gc-vs-aws 16 x Intel Core (Broadwell) testing with a OpenStack Foundation Nova v13.1.2 and Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. gCloud: Processor: 16 x Intel Core (Broadwell) @ 2.20GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: OpenStack Foundation Nova v13.1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384 MB + 13616 MB RAM, Disk: 49GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-66-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 AWS: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.89GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384 MB + 14336 MB RAM, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.3-031903-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Add MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud . 16399.04 |========================================== AWS .... 23654.96 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud . 19753.17 |================================================== AWS .... 23717.79 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud . 20004.92 |=================================================== AWS .... 23667.15 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Floating-Point Add MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud . 16981.33 |================================================== AWS .... 20580.23 |============================================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Add MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud . 56751.88 |============================================================ AWS .... 36924.74 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud . 49654.32 |============================================================ AWS .... 32378.98 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud . 49916.15 |============================================================ AWS .... 32225.96 |=======================================