CentOS Stream & Clear Linux Achieve Greater Performance On 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids, EPYC Genoa

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 3 February 2023 at 08:48 AM EST. Page 4 of 6. 9 Comments.
GROMACS benchmark with settings of Implementation: MPI CPU, Input: water_GMX50_bare. Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS - perf: EPYC 9654 2P was the fastest.
simdjson benchmark with settings of Throughput Test: PartialTweets. Clear Linux: EPYC 9654 2P was the fastest.
simdjson benchmark with settings of Throughput Test: LargeRandom. Clear Linux: Xeon 8490H 2P was the fastest.

In not all of the workloads was there a staggering difference between operating systems.

DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: H2. Clear Linux: Xeon 8490H 2P was the fastest.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Jython. CentOS Stream 9: Xeon 8490H 2P was the fastest.

In some of the OpenJDK Java benchmarks are more great examples of how silly it is for Ubuntu Server to still default to powersave/schedutil governors with modern high-end server processors.

Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Apache Spark Bayes. Clear Linux: EPYC 9654 2P was the fastest.
Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Apache Spark PageRank. Clear Linux: EPYC 9654 2P was the fastest.
Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Scala Dotty. Clear Linux: EPYC 9654 2P was the fastest.
Renaissance benchmark with settings of Test: Finagle HTTP Requests. Clear Linux: Xeon 8490H 2P was the fastest.

Intel's tuned OpenJDK Java stack was allowing Clear Linux to collect several more first place finishes on both the Intel Sapphire Rapids and AMD Genoa servers.


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