cores
KVM testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


coreskyubuntu: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 @ 2.20GHz (20 Cores / 40 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X11DPL-i v1.10 (2.1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2400MT/s Samsung M393A2K43CB2-CTD, Disk: 1000GB HGST HUS722T1TAL, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: DELL E197FP, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-39-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

corebrocentos: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz (20 Cores / 40 Threads), Motherboard: Intel S2600WT2R (SE5C610.86B.01.01.0024.021320181901 BIOS), Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2134MHz Micron 18ASF2G72PDZ-2G3B1, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0055-1V4, Graphics: mgadrmfb

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

coreskycentos: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 @ 2.20GHz (20 Cores / 40 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X11DPL-i v1.02 (2.1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2400MHz Samsung M393A2K43CB2-CTD, Disk: 1000GB HGST HUS722T1TAL, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.14.4.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

awsmachine: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5.xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 9GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic

	OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.77-81.59.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180303, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM

proxmachine: 

	Processor: 2 x Common KVM (40 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (rel-1.11.0-0-g63451fca13-prebuilt.qemu-project.org BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 1696 MB RAM, Disk: 7GB, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-39-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 9.83  |==================================
corebrocentos . 14.95 |====================================================
coreskycentos . 10.65 |=====================================
awsmachine .... 16.11 |========================================================
proxmachine ... 9.61  |=================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 7.392
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 3.78 |============================
corebrocentos . 4.10 |==============================
coreskycentos . 3.38 |=========================
awsmachine .... 7.79 |=========================================================
proxmachine ... 3.99 |=============================


Crafty 25.2
Elapsed Time
Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 5966340 |================================================
corebrocentos . 4392237 |===================================
coreskycentos . 6054563 |=================================================
awsmachine .... 6707695 |======================================================
proxmachine ... 5884577 |===============================================


x264 2018-09-25
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 77.98 |========================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.30
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 172 |========================================================
corebrocentos . 134 |============================================
coreskycentos . 177 |==========================================================
awsmachine .... 149 |=================================================
proxmachine ... 173 |=========================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.30
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 76 |=====================================================
corebrocentos . 57 |========================================
coreskycentos . 77 |=====================================================
awsmachine .... 85 |===========================================================
proxmachine ... 73 |===================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 2083 |=====================================================
corebrocentos . 1287 |=================================
coreskycentos . 2028 |===================================================
awsmachine .... 2257 |=========================================================
proxmachine ... 2083 |=====================================================


7-Zip Compression 16.02
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 70464 |===================================================
corebrocentos . 64523 |===============================================
coreskycentos . 76819 |========================================================
awsmachine .... 11693 |=========
proxmachine ... 72755 |=====================================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 31.47 |=========================================
corebrocentos . 32.66 |===========================================
coreskycentos . 35.30 |==============================================
awsmachine .... 42.81 |========================================================
proxmachine ... 27.70 |====================================


Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 62.39  |=======================
corebrocentos . 69.70  |=========================
coreskycentos . 58.62  |=====================
awsmachine .... 151.58 |=======================================================
proxmachine ... 67.83  |=========================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 58.73  |=======
corebrocentos . 67.92  |=========
coreskycentos . 52.82  |=======
awsmachine .... 437.39 |=======================================================
proxmachine ... 58.91  |=======


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 3.12  |==========
corebrocentos . 3.60  |===========
coreskycentos . 3.09  |=========
awsmachine .... 18.22 |========================================================


POV-Ray 3.7.0.7
Trace Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 58.32  |============
corebrocentos . 42.48  |=========
coreskycentos . 34.56  |=======
awsmachine .... 267.07 |=======================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 61.89  |=================
corebrocentos . 35.66  |==========
coreskycentos . 201.44 |=======================================================
awsmachine .... 189.67 |====================================================
proxmachine ... 122.12 |=================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: 1000 Convex
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 6.09 |=========================================
corebrocentos . 8.40 |=========================================================
coreskycentos . 6.14 |==========================================
awsmachine .... 5.41 |=====================================
proxmachine ... 6.09 |=========================================


Minion 1.8
Benchmark: Solitaire
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 91.37  |=========================================
corebrocentos . 122.94 |=======================================================
coreskycentos . 84.04  |======================================
awsmachine .... 82.34  |=====================================


Minion 1.8
Benchmark: Quasigroup
Seconds < Lower Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 150 |========================================
corebrocentos . 219 |==========================================================
coreskycentos . 148 |=======================================
awsmachine .... 128 |==================================


OpenSSL 1.1.1
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
coreskyubuntu . 3828 |=========================================================
corebrocentos . 3200 |================================================
coreskycentos . 3799 |=========================================================
awsmachine .... 516  |========
proxmachine ... 2431 |====================================