Raptor Blackbird Ubuntu 19.04 vs. 19.10 Benchmarks
POWER9 testing with a PowerNV C1P9S01 REV 1.01. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article.
Ubuntu 19.04
Processor: POWER9 @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV C1P9S01 REV 1.01, Memory: 131072MB, Disk: 1024GB SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0HALR-000L7, Graphics: ASPEED, Network: 3 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe
OS: Ubuntu 19.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, 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: SMT (threads per core): 4
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.4+11-post-Ubuntu-1ubuntu219.04)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.16 + Python 3.7.3
Security Notes: l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Mitigation of RFI Flush L1D private per thread + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of Kernel entry/exit barrier (eieio) + spectre_v1: Mitigation of __user pointer sanitization ori31 speculation barrier enabled + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Indirect branch cache disabled
Ubuntu 19.10
OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.3.0-19-generic (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, 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++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --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 --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: SMT (threads per core): 4
Python Notes: Python 2.7.17rc1 + Python 3.7.5rc1
Security Notes: l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Mitigation of RFI Flush L1D private per thread + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of Kernel entry/exit barrier (eieio) + spectre_v1: Mitigation of __user pointer sanitization ori31 speculation barrier enabled + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Indirect branch cache disabled
SQLite
This is a simple benchmark of SQLite. At present this test profile just measures the time to perform a pre-defined number of insertions on an indexed database. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Flexible IO Tester
Fio is an advanced disk benchmark that depends upon the kernel's AIO access library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
IOR
IOR is a parallel I/O storage benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Parboil
The Parboil Benchmarks from the IMPACT Research Group at University of Illinois are a set of throughput computing applications for looking at computing architecture and compilers. Parboil test-cases support OpenMP, OpenCL, and CUDA multi-processing environments. However, at this time the test profile is just making use of the OpenMP and OpenCL test workloads. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
miniFE
MiniFE Finite Element is an application for unstructured implicit finite element codes. 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.
Timed MrBayes Analysis
This test performs a bayesian analysis of a set of primate genome sequences in order to estimate their phylogeny. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
QMCPACK
QMCPACK is a modern high-performance open-source Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation code making use of MPI for this benchmark of the H20 example code. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
libgav1
Libgav1 is an AV1 decoder developed by Google for AV1 profile 0/1 compliance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GraphicsMagick
This is a test of GraphicsMagick with its OpenMP implementation that performs various imaging tests on a sample 6000x4000 pixel JPEG image. 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 sample AV1 video content. 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.
rav1e
Xiph rav1e is a Rust-written AV1 video encoder. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
VP9 libvpx Encoding
This is a standard video encoding performance test of Google's libvpx library and the vpxenc command for the VP9/WebM format using a sample 1080p video. 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.
x265
This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with a sample 1080p video file. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Coremark
This is a test of EEMBC CoreMark processor benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Himeno Benchmark
The Himeno benchmark is a linear solver of pressure Poisson using a point-Jacobi method. 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.
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.
AOBench
AOBench is a lightweight ambient occlusion renderer, written in C. The test profile is using a size of 2048 x 2048. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
XZ Compression
This test measures the time needed to compress a sample file (an Ubuntu file-system image) using XZ compression. 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.
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.
Sudokut
This is a test of Sudokut, which is a Sudoku puzzle solver written in Tcl. This test measures how long it takes to solve 100 Sudoku puzzles. 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.
ASKAP
This is a CUDA benchmark of ATNF's ASKAP Benchmark with currently using the tConvolveCuda sub-test. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
libjpeg-turbo tjbench
tjbench is a JPEG decompression/compression benchmark part of libjpeg-turbo. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
SQLite Speedtest
This is a benchmark of SQLite's speedtest1 benchmark program with an increased problem size of 1,000. 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.
Optcarrot
Optcarrot is an NES emulator benchmark for the Ruby language. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Xsbench
XSBench is a mini-app representing a key computational kernel of the Monte Carlo neutronics application OpenMC. 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.
PHP Micro Benchmarks
Various small PHP micro-benchmarks. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.