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 idc-m.small 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 - idc-m.small: --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. Disk Mount Options Details - m1.small: data=ordered,noatime,rw - m1.medium: data=ordered,noatime,rw - m1.large: data=ordered,noatime,rw - m1.xlarge: data=ordered,noatime,rw - m3.xlarge: data=ordered,noatime,rw - idc-m.small: data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks aio-stress: Rand Write postmark: Disk Transaction Performance dolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamics ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine hmmer: Pfam Database Search mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment john-the-ripper: Blowfish john-the-ripper: Traditional DES john-the-ripper: MD5 x264: H.264 Video Encoding graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver build-imagemagick: Time To Compile build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile c-ray: Total Time compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples crafty: Elapsed Time encode-flac: WAV To FLAC ffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DV n-queens: Elapsed Time povray: Total Time openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance m1.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge idc-m.small 35.29 416 128.75 1244.62 248.29 97.53 252 895772333 8529 7.61 5 14 10 320.44 821.76 1685.11 802.18 206.23 2669 336.84 29.64 122.54 1000.52 2997 21.13 59.04 1503 54.76 2509.43 116.91 42.90 432 2146667 16432 16.33 8 29 20 758.05 360.01 812.66 429.75 80.44 1286 168.41 12.47 57.46 457.55 1557 55.77 195.96 1605 55.59 2599.04 57.56 26.64 1076 3860667 17556 30.40 17 45 33 744.23 179.52 374.75 190.58 44.50 635 152.12 13.94 34.35 238.75 1450 44.43 693.57 1284 67.74 2523.43 37.71 16.47 1989 8103500 18224 48.10 28 57 46 593.28 123.88 233.92 107.69 19.54 331 169.75 14.60 28.53 114.65 1620 43.23 1766.91 2049 32.28 4203.54 28.27 11.94 2074 8240667 26892 60.82 39 91 61 1268.27 97.99 211.43 125.53 18.97 265 97.60 7.37 19.71 98.47 933 93.40 391.29 2099 44.76 3387.07 77.95 35.27 673 1433667 23072 21.14 12 40 27 943.60 328.58 674.37 162.98 57.28 886 122.49 10.51 43.94 368.02 1081 56.10 OpenBenchmarking.org
AIO-Stress Test: Random Write OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idc-m.small m1.large m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 269.82, N = 6 SE +/- 70.49, N = 6 SE +/- 23.24, N = 6 SE +/- 29.60, N = 6 SE +/- 3.79, N = 6 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 1766.91 693.57 391.29 195.96 59.04 35.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance idc-m.small m3.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 116.14, N = 6 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 2099 2049 1605 1503 1284 416 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics m3.xlarge idc-m.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 32.28 44.76 54.76 55.59 67.74 128.75
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 idc-m.small m1.large m1.xlarge m1.medium m1.small 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 8.15, N = 3 SE +/- 6.97, N = 3 SE +/- 11.25, N = 3 SE +/- 16.05, N = 3 SE +/- 2.36, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 4203.54 3387.07 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
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 28.27 37.71 57.56 77.95 116.91 248.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 11.94 16.47 26.64 35.27 42.90 97.53 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 2.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.98, N = 6 2074 1989 1076 673 432 252 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 5456.90, N = 3 895772333 8240667 8103500 3860667 2146667 1433667 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
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 idc-m.small m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K SE +/- 397.43, N = 5 SE +/- 46.13, N = 3 SE +/- 44.54, N = 3 SE +/- 24.98, N = 3 SE +/- 216.04, N = 3 SE +/- 131.34, N = 4 26892 23072 18224 17556 16432 8529 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 0.26, N = 8 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.07, N = 5 60.82 48.10 30.40 21.14 16.33 7.61 1. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large idc-m.small 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 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 39 28 17 12 8 5 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large idc-m.small 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 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 91 57 45 40 29 14 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
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 idc-m.small 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 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 61 46 33 27 20 10 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver m3.xlarge idc-m.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 1.78, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 1.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.74, N = 3 1268.27 943.60 758.05 744.23 593.28 320.44 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 1.68, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 1.68, N = 3 97.99 123.88 179.52 328.58 360.01 821.76
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 3.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 SE +/- 3.62, N = 3 211.43 233.92 374.75 674.37 812.66 1685.11
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time m1.xlarge m3.xlarge idc-m.small m1.large m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.72, N = 3 107.69 125.53 162.98 190.58 429.75 802.18 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 3.59, N = 4 18.97 19.54 44.50 57.28 80.44 206.23 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 4.18, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 265 331 635 886 1286 2669 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
Crafty Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time m3.xlarge idc-m.small m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 97.60 122.49 152.12 168.41 169.75 336.84 1. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC m3.xlarge idc-m.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.06, N = 5 7.37 10.51 12.47 13.94 14.60 29.64 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -lm
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 idc-m.small 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 +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.73, N = 3 19.71 28.53 34.35 43.94 57.46 122.54 -lrt -lrt 1. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lm -pthread -std=c99 -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -fno-tree-vectorize -MMD -MF -MT
N-Queens Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large idc-m.small 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 +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 98.47 114.65 238.75 368.02 457.55 1000.52 1. (CC) gcc options: -static -fopenmp -O3
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time m3.xlarge idc-m.small m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 933 1081 1450 1557 1620 2997 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -malign-double -lz -lm
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance m3.xlarge idc-m.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 93.40 56.10 55.77 44.43 43.23 21.13 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
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