Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux OS Benchmarks Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Amazon m3.xlarge EC2 Cloud benchmarks comparing various enterprise Linux operating systems in Amazon's Compute Cloud like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Server, Ubuntu Linux, and Amazon Linux AMI. Cloud benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 6GB OS: RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09, Kernel: 3.4.62-53.42.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-54-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor Ubuntu 13.10: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor SUSE Linux Enterprise 11: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 10GB OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, Kernel: 3.0.82-0.7-ec2 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.3, File-System: ext3, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 1685 |================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 2055 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 2011 |========================================= Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 1963 |======================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 779 |================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Leukocyte Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 103.46 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 100.77 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 101.53 |======================================= Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 103.01 |======================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 88.75 |================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 224.44 |==================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 247.46 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 228.41 |===================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 225.91 |===================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 227.31 |===================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 56.85 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 55.74 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 56.21 |========================================= Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 55.59 |======================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 54.14 |======================================= Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 36.66 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 33.50 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 33.30 |===================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 33.17 |===================================== PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Covariance Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 6.71 |========================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 6.68 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 6.70 |========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 6.61 |========================================= SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 6.39 |======================================== PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Correlation Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 6.72 |========================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 6.72 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 6.71 |========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 6.64 |========================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 6.39 |======================================== PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 25.66 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 25.68 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 25.70 |========================================= Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 25.76 |========================================= SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 24.71 |======================================= FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 4355.77 |======================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 3986.60 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 4054.00 |==================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 4220.04 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 4043.54 |==================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 27.60 |======================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 29.24 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 26.03 |==================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 25.87 |==================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 25.46 |==================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 13.10 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 12.43 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 12.29 |====================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 12.48 |======================================= SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 12.28 |====================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 1907 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 1975 |========================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 2003 |========================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 1996 |========================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 1972 |========================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 7279333 |==================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 7940333 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 7946000 |======================================= Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 3363667 |================ SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 7951333 |======================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 24392 |=================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 26860 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 26684 |====================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 28584 |========================================= SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 18533 |=========================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 1214.54 |======================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 1199.42 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 1172.08 |====================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 1205.22 |======================================= SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 1189.83 |====================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 238.34 |===================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 210.61 |================================ Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 240.40 |===================================== Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 259.85 |======================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 131.61 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 129.56 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 129.02 |======================================= Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 77.16 |======================= SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 118.54 |==================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 . 19.93 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 ..... 19.14 |======================================= Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS ........... 18.90 |======================================= Ubuntu 13.10 ................. 18.57 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 ..... 18.55 |======================================