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.

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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" "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,25015,21319,23762 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,37.37,39.42,39.49 "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 "Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,90.96,93.82,92.55 "Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,300.55,268.33,255.00 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,12.30,12.63,12.50 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.80,6.85,6.86 "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 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1357.24,1322.15,1351.65 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,6562,6270,5657 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,17.80,17.94,17.94 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,155.28,197.93,144.33 "N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,256.50,257.88,257.73 "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 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,17638.33,16675.53,17788.74 "Open FMM Nero2D - Total Time (sec)",LIB,708.09,715.72,713.81 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,74.98,74.85,74.98 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,6.06,6.42,6.38 "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 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,21,21,21 "Threaded I/O Tester - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 (MB/s)",HIB,174.62,9.57,135.89 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,12.14,10.67,9.74 "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 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,4.89,7.45,7.64 "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