Talos II Linux OS Benchmarks Compare
Benchmarks for a future article.
Ubuntu 18.10
Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-13-generic (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --disable-libphobos --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-threads=posix --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --program-prefix=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-cpu=power8 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-long-double-128 -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15+ + Python 3.6.7
Debian 9.7
Processor: POWER9 @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Debian 9.7, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-powerpc64le (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-libquadmath --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-threads=posix --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --program-prefix=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-arch-directory=ppc64le --with-cpu=power8 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-long-double-128 -v
Disk Notes: none / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.13 + Python 3.5.3
Debian Buster
Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.19.0-1-powerpc64le (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --disable-libphobos --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-threads=posix --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --program-prefix=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-cpu=power8 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-long-double-128 -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15+ + Python 3.7.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed
Processor: POWER9 @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20190126, Kernel: 4.20.2-1-default (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20190103 [gcc-8-branch revision 267549], File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Environment Notes: LIBGL_DEBUG=quiet
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-suse-linux --disable-cet --disable-libcc1 --disable-libmpx --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libvtv --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,ada,go --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --enable-linux-futex --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-ssp --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --host=powerpc64le-suse-linux --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-cpu=power8 --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-long-double-128 --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-tune=power9 --without-system-libunwind
Disk Notes: MQ-DEADLINE / relatime,rw,space_cache,ssd,subvol=/@/home,subvolid=264
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq performance
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15 + Python 3.6.5
Ubuntu 19.04 20190130
Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Ubuntu 19.04, Kernel: 4.18.0-11-generic (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --disable-libphobos --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-threads=posix --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --program-prefix=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-cpu=power8 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-long-double-128 -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15+ + Python 3.7.2
FS-Mark
FS_Mark is designed to test a system's file-system performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Compile Bench
Compilebench tries to age a filesystem by simulating some of the disk IO common in creating, compiling, patching, stating and reading kernel trees. It indirectly measures how well filesystems can maintain directory locality as the disk fills up and directories age. This current test is setup to use the makej mode with 10 initial directories Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Rodinia
Rodinia is a suite focused upon accelerating compute-intensive applications with accelerators. CUDA, OpenMP, and OpenCL parallel models are supported by the included applications. This profile utilizes the OpenCL and OpenMP test binaries at the moment. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Go Benchmarks
Benchmark for monitoring real time performance of the Go implementation for HTTP, JSON and garbage testing per iteration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
DaCapo Benchmark
This test runs the DaCapo Benchmarks written in Java and intended to test system/CPU performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Numpy Benchmark
This is a test to obtain the general Numpy performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Node.js Express HTTP Load Test
A Node.js Express server with a Node-based loadtest client for facilitating HTTP benchmarking. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
TTSIOD 3D Renderer
A portable GPL 3D software renderer that supports OpenMP and Intel Threading Building Blocks with many different rendering modes. This version does not use OpenGL but is entirely CPU/software based. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
x264
This is a simple test of the x264 encoder run on the CPU (OpenCL support disabled) with a sample video file. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
7-Zip Compression
This is a test of 7-Zip using p7zip with its integrated benchmark feature or upstream 7-Zip for the Windows x64 build. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Stockfish
This is a test of Stockfish, an advanced C++11 chess benchmark that can scale up to 128 CPU cores. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build the Linux kernel in a default configuration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed LLVM Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build the LLVM compiler. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
C-Ray
This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
POV-Ray
This is a test of POV-Ray, the Persistence of Vision Raytracer. POV-Ray is used to create 3D graphics using ray-tracing. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Primesieve
Primesieve generates prime numbers using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. Primesieve benchmarks the CPU's L1/L2 cache performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Rust Mandelbrot
This test profile is of the combined time for the serial and parallel Mandelbrot sets written in Rustlang via willi-kappler/mandel-rust. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Rust Prime Benchmark
Based on petehunt/rust-benchmark, this is a prime number benchmark that is multi-threaded and written in Rustlang. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Smallpt
Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Node.js Octane Benchmark
A Node.js version of the JavaScript Octane Benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Zstd Compression
This test measures the time needed to compress a sample file (an Ubuntu file-system image) using Zstd compression. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
dav1d
Dav1d is an open-source, speedy AV1 video decoder. This test profile times how long it takes to decode some sample AV1 video content. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FLAC Audio Encoding
This test times how long it takes to encode a sample WAV file to FLAC format five times. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LAME MP3 Encoding
LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Hackbench
This is a benchmark of Hackbench, a test of the Linux kernel scheduler. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Perl Benchmarks
Perl benchmark suite that can be used to compare the relative speed of different versions of perl. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OpenSSL
