vm VMware testing on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1M1U1C: Processor: Intel Xeon E7- 4830 @ 2.13GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware 1M1U8C: Processor: Intel Xeon E7- 4830 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 1M1U1C . 3500.63 |====================================================== 1M1U8C . 3951.41 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 1M1U1C . 3573.08 |====================================================== 1M1U8C . 4016.48 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 1M1U1C . 3558.44 |====================================================== 1M1U8C . 4019.53 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 1M1U1C . 3357.95 |=============================================== 1M1U8C . 4330.87 |============================================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better 1M1U1C . 86.69 |=============================================================== 1M1U8C . 20.52 |=============== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better 1M1U1C . 564 |======== 1M1U8C . 4752 |================================================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 1M1U1C . 2137 |========== 1M1U8C . 13938 |=============================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 1M1U1C . 172.92 |============================================================== 1M1U8C . 38.04 |============== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 1M1U1C . 240.93 |============================================================== 1M1U8C . 30.85 |======== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 1M1U1C . 998 |================================================================= 1M1U8C . 123 |======== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 1M1U1C . 3892.77 |==================== 1M1U8C . 11671.12 |============================================================