KVM KVM testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Westmere E56xx: Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.67GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 OpenStack Nova, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 40GB OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 17.92 |======================================================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 617049 |====================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 3442667 |===================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 1605 |======================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 54.11 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 103 |========================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 64 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 26 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 72 |========================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 5404 |======================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 68.04 |======================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 24.10 |======================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 361 |========================================================= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 98.84 |======================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 11.40 |======================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 21.03 |======================================================= FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 22.04 |======================================================= POV-Ray 3.7.0 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 613.48 |====================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 134.30 |====================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 9660.14 |===================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 10570.71 |==================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 10491.98 |==================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 10857.49 |==================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Floating-Point Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 10675.26 |==================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 12723.81 |==================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 15640.91 |==================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 11940.73 |==================================================== CacheBench Read Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 2324.17 |===================================================== CacheBench Write Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 11443.09 |====================================================