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Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Still Pay Off For Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" E-Core CPUs


When testing Intel's aggressive software Linux optimizations shipped by way of their in-house Clear Linux distribution, I am most often testing it on their high core count Xeon processors with AVX-512...

When testing Intel's aggressive software Linux optimizations shipped by way of their in-house Clear Linux distribution, I am most often testing it on their high core count Xeon processors with AVX-512... Over the years in dozens of Phoronix articles there have been countless metrics showing off the out-of-the-box performance benefits from leveraging software built for higher x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels, employing compiler-based function multi-versioning, and the other extensive performance tuning carried out by Intel software engineers. From there many different workloads were carried out while also monitoring the combined CPU power consumption of these Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest processors during testing. Page 1 - IntroductionPage 2 - Databases, EmbreePage 3 - Video EncodingPage 4 - Creator Workloads, 7-ZipPage 5 - Stress-NG, C-RayPage 6 - Image Encoding, Crypto, ZstdPage 7 - OpenSSL, OpenJDK JavaPage 8 - Python + PHP + DSPPage 9 - Geo Mean + Overall Power

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