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.
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Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux OS Benchmarks Processor Memory Disk OS Kernel Compiler File-System System Layer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores) 15360MB 6GB RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.4 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) GCC 4.4.7 20120313 ext4 Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor 8GB Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 3.4.62-53.42.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64) GCC 4.6.3 20120306 Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-54-virtual (x86_64) GCC 4.6 Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores) Ubuntu 13.10 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64) GCC 4.8 16384MB 10GB SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 3.0.82-0.7-ec2 (x86_64) GCC 4.3 ext3 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-ppl --with-tune=generic - Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09: --build=x86_64-amazon-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-tune=generic - Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v - Ubuntu 13.10: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v - SUSE Linux Enterprise 11: --build=x86_64-suse-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --enable-linux-futex --enable-ssp --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-cpu=generic --with-slibdir=/lib64 --without-system-libunwind System Details - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: SELinux: Enabled. Disk Mount Options Details - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4: barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,seclabel - Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09: data=ordered,noatime,rw - Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS: acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,user_xattr - Ubuntu 13.10: data=ordered,relatime,rw - SUSE Linux Enterprise 11: acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=continue,relatime,rw,user_xattr
Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux OS Benchmarks postmark: Disk Transaction Performance john-the-ripper: Traditional DES c-ray: Total Time john-the-ripper: MD5 build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile rodinia: OpenMP Leukocyte hmmer: Pfam Database Search dolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamics rodinia: OpenMP CFD Solver ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment polybench-c: Correlation Computation john-the-ripper: Blowfish polybench-c: Covariance Computation rodinia: OpenMP Streamcluster polybench-c: 3 Matrix Multiplications himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 1685 7279333 131.61 24392 238.34 103.46 27.60 36.66 224.44 4355.77 19.93 13.10 6.72 1907 6.71 56.85 25.66 1214.54 2055 7940333 129.56 26860 210.61 100.77 29.24 33.50 247.46 3986.60 19.14 12.43 6.72 1975 6.68 55.74 25.68 1199.42 2011 7946000 129.02 26684 240.40 101.53 26.03 33.30 228.41 4054.00 18.90 12.29 6.71 2003 6.70 56.21 25.70 1172.08 1963 3363667 77.16 28584 259.85 103.01 25.87 33.17 225.91 4220.04 18.57 12.48 6.64 1996 6.61 55.59 25.76 1205.22 779 7951333 118.54 18533 88.75 25.46 227.31 4043.54 18.55 12.28 6.39 1972 6.39 54.14 24.71 1189.83 OpenBenchmarking.org
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 5.67, N = 3 SE +/- 4.00, N = 3 SE +/- 15.11, N = 6 SE +/- 5.33, N = 3 SE +/- 5.00, N = 3 2055 1685 779 2011 1963 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
John The Ripper Test: Traditional DES OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 2M 4M 6M 8M 10M SE +/- 21666.67, N = 3 SE +/- 63024.69, N = 3 SE +/- 35964.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 11333.33, N = 3 7940333 7279333 7951333 7946000 3363667 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 129.56 131.61 118.54 129.02 77.16 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
John The Ripper Test: MD5 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K SE +/- 140.68, N = 3 SE +/- 60.53, N = 3 SE +/- 24.69, N = 3 SE +/- 8.00, N = 3 SE +/- 60.40, N = 3 26860 24392 18533 26684 28584 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 0.96, N = 3 SE +/- 0.83, N = 3 SE +/- 2.50, N = 3 SE +/- 2.61, N = 3 210.61 238.34 240.40 259.85
Rodinia Test: OpenMP Leukocyte OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Leukocyte Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 1.32, N = 3 SE +/- 1.02, N = 3 SE +/- 1.27, N = 3 SE +/- 1.43, N = 3 SE +/- 1.56, N = 3 100.77 103.46 88.75 101.53 103.01 -O3 -fopenmp -O3 -fopenmp -O3 -fopenmp -O2 -lOpenCL -O2 -lOpenCL 1. (CXX) g++ options:
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 29.24 27.60 25.46 26.03 25.87 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 33.50 36.66 33.30 33.17
Rodinia Test: OpenMP CFD Solver OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.93, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 247.46 224.44 227.31 228.41 225.91 -O3 -fopenmp -O3 -fopenmp -O3 -fopenmp -O2 -lOpenCL -O2 -lOpenCL 1. (CXX) g++ options:
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 51.13, N = 3 SE +/- 14.72, N = 3 SE +/- 71.29, N = 6 SE +/- 3.59, N = 3 SE +/- 2.47, N = 3 3986.60 4355.77 4043.54 4054.00 4220.04 -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 19.14 19.93 18.55 18.90 18.57 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.22, N = 6 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 6 SE +/- 0.21, N = 6 SE +/- 0.30, N = 6 12.43 13.10 12.28 12.29 12.48 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
PolyBench-C Test: Correlation Computation OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Correlation Computation Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 6.72 6.72 6.39 6.71 6.64 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 33.08, N = 6 SE +/- 6.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 6.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 1975 1907 1972 2003 1996 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
PolyBench-C Test: Covariance Computation OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Covariance Computation Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 6.68 6.71 6.39 6.70 6.61 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
Rodinia Test: OpenMP Streamcluster OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 55.74 56.85 54.14 56.21 55.59 -O3 -fopenmp -O3 -fopenmp -O3 -fopenmp -O2 -lOpenCL -O2 -lOpenCL 1. (CXX) g++ options:
PolyBench-C Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 25.68 25.66 24.71 25.70 25.76 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 13.10 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 1.47, N = 3 SE +/- 1.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.95, N = 3 SE +/- 2.31, N = 3 SE +/- 4.15, N = 3 1199.42 1214.54 1189.83 1172.08 1205.22 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
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