gcp8vcpu24gbram Intel Xeon testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon - - Google: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Google, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384 MB + 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 115GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-64-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 15304.14 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 16145.16 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 15320.02 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 15818.78 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 15878.33 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 15454.17 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 12594.18 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 12240.94 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 15732.48 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon - - Google . 13914.90 |============================================