Running Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Rome? Still Significant Performance Uplift Over Ubuntu

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 5 September 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 19 Comments.
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P

Across various Java benchmarks, Clear Linux delivered much better OpenJDK performance than Ubuntu's OpenJDK package.

Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P
Ubuntu Linux vs. Clear Linux - AMD EPYC 7742 2P

When running a micro-benchmark on the GNU C Library, it's one of the important toolchain components that has been well tuned by Intel engineers.


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