6-Way Enterprise Linux Comparison Enterprise Linux benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Six distributions tested. Debian Linux 7.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Fedora 20: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 2.57GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Fedora 20, Kernel: 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.10.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20131017, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB, Audio: Intel C600/X79, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.09GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB, Audio: Intel C600/X79, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: RedHatEnterpriseEverything 7.0, Kernel: 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.99.901 (1.15.0 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20131106, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 openSUSE 13.1: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.19GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: openSUSE 13.1, Kernel: 3.11.6-4-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.11.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3.901 (1.14.4 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 335685758.27 |=========================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 338545896.67 |=========================== Fedora 20 ........................... 338352796.48 |=========================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 310048402.04 |========================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 338443860.01 |=========================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 338576316.36 |=========================== N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 23.90 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 24.03 |=========================================== Fedora 20 ................. 24.58 |============================================ FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 20.30 |================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 20.21 |================================= Fedora 20 ........................... 10.73 |================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 20.65 |================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 10.81 |================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 10.71 |================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 63 |===================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 60 |=================================== Fedora 20 ........................... 61 |==================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 56 |================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 61 |==================================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 61 |==================================== Open Porous Media 2013-11-26 OPM Benchmark: Upscale-Relperm Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 115.90 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 115.39 |=========================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 5.67 |================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 5.14 |=============================== Fedora 20 ........................... 4.93 |============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 5.37 |================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 5.84 |=================================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 5.67 |================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 21.62 |======================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 17.94 |==================== Fedora 20 ........................... 18.35 |===================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 30.16 |================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 18.34 |===================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 18.38 |===================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 1761.70 |=============================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 1764.30 |=============================== Fedora 20 ........................... 1722.23 |=============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 1803.43 |================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 1725.11 |=============================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 1725.20 |=============================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 6.12 |================================ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 6.67 |=================================== Fedora 20 ........................... 6.16 |================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 5.99 |=============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 6.05 |================================ openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 5.97 |=============================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 87.56 |========= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 84.67 |======== Fedora 20 ........................... 84.10 |======== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 329.23 |================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 84.07 |======== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 84.26 |======== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 41.48 |========================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 41.63 |========================== Fedora 20 ........................... 51.17 |================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 54.25 |================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 51.07 |================================ openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 51.03 |================================ Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 11.63 |================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 9.77 |============================= Fedora 20 ........................... 10.02 |============================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 10.73 |=============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 10.12 |============================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 10.11 |============================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 12564.24 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 13277.04 |========================================= Fedora 20 ................. 10455.32 |================================ HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth GB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 0.25213 |===================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 0.28527 |========================================== Fedora 20 ................. 0.25198 |===================================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Random Ring Latency usecs < Lower Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 0.77652 |============================ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 0.80169 |============================= Fedora 20 ................. 1.15201 |========================================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Random Access GUP/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 0.04706 |========================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 0.04853 |========================================== Fedora 20 ................. 0.02634 |======================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad GB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 1.17472 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 1.16140 |========================================= Fedora 20 ................. 1.18639 |========================================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Ptrans GB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 0.80243 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 0.80202 |========================================== Fedora 20 ................. 0.79032 |========================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: EP-DGEMM GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 4.97037 |=================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 6.04153 |========================================== Fedora 20 ................. 2.99034 |===================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 1.69137 |========================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 1.73637 |========================================== Fedora 20 ................. 1.46378 |=================================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 48.46 |======================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 52.94 |============================================ Fedora 20 ................. 33.02 |=========================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 5599 |=================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 4286 |=========================== Fedora 20 ........................... 4808 |============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 4901 |=============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 5173 |================================ openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 4408 |============================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 806.93 |================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 694.37 |============================ Fedora 20 ........................... 620.97 |========================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 100.00 |==== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 603.48 |========================= openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 758.01 |=============================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 117.61 |======================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 80.90 |================ Fedora 20 ........................... 96.53 |=================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 106.62 |==================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 94.99 |================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 171.86 |================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .................... 201.82 |============================ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 ........... 60.08 |======== Fedora 20 ........................... 158.68 |====================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ........ 227.87 |=============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 . 153.25 |===================== openSUSE 13.1 ....................... 240.20 |================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Debian Linux 7.2 .......... 28.20 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20131212 . 25.50 |======================================= Fedora 20 ................. 28.58 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