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"
"Threaded I/O Tester - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 (MB/s)",HIB,174.62,9.57,135.89
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,154.57,84.97,153.99
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,65.71,76.52,116.75
"SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,307.91,180.14,308.62
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,220.11,159.19,144.09
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,429.00,312.79,378.65
"LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,155.28,197.93,144.33
"Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,1667.52,1310.97,1437.34
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,12.14,10.67,9.74
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,170.44,139.51,156.54
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,42.07,41.31,50.36
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,118,113,98
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,23.54,19.67,23.18
"Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,300.55,268.33,255.00
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,25015,21319,23762
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3307.14,2941.37,2841.48
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,16396.46,14094.95,14979.75
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,146,138,130
"SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1653.30,1473.43,1617.43
"SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1941.16,1737.26,1928.90
"SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1062.22,957.19,1050.68
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,162,157,146
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,85,83,77
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,87,85,81
"NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,17638.33,16675.53,17788.74
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,9102.76,8589.00,8693.00
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,6.06,6.42,6.38
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,37.37,39.42,39.49
"Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,90.96,93.82,92.55
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,305.52,297.07,297.51
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,12.30,12.63,12.50
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1357.24,1322.15,1351.65
"GMPbench - Total Time (GMPbench Score)",HIB,2813.20,2797.60,2781.50
"Open FMM Nero2D - Total Time (sec)",LIB,708.09,715.72,713.81
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.80,6.85,6.86
"SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,966.39,960.34,958.83
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,17.80,17.94,17.94
"SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,442.33,440.97,439.61
"N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,256.50,257.88,257.73
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,74.98,74.85,74.98
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,21,21,21
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,73.12,56.96,46.09
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,9340.36,7007.17,6944.81
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,10158.85,8422.94,7698.61
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,15393.08,12133.88,11580.19
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,4.89,7.45,7.64
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,6562,6270,5657