Calxeda ECX-1000: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 12.10

Comparison of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10 on a single node Calxeda ECX-1000 EnergyCore server node. Benchmarking with 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz nodes by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article.

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Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node
October 03 2012
 
Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node
October 02 2012
 
Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node
October 01 2012
 
Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node
October 01 2012
 
Intel Core i5-2500K
October 18 2012
 
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Calxeda ECX-1000: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 12.10 Comparison of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10 on a single node Calxeda ECX-1000 EnergyCore server node. Benchmarking with 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz nodes by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article. ,,"Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node","Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node","Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node","Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node","Intel Core i5-2500K" Processor,,ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores),ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores),ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores),ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,Highbank,Highbank,Highbank,Highbank,ASRock Z68 Pro3 Memory,,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,16384MB Disk,,256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256,256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256,256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256,256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256,120GB INTEL SSDSC2MH12 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 Chipset,,,,,,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM Graphics,,,,,,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (725/1800MHz) Audio,,,,,,Realtek ALC892 Network,,,,,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS,,Ubuntu 12.10,Ubuntu 12.10,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel,,3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l),3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l),3.2.0-1000-highbank (armv7l),3.2.0-1000-highbank (armv7l),3.2.0-31-generic (x86_64) Compiler,,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6 + Clang 3.0-6ubuntu3 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Desktop,,,,,,Unity 5.16.0 Display Server,,,,,,X Server 1.11.3 Display Driver,,,,,,NVIDIA 295.40 OpenGL,,,,,,4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.40 Screen Resolution,,,,,,1920x1080 ,,"Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node","Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node","Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node","Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node","Intel Core i5-2500K" "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,1.13,1.05,1.09,1.03,33.79 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,11.82,9.07,11.30,8.73,116.73 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,,16,,19,112 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,,10,,14,58 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,,20,,25,148 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,,26,,31,189 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,,5,,8,61 "CacheBench - Test: Read (MB/s)",HIB,2100.29,1632.58,2018.95,1567.92,3544.52 "CacheBench - Test: Write (MB/s)",HIB,5227.24,4082.71,2887.25,2262.63,12503.70 "CacheBench - Test: Read / Modify / Write (MB/s)",HIB,4091.39,3198.96,2962.31,2323.51,20605.03 "Stream - Type: Copy (MB/s)",HIB,,1087.94,,1498.11,14804.70 "Stream - Type: Add (MB/s)",HIB,,1169.36,,1620.71,15715.29 "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,643.43,501.69,546.32,424.90,5913.03 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,,140.59,,132.32,1775.29 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,2176,1706,2192,1699,15309 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,5271.67,4014.66,4932.06,3814.58,27703.10 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,,4185.03,,4509.58,31115.96 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,16136,12578,13012,10152, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,5.35,4.15,5.38,4.23,99.00 "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,,2.05,,4.68, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,1003.40,759.69,963.18,740.25,13247.16 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,875.04,663.59,815.83,653.95,11143.98 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,542.46,421.51,507.53,417.39,6267.95 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator - Test: Rhodopsin Protein (Loop Time)",LIB,365.85,464.02,366.82,476.13, "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,13238,16859,13906,17683,1778 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,42.56,57.98,47.59,52.58,6.25 "N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,634.85,815.94,702.51,906.34,195.38 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,1033,1326,1054,1352,116 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,303.69,390.45,442.15,566.45,42.36