Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances. All benchmarks done by Phoronix-Test-Suite.com and OpenBenchmarking.org. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks Processor Memory Disk Motherboard Chipset Graphics Network OS Kernel Compiler File-System System Layer Screen Resolution m1.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge test01 Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core) 2048MB 8GB Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64) GCC 4.6.3 20120306 ext4 Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core) 4096MB Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores) 8192MB Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores) 15360MB Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores) Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.39GHz (1 Core) Intel 440BX Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 1 x 2048 MB DRAM 54GB Virtual disk VMware SVGA II VMware VMXNET3 Ubuntu 14.04 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64) GCC 4.8 1176x885 VMware OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - m1.small: --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 - m1.medium: --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 - m1.large: --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 - m1.xlarge: --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 - m3.xlarge: --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 - test01: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-libmudflap --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 System Details - m1.small: Python 2.6.8. - test01: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Disk Mount Options Details - m1.small, m1.medium, m1.large, m1.xlarge, m3.xlarge: data=ordered,noatime,rw Disk Details - test01: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks hmmer: Pfam Database Search build-imagemagick: Time To Compile john-the-ripper: Blowfish mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment x264: H.264 Video Encoding build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile graphics-magick: Sharpen c-ray: Total Time john-the-ripper: Traditional DES graphics-magick: Resizing ffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DV graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding postmark: Disk Transaction Performance openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance encode-flac: WAV To FLAC dolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamics himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver crafty: Elapsed Time ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine povray: Total Time john-the-ripper: MD5 compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression n-queens: Elapsed Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples aio-stress: Rand Write m1.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge test01 248.29 821.76 252 97.53 7.61 1685.11 5 802.18 895772333 14 122.54 10 416 21.13 29.64 128.75 320.44 336.84 1244.62 2997 8529 206.23 1000.52 2669 35.29 116.91 360.01 432 42.90 16.33 812.66 8 429.75 2146667 29 57.46 20 1503 55.77 12.47 54.76 758.05 168.41 2509.43 1557 16432 80.44 457.55 1286 59.04 57.56 179.52 1076 26.64 30.40 374.75 17 190.58 3860667 45 34.35 33 1605 44.43 13.94 55.59 744.23 152.12 2599.04 1450 17556 44.50 238.75 635 195.96 37.71 123.88 1989 16.47 48.10 233.92 28 107.69 8103500 57 28.53 46 1284 43.23 14.60 67.74 593.28 169.75 2523.43 1620 18224 19.54 114.65 331 693.57 28.27 97.99 2074 11.94 60.82 211.43 39 125.53 8240667 91 19.71 61 2049 93.40 7.37 32.28 1268.27 97.60 4203.54 933 26892 18.97 98.47 265 1766.91 79.36 664 35.55 20.49 688.68 163.76 1372667 2180 10.80 46.04 956.32 124.41 3305.92 1088 22856 58.10 369.47 888 326.25 OpenBenchmarking.org
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large test01 m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 1.29, N = 4 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 28.27 37.71 57.56 79.36 116.91 248.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
Timed ImageMagick Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 1.67, N = 4 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 1.68, N = 3 97.99 123.88 179.52 360.01 821.76
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large test01 m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 7.00, N = 3 SE +/- 60.15, N = 6 SE +/- 3.67, N = 3 SE +/- 11.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.98, N = 6 2074 1989 1076 664 432 252 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large test01 m1.medium m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.22, N = 6 SE +/- 0.45, N = 6 SE +/- 0.43, N = 4 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 11.94 16.47 26.64 35.55 42.90 97.53 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large test01 m1.medium m1.small 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.14, N = 5 SE +/- 0.37, N = 5 SE +/- 0.17, N = 5 SE +/- 0.37, N = 10 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.07, N = 5 60.82 48.10 30.40 20.49 16.33 7.61 1. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large test01 m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 1.48, N = 3 SE +/- 1.34, N = 3 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 3.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 SE +/- 3.62, N = 3 211.43 233.92 374.75 688.68 812.66 1685.11
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 39 28 17 8 5 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time m1.xlarge m3.xlarge test01 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.72, N = 3 107.69 125.53 163.76 190.58 429.75 802.18 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -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 m1.small m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium test01 200M 400M 600M 800M 1000M SE +/- 12265668.90, N = 6 SE +/- 9527.74, N = 3 SE +/- 210894.88, N = 6 SE +/- 26822.46, N = 3 SE +/- 19333.33, N = 3 SE +/- 13666.67, N = 3 895772333 8240667 8103500 3860667 2146667 1372667 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 91 57 45 29 14 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
FFmpeg H.264 HD To NTSC DV OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.73, N = 3 19.71 28.53 34.35 57.46 122.54 1. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lm -pthread -lrt -std=c99 -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -fno-tree-vectorize -MMD -MF -MT
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 61 46 33 20 10 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance test01 m3.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 35.21, N = 4 SE +/- 17.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 3.00, N = 3 SE +/- 2.00, N = 3 SE +/- 11.19, N = 6 2180 2049 1605 1503 1284 416 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 93.40 55.77 44.43 43.23 21.13 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC m3.xlarge test01 m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.16, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.06, N = 5 7.37 10.80 12.47 13.94 14.60 29.64 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -lm
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics m3.xlarge test01 m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 32.28 46.04 54.76 55.59 67.74 128.75
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver m3.xlarge test01 m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 4.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 1.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.74, N = 3 1268.27 956.32 758.05 744.23 593.28 320.44 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
Crafty Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time m3.xlarge test01 m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 97.60 124.41 152.12 168.41 169.75 336.84 1. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine m3.xlarge test01 m1.large m1.xlarge m1.medium m1.small 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 8.15, N = 3 SE +/- 26.85, N = 3 SE +/- 11.25, N = 3 SE +/- 16.05, N = 3 SE +/- 2.36, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 4203.54 3305.92 2599.04 2523.43 2509.43 1244.62 -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -pthread -lmpi_f90 -lmpi_f77 -lmpi -ldl -lhwloc -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time m3.xlarge test01 m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 933 1088 1450 1557 1620 2997 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -malign-double -lz -lm
John The Ripper Test: MD5 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 m3.xlarge test01 m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K SE +/- 397.43, N = 5 SE +/- 48.66, N = 3 SE +/- 44.54, N = 3 SE +/- 24.98, N = 3 SE +/- 216.04, N = 3 SE +/- 131.34, N = 4 26892 22856 18224 17556 16432 8529 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large test01 m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.30, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 3.59, N = 4 18.97 19.54 44.50 58.10 80.44 206.23 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread
N-Queens Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large test01 m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 98.47 114.65 238.75 369.47 457.55 1000.52 1. (CC) gcc options: -static -fopenmp -O3
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large test01 m1.medium m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 1.86, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 1.45, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 265 331 635 888 1286 2669 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
AIO-Stress Test: Random Write OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write m3.xlarge m1.xlarge test01 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 269.82, N = 6 SE +/- 70.49, N = 6 SE +/- 56.38, N = 6 SE +/- 29.60, N = 6 SE +/- 3.79, N = 6 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 1766.91 693.57 326.25 195.96 59.04 35.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio
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