ghassanX3 Intel Xeon E5430 testing on Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 3rd 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 3rd XL . 783.86 |============================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 3rd XL . 264.94 |============================================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 1682.47 |============================================================= CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 5020.56 |============================================================= CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 10055.46 |============================================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 5951 |================================================================ Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3634.75 |============================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3560.65 |============================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3715.49 |============================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3777.90 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3150.51 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3092.90 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3027.78 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3130.31 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3221.93 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3409.21 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3157.76 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3259.25 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3181.99 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 3192.33 |============================================================= BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better 3rd XL . 245446 |==============================================================