Server Workstation Linux Tests 2017 Extra Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 16.04: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-62-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Clear Linux 13200: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 460 16128MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux 13200, Kernel: 4.9.8-306.native (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 17.1.0-devel, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 beignet 1.3, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 460 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: openSUSE 20170205, Kernel: 4.9.7-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.19.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.3, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Scientific Linux 7.3: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Scientific Linux 7.3, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 11.2.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Ubuntu 16.10: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 460 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.1.2, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 12.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Fedora 25: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 460 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 25, Kernel: 4.9.7-201.fc25.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.2, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 13.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20161221, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 68.98 |=============================== Clear Linux 13200 ............ 60.75 |=========================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 67.14 |============================== Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 91.89 |========================================= Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 68.29 |============================== Fedora 25 .................... 67.92 |============================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 52.79443 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 6.52921 |====== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 51.11347 |============================================= Fedora 25 ............ 36.70743 |================================ HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 4.16707 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 4.02812 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 4.05500 |============================================== Fedora 25 ............ 1.02244 |============ HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOP/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 4.16707 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 4.02812 |============================================= Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 4.05500 |============================================== Fedora 25 ............ 1.02244 |============ HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: EP-DGEMM GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 4.69768 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 0.83584 |======== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 4.62636 |============================================== Fedora 25 ............ 0.13204 |= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Ptrans GB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 2.62235 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 2.45087 |============================================ Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 2.44071 |============================================ Fedora 25 ............ 0.51161 |========= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad GB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 2.32229 |=================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 2.33171 |=================================== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 3.09435 |=============================================== Fedora 25 ............ 1.02910 |================ HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Random Access GUP/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 0.02726 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 0.02153 |===================================== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 0.02401 |========================================= Fedora 25 ............ 0.00472 |======== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Random Ring Latency usecs < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 0.31713 |======== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 0.39875 |========== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 0.33213 |========= Fedora 25 ............ 1.78641 |=============================================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth GB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 1.40515 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 1.20630 |======================================== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 1.41552 |=============================================== Fedora 25 ............ 0.31015 |========== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 20073.81 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 14184.40 |================================= Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 19936.28 |============================================== Fedora 25 ............ 5641.13 |============= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 126324.80 |=================================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 134050.13 |===================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 121365.66 |================================= Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 119824.82 |================================= Fedora 25 .................... 122563.45 |================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 3239.18 |====================================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 3123.40 |===================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 3026.40 |==================================== Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 3276.59 |======================================= Fedora 25 .................... 3293.00 |======================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 22737.25 |==================================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 23690.32 |====================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 21004.20 |================================== Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 22207.95 |==================================== Fedora 25 .................... 22347.78 |==================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 239.84 |====================================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 249.20 |======================================= Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 212.07 |================================= Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 236.51 |===================================== Fedora 25 .................... 254.96 |======================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 118805.96 |===================================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 113912.66 |=================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 106195.03 |================================= Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 108907.56 |================================== Fedora 25 .................... 114608.21 |==================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 4347.22 |===================================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 4531.86 |======================================= Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 4471.37 |====================================== Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 4404.72 |====================================== Fedora 25 .................... 4559.63 |======================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 3009810.08 |================================= Clear Linux 13200 ............ 3289639.08 |==================================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 3143570.92 |================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 2348193.00 |========================== Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 2890547.88 |================================ Fedora 25 .................... 2621680.42 |============================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ................. 2098089.08 |================================= Clear Linux 13200 ............ 2285132.17 |==================================== openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170205 . 2165885.09 |================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 ......... 1761135.23 |============================ Ubuntu 16.10 ................. 1972832.79 |=============================== Fedora 25 .................... 1872317.98 |============================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 49100.40 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 20729.51 |=================== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 42398.14 |======================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 469025 |======================================== Clear Linux 13200 .... 562437 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.3 . 224659 |=================== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 459556 |======================================= Phoronix Test Suite Self Test 1.0 Test: Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 193.44 |================================================ Clear Linux 13200 .... 51.97 |============= Scientific Linux 7.3 . 169.35 |========================================== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 62.04 |=============== Phoronix Test Suite Self Test 1.0 Test: List Suites Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 0.12 |=================================== Clear Linux 13200 .... 0.12 |=================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 0.17 |================================================== Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 0.13 |====================================== Phoronix Test Suite Self Test 1.0 Test: Render Test Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 11.77 |============== Clear Linux 13200 .... 11.35 |============== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 40.33 |================================================= Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 12.72 |=============== Phoronix Test Suite Self Test 1.0 Test: Info Command Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 0.11 |======== Clear Linux 13200 .... 0.68 |================================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 0.16 |============ Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 0.12 |========= Phoronix Test Suite Self Test 1.0 Test: Peak Memory Usage MB < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ......... 225.54 |============================================== Clear Linux 13200 .... 229.40 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 7.3 . 234.17 |================================================ Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 225.54 |============================================== Caffe 2016-12-29 Build: CPU AlexNet Milli-Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ...... 357694 |============================== Clear Linux 13200 . 77048 |====== Ubuntu 16.10 ...... 605444 |=================================================== Caffe 2016-12-29 Build: CPU Googlenet Milli-Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ...... 709701 |=============== Clear Linux 13200 . 354411 |======== Ubuntu 16.10 ...... 2336467 |================================================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Phoronix Test Suite v7.0.0m2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 16.04 ...... 33.48 |=========================== Clear Linux 13200 . 18.95 |=============== Ubuntu 16.10 ...... 64.83 |====================================================