Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux Performance Comparison
New Amazon c3.large vs. c3.xlarge vs. c3.2xlarge vs. c3.4xlarge vs. c3.8xlarge instance type with Ivy Bridge CPUs being benchmarked at Phoronix by Michael Larabel for a future article.


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

c3.2xlarge: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (8 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 4.2.amazon Hypervisor

c3.4xlarge: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (16 Cores), Memory: 30720MB, 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

c3.8xlarge: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (32 Cores), Memory: 60416MB, 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 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 255.00 |================
c3.4xlarge . 133.71 |========
c3.8xlarge . 68.80  |====


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP CUTCP
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 69.03 |===========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 35.34 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 18.58 |================
c3.4xlarge . 9.57  |========
c3.8xlarge . 5.37  |=====


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP Stencl
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 123.49 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 67.67  |================================
c3.2xlarge . 34.53  |================
c3.4xlarge . 19.01  |=========
c3.8xlarge . 11.96  |======


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 14.34  |======
c3.xlarge .. 28.29  |===========
c3.2xlarge . 44.74  |==================
c3.4xlarge . 70.87  |=============================
c3.8xlarge . 144.11 |==========================================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP CFD Solver
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 403.02 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 205.14 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 104.42 |===============
c3.4xlarge . 56.44  |========
c3.8xlarge . 28.61  |====


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP Streamcluster
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 100.87 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 52.65  |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 28.03  |================
c3.4xlarge . 18.25  |==========
c3.8xlarge . 13.49  |========


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
c3.large ... 1247  |====
c3.xlarge .. 2512  |=======
c3.2xlarge . 5023  |===============
c3.4xlarge . 10013 |==============================
c3.8xlarge . 19968 |===========================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
c3.large ... 2095333  |====
c3.xlarge .. 4190667  |=======
c3.2xlarge . 8354000  |==============
c3.4xlarge . 16777000 |============================
c3.8xlarge . 33128000 |========================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 487.69 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 244.67 |=============================
c3.2xlarge . 125.87 |===============
c3.4xlarge . 69.97  |========
c3.8xlarge . 40.38  |=====


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 141.81 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 70.87  |=============================
c3.2xlarge . 35.44  |==============
c3.4xlarge . 17.73  |=======
c3.8xlarge . 8.91   |====


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 34.96 |===========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 17.54 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 8.97  |===============
c3.4xlarge . 4.66  |========