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
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v
Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03
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
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-amazon-linux --disable-gjdoc --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ppl --with-tune=generic
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
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-ppl --with-tune=generic
System Notes: SELinux: Enabled.
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
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-suse-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --enable-linux-futex --enable-ssp --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-cpu=generic --with-slibdir=/lib64 --without-system-libunwind
Timed MrBayes Analysis
Smallpt
Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Apache Benchmark
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Parallel BZIP2 Compression
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Timed HMMer Search
This test searches through the Pfam database of profile hidden markov models. The search finds the domain structure of Drosophila Sevenless protein. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Minion
Himeno Benchmark
The Himeno benchmark is a linear solver of pressure Poisson using a point-Jacobi method. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
C-Ray
This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Minion
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
Minion
LZMA Compression
Minion
GraphicsMagick
LAME MP3 Encoding
LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GraphicsMagick
OpenSSL
VP8 libvpx Encoding
PostgreSQL pgbench
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator
x264
John The Ripper
Timed MAFFT Alignment
FFTE
FFTE is a package by Daisuke Takahashi to compute Discrete Fourier Transforms of 1-, 2- and 3- dimensional sequences of length (2^p)*(3^q)*(5^r). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
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
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v
Testing initiated at 17 July 2012 00:14 by user ubuntu.
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
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-amazon-linux --disable-gjdoc --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ppl --with-tune=generic
Testing initiated at 18 July 2012 15:52 by user root.
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
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-ppl --with-tune=generic
System Notes: SELinux: Enabled.
Testing initiated at 18 July 2012 14:34 by user .
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
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-suse-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --enable-linux-futex --enable-ssp --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-cpu=generic --with-slibdir=/lib64 --without-system-libunwind
Testing initiated at 18 July 2012 21:43 by user .