b KVM testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. linode-dedicated-cpu: Processor: 4 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) (rel-1.12.0-0-ga698c8995f-prebuilt.qemu.org BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 171GB QEMU HDD + QEMU HDD, Graphics: bochsdrmfb, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 610.81 |================================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 144.98 |================================================ NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 12.91 |================================================= 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 8815 |================================================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 4389556 |=============================================== asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 4333493 |=============================================== Timed GCC Compilation 8.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 3574.05 |=============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 338.21 |================================================ POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 307.69 |================================================ OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 284.00 |================================================ ctx_clock Context Switch Time Clocks < Lower Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 264 |=================================================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better linode-dedicated-cpu . 2776.25 |===============================================