Amazon EC2 Amazon AMI Linux RHEL Ubuntu Benchmarking of Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) with c1.xlarge instance when comparing Linux x86_64 performance using the Linux distributions of Amazon Linux AMI and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 (RHEL 6.3). Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Processor: Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5506 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 6GB OS: RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.3, Kernel: 2.6.32-276.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20120305, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03: Processor: Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03, Kernel: 3.2.21-1.32.6.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 15.97 |===================================================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 98.06 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 59 |============================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 56 |========================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 59 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 46 |============================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 41 |======================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 45 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 81 |============================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 75 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 79 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 94 |============================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 89 |========================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 92 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 45 |=========================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 41 |======================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 46 |============================================ FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 2863.15 |===================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 2918.70 |===================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 3044.29 |======================================= Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 727.40 |======================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 702.37 |======================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 688.80 |====================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 4500 |========================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 2409 |====================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 4409 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 9313.08 |======================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 3127.81 |============= OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 34.25 |========================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 32.60 |======================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 34.10 |========================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 933.49 |======================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 516.69 |====================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 942.21 |======================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 161.52 |======================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 144.16 |==================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 160.36 |======================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 4107.67 |===================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 2829.86 |========================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 4315.63 |======================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 7470.65 |======================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 3460.95 |================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 6692.81 |=================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 2448.67 |======================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 1214.69 |=================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 2442.06 |======================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 3711.41 |======================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 1118.03 |============ Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 3558.87 |===================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 32.26 |========================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 9.86 |============= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 29.78 |====================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 967.90 |==================================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 84.01 |===================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 18.01 |============================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 25.70 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 18.04 |============================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 9.10 |=============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 11.87 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 9.77 |================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 26.84 |=========== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 99.13 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 73.78 |=============================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 119.26 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 137.59 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 121.92 |=================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 47.27 |================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 57.54 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 51.30 |===================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 8.49 |========================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 13.91 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 8.78 |========================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 34 |============ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 41 |============== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 123 |=========================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 237.12 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 272.15 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 243.78 |==================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 28.45 |======================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 30.09 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 28.30 |======================================= Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 231.49 |================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 270.28 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 251.87 |===================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 131.10 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 149.66 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 131.83 |=================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 202.37 |============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 273.58 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 222.27 |================================ Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 277.17 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 318.71 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 275.09 |===================================