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 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.
,,"m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m3.xlarge","QEMU Virtual 1.4.1","m1.large.ssd"
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),QEMU Virtual 1.4.1 @ 2.09GHz (8 Cores),QEMU Virtual 0.15.1 @ 3.30GHz (8 Cores)
Memory,,2048MB,4096MB,8192MB,15360MB,15360MB,1 x 16384 MB RAM,1 x 8192 MB RAM
Disk,,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,7GB,7GB
Motherboard,,,,,,,OpenStack Foundation Nova v2013.1.4,Bochs
Chipset,,,,,,,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Red Hat Virtio
Graphics,,,,,,,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446
Network,,,,,,,Red Hat Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device
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,SUSE LINUX 11,SUSE LINUX 11
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),3.0.93-0.5-default (x86_64),3.0.93-0.8-default (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 4.3,GCC 4.3
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext3,ext3
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,QEMU 1.4.1,QEMU 0.15.1
Display Driver,,,,,,,cirrus 1.2.1,cirrus 1.2.1
,,"m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m3.xlarge","QEMU Virtual 1.4.1","m1.large.ssd"
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,21.13,55.77,44.43,43.23,93.40,60.20,98.47
"POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,2997,1557,1450,1620,933,2024,1011
"N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,1000.52,457.55,238.75,114.65,98.47,49.49,48.57
"FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,122.54,57.46,34.35,28.53,19.71,41.11,21.38
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,29.64,12.47,13.94,14.60,7.37,12.92,7.56
"Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,336.84,168.41,152.12,169.75,97.60,166.74,98.26
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,2669,1286,635,331,265,155,114
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,206.23,80.44,44.50,19.54,18.97,11.66,9.95
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,802.18,429.75,190.58,107.69,125.53,77.07,59.11
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,1685.11,812.66,374.75,233.92,211.43,,
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,821.76,360.01,179.52,123.88,97.99,77.09,51.11
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,320.44,758.05,744.23,593.28,1268.27,330.30,1238.88
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,10,20,33,46,61,64,96
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,14,29,45,57,91,81,128
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,5,8,17,28,39,54,76
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,7.61,16.33,30.40,48.10,60.82,,
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,8529,16432,17556,18224,26892,6987,20823
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,895772333,2146667,3860667,8103500,8240667,14723333,14060500
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,252,432,1076,1989,2074,4784,3971
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,97.53,42.90,26.64,16.47,11.94,12.05,8.48
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,248.29,116.91,57.56,37.71,28.27,16.90,13.29
"FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,1244.62,2509.43,2599.04,2523.43,4203.54,2156.33,4252.15
"Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,128.75,54.76,55.59,67.74,32.28,,
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,416,1503,1605,1284,2049,1474,3114
"AIO-Stress - Test: Random Write (MB/s)",HIB,35.29,59.04,195.96,693.57,1766.91,695.50,