Benchmark Report: Concrete Proof Virtualization Overhead is Low

Stunning Report Highlights EDA Application Performance using Intel

This technical benchmark study documents the results of running EDA applications in a private cloud environment - created by UniCloud - with Intel architecture and Oracle VM.

Univa analyzed results from 5 end user applications and 9 lab benchmarks (such as NFS performance, network performance etc.) – the startling results show minimal application slowdown with several CPU and memory intensive applications actually running faster in a VM environment.

Highlights:

• The collected results show an average 2% slowdown, with several CPU and memory intensive applications actually running between 2 and 4% faster in a VM.
• UniCloud running on Nehalem generation Intel® microarchitecture and Oracle VM offsets the virtualization performance penalty due to 2.25x increase in performance over current generation quad-core and nearly 9x performance gains over single-core machines.
• The NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) test showed that virtualization overhead was non-existent and some of the results were faster than bare metal.

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