host 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 testing with a Dell 03XKDV and Matrox s G200eR2 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Bare metal #1: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03XKDV, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 200GB INTEL SSDSC2BX20 + 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Bare metal #2: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03XKDV, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 200GB INTEL SSDSC2BX20 + 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Bare metal #3: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03XKDV, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 200GB INTEL SSDSC2BX20 + 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Bare metal #4: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03XKDV, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 200GB INTEL SSDSC2BX20 + 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Bare metal #5: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03XKDV, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 200GB INTEL SSDSC2BX20 + 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Bare metal #6: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03XKDV, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 200GB INTEL SSDSC2BX20 + 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Bare metal #7: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03XKDV, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 200GB INTEL SSDSC2BX20 + 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 INTEL SSDSC2BX20: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03XKDV, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 58368MB, Disk: 200GB INTEL SSDSC2BX20 + 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Display Driver: modesetting 0.8.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.4.2 Hypervisor AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare metal #1 . 529.65 |======================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare metal #1 . 19658.97 |===================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Bare metal #1 . 868.78 |======================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare metal #1 . 261.75 |======================================================= Bare metal #2 . 261.75 |======================================================= Bare metal #3 . 261.75 |======================================================= Bare metal #4 . 261.75 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.11 Test: Example Network Job - Disk Target: Default Test Directory Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Bare metal #1 . 40.87 |======================================================== Bare metal #2 . 40.87 |======================================================== Bare metal #3 . 40.87 |======================================================== Bare metal #4 . 40.87 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.11 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern - Disk Target: Default Test Directory Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Bare metal #1 . 48.22 |======================================================== Bare metal #2 . 48.22 |======================================================== Bare metal #3 . 48.22 |======================================================== Bare metal #4 . 48.22 |======================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Bare metal #1 . 1980 |========================================================= Bare metal #2 . 1980 |========================================================= Bare metal #3 . 1980 |========================================================= Bare metal #4 . 1980 |========================================================= Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare metal #1 . 17.43 |======================================================== Bare metal #2 . 17.43 |======================================================== Bare metal #3 . 17.43 |======================================================== Bare metal #4 . 17.43 |======================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare metal #1 . 8079.83 |====================================================== Bare metal #2 . 8079.83 |====================================================== Bare metal #3 . 8079.83 |====================================================== Bare metal #4 . 8079.83 |====================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSC2BX20 . 1680.04 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSC2BX20 . 153.45 |====================================================