m4.4xlarge Amazon EC2 Cloud Benchmarks - December 2017
Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon testing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.4 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function

	OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09, Kernel: 4.9.62-21.56.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon

Amazon Linux 2: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function

	OS: Amazon Linux 2.0, Kernel: 4.9.62-10.57.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20170915, File-System: xfs, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon

RHEL Server 7.4: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: cirrusdrmfb

	OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.4, Kernel: 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 100 |=========================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 116 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 145 |==============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 147 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 160 |===============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 160 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 67 |================================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 66 |===============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 1543.61 |=========================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 1634.03 |===========================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 33761 |=============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 32733 |============================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: GET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 1283435.91 |========================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 1162050.17 |====================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 1116937.08 |===================================


Redis 3.0.1
Test: SET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 974676.12 |=========================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 898315.23 |======================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 860253.31 |====================================


PHPBench 0.8.1
PHP Benchmark Suite
Score > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 122404 |=====================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 146108 |============================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 140237 |==========================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 988.23 |============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 913.67 |=========================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 974.63 |===========================================


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 2380 |=============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 2393 |=============================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 2439 |==============================================


Stockfish 2014-11-26
Total Time
ms < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 4860 |==============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 4601 |============================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 4478 |==========================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Total
ms < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux 2 .. 9749  |==============
RHEL Server 7.4 . 37473 |======================================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Userspace
ms < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux 2 .. 6936  |===========
RHEL Server 7.4 . 33785 |======================================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Kernel
ms < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux 2 .. 1517 |=======================================
RHEL Server 7.4 . 2129 |=======================================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: http
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 7654 |=======================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 9029 |==============================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: json
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 10611679 |======================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 11774995 |==========================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: build
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 18954333684 |=======================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 18211772783 |=====================================


Go Benchmarks
Test: garbage
Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 2270774 |========================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 2458881 |===========================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP LavaMD
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 173.22 |============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 142.20 |====================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP CFD Solver
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 44.96 |=============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 31.46 |===============================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 84.90  |===================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 107.48 |============================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 89.49  |=====================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 15.42 |=============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 14.41 |==========================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 15.53 |=============================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 10.12 |=============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 8.77  |=======================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 10.08 |=============================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 17.76 |=============================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 13.86 |===================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 17.08 |===========================================


FFmpeg 3.3.3
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 8.97 |==============================================


Perl Benchmarks
Test: Pod2html
seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 0.20673762 |========================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 0.19707410 |======================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 0.20894897 |========================================


Perl Benchmarks
Test: Interpreter
seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 0.00126072 |================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 0.00136237 |===================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 0.00156785 |========================================


Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 31.30 |=============================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 30.79 |============================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 15.60 |======================================
Amazon Linux 2 ........... 18.26 |=============================================
RHEL Server 7.4 .......... 15.83 |=======================================


R Benchmark

Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09 . 0.4944 |============================================