Scientific Linux 6.9 vs. 6.10 vs. EL 7.5

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Scientific Linux 6.9
July 07 2018
  1 Hour, 8 Minutes
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July 08 2018
  1 Hour, 19 Minutes
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July 08 2018
  1 Hour, 3 Minutes
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July 08 2018
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Scientific Linux 6.9 vs. 6.10 vs. EL 7.5 Scientific Linux 6.9, 6.10, 7.5 benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com. Scientific Linux is derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources.. Scientific Linux 6.9: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 2.00GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Scientific 6.9, Kernel: 2.6.32-696.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME, Display Server: X Server 1.17.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600 Scientific Linux 6.10: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 2.00GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Scientific 6.10, Kernel: 2.6.32-754.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME, Display Server: X Server 1.17.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600 Scientific Linux 7.5: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Scientific Linux 7.5, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.6.3.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.25.4, Display Server: X Server 1.19.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Fedora Server 28: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 96256MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Fedora 28, Kernel: 4.17.3-200.fc28.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.1.1 20180502, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 593.03 |==================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 20363742235 |=============================================== Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 8532 |====================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 2579861 |=================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 860157 |==================================================== Crafty 25.2 Elapsed Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 7773429 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 1546.48 |========================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 1451.88 |======================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 1445.84 |======================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 1710.53 |============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 301.36 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 263.68 |========================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 205.07 |================================ Fedora Server 28 ...... 250.10 |======================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 955.07 |==================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 733.71 |=============== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 664.16 |============== Fedora Server 28 ...... 2192.23 |============================================== Hackbench Count: 8 - Type: Thread Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 36.29 |============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 37.83 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 15.10 |=================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 12.45 |================ Hackbench Count: 8 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 11.87 |============================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 12.84 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 10.73 |======================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 9.24 |=================================== Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 54.69 |===================================================== Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 116.31 |==================================================== Minion 1.8 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 75.55 |===================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 12.61 |================================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 12.72 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 11.97 |============================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 10.45 |======================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 10.49 |======================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 33.01 |================================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 32.80 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 32.82 |================================================ Fedora Server 28 ...... 32.35 |=============================================== libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.3 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 161.07 |==================================================== LuaJIT 2.0.5 Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 1331.91 |============================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 1333.90 |============================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 1328.55 |============================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 1356.64 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 530 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 512 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 530 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 513 |======================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 7.392 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 3.57 |====================================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 23.05 |================================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 23.17 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 21.63 |============================================= OSBench Test: Create Files us Per Event < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 46.01 |===================================================== OSBench Test: Create Processes us Per Event < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 43.34 |===================================================== OSBench Test: Create Threads us Per Event < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 26.26 |===================================================== OSBench Test: Launch Programs us Per Event < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 50.93 |===================================================== OSBench Test: Memory Allocations Ns Per Event < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 97.26 |===================================================== Schbench Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 109 |============================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 121 |================================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 119 |================================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 117 |================================================ Schbench Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 6 usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 125 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 132 |================================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 133 |================================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 121 |============================================= Primesieve 6.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 10.36 |===================================================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 71612689 |================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 152144 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 147565 |============================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 153362 |=============================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 138741 |=========================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 136691 |========================================== Y-Cruncher 0.7.5.9481 Calculating 500M Pi Digits Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 12.41 |===================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 28899 |============================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 23146 |======================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 48187 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 99565833 |=========================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 26832000 |======= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 160748667 |============================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 956832 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 235504 |============ Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 38.41 |==================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 39.41 |===================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 44.91 |========================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 51.46 |================================================ Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 112.80 |============================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 118.83 |============================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 107.66 |========================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 121.80 |=============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 2.21 |============================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 2.19 |============================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 2.44 |================================================= asmFish 2017-09-19 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 83234507 |============================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 82021027 |============================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 83841033 |============================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 81822777 |============================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 25.11 |========================================= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 27.09 |============================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 27.97 |============================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 29.55 |================================================ AOBench Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 43.13 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 216 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 176 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 192 |======================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 6.46 |====================================================== Blender 2.79a Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 377.73 |==================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 5094.37 |============================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 5128.70 |============================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 7921.87 |============================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 7815.10 |============================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 157558 |============= Scientific Linux 6.10 . 155830 |============ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 207520 |================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 587547 |=============================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 585783 |=============================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 1530771.92 |============================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 1446213.06 |============================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 1486675.83 |============================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 2184313.67 |=========================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 1050434.81 |============================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 1000310.29 |=========================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 1158207.41 |=============================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 1600949.52 |=========================================== SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 46.22 |============================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 47.70 |============================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 48.57 |============================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 50.79 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 524043.96 |======================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 463490.74 |=================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 553239.06 |========================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 578734.22 |============================================ Zstd Compression Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 151.06 |==================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 8732.02 |============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 8220.48 |=========================================== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 8805.31 |============================================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 8795.75 |============================================== ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 59913 |=== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 53955 |=== Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 486578 |======================== Fedora Server 28 ...... 972671 |=============================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 0.11946210 |================================================ Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 12946.70 |================================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 42.68 |=============================================== Scientific Linux 6.10 . 43.01 |================================================ Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 43.21 |================================================ Fedora Server 28 ...... 42.17 |=============================================== Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Seconds < Lower Is Better Scientific Linux 6.9 .. 5.72 |============================================ Scientific Linux 6.10 . 5.93 |============================================= Scientific Linux 7.5 .. 6.40 |================================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 6.43 |================================================= Fedora Server 28 ...... 6.41 |================================================= Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 2078 |====================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 14179 |===================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 18621 |===================================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 0.00384019 |================================================ PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Fedora Server 28 . 1450 |======================================================