intel_vs_power@power8_160cores
POWER8 testing on SUSE LINUX 42.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


POWER8: 

	Processor: POWER8 @ 3.43GHz (160 Cores), Motherboard: CHRP IBM 8247-22L, Memory: 503808MB, Disk: 2 x 1730GB IPR-0 6DC02200, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57800 1/10

	OS: SUSE LINUX 42.1, Kernel: 4.1.11-1-default (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 + LLVM 3.5.0, File-System: xfs


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 50194.44 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 51237.25 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 52882.90 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 50942.14 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 51301.82 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 54284.12 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 52798.46 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 52775.73 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 47819.32 |============================================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 51611.76 |============================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 1899.82 |=============================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 1947.21 |=============================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 2878.47 |=============================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 2917.71 |=============================================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
POWER8 . 5.41 |================================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 579.66 |==============================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 130.35 |==============================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 170.01 |==============================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 982.35 |==============================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 409.61 |==============================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 16882 |===============================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 40959667 |============================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 333854 |==============================================================


x264 2015-11-02
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 109.58 |==============================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 312.56 |==============================================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 96981 |===============================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
POWER8 . 5.93 |================================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
POWER8 . 3.35 |================================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 568.40 |==============================================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only
TPS > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 106734.61 |===========================================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only
TPS > Higher Is Better
POWER8 . 139128.06 |===========================================================