Highbank Node Power Performance
Calxeda Highbank testing of a 1.1GHz quad-core node server while monitoring the node power as expressed over IPMI. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article looking at the raw performance as well as performance-per-Watt.


1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node: 

	Processor: ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Highbank, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256

	OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 391.99 |======================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Performance Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 0.01 |========================================


C-Ray 1.1
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 4.3  MAX: 4.4 


POV-Ray 3.6.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 5539 |========================================


POV-Ray 3.6.1
Total Time
Performance Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 0.00 |


POV-Ray 3.6.1
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 3.7  MAX: 4.3 


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 4.10 |========================================


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 1.08 |========================================


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 3.8  MAX: 4.3 


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 1336 |========================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Performance Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 0.00 |


Smallpt 1.0
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 4.4  MAX: 4.7 


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 1668 |========================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 355.20 |======================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 4.7  MAX: 5.3 


VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 1.05 |========================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
vpxenc
Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 0.24 |========================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 4.4  MAX: 4.8 


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 119.25 |======================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Performance Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 0.03 |========================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 3.8  MAX: 4.5 


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 6
MB/s > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 174.34 |======================================


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 6
MB/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 40.57 |=======================================


Dbench 4.0
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 4.3  MAX: 5.5 


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 374 |=========================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . 91.90 |=======================================


PostMark 1.51
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 4.1  MAX: 4.8 


PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11
System Power Consumption Monitor
Watts < Lower Is Better
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.5  AVG: 3.5  MAX: 4.0 


System Power Consumption Monitor
Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring
Watts
1.1GHz Highbank Quad-Core Node . MIN: 3.4  AVG: 4.1  MAX: 5.5