High-End Intel Xeon testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. VM1: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Google, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB RAM, Disk: 537GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-56-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4 DC1: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Google, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 537GB PersistentDisk OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-56-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: aufs AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 2042.30 |================================================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 22830.32 |==================================================== DC1 . 27541.02 |=============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 22266.94 |================================================== DC1 . 28335.18 |=============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 25229.67 |=================================================== DC1 . 31417.57 |=============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better VM1 . 24858.80 |=================================================== DC1 . 30808.87 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 1047.36 |================================================================ DC1 . 1051.53 |================================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 415.31 |================================================================= DC1 . 411.00 |================================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 259.32 |================================================================= DC1 . 261.31 |================================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 1805.43 |================================================================ DC1 . 1790.32 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 1965.21 |=============================================================== DC1 . 1998.45 |================================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better VM1 . 800.71 |================================================================= DC1 . 796.59 |================================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better VM1 . 62.16 |================================================================== DC1 . 61.98 |================================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better VM1 . 10.43 |================================================================== DC1 . 10.40 |================================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better VM1 . 18.36 |================================================================== DC1 . 18.05 |=================================================================