Intel Core i7-3960X benchmarking of various Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtualization options with the Precise Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing of bare metal, Xen, KVM virtualization methods from this Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition system that was running in the same configuration for the duration of testing. This Linux virtualization benchmarking is for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Ubuntu 12.04 Virtualization - Sandy Bridge
Intel Core i7-3960X benchmarking of various Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtualization options with the Precise Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing of bare metal, Xen, KVM virtualization methods from this Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition system that was running in the same configuration for the duration of testing. This Linux virtualization benchmarking is for a future article on Phoronix.com.
,,"Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal","Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM","Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores)
Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI,Bochs,Xen HVM domU v4.1.2
Chipset,,Intel Sandy DMI2,Red Hat Virtio,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC
Memory,,16384MB,12288MB,12288MB
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,16GB,26GB
Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Generic 1af4 ID 20,Ensoniq ES1370
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,,
Network,,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Red Hat Virtio device,
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04
Kernel,,3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0
Display Server,,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3
Display Driver,,radeon 6.14.99,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2
OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4
Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1024x768,1024x768
System Layer,,,QEMU 1.0,Xen HVM domU 4.1.2
,,"Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal","Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM","Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen"
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,23.54,19.67,23.18
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,170.44,139.51,156.54
"GMPbench - Total Time (GMPbench Score)",HIB,2813.20,2797.60,2781.50
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,118,113,98
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,162,157,146
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,85,83,77
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,146,138,130
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,87,85,81
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,429.00,312.79,378.65
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,220.11,159.19,144.09
"Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,1667.52,1310.97,1437.34
"Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,300.55,268.33,255.00
"Threaded I/O Tester - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 (MB/s)",HIB,174.62,9.57,135.89
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1357.24,1322.15,1351.65
"SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1062.22,957.19,1050.68
"SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1941.16,1737.26,1928.90
"SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,307.91,180.14,308.62
"SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,966.39,960.34,958.83
"SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,442.33,440.97,439.61
"SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1653.30,1473.43,1617.43
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,25015,21319,23762
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,6562,6270,5657
"NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,17638.33,16675.53,17788.74
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,74.98,74.85,74.98
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,16396.46,14094.95,14979.75
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3307.14,2941.37,2841.48
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,305.52,297.07,297.51
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,9102.76,8589.00,8693.00
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,154.57,84.97,153.99
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,15393.08,12133.88,11580.19
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,10158.85,8422.94,7698.61
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,9340.36,7007.17,6944.81
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,73.12,56.96,46.09
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,12.14,10.67,9.74
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,4.89,7.45,7.64
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,42.07,41.31,50.36
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,65.71,76.52,116.75
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,37.37,39.42,39.49
"LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,155.28,197.93,144.33
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,6.06,6.42,6.38
"Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,90.96,93.82,92.55
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.80,6.85,6.86
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,17.80,17.94,17.94
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,12.30,12.63,12.50
"N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,256.50,257.88,257.73
"Open FMM Nero2D - Total Time (sec)",LIB,708.09,715.72,713.81
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,21,21,21