Ampere Altra Max Performance For Ubuntu Linux 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 19 March 2024 at 11:30 AM EDT. Page 2 of 6. 5 Comments.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: BT.C. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: CG.C. Ubuntu 24.04 18 March was the fastest.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: EP.D. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: SP.C. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

As shown last year with the Ubuntu 23.10 performance gains on Ampere Altra Max, they are carried forward too for Ubuntu 24.04. But with Ubuntu 24.04 using the same GCC 13.2 as Ubuntu 23.10 and only the Linux 6.5 to 6.8 revision, the mature Ampere Altra Max platform doesn't see much of a difference over 23.10 in these HPC benchmarks.

miniFE benchmark with settings of Problem Size: Small. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
CloverLeaf benchmark with settings of Input: clover_bm. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Rodinia benchmark with settings of Test: OpenMP LavaMD. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
toyBrot Fractal Generator benchmark with settings of Implementation: OpenMP. Ubuntu 24.04 18 March was the fastest.
QMCPACK benchmark with settings of Input: Li2_STO_ae. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Xcompact3d Incompact3d benchmark with settings of Input: input.i3d 193 Cells Per Direction. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was the fastest.

Unlike the performance gains shown with Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids and AMD EPYC Genoa-X on Ubuntu 24.04, the Ampere Altra Max performance tended to be rather flat more often than not with the Ampere Altra Max with Neoverse-N1 cores already having mature Linux support.


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