Amazon EC2 C3 Ubuntu Benchmarking Performance
New Amazon c3.large vs. c3.xlarge vs. c3.2xlarge 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

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


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP LBM
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 938.53 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 483.24 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 255.00 |================


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


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


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


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


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


Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 29.90 |===========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 29.59 |==========================================================
c3.2xlarge . 29.37 |==========================================================


PolyBench-C 3.2
Test: Covariance Computation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 6.32 |============================================================
c3.xlarge .. 6.24 |===========================================================
c3.2xlarge . 6.20 |===========================================================


PolyBench-C 3.2
Test: Correlation Computation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 6.29 |============================================================
c3.xlarge .. 6.25 |============================================================
c3.2xlarge . 6.22 |===========================================================


PolyBench-C 3.2
Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 24.14 |===========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 24.10 |===========================================================
c3.2xlarge . 23.64 |==========================================================


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 |============================================================


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 |=========================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
c3.large ... 32008 |===========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 32052 |===========================================================
c3.2xlarge . 32148 |===========================================================


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 |========================================================
c3.2xlarge . 1345.11 |=========================================================


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 |===============


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


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  |===============


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 17.04 |===========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 17.04 |===========================================================
c3.2xlarge . 17.01 |===========================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1c
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
c3.large ... 103.00 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 102.80 |==========================================================
c3.2xlarge . 103.30 |==========================================================