ncgr-composite
4 x Intel Xeon E7-8860 v3 testing with a HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 (U17 BIOS) and Matrox MGA G200EH on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


gentoo: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ (P7.30 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 512GB Samsung SSD 840 + 3 x Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2048MB (1151/3304MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ASUS PB287Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.18.10-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.13.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 410.57, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 + Clang 6.0.1 + LLVM 6.0.1 + CUDA 9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

CentOS-newBIOS: 

	Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E7-8860 v3 @ 2.19GHz (64 Cores / 128 Threads), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 (U17 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 1096704MB, Disk: 300GB LOGICAL VOLUME + 24005GB LOGICAL VOLUME + 800GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200EH, Network: Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

CentOS7-newBIOS: 

	Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E7-8860 v3 @ 2.19GHz (64 Cores / 128 Threads), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 (U17 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 1096704MB, Disk: 300GB LOGICAL VOLUME + 24005GB LOGICAL VOLUME + 800GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200EH, Network: Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power: 

	Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E7-8860 v3 @ 2.19GHz (64 Cores / 128 Threads), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 (U17 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 1096704MB, Disk: 300GB LOGICAL VOLUME + 24005GB LOGICAL VOLUME + 800GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200EH, Network: Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
gentoo ......................... 6.62  |==============
CentOS-newBIOS ................. 7.79  |================
CentOS7-newBIOS ................ 7.80  |================
CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power . 18.50 |=======================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 7.392
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
gentoo ......................... 3.46 |===================
CentOS-newBIOS ................. 4.73 |==========================
CentOS7-newBIOS ................ 4.57 |==========================
CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power . 7.15 |========================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: garbage
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
gentoo ......................... 2243994 |==========================
CentOS-newBIOS ................. 1604326 |===================
CentOS7-newBIOS ................ 1590539 |===================
CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power . 3164602 |=====================================


Java SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
gentoo ......................... 1079 |========================================
CentOS-newBIOS ................. 726  |===========================
CentOS7-newBIOS ................ 725  |===========================
CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power . 726  |===========================


Numpy Benchmark

Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better
gentoo ......................... 5045961  |============
CentOS7-newBIOS ................ 15243074 |====================================
CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power . 15258402 |====================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
gentoo ......................... 443 |========================
CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power . 753 |=========================================


PyBench 2018-02-16
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
gentoo ......................... 1370 |==========================
CentOS7-newBIOS ................ 2137 |========================================
CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power . 2139 |========================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.29
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
gentoo ......................... 28472 |=======================================
CentOS7-newBIOS ................ 9976  |==============
CentOS7-newBIOS-balanced_power . 9910  |==============