Solaris 11 Express vs. CentOS vs. Ubuntu

Looking at the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition performance on Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/11 and Fedora 17 and CentOS (EL) 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. 64-bit editions on same hardware being tested. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Solaris 11 Express vs. CentOS vs. Ubuntu Looking at the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition performance on Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/11 and Fedora 17 and CentOS (EL) 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. 64-bit editions on same hardware being tested. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. Solaris 11 11.11 Express: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Memory: 2 x 4096MB 1600MHz, Disk: OCZ VERTEX OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: ATI RV730 PRO 256MB, Monitor: DELL S2409W OS: Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 X86, Kernel: 5.11 (i686), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.3, Display Driver: ati 6.14.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2, Compiler: GCC 4.5.2, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.5.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CentOS 6.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: Intel Patsburg HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS 6.2, Kernel: 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: INTEL DX79SI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: OCZ VERTEX 1.30 + Corsair VoyagerGT 1100, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB, Audio: Intel Patsburg HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.2.3 OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Wheezy/sid, Kernel: 9.0-1-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ufs Fedora 17: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 1231.64 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 1264.24 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 1288.24 |====================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 1218.56 |==================================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 1313.44 |======================================= Fedora 17 .................... 1252.89 |===================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 369.94 |=========================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 539.23 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 542.30 |======================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 325.63 |======================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 413.31 |============================== Fedora 17 .................... 412.19 |============================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 235.88 |============================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 287.29 |=================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 330.06 |======================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 326.27 |======================================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 308.76 |===================================== Fedora 17 .................... 315.57 |====================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 2007.87 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 1955.26 |=================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 2017.76 |==================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 2015.91 |==================================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 2180.56 |======================================= Fedora 17 .................... 1946.03 |=================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 2421.50 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 2362.50 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 2373.02 |===================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 2250.35 |=================================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 2489.86 |======================================= Fedora 17 .................... 2416.01 |====================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 1123.03 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 1176.92 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 1178.05 |======================================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 1174.66 |======================================= Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 1174.70 |======================================= Fedora 17 .................... 1174.66 |======================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 7.57 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 5.77 |================================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 5.88 |================================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 6.16 |================================== Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express . 3510 |============================================== CentOS 6.2 ............... 2297 |============================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 16.49 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 15.62 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 15.55 |======================================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 15.76 |======================================= Fedora 17 .................... 16.08 |======================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 524.09 |============ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 1617.25 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 1738.78 |======================================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 1679.33 |====================================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 1599.63 |==================================== Fedora 17 .................... 1601.01 |==================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 351.61 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 373.16 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 378.48 |====================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 350.98 |==================================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 242.33 |========================= Fedora 17 .................... 394.44 |======================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 2842.77 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 2705.06 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 2712.48 |==================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 2881.10 |====================================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 2945.94 |======================================= Fedora 17 .................... 2777.18 |===================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 3849.86 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 3830.96 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 3763.18 |====================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 3839.69 |======================================= Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 3712.11 |====================================== Fedora 17 .................... 3527.57 |==================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 9.86 |======== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 49.12 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 50.33 |======================================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 53.39 |========================================= Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 31.94 |========================= Fedora 17 .................... 52.31 |======================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 4008.78 |========================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 5473.60 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 4698.74 |=============================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 5959.47 |======================================= Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 5615.65 |===================================== Fedora 17 .................... 5737.92 |====================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 110 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 106 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 106 |========================================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 102 |======================================== Fedora 17 .................... 104 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 143 |================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 179 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 178 |=========================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 169 |========================================= Fedora 17 .................... 178 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 90 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 102 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 101 |=========================================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 101 |=========================================== Fedora 17 .................... 102 |=========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 43.30 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 30.67 |============================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 30.13 |============================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 32.48 |=============================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 23.91 |======================= Fedora 17 .................... 23.46 |====================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 91.50 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 91.85 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 91.70 |========================================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 91.15 |========================================= Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 26.00 |============ Fedora 17 .................... 91.48 |========================================= BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 19420677.50 |======================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 26208375.50 |================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 26378310.80 |================================= CentOS 6.2 ................... 28060470.10 |=================================== Debian kFreeBSD Wheezy ....... 25701496.80 |================================ Fedora 17 .................... 25806284.87 |================================ Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Solaris 11 11.11 Express ..... 43.69 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 20.02 |=================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - GCC 4.5.3 . 20.07 |=================== CentOS 6.2 ................... 30.17 |============================ Fedora 17 .................... 20.61 |===================