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: Processor: Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (1 Core), Memory: 2048MB, 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 c1.medium: Processor: Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 2048MB, 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 c1.xlarge: 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 PC Baseline Ramdisk: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.90GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 244MB, Disk: 6GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Audio: Generic 1af4 ID 20, Network: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ OS: Debian 6.0.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3 PC 30M: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.90GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 244MB, Disk: 6GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ OS: Debian 6.0.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3 PC 45M: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.90GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 244MB, Disk: 5GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 6.0.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 187.33 |========== c1.medium ........... 569.42 |============================== c1.xlarge ........... 933.49 |================================================= PC Baseline Ramdisk . 663.05 |=================================== PC 30M .............. 46.14 |== PC 45M .............. 47.86 |=== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 9.36 |=== c1.medium ........... 39.16 |============ c1.xlarge ........... 161.52 |================================================= PC Baseline Ramdisk . 35.25 |=========== PC 30M .............. 36.62 |=========== PC 45M .............. 36.19 |=========== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 397.97 |====== c1.medium . 1316.97 |=================== c1.xlarge . 4107.67 |========================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 724.34 |===== c1.medium ........... 2324.84 |=============== c1.xlarge ........... 7470.65 |================================================ PC Baseline Ramdisk . 2692.69 |================= PC 30M .............. 681.41 |==== PC 45M .............. 1290.25 |======== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 373.96 |======= c1.medium ........... 1422.00 |============================ c1.xlarge ........... 2448.67 |================================================ PC Baseline Ramdisk . 15.20 | PC 30M .............. 12.25 | PC 45M .............. 16.34 | NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 511.78 |======= c1.medium ........... 1423.97 |================== c1.xlarge ........... 3711.41 |================================================ PC Baseline Ramdisk . 2384.04 |=============================== PC 30M .............. 232.73 |=== PC 45M .............. 448.20 |====== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 3.44 |===== c1.medium ........... 8.17 |============= c1.xlarge ........... 32.26 |================================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 14.67 |======================= PC 30M .............. 2.63 |==== PC 45M .............. 12.39 |=================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 189.00 |================================================= c1.medium ........... 87.76 |======================= c1.xlarge ........... 84.01 |====================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 41.36 |=========== PC 30M .............. 83.30 |====================== PC 45M .............. 75.77 |==================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 1295.06 |=========== c1.medium ........... 2962.60 |======================== c1.xlarge ........... 2863.15 |======================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 5636.70 |=============================================== PC 30M .............. 5812.66 |================================================ PC 45M .............. 5730.67 |=============================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 193.95 |============== c1.medium ........... 53.50 |==== c1.xlarge ........... 18.01 |= PC Baseline Ramdisk . 51.77 |==== PC 30M .............. 692.28 |================================================= PC 45M .............. 280.99 |==================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 88.80 |================================================== c1.medium ........... 26.50 |=============== c1.xlarge ........... 9.10 |===== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 20.79 |============ PC 30M .............. 24.92 |============== PC 45M .............. 21.26 |============ Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 184.18 |================================================= c1.medium ........... 91.29 |======================== c1.xlarge ........... 26.84 |======= PC Baseline Ramdisk . 58.41 |================ PC 30M .............. 58.08 |=============== PC 45M .............. 58.95 |================ John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 265 |=== c1.medium ........... 1176 |============= c1.xlarge ........... 4500 |=================================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 870 |========== PC 30M .............. 878 |========== PC 45M .............. 871 |========== VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 2.75 |========= c1.medium ........... 8.46 |========================== c1.xlarge ........... 15.97 |================================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 11.28 |=================================== PC 30M .............. 10.96 |================================== PC 45M .............. 11.08 |=================================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 7.84 |==== c1.medium ........... 25.85 |============= c1.xlarge ........... 98.06 |================================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 32.11 |================ PC 30M .............. 14.35 |======= PC 45M .............. 20.59 |========== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 11 |========== c1.medium ........... 36 |================================ c1.xlarge ........... 59 |===================================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 45 |======================================== PC 30M .............. 19 |================= PC 45M .............. 21 |=================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 5 |====== c1.medium ........... 