Linux virtualization testing under Ubuntu 12.04 with the Linux 3.2 kernel on an Intel Core i7 platform. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Ubuntu 12.04 Core i7 KVM Virtualization
Linux virtualization testing under Ubuntu 12.04 with the Linux 3.2 kernel on an Intel Core i7 platform. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com.
,,"Bare Metal","KVM"
Processor,,Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores),QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,LENOVO 4318CTO,Bochs
Chipset,,Intel Core DMI,Red Hat Virtio
Memory,,4096MB,3072MB
Disk,,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,35GB
Graphics,,NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (550/790MHz),LLVMpipe
Audio,,Conexant CX20585,Generic 1af4 ID 20
Network,,Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300,Red Hat Virtio device
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04
Kernel,,3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0
Display Server,,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3
Display Driver,,nouveau 0.0.16,cirrus 1.3.2
OpenGL,,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
File-System,,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1600x900,1024x768
System Layer,,,QEMU 1.0
,,"Bare Metal","KVM"
"SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1226.06,1085.13
"SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,184.22,138.35
"SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,781.62,755.19
"SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,345.25,336.37
"SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1137.79,932.06
"Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,109.34,114.51
"Threaded I/O Tester - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 (MB/s)",HIB,92.69,23.85
"SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,734.99,649.42
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,108.49,91.06
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,92.69,77.58
"Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,116.35,386.60
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,10.04,10.34
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,24.32,24.95
"Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,205.88,134.70
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,35.22,28.76
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,14.62,19.72
"LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,174.96,225.05
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1072.63,1016.47
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5451.11,5158.19
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1483.68,1359.37
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,92.80,90.62
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2667.01,2505.97
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,86.10,63.24
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5194.24,4731.30
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2499.28,2449.35
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,2838.97,2563.75
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,20.33,17.88
"N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,361.45,368.68
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,94.34,103.35
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8840,7680
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,2199,2090
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,19.57,20.43
"Open FMM Nero2D - Total Time (sec)",LIB,830.21,851.10
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,184.79,206.75
"VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,9.90,7.70
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,73,70
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,107,104
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,41,40
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,88,84
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,41,40
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,58.30,48.83
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,106.88,108.76
"FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,15.92,16.60
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,69,70
"NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,14515.87,11874.67
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,42.08,41.05
"GMPbench - Total Time (GMPbench Score)",HIB,1737.30,1701