Cloud Platform Evaluation
2 x Intel Xeon E5540 testing with a Dell 0N582M and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Ubuntu 10.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Ukko Cluster: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0N582M, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH9, Memory: 8 x 4096 MB, Disk: 80GB FUJITSU MHZ2080B, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709S Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-28-server (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext4

AWS EC2 c1.medium: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 10GB

	OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-311-ec2 (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext3


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 1566.82 |==================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 7.71    |


Apache Benchmark 2.2.17
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 14196.78 |=================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 5401.26  |===================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 2.6.25
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 189.39  |====
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 2120.22 |==================================================


7-Zip Compression 9.13
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 17336 |====================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 3216  |==========


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.98.2
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 30.32 |=====================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 42.72 |====================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 6.58  |======
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 59.67 |====================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 2813333 |==================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 2159667 |======================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 12443 |====================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 6432  |===========================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 726 |======================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 395 |=============================


NGINX Benchmark 0.8.53
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 11147.40 |========================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 13524.31 |=================================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 9611.06 |==================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 2876.52 |===============


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 9007.95 |==================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 2652.97 |===============


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 9598.98 |==================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 3021.92 |================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 10024.64 |=================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 3220.93  |================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 10.98 |=============================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 19.71 |====================================================


Loopback TCP Network Performance
Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 21.92  |==========
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 108.90 |===================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 3526 |=====================================================
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 191  |===


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ukko Cluster ...... 74  |======
AWS EC2 c1.medium . 632 |======================================================