Amazon EC2 Cloud Instance Benchmars Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Benchmarks of various instances of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86_64 64-bit for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. ,,"m1.small","c1.medium","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m2.2xlarge","c1.xlarge","goren-aj" Processor,,Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (1 Core),Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (2 Cores),Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (1 Core),Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (2 Cores),Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Memory,,2048MB,2048MB,4096MB,8192MB,15360MB,34816MB,7168MB,32768MB Disk,,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 Motherboard,,,,,,,,,ASUS SABERTOOTH X79 Chipset,,,,,,,,,Intel Xeon E5/Core Graphics,,,,,,,,,Intel HD Family 1024MB Audio,,,,,,,,,Realtek ALC892 Monitor,,,,,,,,,TBD Network,,,,,,,,,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Debian testing Kernel,,3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64),3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64),3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64),3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64),3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64),3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64),3.2.0-25-virtual (x86_64),3.3.2 (x86_64) Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.7 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang 3.0-6 + ICC File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 System Layer,,Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3-kaos_droplet Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3-2.6.18 Hypervisor, Display Server,,,,,,,,,X Server 1.11.4 OpenGL,,,,,,,,,1.2 Screen Resolution,,,,,,,,,1600x900 ,,"m1.small","c1.medium","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m2.2xlarge","c1.xlarge","goren-aj" "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,5,17,9,12,26,34,46, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,5,18,9,13,27,35,45, "Timed MrBayes Analysis - Primate Phylogeny Analysis (sec)",LIB,184.18,91.29,91.00,66.86,32.82,25.64,26.84, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,15.25,34.18,30.48,24.83,30.80,40.88,34.25,95.43 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,15,49,30,36,61,78,81, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,11,36,22,27,45,59,59, "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,66.41,28.57,32.96,39.34,32.63,24.66,28.45,13.20 "Minion - Benchmark: Solitaire (sec)",LIB,556.24,204.66,275.50,351.18,278.67,201.83,202.37,111.32 "Minion - Benchmark: Bibd (sec)",LIB,565.81,233.15,271.63,357.64,273.68,206.03,231.49,113.90 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,371.59,672.37,663.67,555.97,717.94,941.37,727.40,1751.47 "Minion - Benchmark: Quasigroup (sec)",LIB,682.87,275.21,342.24,422.42,343.51,248.30,277.17,149.79 "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,1295.06,2962.60,2618.34,2097.56,2602.59,3465.06,2863.15,5687.40 "Minion - Benchmark: Graceful (sec)",LIB,308.33,131.58,155.95,193.82,151.69,115.01,131.10,71.04 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,484.14,282.49,244.86,370.07,234.31,208.42,237.12,119.15 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,9.36,39.16,18.94,30.47,75.88,96.42,161.52,354.42 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,373.96,1422.00,756.56,1114.33,2947.66,3326.29,2448.67,13403.32 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,775.61,194.72,381.11,233.89,95.04,75.92,47.27,21.86 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,265,1176,536,847,2153,2681,4500,8375 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,1720.44,441.45,848.75,581.88,224.32,184.93,119.26,56.65 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,25,72,49,52,76,99,94, "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,318.20,641.33,524.19,942.00,1002.64,1177.58,967.90,807.89 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,397.97,1316.97,808.74,1194.93,3111.62,3548.54,4107.67,11712.71 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,147.36,34.03,72.81,50.31,18.84,15.91,8.49,5.08 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,724.34,2324.84,1509.91,1812.82,5630.69,6127.37,7470.65,19894.57 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,7.84,25.85,16.01,21.89,54.22,66.13,98.06,211.44 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3.44,8.17,7.11,8.80,26.21,26.48,32.26,89.86 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,193.95,53.50,94.96,67.20,25.37,21.02,18.01,7.58 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,187.33,569.42,385.85,496.85,1409.64,1408.46,933.49,4510.71 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1600.37,7069.83,2876.77,5041.58,9775.67,12736.50,9313.08,38041.41 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,511.78,1423.97,1042.84,1355.78,3874.78,3848.64,3711.41,11601.59 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,88.80,26.50,44.15,33.04,13.97,11.06,9.10,4.23 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator - Test: Rhodopsin Protein (Loop Time)",LIB,189.00,87.76,92.42,121.40,93.34,71.77,84.01, "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,635,140,315,649,78,61,34,64 "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,2.75,8.46,5.54,6.03,14.58,18.22,15.97,29.52