Amazon EC2 AMI Linux RHEL Ubuntu SUSE Benchmarking of Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) with c1.xlarge instance when comparing Linux x86_64 performance using the Linux distributions of Amazon Linux AMI and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 (RHEL 6.3). Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Processor: Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03: Processor: Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03, Kernel: 3.2.21-1.32.6.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5506 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 6GB OS: RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.3, Kernel: 2.6.32-276.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20120305, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11: Processor: Intel Xeon E5506 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 10GB OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64), Kernel: 3.0.13-0.27-ec2 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.3, File-System: ext3, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 933.49 |===================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 942.21 |===================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 516.69 |==================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 812.20 |================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 161.52 |================================ Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 160.36 |=============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 144.16 |============================ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 188.44 |===================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 4107.67 |================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 4315.63 |==================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 2829.86 |======================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 3009.44 |========================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 7470.65 |==================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 6692.81 |================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 3460.95 |================= SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 4233.26 |==================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 2448.67 |==================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 2442.06 |==================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 1214.69 |================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 1484.09 |====================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 3711.41 |==================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 3558.87 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 1118.03 |=========== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 1635.08 |================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 32.26 |====================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 29.78 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 9.86 |============ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 15.33 |================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 84.01 |===================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 2863.15 |================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 3044.29 |==================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 2918.70 |=================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 2663.55 |=============================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 18.01 |=========================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 18.04 |=========================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 25.70 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 25.32 |===================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 9.10 |============================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 9.77 |=============================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 11.87 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 11.28 |==================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 26.84 |========== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 73.78 |============================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 99.13 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 67.19 |========================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 4500 |======================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 4409 |====================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 2409 |===================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 3467 |============================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 15.97 |==================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 16.70 |====================================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 98.06 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 87.97 |================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 59 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 59 |======================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 56 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 60 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 46 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 45 |======================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 41 |===================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 46 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 81 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 79 |======================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 75 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 74 |===================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 94 |========================================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 92 |======================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 89 |======================================= SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 89 |======================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 45 |======================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 46 |========================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 41 |===================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 41 |===================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 727.40 |===================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 688.80 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 702.37 |==================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 596.38 |============================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 119.26 |================================ Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 121.92 |================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 137.59 |===================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 138.42 |===================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 47.27 |=============================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 51.30 |================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 57.54 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 56.88 |====================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 8.49 |======================= Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 8.78 |======================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 13.91 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 14.02 |====================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 34 |=========== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 123 |======================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 41 |============= SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 39 |============= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 237.12 |================================ Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 243.78 |================================= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 272.15 |===================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 268.44 |==================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 28.45 |==================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 28.30 |==================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 30.09 |====================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 29.57 |===================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 231.49 |================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 251.87 |===================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 270.28 |======================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 131.10 |=================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 131.83 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 149.66 |======================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 202.37 |============================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 222.27 |================================ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 273.58 |======================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ............. 277.17 |=================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ..... 275.09 |=================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 . 318.71 |======================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 34.25 |====================================== Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 ........ 34.10 |====================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 32.60 |==================================== SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 32.85 |==================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 967.90 |==================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ................ 9313.08 |==================================== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 .... 3127.81 |============ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 . 5400.50 |=====================