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