Benchmarks

I'm trying to include only systems running on full hardware, not virtualized. More results to come...

Hardware used

Just to make it easier, here are the machines used for the tests.

corvus

Linux 3.1.10 (openSUSE 12.1) 32bit
Pentium M 1.6GHz
OpenSSL 1.0.0e

abakus

AIX 7.1
POWER5 1.9GHz
OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 1.0.1c

poseidon (currently N/A)

OpenBSD 4.2 sparc64
UltraSPARC-IIIi 1.0GHz
OpenSSL 1.0.0a

bigaix-power7

AIX 6.1 in LPAR
8x (6x physical) POWER7 3.3GHz
OpenSSL 0.9.8r

linuxeon-big

Linux 2.6.18 (RedHat 5.8) 64bit
4x Xeon 5160
OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5

linuxeon-small

Linux 3.2.0 (Ubuntu 12.04) 64bit
2x Xeon 5160
OpenSSL 1.0.1

openssl speed

ordered by 8192b SHA512, slowest to fastest.

type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes

corvus

sha512 6545.93k 26498.05k 38658.57k 24970.24k 28177.75k

md5 15918.19k 54370.92k 140339.03k 106896.70k 132039.65k

abakus-openssl098

sha512 4235.26k 16934.34k 26580.27k 37506.05k 42886.08k

abakus-openssl101

sha512 4583.84k 22232.00k 32277.16k 44263.51k 49416.87k

md5 6870.05k 23157.40k 63044.98k 110264.59k 141469.54k

poseidon

sha512 3102.02k 12839.44k 25159.87k 40659.26k 49560.24k

bigaix-power7

sha512 11877.41k 47767.11k 74072.45k 104723.61k 119289.38k

md5 35044.82k 105966.22k 240883.85k 356303.87k 414136.17k

linuxeon-big

sha512 21009.69k 84399.56k 155730.35k 239339.86k 283929.26k

md5 36465.95k 112063.81k 275078.91k 431642.97k 519312.73k

linuxeon-small

sha512 30946.43k 124096.81k 186301.78k 261855.23k 298325.33k

md5 47814.85k 144824.94k 325892.44k 475537.75k 550868.31k

perlbench

100 000 iterations of sin($x/($x+2))

#!/usr/bin/perl   use Benchmark;   timethis(100000, '    for ($x=0; $x<=200; $x++)    {      sin($x/($x+2));    }  ');

abakus - v5.8.8

timethis 100000: 17 wallclock secs (16.22 usr +  0.00 sys = 16.22 CPU) @ 6165.23/s (n=100000)

abakus - v5.10.1

timethis 100000: 15 wallclock secs (15.01 usr + 0.00 sys = 15.01 CPU) @ 6662.23/s (n=100000)

corvus - v5.14.2

timethis 100000:  8 wallclock secs ( 8.32 usr +  0.00 sys =  8.32 CPU) @ 12019.23/s (n=100000)

linuxeon-big - v5.8.8

timethis 100000: 7 wallclock secs ( 6.36 usr + 0.00 sys = 6.36 CPU) @ 15723.27/s (n=100000)

bigaix-power7 - v5.8.8

timethis 100000:  6 wallclock secs ( 3.45 usr +  0.00 sys =  3.45 CPU) @ 28985.51/s (n=100000)

64 POWER6 cores and 1TB of RAM

One day, we received a very big new machine which was available for play for a night.

In the end, I couldn't find a suitable benchmark to get a picture of the computing power and the vast amount of memory it had. I had AIX 6.1, a C compiler, Perl 5.8.8 and IBM Java available.

Here are the results anyway (really almost nothing): http://hup.hu/node/86869

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Elapsed time since release of system processors: 3055 mins 33 secs

Elapsed time since release of system processors: 3056 mins 7 secs

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                       boot image timestamp: 18:17 01/12

                 The current time and date: 16:59:21 03/21/2011

      processor count: 64;  memory size: 1048576MB;  kernel size: 25705772

boot device: /vdevice/v-scsi@300001bb/disk@8100000000000000:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe

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Benchmarks

Hardware used

openssl speed

perlbench

64 POWER6 cores and 1TB of RAM

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