Ampere Altra Ubuntu Comparison
Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article.
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Processor: ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 @ 3.00GHz (128 Cores), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MP32-AR2-00 v01000100 (F31k SCP: 2.10.20220531 BIOS), Chipset: Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A, Memory: 512GB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VGA HDMI, Network: 2 x Intel I350
OS: Ubuntu 22.04, Kernel: 5.15.0-89-generic (aarch64), Vulkan: 1.3.238, Compiler: GCC 11.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: madvise
Compiler Notes: --build=aarch64-linux-gnu --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2 --enable-libphobos-checking=release --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-link-serialization=2 --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu- --target=aarch64-linux-gnu --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-target-system-zlib=auto -v
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: cppc_cpufreq performance (Boost: Disabled)
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.20.1+1-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu122.04)
Python Notes: Python 3.10.12
Security Notes: gather_data_sampling: Not affected + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + mmio_stale_data: Not affected + retbleed: Not affected + spec_rstack_overflow: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl + spectre_v1: Mitigation of __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of CSV2 BHB + srbds: Not affected + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Ubuntu 23.10
OS: Ubuntu 23.10, Kernel: 6.5.0-9-generic (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 13.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: madvise
Compiler Notes: --build=aarch64-linux-gnu --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2 --enable-libphobos-checking=release --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-link-serialization=2 --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu- --target=aarch64-linux-gnu --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-target-system-zlib=auto -v
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: cppc_cpufreq performance (Boost: Disabled)
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.20+8-post-Ubuntu-1ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 3.11.6
Security Notes: gather_data_sampling: Not affected + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + mmio_stale_data: Not affected + retbleed: Not affected + spec_rstack_overflow: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl + spectre_v1: Mitigation of __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of CSV2 BHB + srbds: Not affected + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git
OS: Ubuntu 23.10, Kernel: 6.7.0-060700rc2daily20231126-generic (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 13.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
NPB, NAS Parallel Benchmarks, is a benchmark developed by NASA for high-end computer systems. This test profile currently uses the MPI version of NPB. This test profile offers selecting the different NPB tests/problems and varying problem sizes. 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.
CloverLeaf
CloverLeaf is a Lagrangian-Eulerian hydrodynamics benchmark. This test profile currently makes use of CloverLeaf's OpenMP version. 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 select OpenCL, NVIDIA CUDA and OpenMP test binaries at the moment. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
toyBrot Fractal Generator
ToyBrot is a Mandelbrot fractal generator supporting C++ threads/tasks, OpenMP, Intel Threaded Building Blocks (TBB), and other targets. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Algebraic Multi-Grid Benchmark
AMG is a parallel algebraic multigrid solver for linear systems arising from problems on unstructured grids. The driver provided with AMG builds linear systems for various 3-dimensional problems. 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. QMCPACK is an open-source production level many-body ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo code for computing the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, and solids. QMCPACK is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Xcompact3d Incompact3d
Xcompact3d Incompact3d is a Fortran-MPI based, finite difference high-performance code for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation and as many as you need scalar transport equations. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM is the leading free, open-source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This test profile currently uses the drivaerFastback test case for analyzing automotive aerodynamics or alternatively the older motorBike input. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
SPECFEM3D
simulates acoustic (fluid), elastic (solid), coupled acoustic/elastic, poroelastic or seismic wave propagation in any type of conforming mesh of hexahedra. This test profile currently relies on CPU-based execution for SPECFEM3D and using a variety of their built-in examples/models for benchmarking. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FFmpeg
This is a benchmark of the FFmpeg multimedia framework. The FFmpeg test profile is making use of a modified version of vbench from Columbia University's Architecture and Design Lab (ARCADE) [http://arcade.cs.columbia.edu/vbench/] that is a benchmark for video-as-a-service workloads. The test profile offers the options of a range of vbench scenarios based on freely distributable video content and offers the options of using the x264 or x265 video encoders for transcoding. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Xmrig
Xmrig is an open-source cross-platform CPU/GPU miner for RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and AstroBWT. This test profile is setup to measure the Xmlrig CPU mining performance. 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 of various popular real-world Java workloads. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Renaissance
Renaissance is a suite of benchmarks designed to test the Java JVM from Apache Spark to a Twitter-like service to Scala and other features. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
WebP2 Image Encode
This is a test of Google's libwebp2 library with the WebP2 image encode utility and using a sample 6000x4000 pixel JPEG image as the input, similar to the WebP/libwebp test profile. WebP2 is currently experimental and under heavy development as ultimately the successor to WebP. WebP2 supports 10-bit HDR, more efficienct lossy compression, improved lossless compression, animation support, and full multi-threading support compared to WebP. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
John The Ripper
This is a benchmark of John The Ripper, which is a password cracker. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
easyWave
The easyWave software allows simulating tsunami generation and propagation in the context of early warning systems. EasyWave supports making use of OpenMP for CPU multi-threading and there are also GPU ports available but not currently incorporated as part of this test profile. The easyWave tsunami generation software is run with one of the example/reference input files for measuring the CPU execution time. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
ACES DGEMM
This is a multi-threaded DGEMM benchmark. 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.
7-Zip Compression
This is a test of 7-Zip compression/decompression with its integrated benchmark feature. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
asmFish
This is a test of asmFish, an advanced chess benchmark written in Assembly. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
libavif avifenc
This is a test of the AOMedia libavif library testing the encoding of a JPEG image to AV1 Image Format (AVIF). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed Gem5 Compilation
This test times how long it takes to compile Gem5. Gem5 is a simulator for computer system architecture research. Gem5 is widely used for computer architecture research within the industry, academia, and more. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed Node.js Compilation
This test profile times how long it takes to build/compile Node.js itself from source. Node.js is a JavaScript run-time built from the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine while itself is written in C/C++. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Primesieve
Primesieve generates prime numbers using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. Primesieve primarily benchmarks the CPU's L1/L2 cache performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Helsing
Helsing is an open-source POSIX vampire number generator. This test profile measures the time it takes to generate vampire numbers between varying numbers of digits. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
m-queens
A solver for the N-queens problem with multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. 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.
OpenSSL
OpenSSL is an open-source toolkit that implements SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocols. This test profile makes use of the built-in "openssl speed" benchmarking capabilities. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
ClickHouse
ClickHouse is an open-source, high performance OLAP data management system. This test profile uses ClickHouse's standard benchmark recommendations per https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/performance-test/ / https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/tree/main/clickhouse with the 100 million rows web analytics dataset. The reported value is the query processing time using the geometric mean of all separate queries performed as an aggregate. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Redis
Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Stress-NG
Stress-NG is a Linux stress tool developed by Colin Ian King. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GPAW
GPAW is a density-functional theory (DFT) Python code based on the projector-augmented wave (PAW) method and the atomic simulation environment (ASE). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
RocksDB
This is a benchmark of Meta/Facebook's RocksDB as an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage based on Google's LevelDB. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
TiDB Community Server
This is a PingCAP TiDB Community Server benchmark facilitated using the sysbench OLTP database benchmarks. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Processor: ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 @ 3.00GHz (128 Cores), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MP32-AR2-00 v01000100 (F31k SCP: 2.10.20220531 BIOS), Chipset: Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A, Memory: 512GB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VGA HDMI, Network: 2 x Intel I350
OS: Ubuntu 22.04, Kernel: 5.15.0-89-generic (aarch64), Vulkan: 1.3.238, Compiler: GCC 11.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: madvise
Compiler Notes: --build=aarch64-linux-gnu --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2 --enable-libphobos-checking=release --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-link-serialization=2 --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu- --target=aarch64-linux-gnu --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-target-system-zlib=auto -v
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: cppc_cpufreq performance (Boost: Disabled)
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.20.1+1-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu122.04)
Python Notes: Python 3.10.12
Security Notes: gather_data_sampling: Not affected + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + mmio_stale_data: Not affected + retbleed: Not affected + spec_rstack_overflow: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl + spectre_v1: Mitigation of __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of CSV2 BHB + srbds: Not affected + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 24 November 2023 17:57 by user phoronix.
Ubuntu 23.10
Processor: ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 @ 3.00GHz (128 Cores), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MP32-AR2-00 v01000100 (F31k SCP: 2.10.20220531 BIOS), Chipset: Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A, Memory: 512GB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VGA HDMI, Network: 2 x Intel I350
OS: Ubuntu 23.10, Kernel: 6.5.0-9-generic (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 13.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: madvise
Compiler Notes: --build=aarch64-linux-gnu --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2 --enable-libphobos-checking=release --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-link-serialization=2 --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu- --target=aarch64-linux-gnu --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-target-system-zlib=auto -v
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: cppc_cpufreq performance (Boost: Disabled)
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.20+8-post-Ubuntu-1ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 3.11.6
Security Notes: gather_data_sampling: Not affected + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + mmio_stale_data: Not affected + retbleed: Not affected + spec_rstack_overflow: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl + spectre_v1: Mitigation of __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of CSV2 BHB + srbds: Not affected + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 25 November 2023 19:54 by user phoronix.
Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git
Processor: ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 @ 3.00GHz (128 Cores), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MP32-AR2-00 v01000100 (F31k SCP: 2.10.20220531 BIOS), Chipset: Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A, Memory: 512GB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VGA HDMI, Network: 2 x Intel I350
OS: Ubuntu 23.10, Kernel: 6.7.0-060700rc2daily20231126-generic (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 13.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: madvise
Compiler Notes: --build=aarch64-linux-gnu --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support --disable-werror --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2 --enable-libphobos-checking=release --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-link-serialization=2 --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu- --target=aarch64-linux-gnu --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-target-system-zlib=auto -v
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: cppc_cpufreq performance (Boost: Disabled)
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.20+8-post-Ubuntu-1ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 3.11.6
Security Notes: gather_data_sampling: Not affected + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + mmio_stale_data: Not affected + retbleed: Not affected + spec_rstack_overflow: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl + spectre_v1: Mitigation of __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of CSV2 BHB + srbds: Not affected + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 26 November 2023 18:44 by user phoronix.