Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks

Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances. All benchmarks done by Phoronix-Test-Suite.com and OpenBenchmarking.org. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Amazon Linux AMI EC2 BenchmarksProcessorMemoryDiskOSKernelCompilerFile-SystemSystem Layerm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlargeIntel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core)2048MB8GBAmazon Linux AMI 2013.033.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64)GCC 4.6.3 20120306ext4Xen 3.4.3.amazon HypervisorIntel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core)4096MBIntel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores)8192MBIntel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores)15360MBIntel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores)OpenBenchmarking.orgCompiler Details- --build=x86_64-amazon-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-tune=generic System Details- m1.small: Python 2.6.8.Disk Mount Options Details- data=ordered,noatime,rw

m1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlargeLogarithmic Result OverviewPhoronix Test SuiteTimed HMMer SearchTimed ImageMagick CompilationTimed MAFFT AlignmentTimed Linux Kernel Compilationx264C-RayGraphicsMagickFFmpegAIO-StressJohn The RipperPostMarkOpenSSLFLAC Audio EncodingDolfynHimeno BenchmarkCraftyFFTEPOV-RayParallel BZIP2 CompressionSmallptN-Queens

Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarkscrafty: Elapsed Timeencode-flac: WAV To FLAChmmer: Pfam Database Searchmafft: Multiple Sequence Alignmenthimeno: Poisson Pressure Solverdolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamicsffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routinepostmark: Disk Transaction Performancen-queens: Elapsed Timebuild-imagemagick: Time To Compilejohn-the-ripper: Blowfishjohn-the-ripper: Traditional DESjohn-the-ripper: MD5compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compressionbuild-linux-kernel: Time To Compilegraphics-magick: Sharpengraphics-magick: Resizinggraphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholdingx264: H.264 Video Encodingc-ray: Total Timepovray: Total Timeffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DVsmallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samplesopenssl: RSA 4096-bit Performanceaio-stress: Rand Writem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge336.8429.64248.2997.53320.44128.751244.624161000.52821.762528957723338529206.231685.11514107.61802.182997122.54266921.1335.29168.4112.47116.9142.90758.0554.762509.431503457.55360.0143221466671643280.44812.668292016.33429.75155757.46128655.7759.04152.1213.9457.5626.64744.2355.592599.041605238.75179.52107638606671755644.50374.7517453330.40190.58145034.3563544.43195.96169.7514.6037.7116.47593.2867.742523.431284114.65123.88198981035001822419.54233.9228574648.10107.69162028.5333143.23693.5797.607.3728.2711.941268.2732.284203.54204998.4797.99207482406672689218.97211.4339916160.82125.5393319.7126593.401766.91OpenBenchmarking.org

Crafty

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterCrafty 23.4Elapsed Timem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge70140210280350SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3336.84168.41152.12169.7597.601. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm

FLAC Audio Encoding

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterFLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0WAV To FLACm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge714212835SE +/- 0.06, N = 5SE +/- 0.01, N = 5SE +/- 0.00, N = 5SE +/- 0.01, N = 5SE +/- 0.01, N = 529.6412.4713.9414.607.371. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -lm

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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed HMMer Search 2.3.2Pfam Database Searchm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge50100150200250SE +/- 0.55, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3248.29116.9157.5637.7128.271. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm

Timed MAFFT Alignment

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed MAFFT Alignment 6.864Multiple Sequence Alignmentm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge20406080100SE +/- 0.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.43, N = 4SE +/- 0.45, N = 6SE +/- 0.22, N = 697.5342.9026.6416.4711.941. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread

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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterHimeno Benchmark 3.0Poisson Pressure Solverm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge30060090012001500SE +/- 0.74, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.76, N = 3SE +/- 1.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.77, N = 3320.44758.05744.23593.281268.271. (CC) gcc options: -O3

Dolfyn

Dolfyn is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code of modern numerical simulation techniques. The Dolfyn test profile measures the execution time of the bundled computational fluid dynamics demos that are bundled with Dolfyn. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterDolfyn 0.527Computational Fluid Dynamicsm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge306090120150SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.37, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.51, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3128.7554.7655.5967.7432.28

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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterFFTE 5.0Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routinem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge9001800270036004500SE +/- 3.71, N = 3SE +/- 2.36, N = 3SE +/- 11.25, N = 3SE +/- 16.05, N = 3SE +/- 8.15, N = 31244.622509.432599.042523.434203.541. (F9X) gfortran options: -m64 -O2 -fPIC -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt

