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 Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384 MB + 14336 MB RAM, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-74-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384 MB + 14336 MB RAM, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-74-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, 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 |====== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 76.40000 |============================================ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 76.46000 |============================================ 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 |============== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 5.92000 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 5.91000 |============================================= 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 |============================================= Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 5.16000 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 5.16000 |============================================= 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 |============================ Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 2.02000 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 1.98000 |============================================ 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 |============================== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 1.99000 |========== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 1.98000 |========== 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 |==== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 0.02000 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 0.02000 |============================================= 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 |============================ Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 1.04000 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 1.03000 |============================================= 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 |============================================ Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 0.99000 |============ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 1.00000 |============= 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 |============================================= Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 8909.86 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 8935.26 |============================================= 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 |======= Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 241.65 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 243.14 |============================================== 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 |============================================ Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 1360.32 |============================================= Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 1369.53 |============================================= Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 1366.50 |============================================= 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 |========================================== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 58.45 |====== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 58.96 |====== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV .... 141.11 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS HVM ... 133.04 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 16.71 |===== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 16.72 |===== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 16.72 |===== 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 |=============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 14.49 |======================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 14.40 |======================= 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 |=============== Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 .. 20898.45 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PV-02 . 21701.20 |============================================