Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Amazon EC2 PV vs. HVM
Running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV vs. HVM virtualization type of a c3.large instance type within the Amazon EC2 public cloud. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 8GB

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-HPL
GFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 9.79289 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 9.74321 |===============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-Ffte
GFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 1.45243 |=====================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 1.83911 |===============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: EP-DGEMM
GFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 5.20651 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 5.19057 |===============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-Ptrans
GB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 1.20150 |=============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 1.24489 |===============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad
GB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 8.61500 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 5.83258 |================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: G-Random Access
GUP/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 0.00082 |=====================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 0.00180 |===============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: Random Ring Latency
usecs < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 0.75095 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 0.64643 |========================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth
GB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 3.58410 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 3.53066 |==============================================


HPC Challenge 1.4.3
Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 8579.29 |=============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 8990.20 |===============================================


Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 29.77 |================================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 30.38 |=================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 1257 |==================================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 1250 |==================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 2106000 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 2103000 |===============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 17487 |=================================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 17385 |=================================================


x264 2014-01-09
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 33.80 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 35.07 |=================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 1358.49 |===============================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 1333.24 |==============================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 482.99 |================================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 442.26 |============================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 141.11 |================================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 133.04 |=============================================


FFmpeg 2.1.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 28.29 |================================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 28.82 |=================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 115.83 |================================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 115.47 |================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .. 4934.02 |================================
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM . 7277.44 |===============================================