17 |==================== c1.xlarge ........... 46 |===================================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 16 |================== PC 30M .............. 14 |================ PC 45M .............. 14 |================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 15 |========== c1.medium ........... 49 |================================ c1.xlarge ........... 81 |===================================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 60 |======================================= PC 30M .............. 35 |======================= PC 45M .............. 39 |========================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 25 |============= c1.medium ........... 72 |==================================== c1.xlarge ........... 94 |=============================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 103 |==================================================== PC 30M .............. 64 |================================ PC 45M .............. 65 |================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 5 |====== c1.medium ........... 18 |===================== c1.xlarge ........... 45 |===================================================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 18 |===================== PC 30M .............. 14 |================ PC 45M .............. 14 |================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 371.59 |============ c1.medium ........... 672.37 |===================== c1.xlarge ........... 727.40 |======================= PC Baseline Ramdisk . 1520.67 |================================================ PC 30M .............. 177.93 |====== PC 45M .............. 1418.85 |============================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 1720.44 |=================================== c1.medium ........... 441.45 |========= c1.xlarge ........... 119.26 |== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 407.81 |======== PC 30M .............. 2378.85 |================================================ PC 45M .............. 1328.95 |=========================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 775.61 |================================================= c1.medium ........... 194.72 |============ c1.xlarge ........... 47.27 |=== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 219.71 |============== PC 30M .............. 219.44 |============== PC 45M .............. 221.32 |============== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 147.36 |================================================= c1.medium ........... 34.03 |=========== c1.xlarge ........... 8.49 |=== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 46.52 |=============== PC 30M .............. 53.27 |================== PC 45M .............. 49.01 |================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 635 |==================================================== c1.medium ........... 140 |=========== c1.xlarge ........... 34 |=== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 518 |========================================== PC 30M .............. 517 |========================================== PC 45M .............. 521 |=========================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 484.14 |= c1.medium ........... 282.49 |= c1.xlarge ........... 237.12 |= PC Baseline Ramdisk . 151.64 | PC 30M .............. 20749.23 |=============================================== PC 45M .............. 13079.72 |============================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 66.41 |================================================== c1.medium ........... 28.57 |====================== c1.xlarge ........... 28.45 |===================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 14.04 |=========== PC 30M .............. 14.78 |=========== PC 45M .............. 14.65 |=========== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 565.81 |================================================= c1.medium ........... 233.15 |==================== c1.xlarge ........... 231.49 |==================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 132.61 |=========== PC 30M .............. 135.93 |============ PC 45M .............. 134.08 |============ Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 308.33 |================================================= c1.medium ........... 131.58 |===================== c1.xlarge ........... 131.10 |===================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 76.04 |============ PC 30M .............. 76.98 |============ PC 45M .............. 77.05 |============ Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 556.24 |================================================= c1.medium ........... 204.66 |================== c1.xlarge ........... 202.37 |================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 130.56 |============ PC 30M .............. 132.20 |============ PC 45M .............. 132.82 |============ Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ............ 682.87 |================================================= c1.medium ........... 275.21 |==================== c1.xlarge ........... 277.17 |==================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 158.45 |=========== PC 30M .............. 159.07 |=========== PC 45M .............. 160.21 |=========== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 15.25 |========= c1.medium ........... 34.18 |=================== c1.xlarge ........... 34.25 |=================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 89.13 |================================================== PC 30M .............. 89.15 |================================================== PC 45M .............. 89.05 |================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 318.20 |========= c1.medium ........... 641.33 |================== c1.xlarge ........... 967.90 |=========================== PC Baseline Ramdisk . 1735.96 |================================================ PC 30M .............. 1082.25 |============================== PC 45M .............. 1444.00 |======================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better m1.small ............ 1600.37 |======= c1.medium ........... 7069.83 |=============================== c1.xlarge ........... 9313.08 |========================================= PC Baseline Ramdisk . 10803.42 |=============================================== PC 30M .............. 1103.95 |===== PC 45M .............. 8350.57 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