OpenSSL is an open-source toolkit that implements SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocols. This test measures the RSA 4096-bit performance of OpenSSL. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Aircrack-ng
Aircrack-ng is a tool for assessing WiFi/WLAN network security. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Cryptsetup
This is a test profile for running the cryptsetup benchmark to report on the system's cryptography performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PostgreSQL pgbench
This is a simple benchmark of PostgreSQL using pgbench. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GIMP
GIMP is an open-source image manipulaton program. This test profile will use the system-provided GIMP program otherwise on Windows relys upon a pre-packaged Windows binary from upstream GIMP.org. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GNU Octave Benchmark
This test profile measures how long it takes to complete several reference GNU Octave files via octave-benchmark. GNU Octave is used for numerical computations and is an open-source alternative to MATLAB. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Redis
Redis is an open-source data structure server. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Stress-NG
Stress-NG is a Linux stress tool developed by Colin King of Canonical. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Blender
Blender is an open-source 3D creation software project. This test is of Blender's Cycles benchmark with various sample files. GPU computing is supported. This system/blender test profile makes use of the system-supplied Blender. Use pts/blender if wishing to stick to a fixed version of Blender. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PyBench
This test profile reports the total time of the different average timed test results from PyBench. PyBench reports average test times for different functions such as BuiltinFunctionCalls and NestedForLoops, with this total result providing a rough estimate as to Python's average performance on a given system. This test profile runs PyBench each time for 20 rounds. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PHPBench
PHPBench is a benchmark suite for PHP. It performs a large number of simple tests in order to bench various aspects of the PHP interpreter. PHPBench can be used to compare hardware, operating systems, PHP versions, PHP accelerators and caches, compiler options, etc. The number of iterations used is 1,000,000. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Scikit-Learn
Scikit-learn is a Python module for machine learning Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Tesseract OCR
Tesseract-OCR is the open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine for the conversion of text within images to raw text output. This test profile relies upon a system-supplied Tesseract installation. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
BRL-CAD
BRL-CAD 7.28.0 is a cross-platform, open-source solid modeling system with built-in benchmark mode. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Systemd Total Boot Time
This test uses systemd-analyze to report the entire boot time. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Cryptsetup
This is a test profile for running the cryptsetup benchmark to report on the system's cryptography performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GIMP
GIMP is an open-source image manipulaton program. This test profile will use the system-provided GIMP program otherwise on Windows relys upon a pre-packaged Windows binary from upstream GIMP.org. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Cryptsetup
This is a test profile for running the cryptsetup benchmark to report on the system's cryptography performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Ubuntu 18.10
Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-13-generic (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --disable-libphobos --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-threads=posix --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --program-prefix=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-cpu=power8 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-long-double-128 -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15+ + Python 3.6.7
Testing initiated at 27 January 2019 15:40 by user phoronix.
Debian 9.7
Processor: POWER9 @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Debian 9.7, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-powerpc64le (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-libquadmath --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-threads=posix --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --program-prefix=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-arch-directory=ppc64le --with-cpu=power8 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-long-double-128 -v
Disk Notes: none / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.13 + Python 3.5.3
Testing initiated at 28 January 2019 09:54 by user root.
Debian Buster
Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.19.0-1-powerpc64le (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --disable-libphobos --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-threads=posix --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --program-prefix=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-cpu=power8 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-long-double-128 -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15+ + Python 3.7.2
Testing initiated at 29 January 2019 07:51 by user root.
openSUSE Tumbleweed
Processor: POWER9 @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20190126, Kernel: 4.20.2-1-default (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20190103 [gcc-8-branch revision 267549], File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Environment Notes: LIBGL_DEBUG=quiet
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-suse-linux --disable-cet --disable-libcc1 --disable-libmpx --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libvtv --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,ada,go --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --enable-linux-futex --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-ssp --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --host=powerpc64le-suse-linux --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-cpu=power8 --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-long-double-128 --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-tune=power9 --without-system-libunwind
Disk Notes: MQ-DEADLINE / relatime,rw,space_cache,ssd,subvol=/@/home,subvolid=264
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq performance
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15 + Python 3.6.5
Testing initiated at 30 January 2019 01:12 by user .
Ubuntu 19.04 20190130
Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01, Memory: 65536MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: ASPEED Family, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Ubuntu 19.04, Kernel: 4.18.0-11-generic (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --build=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --disable-libphobos --disable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --enable-threads=posix --host=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --program-prefix=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-cpu=power8 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-long-double-128 -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernv-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15+ + Python 3.7.2
Testing initiated at 30 January 2019 11:26 by user phoronix.