PostMark

This is a test of NetApp's PostMark benchmark designed to simulate small-file testing similar to the tasks endured by web and mail servers. This test profile will set PostMark to perform 25,000 transactions with 500 files simultaneously with the file sizes ranging between 5 and 512 kilobytes. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgTPS, More Is BetterPostMark 1.51Disk Transaction Performancem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge400800120016002000SE +/- 11.19, N = 6SE +/- 3.00, N = 3SE +/- 3.33, N = 3SE +/- 2.00, N = 3SE +/- 17.00, N = 341615031605128420491. (CC) gcc options: -O3

N-Queens

This is a test of the OpenMP version of a test that solves the N-queens problem. The board problem size is 18. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterN-Queens 1.0Elapsed Timem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge2004006008001000SE +/- 0.25, N = 3SE +/- 0.28, N = 3SE +/- 0.29, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 3SE +/- 0.22, N = 31000.52457.55238.75114.6598.471. (CC) gcc options: -static -fopenmp -O3

Timed ImageMagick Compilation

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10Time To Compilem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge2004006008001000SE +/- 1.68, N = 3SE +/- 0.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.35, N = 3SE +/- 1.67, N = 4821.76360.01179.52123.8897.99

John The Ripper

OpenBenchmarking.orgReal C/S, More Is BetterJohn The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7Test: Blowfishm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge400800120016002000SE +/- 3.98, N = 6SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 3.67, N = 3SE +/- 60.15, N = 6SE +/- 7.00, N = 32524321076198920741. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl

OpenBenchmarking.orgReal C/S, More Is BetterJohn The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7Test: Traditional DESm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge200M400M600M800M1000MSE +/- 12265668.90, N = 6SE +/- 19333.33, N = 3SE +/- 26822.46, N = 3SE +/- 210894.88, N = 6SE +/- 9527.74, N = 389577233321466673860667810350082406671. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl

OpenBenchmarking.orgReal C/S, More Is BetterJohn The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7Test: MD5m1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge6K12K18K24K30KSE +/- 131.34, N = 4SE +/- 216.04, N = 3SE +/- 24.98, N = 3SE +/- 44.54, N = 3SE +/- 397.43, N = 58529164321755618224268921. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl

Parallel BZIP2 Compression

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterParallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6256MB File Compressionm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge50100150200250SE +/- 3.59, N = 4SE +/- 0.16, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.25, N = 3SE +/- 0.30, N = 4206.2380.4444.5019.5418.971. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1Time To Compilem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge400800120016002000SE +/- 3.62, N = 3SE +/- 0.64, N = 3SE +/- 1.21, N = 3SE +/- 1.34, N = 3SE +/- 1.48, N = 31685.11812.66374.75233.92211.43

GraphicsMagick

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.16Operation: Sharpenm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge918273645SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3581728391. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.16Operation: Resizingm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge20406080100SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 314294557911. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.16Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholdingm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge1428425670SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 310203346611. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread

x264

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is Betterx264 2013-06-08H.264 Video Encodingm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge1428425670SE +/- 0.07, N = 5SE +/- 0.01, N = 5SE +/- 0.17, N = 5SE +/- 0.37, N = 5SE +/- 0.14, N = 57.6116.3330.4048.1060.821. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize

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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterC-Ray 1.1Total Timem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge2004006008001000SE +/- 0.72, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.55, N = 3802.18429.75190.58107.69125.531. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3

POV-Ray

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPOV-Ray 3.6.1Total Timem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge600120018002400300029971557145016209331. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -malign-double -lz -lm

FFmpeg

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterFFmpeg 2.0H.264 HD To NTSC DVm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge306090120150SE +/- 0.73, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3122.5457.4634.3528.5319.711. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lm -pthread -lrt -std=c99 -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -fno-tree-vectorize -MMD -MF -MT

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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterSmallpt 1.0Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samplesm1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge6001200180024003000SE +/- 1.00, N = 3SE +/- 3.71, N = 3SE +/- 0.88, N = 3SE +/- 1.86, N = 3SE +/- 0.67, N = 3266912866353312651. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp

OpenSSL

OpenBenchmarking.orgSigns Per Second, More Is BetterOpenSSL 1.0.1cRSA 4096-bit Performancem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge20406080100SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 321.1355.7744.4343.2393.401. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl

AIO-Stress

AIO-Stress is an a-synchronous I/O benchmark created by SuSE. Current this profile uses a 2048MB test file and a 64KB record size. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterAIO-Stress 0.21Test: Random Writem1.smallm1.mediumm1.largem1.xlargem3.xlarge400800120016002000SE +/- 0.71, N = 3SE +/- 3.79, N = 6SE +/- 29.60, N = 6SE +/- 70.49, N = 6SE +/- 269.82, N = 635.2959.04195.96693.571766.911. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio