I have a dual Cavium Thunder X2 system and I have been benchmarking with the Phoronix Test Suite as well as my own benchmarking.
What sort of benchmarks do you want to see? Using PTS for nginx, web server, postgres and memory benchmarks now.
It would be nice if I could just copy-paste and run commands. The current setup is 64gb ram and 2x28c / 4t per c so it’s a pretty interesting system for web services.
Under heavy load one of the disks would drop out but that’s resolved after firmware updates. Possibly because I’m using older 2tb disks (8x2tb).
I want ot test ZFS on Arm but that’s looking like it’ll have to be freebsd. Not sure how to get ZFS going easily on RHEL for arm…
Ubuntu for arm was… tricky… to get installed. I may need to give it another go with this updated firmware.
It would be kind of fun and interesting to see how Blender runs on that system. I know Blender runs on armv7 so I think it should run on the Cavium Thunder X2.
In my opinion the best test scene would be the Cycles “Class room” or “Production Benchmark”
As you have done it before I am sure you know how to run Blender in the terminal but as you asked
Download the test file, then from the directory with the .blend file run time blender -b benchmark.blend -o //render -a
In case that the render time is very short it might be interesting to try running from a ram-disk to speed up the loading time.
I am looking forward to seeing what that machine can do . Wendell you are the best!
Sorry for editing the post so often but I had to correct a lot of stuff after double checking.
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download https://download.blender.org/demo/test/benchmark.zip , unzip and run blender -b benchmark.blend -o //render -f 2467 from the directory with the benchmark.blend file. Check the render output in the directory just in case something wonky goes on. (That is only one frame of the full benchmark *) The full, unchanged benchmark should work with time blender -b benchmark.blend -o //render -a
*Edit: hmmm … mabe the classroom scene would be better for more available comparison data but the “Production Benchmark” is a lot more realistic as a real world Film - Blender Scene. I let the benchmark run on my R5 1600 and I got a run time of 1h 7m 39s for that one frame.
Some time in the future I may pack a few astrophysics simulations into a self contained benchmark. I would be really interested in the results but I am not sure when I will get around to doing that.
Edit: In case I ever get around to it, what would be a good completion time to aim for (on what system) for a good benchmark?
. Wendell you are the best! 
