Benchmarking An ARM 96-Core Cavium ThunderX System

[hoohoo]

Definitely not chopped liver qua performance.

Nice.

How about the price?

[tildearrow]

Typo:

For those interested there are also some additional benchmarks I ran plus others from the community via Caviun ThunderX on OpenBenchmarking.org.

[davidbepo]

pathetic, my 2400g has better performance for a lot of things

[MoonMoon]

Can someone please explain to me why compiling a kernel is so slow on that machine? Shouldn't a 96-core machine run circles around a Ryzen 3 when compiling a kernel?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Benchmarking An ARM 96-Core Cavium ThunderX System

A Phoronix reader granted us remote access to a FOXCONN C2U4N_MB system featuring two Cavium ThunderX 48-core SoCs. For those curious about the potential of a modern 96-core ARM platform, here are some basic benchmark results.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=26063