Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 8 March 2024 at 10:55 AM EST. Page 2 of 3. 8 Comments.
High Performance Conjugate Gradient benchmark with settings of X Y Z: 144 144 144, RT: 60. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.
Quicksilver benchmark with settings of Input: CTS2. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.
Quicksilver benchmark with settings of Input: CORAL2 P1. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.
Quicksilver benchmark with settings of Input: CORAL2 P2. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.

It's not really surprising but Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is performing better than Ubuntu 22.04 LTS especially given the newer kernel, compiler, etc. It's nice to quantify the difference though and ensure there are not any major regressions. With the Quicksilver HPC benchmark the Xeon Platinum 2P server the OS upgrade could net as much as a 9% improvement over the current LTS release.

LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: 20k Atoms. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Crown. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.

For some workloads there was a nice uplift even going from the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS development state.

VVenC benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Fast. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.
VVenC benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Faster. Ubuntu 24.04 7 March was the fastest.
ACES DGEMM benchmark with settings of Sustained Floating-Point Rate. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Compression Rating. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Especially for those currently relying on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the move to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS can yield some nice improvements for those on relatively recent hardware at least.


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