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
 
2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7
February 20 2012
 
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February 27 2012
 
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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. ,,"2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2","Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2","2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7","fl-6174" Processor,,2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores),2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores),AMD Opteron 6174 @ 2.20GHz (12 Cores) Motherboard,,TYAN S2932/S2932-E,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,NVIDIA,Supermicro H8QG6 v1.01 Chipset,,NVIDIA MCP55,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,NVIDIA MCP55,ATI RD890 + SB700/SB800 Memory,,4096MB,3 x 1024 MB 1066MHz,4096MB,8192MB Disk,,165GB Western Digital WD1600YS-01S,160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M,165GB Western Digital WD1600YS-01S,500GB Seagate ST3500320AS + 500GB 00BEVT-22A0RT0 Graphics,,ATI Device 9456 1024MB,AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,ATI Device 9456 256MB,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260/PCIe/SSE2 896MB (576/999MHz) Audio,,ATI RV770 HDMI Audio,Intel 82801JI,ATI HD48x0 audio, Monitor,,DELL S2409W,DELL P2210H,DELL S2409W, Network,,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,,Intel 82576 Gigabit Connection OS,,Scientific 6.2,Scientific 6.2,ScientificSL 5.7,Debian 6.0.4 Kernel,,2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64),2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64),2.6.18-274.el5 (x86_64),3.2.5 (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME 2.16.0,GNOME 2.30.2 Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 7.1.1,X Server 1.7.7 Display Driver,,radeon 6.14.2,radeon 6.14.2,ati,NVIDIA 295.20 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1),3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.20 Compiler,,GCC 4.4.6,GCC 4.4.6,GCC 4.1.2,GCC 4.4.5 + Open64 4.2.5.2 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext3,ext3 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,2560x1600 ,,"2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 6.2","Core i7 990X: Scientific Linux 6.2","2 x Opteron 2384: Scientific Linux 5.7","fl-6174" "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,61.25,63.57,42.69,50.07 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,460.03,1332.22,400.84,380.18 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,16368,24526,13450,19373 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,2511667,3836667,2491333,2056000 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,11902,15741,11872,9704 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,760,906,519,620 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,8972.52,15702.87,,18153.17 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,51.03,53.43,50.28,41.75 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,8990.74,13657.89,5947.74, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1157.60,1865.10,1155.15, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,59.77,128.31,66.58,62.29 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,7691.98,11066.93,4617.94, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,4488.71,4598.83,3480.43, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3703.21,4832.03,3374.56, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,34.74,53.79,20.19, "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,2500,4107,634,558 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,57.31,35.82,58.69,46.02 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,115,76,134, "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,26.53,17.91,27.85,32.03 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,10.10,8.74,10.87,12.27 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,9.24,6.14,15.46,7.66 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,86.34,66.93,81.44,75.66 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,37.24,23.93,38.77,45.62 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,15.80,10.83,18.18,13.88