Intel Xeon Max / Sapphire Rapids Riding Higher On Ubuntu 23.10

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 16 October 2023 at 03:26 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 8 Comments.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: particle_volume/ao/real_time. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/ao/real_time. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/scivis/real_time. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
OSPRay benchmark with settings of Benchmark: gravity_spheres_volume/dim_512/pathtracer/real_time. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Including for many of Intel's own software packages that are part of oneAPI they were enjoying better performance on Ubuntu 23.10.

libavif avifenc benchmark with settings of Encoder Speed: 6. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
libavif avifenc benchmark with settings of Encoder Speed: 10, Lossless. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
oneDNN benchmark with settings of Harness: Recurrent Neural Network Inference, Data Type: bf16bf16bf16, Engine: CPU. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Numpy Benchmark benchmark with settings of . Ubuntu 23.04 was the fastest.
Liquid-DSP benchmark with settings of Threads: 128, Buffer Length: 256, Filter Length: 32. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Liquid-DSP benchmark with settings of Threads: 64, Buffer Length: 256, Filter Length: 512. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Liquid-DSP benchmark with settings of Threads: 224, Buffer Length: 256, Filter Length: 512. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

The newer Linux kernel, the upgraded default compiler, and other updated software were delivering nice out-of-the-box gains on Ubuntu 23.10.

OpenSSL benchmark with settings of . Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of . Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

The OpenSSL package as shipped by each Ubuntu release was also seeing some big gains on Ubuntu 23.10.

ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, First Run / Cold Cache. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, Third Run. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Apache IoTDB benchmark with settings of Device Count: 800, Batch Size Per Write: 100, Sensor Count: 500, Client Number: 400. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Apache IoTDB benchmark with settings of Device Count: 800, Batch Size Per Write: 100, Sensor Count: 800, Client Number: 400. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.

Database software like ClickHouse and Apache IotDB were showing some improvements on Ubuntu 23.10.


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