = 6 SE +/- 1290.56, N = 6 SE +/- 1651.27, N = 6 10970.89 9693.98 10723.00 10456.90 15481.54 14933.78
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 99.17, N = 10 SE +/- 74.33, N = 10 SE +/- 97.16, N = 10 SE +/- 90.89, N = 10 SE +/- 83.40, N = 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 3869 3348 3928 3988 4249 4166
IOzone Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 6.10, N = 6 SE +/- 5.68, N = 6 112.47 111.86 112.27 112.34 371.72 369.53
IOzone Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 1600 3200 4800 6400 8000 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 3.56, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 28.41, N = 3 SE +/- 134.79, N = 6 254.15 245.31 254.27 254.36 7500.06 7164.65
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 24.12 24.39 24.12 25.87 22.74 22.71
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 26.53 26.28 26.51 27.32 9.67 9.67
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 1.13, N = 3 SE +/- 1.56, N = 3 SE +/- 19.33, N = 6 SE +/- 16.77, N = 3 SE +/- 2.69, N = 3 SE +/- 1.44, N = 3 1346.93 1371.59 1322.49 1273.11 1448.54 1454.52
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: BT.A Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 6.22, N = 3 SE +/- 8.03, N = 3 SE +/- 70.07, N = 3 SE +/- 12.16, N = 3 SE +/- 26.80, N = 3 SE +/- 244.28, N = 5 5390.53 5298.30 5323.71 5374.84 16666.64 16321.50
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: CG.B Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 SE +/- 5.37, N = 3 SE +/- 3.60, N = 3 SE +/- 3.08, N = 3 SE +/- 3.07, N = 3 SE +/- 14.96, N = 3 SE +/- 11.49, N = 3 1226.64 1274.01 1233.32 1226.98 3300.18 3308.42
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: IS.C Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 6.54, N = 6 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 119.52 155.59 119.53 127.52 122.45 122.45
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 1.11, N = 3 SE +/- 14.63, N = 3 SE +/- 22.60, N = 3 SE +/- 13.75, N = 3 SE +/- 9.88, N = 3 SE +/- 33.35, N = 3 3481.83 3604.53 3521.35 3497.04 13725.93 13654.12
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 3.70, N = 3 SE +/- 0.83, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 2.23, N = 3 SE +/- 21.98, N = 3 SE +/- 16.18, N = 3 2780.52 2814.19 2783.36 2774.49 10466.17 10413.15
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 21.13, N = 3 SE +/- 7.86, N = 3 SE +/- 10.39, N = 3 SE +/- 7.20, N = 3 SE +/- 49.89, N = 3 SE +/- 24.96, N = 3 2460.63 2433.95 2484.30 2458.32 9493.57 9547.88
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A Core i5 2520M Core i7 3960X OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A CentOS 6.2 Oracle Linux 6.2 Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 Scientific Linux 6.2 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 16.69 16.71 16.64 16.66 72.29 72.69
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