ghassanX2 Intel Xeon E5430 testing on Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2nd XL: Processor: Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03, Kernel: 3.2.12-3.2.4.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 796.15 |============================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 2nd XL . 264.82 |============================================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 1674.21 |============================================================= CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 5017.18 |============================================================= CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 10072.29 |============================================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 6097 |================================================================ Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3608.32 |============================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3524.83 |============================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3678.83 |============================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3737.51 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3087.79 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3034.82 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3123.24 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 2998.71 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3208.59 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3368.06 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3212.79 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3275.40 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3149.39 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 3179.74 |============================================================= BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better 2nd XL . 246601 |==============================================================