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 gCloud-SSD: 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: 9GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-66-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Add MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 16399.04 |======================================= AWS ........ 23516.76 |======================================================== gCloud-SSD . 16238.71 |======================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 19753.17 |=============================================== AWS ........ 23551.01 |======================================================== gCloud-SSD . 21083.56 |================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 20004.92 |=============================================== AWS ........ 23634.10 |======================================================== gCloud-SSD . 20585.62 |================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Floating-Point Add MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 16981.33 |============================================== AWS ........ 20552.60 |======================================================== gCloud-SSD . 16376.64 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Add MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 56751.88 |======================================================== AWS ........ 36844.82 |==================================== gCloud-SSD . 49455.00 |================================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 49654.32 |======================================================== AWS ........ 32295.10 |==================================== gCloud-SSD . 43487.03 |================================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 49916.15 |======================================================== AWS ........ 32222.83 |==================================== gCloud-SSD . 43207.28 |================================================ SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 103.40 |========================================================== AWS ........ 31.47 |================== gCloud-SSD . 93.97 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 359.75 |======================================== AWS ........ 526.57 |========================================================== gCloud-SSD . 242.95 |=========================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 8187.81 |==================== AWS ........ 23422.07 |======================================================== gCloud-SSD . 8919.47 |===================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 7.67 |================================================ AWS ........ 9.53 |============================================================ gCloud-SSD . 6.27 |======================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 4602 |=========================================================== AWS ........ 4274 |======================================================= gCloud-SSD . 4658 |============================================================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 11.36 |=========================================================== AWS ........ 7.88 |========================================= gCloud-SSD . 10.96 |========================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 5.26 |============================================================ AWS ........ 4.38 |================================================== gCloud-SSD . 4.78 |======================================================= GMPbench 0.2 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 4210.20 |======================================================== AWS ........ 3319.80 |============================================ gCloud-SSD . 4265.70 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 8.12 |==================================== AWS ........ 13.30 |=========================================================== gCloud-SSD . 8.18 |==================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 5.02 |====================================================== AWS ........ 5.55 |============================================================ gCloud-SSD . 5.36 |========================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 281.55 |======================================================= AWS ........ 295.06 |========================================================== gCloud-SSD . 261.29 |=================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 74.88 |======================================================= AWS ........ 80.95 |=========================================================== gCloud-SSD . 73.15 |===================================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 52.32 |===================================================== AWS ........ 58.54 |=========================================================== gCloud-SSD . 51.32 |==================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 13.37 |==================================================== AWS ........ 15.16 |=========================================================== gCloud-SSD . 13.13 |=================================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 21.32 |=========================================================== AWS ........ 12.21 |================================== gCloud-SSD . 20.77 |========================================================= GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 8.07 |======================================================= AWS ........ 8.87 |============================================================ gCloud-SSD . 7.83 |===================================================== Minion 0.15 Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 97.13 |=========================================================== AWS ........ 94.55 |========================================================= gCloud-SSD . 93.42 |========================================================= Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 473.44 |================================================ AWS ........ 576.91 |========================================================== gCloud-SSD . 466.53 |=============================================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 15.56 |=========================================================== AWS ........ 15.44 |=========================================================== gCloud-SSD . 15.08 |========================================================= Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 5.55 |============================================== AWS ........ 7.31 |============================================================ gCloud-SSD . 5.22 |=========================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 1874.30 |========================================================= gCloud-SSD . 1873.63 |========================================================= PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better gCloud ..... 1500 |===================================================== AWS ........ 1689 |============================================================ gCloud-SSD . 1489 |===================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better gCloud ..... 20791.54 |======================================= AWS ........ 29644.66 |======================================================== gCloud-SSD . 20977.21 |======================================== Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better gCloud . 1.75 |================================================================ AWS .... 1.61 |===========================================================