Amazon Linux AMI EC2 vs. Intel Hardware Benchmarks

Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances against a couple Intel Ivy Bridge and Haswell platforms. 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 vs. Intel Hardware Benchmarks Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances against a couple Intel Ivy Bridge and Haswell platforms. All benchmarks done by Phoronix-Test-Suite.com and OpenBenchmarking.org. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m3.xlarge","Core i3 3217U IvyBridge","Core i7 4750HQ Haswell" Processor,,Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core),Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core),Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7-4750HQ @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores) Memory,,2048MB,4096MB,8192MB,15360MB,15360MB,4096MB,8192MB Disk,,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100,120GB INTEL SSDMCEAC12 Motherboard,,,,,,,ASUS K56CA v1.0,System76 Galago UltraPro Chipset,,,,,,,Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM,Intel Crystal Well DRAM Graphics,,,,,,,Intel 3rd Gen Core (1050MHz),Intel Crystal Well IGP (1200MHz) Audio,,,,,,,Realtek ALC270,Intel Haswell HDMI Network,,,,,,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless,Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 OS,,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10 Kernel,,3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-7-generic (x86_64) Compiler,,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3,GCC 4.8 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 System Layer,,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,, Desktop,,,,,,,Xfce 4.10,Xfce 4.10 Display Server,,,,,,,X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1),X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1) Display Driver,,,,,,,intel 2.21.14,intel 2.21.14 OpenGL,,,,,,,3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69),3.1 Mesa 9.2.0 Screen Resolution,,,,,,,1366x768,1920x1080 ,,"m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m3.xlarge","Core i3 3217U IvyBridge","Core i7 4750HQ Haswell" "AIO-Stress - Test: Random Write (MB/s)",HIB,35.29,59.04,195.96,693.57,1766.91,58.70,874.01 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,802.18,429.75,190.58,107.69,125.53,114.46,28.32 "Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,336.84,168.41,152.12,169.75,97.60,156.79,82.03 "Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,128.75,54.76,55.59,67.74,32.28,51.62,25.59 "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,122.54,57.46,34.35,28.53,19.71,30.88, "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,1244.62,2509.43,2599.04,2523.43,4203.54,2717.60,4962.37 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,29.64,12.47,13.94,14.60,7.37,10.76,5.60 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,5,8,17,28,39,25,69 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,14,29,45,57,91,60,139 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,10,20,33,46,61,41,106 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,320.44,758.05,744.23,593.28,1268.27,784.96,1525.08 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,252,432,1076,1989,2074,1454,5406 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,895772333,2146667,3860667,8103500,8240667,2443667,8388000 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,8529,16432,17556,18224,26892,18672,34124 "N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,1000.52,457.55,238.75,114.65,98.47,164.90,47.26 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,21.13,55.77,44.43,43.23,93.40,60.17,121.83 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,206.23,80.44,44.50,19.54,18.97,31.51,7.92 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,416,1503,1605,1284,2049,2124,4573 "POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,2997,1557,1450,1620,933,1414,744 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,2669,1286,635,331,265,360,102 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,248.29,116.91,57.56,37.71,28.27,39.68,11.59 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,821.76,360.01,179.52,123.88,97.99,205.80,56.09 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,1685.11,812.66,374.75,233.92,211.43,356.83,88.11 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,97.53,42.90,26.64,16.47,11.94,18.81,5.76 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,7.61,16.33,30.40,48.10,60.82,40.81,151.73