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, "7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1710,1681,1705 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",2188,2180,2207 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1699,1696,1724 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",2167,2183,2177 "Intel Core i5-2500K",15367,15278,15283 "Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",3804.06,3806.74,3832.95 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",4923.33,4937.56,4935.3 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",4103.67,3907.28,4033.04 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",5259.58,5276.78,5278.66 "Intel Core i5-2500K",27822.57,27746.65,27540.07 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",566.121,566.764,566.451 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",441.759,442.572,442.131 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",390.798,390.174,390.381 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",304.064,303.524,303.471 "Intel Core i5-2500K",42.344,42.365,42.364 "CacheBench - Test: Read", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1552.667964,1597.248504,1553.849612 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",2033.237924,2033.179594,1990.418756 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1617.033566,1666.880598,1613.840625 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",2096.110085,2121.564929,2083.189355 "Intel Core i5-2500K",3543.387218,3548.803002,3541.380505 "CacheBench - Test: Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",2277.077645,2281.005905,2229.79597 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",2902.745521,2902.31449,2856.704151 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",4128.767739,4128.695749,3990.679399 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",5255.078173,5254.976357,5171.654493 "Intel Core i5-2500K",12511.912784,12511.926506,12487.272493 "CacheBench - Test: Read / Modify / Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",2343.608434,2343.580675,2283.327698 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",2983.270413,2983.196497,2920.451077 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",3233.428323,3233.359402,3130.084533 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",4115.419507,4115.379504,4043.370591 "Intel Core i5-2500K",20729.198687,20106.773564,20979.125466 "CLOMP 3.3 - Static OMP Speedup", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",5.42,4.06,4.86,4.16,5.22,4.45,4.32,4.47,5.15,4.71 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",2.23,2.05,2.01,2.06,1.97,1.97,2.04,2.06,2.01,2.07 "FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",416.20384214445,429.25197127088,429.2433881836 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",546.32377601611,546.32220663011,546.32397971359 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",491.13722040847,506.97211574879,506.96583145956 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",638.54923522168,645.88319223953,645.87235957934 "Intel Core i5-2500K",5913.8387705911,5907.6150101452,5917.645534425 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Blur", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",19,19,19 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",15,16,15,16,16,16 "Intel Core i5-2500K",112,112,112 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Sharpen", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",14,14,13,14,14 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",10,10,9,9,10,10 "Intel Core i5-2500K",58,58,58 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Resizing", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",25,25,24 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",20,20,19 "Intel Core i5-2500K",148,148,148 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: HWB Color Space", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",32,32,30,31 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",26,26,25 "Intel Core i5-2500K",189,189,189 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",8,8,8 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",5,5,5 "Intel Core i5-2500K",61,61,61 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",131.142476,136.061383,129.747705 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",142.269189,142.362135,137.132547 "Intel Core i5-2500K",1773.74725,1777.165238,1774.967409 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 - Test: Rhodopsin Protein", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",483.574,484.866,459.955 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",362.098,375.985,362.389 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",457.216,492.606,456.313,456.404,457.568 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",369.077,360.179,368.28 "N-Queens 1.0 - Elapsed Time", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",918.103,894.582 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",702.479,702.537 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",830.683,801.198 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",640.513,629.193 "Intel Core i5-2500K",195.361,195.391 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",726.28,767.94,726.53 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",964.29,959.87,965.37 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",746.06,788.46,744.55 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",997.62,1005.74,1006.83 "Intel Core i5-2500K",13265.56,12591.6,13674.25,13470.38,13234.01 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: LU.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",644.07,686.89,640.62,644.21 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",822.35,810.38,814.75 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",653.51,686.02,651.23 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",875.08,876.34,873.71 "Intel Core i5-2500K",10531.44,11352.21,11224.8,11347.56,11263.9 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",418.18,416.19,417.81 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",526.17,500.03,496.38 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",429.34,415.38,419.8 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",542.72,543.1,541.57 "Intel Core i5-2500K",6292.27,6242.66,6268.91 "NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",4494.53,4569.33,4464.87 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",4195.39,4175.14,4184.57 "Intel Core i5-2500K",31409.18,30553.53,31385.17 "OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",4.2,4.3,4.1,4.3 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",5.4,5.4,5.4,5.3 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",4.1,4.2,4.1,4.2 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",5.3,5.4,5.4,5.3 "Intel Core i5-2500K",99.3,99.3,98.1,99.3 "PHPBench 0.8.1 - PHP Benchmark Suite", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",10290,10048,10118 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",13040,13031,12964 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",12700,12713,12320 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",16095,16155,16158 "PyBench 2008-08-14 - Total For Average Test Times", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",17691,17679,17679 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",13909,13905,13905 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",16873,16844,16861 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",13256,13230,13229 "Intel Core i5-2500K",1781,1780,1772 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1353,1352,1351 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",1055,1053,1055 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1328,1324,1325 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",1035,1032,1033 "Intel Core i5-2500K",116,116,116 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Copy", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1506.0338,1489.4711,1482.299,1501.3001,1504.6156,1501.4344,1499.807,1493.1496,1493.0334,1509.9306 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1100.3347,1099.0103,1053.0845,1061.0097,1104.7818,1099.9199,1060.0963,1097.6172,1101.102,1102.4587 "Intel Core i5-2500K",14815.9541,14781.6881,14786.5735,14815.9541,14814.3188,14814.3188,14814.3188,14781.6881,14780.0603,14842.1683 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Add", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1619.1098,1629.3305,1623.0518,1613.9439,1637.2275,1607.1157,1618.2249,1613.8792,1626.5135,1618.7193 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1186.4446,1172.5896,1133.0406,1122.2281,1186.2418,1181.0159,1144.5709,1186.4446,1184.7201,1196.2649 "Intel Core i5-2500K",15707.7781,15661.3452,15711.4556,15706.5527,15701.6528,15717.5886,15857.482,15675.9785,15701.6528,15711.4556 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",52.780610084534,52.755872964859,52.193510055542 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",47.67185997963,47.545747041702,47.557616949081 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",57.951205968857,58.062805175781,57.911120176315 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",39.963058233261,48.978990077972,39.851054191589,39.803192138672,43.539452075958,43.235567092896 "Intel Core i5-2500K",6.2575399875641,6.2363569736481,6.2590789794922 "VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 - vpxenc", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1.03,1.03,1.03 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",1.09,1.09,1.08 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",1.05,1.05,1.05 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",1.13,1.13,1.14 "Intel Core i5-2500K",33.32,33.79,34.27 "x264 2011-12-06 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",8.75,8.73,8.71 "Ubuntu 12.04: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",11.33,11.25,11.32 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.1GHz Calxeda Node",9.07,9.07,9.08 "Ubuntu 12.10: 1.4GHz Calxeda Node",11.82,11.85,11.78 "Intel Core i5-2500K",116.23,117.68,116.29