ghassan Intel Xeon E5645 testing on Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 9 tests for large instance EC2: Processor: Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03, Kernel: 3.2.12-3.2.4.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 194.14 |====================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 430.66 |====================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 1516.93 |===================================== CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 5051.97 |===================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 10006.47 |==================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 3538 |======================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 8243.49 |===================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 8070.18 |===================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 8435.48 |===================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 8510.87 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 8134.88 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 6737.10 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 8144.60 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 6705.23 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 7970.85 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 7610.93 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 8009.72 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 7622.76 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 8055.01 |===================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 7184.59 |===================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better 9 tests for large instance EC2 . 287813 |======================================