Scientific Linux 6.2 vs. 5.7

Testing of Scientific Linux 6.2 (a rebuild of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.2) x86_64 compared to Scientific Linux 5.7 on a dual
AMD Opteron quad-core system
and Intel Core i7 990X Gulftown system. Testing in stock configuration.

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2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2
February 19 2012
 
Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2
April 02 2012
 
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February 20 2012
 
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Scientific Linux 6.2 vs. 5.7, "7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",16332,16385,16387 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",23766,24906,24907 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",13899,12953,13825,13090,14014,12918 "Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",8251.82,8714.55,9083.04,9532.2,8979.03,9274.48 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",8525.86,17984.67,15758.67,17099.88,17250.41,17597.74 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",57.354,57.401,57.176 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",35.607,36.253,35.604 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",58.816,58.755,58.493 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",10.156111001968,10.082261800766,10.107626199722,10.083647966385,10.090921878815 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",8.78280210495,8.7295129299164,8.730329990387,8.7338240146637,8.730614900589 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",10.909325838089,10.8711810112,10.851551055908,10.860227108002,10.843593835831 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",443.696775,466.478117,469.900549 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",1331.519483,1333.03326,1332.112044 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",400.479473,400.282709,401.771751 "IOzone 3.347 - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",62.1279296875,61.625,59.9912109375 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",63.888671875,63.50390625,63.302734375 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",42.6630859375,42.6572265625,42.7451171875 "John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: Traditional DES", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",2500000,2520000,2515000 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",3837000,3835000,3838000 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",2500000,2480000,2494000 "John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: MD5", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",11904,11898,11903 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",15741,15761,15722 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",11884,11844,11887 "John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",760,760,760 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",906,906,906 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",522,517,519 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",26.631808996201,26.601947069168,26.44175696373,26.478816986084,26.478983879089 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",18.014580011368,17.887223958969,17.879076957703,17.868608951569,17.878532171249 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",28.077912807465,27.7896900177,27.760195970535,27.838919878006,27.768187046051 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",9053.78,9091.36,8827.07 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",13670.58,13749.04,13554.05 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",5998.55,5912.74,5931.94 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: CG.B", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",1742.54,1680.32,881.24,865.8,911.21,864.46 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",1860.9,1866.85,1867.55 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",1145.03,1161.99,1158.42 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",60.05,59.66,59.6 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",141.22,126.25,125.81,125.52,125.52,125.52 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",65.82,68.38,65.53 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: LU.A", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",7563.99,7581.64,7930.3 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",11046.92,11061.08,11092.8 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",4647.35,4653.85,4552.63 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",4607.44,4423.67,4435.03 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",4600.39,4587.75,4608.35 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",3583.41,3425.15,3432.73 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",3523.78,3498.58,4067.46,3861.8,3714.28,3553.37 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",4834.23,4835.65,4826.22 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",3136.45,3423.32,3453.25,3433.28,3459.41,3341.67 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",35.26,35.4,33.57 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",54.09,53.94,53.35 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",20.43,20.01,20.13 "OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",51,51,51.1,51 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",53.5,53.4,53.4,53.4 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",50.3,50,50.3,50.5 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",9.4536869525909,9.2850818634033,8.9834549427032 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",6.2137160301208,6.1212611198425,6.0715072154999 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",15.443516969681,15.479501962662,15.457551956177 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",2500,2500,2500,2500,2500 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",4166,4166,3571,4166,4166,4166,4166,4166,4166,4166 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",581,641,735,833,568,714,568,568,568,568 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",115,115,115 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",76,76,77 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",134,134,134 "Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search", Lower Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",19.956585884094,15.325202941895,16.007025957108,14.383811950684,14.395830154419,14.702779054642 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",11.187841892242,10.658960103989,10.641404867172 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",22.34428191185,17.192636013031,17.246500968933,17.134660005569,17.374894142151,17.799053907394 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",88.214049100876,85.551466941833,85.242761850357 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",68.487574100494,66.026343822479,66.285243034363 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",83.380392789841,80.631055831909,80.312834024429 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2",37.750860929489,37.021255016327,36.962422847748 "Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2",24.150012016296,23.821386098862,23.81969499588 "2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7",39.167275905609,38.606070995331,38.525269031525