Amazon EC2 C3 Ubuntu Benchmarking Instances New Amazon c3.large vs. c3.xlarge instance type with Ivy Bridge CPUs being benchmarked at Phoronix by Michael Larabel. c3.large: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor c3.xlarge: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 938.53 |=========================================================== c3.xlarge . 483.24 |============================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 69.03 |============================================================ c3.xlarge . 35.34 |=============================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI-Q Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 20.15 |============================================================ c3.xlarge . 19.92 |=========================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP TPACF Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 555.76 |============== c3.xlarge . 2282.49 |========================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencl Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 123.49 |=========================================================== c3.xlarge . 67.67 |================================ Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 14.34 |============================== c3.xlarge . 28.29 |============================================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 403.02 |=========================================================== c3.xlarge . 205.14 |============================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 100.87 |=========================================================== c3.xlarge . 52.65 |=============================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 29.90 |============================================================ c3.xlarge . 29.59 |=========================================================== PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Covariance Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 6.32 |============================================================= c3.xlarge . 6.24 |============================================================ PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: Correlation Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 6.29 |============================================================= c3.xlarge . 6.25 |============================================================= PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 24.14 |============================================================ c3.xlarge . 24.10 |============================================================ John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better c3.large .. 1247 |============================== c3.xlarge . 2512 |============================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better c3.large .. 2095333 |============================= c3.xlarge . 4190667 |========================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better c3.large .. 32008 |============================================================ c3.xlarge . 32052 |============================================================ x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better c3.large .. 33.83 |=============================== c3.xlarge . 66.12 |============================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better c3.large .. 1342.80 |========================================================== c3.xlarge . 1330.57 |========================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 487.69 |=========================================================== c3.xlarge . 244.67 |============================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 141.81 |=========================================================== c3.xlarge . 70.87 |============================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 34.96 |============================================================ c3.xlarge . 17.54 |============================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better c3.large .. 17.04 |============================================================ c3.xlarge . 17.04 |============================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better c3.large .. 103.00 |=========================================================== c3.xlarge . 102.80 |===========================================================