Amazon EC2 RHEL vs. SUSE Linux vs. Amazon AMI

Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Amazon m3.xlarge EC2 Cloud benchmarks comparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 operating systems. Cloud benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.

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Amazon EC2 RHEL vs. SUSE Linux vs. Amazon AMIProcessorMemoryDiskOSKernelCompilerFile-SystemSystem LayerRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores)15360MB6GBRedHatEnterpriseServer 6.42.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64)GCC 4.4.7 20120313ext4Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor8GBAmazon Linux AMI 2013.093.4.62-53.42.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64)GCC 4.6.3 20120306Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores)16384MB10GBSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 113.0.82-0.7-ec2 (x86_64)GCC 4.3ext3OpenBenchmarking.orgCompiler Details- RHEL 6.4: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-ppl --with-tune=generic - Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09: --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 - SUSE Linux Enterprise 11: --build=x86_64-suse-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --enable-linux-futex --enable-ssp --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-cpu=generic --with-slibdir=/lib64 --without-system-libunwind System Details- RHEL 6.4: SELinux: Enabled.Disk Mount Options Details- RHEL 6.4: barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,seclabel- Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09: data=ordered,noatime,rw- SUSE Linux Enterprise 11: acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=continue,relatime,rw,user_xattr

RHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11Result OverviewPhoronix Test Suite100%141%182%223%264%PostMarkTimed HMMer SearchJohn The RipperC-RayFFTERodiniaParallel BZIP2 CompressionTimed MAFFT AlignmentPolyBench-CHimeno Benchmark

Amazon EC2 RHEL vs. SUSE Linux vs. Amazon AMIpostmark: Disk Transaction Performancerodinia: OpenMP Leukocyterodinia: OpenMP CFD Solverrodinia: OpenMP Streamclusterdolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamicspolybench-c: Covariance Computationpolybench-c: Correlation Computationpolybench-c: 3 Matrix Multiplicationsffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routinehmmer: Pfam Database Searchmafft: Multiple Sequence Alignmentjohn-the-ripper: Blowfishjohn-the-ripper: Traditional DESjohn-the-ripper: MD5himeno: Poisson Pressure Solverbuild-linux-kernel: Time To Compilec-ray: Total Timecompress-pbzip2: 256MB File CompressionRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 111685103.46224.4456.8536.666.716.7225.664355.7727.6013.1019077279333243921214.54238.34131.6119.932055100.77247.4655.7433.506.686.7225.683986.6029.2412.4319757940333268601199.42210.61129.5619.1477988.75227.3154.146.396.3924.714043.5425.4612.2819727951333185331189.83118.5418.55OpenBenchmarking.org

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 PerformanceRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11400800120016002000SE +/- 4.00, N = 3SE +/- 5.67, N = 3SE +/- 15.11, N = 6168520557791. (CC) gcc options: -O3
OpenBenchmarking.orgTPS, More Is BetterPostMark 1.51Disk Transaction PerformanceRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11400800120016002000Min: 1677 / Avg: 1685 / Max: 1689Min: 2049 / Avg: 2054.67 / Max: 2066Min: 728 / Avg: 779.33 / Max: 8361. (CC) gcc options: -O3

Rodinia

Rodinia is a suite focused upon accelerating compute-intensive applications with accelerators. CUDA, OpenMP, and OpenCL parallel models are supported by the included applications. This profile utilizes the OpenCL and OpenMP test binaries at the moment. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterRodinia 2.4Test: OpenMP LeukocyteRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 1120406080100SE +/- 1.02, N = 3SE +/- 1.32, N = 3SE +/- 1.27, N = 3103.46100.7788.751. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterRodinia 2.4Test: OpenMP LeukocyteRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 1120406080100Min: 101.42 / Avg: 103.46 / Max: 104.49Min: 98.39 / Avg: 100.77 / Max: 102.94Min: 87.26 / Avg: 88.75 / Max: 91.271. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterRodinia 2.4Test: OpenMP CFD SolverRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 1150100150200250SE +/- 0.24, N = 3SE +/- 0.93, N = 3SE +/- 0.16, N = 3224.44247.46227.311. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterRodinia 2.4Test: OpenMP CFD SolverRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 114080120160200Min: 224.16 / Avg: 224.44 / Max: 224.91Min: 246.29 / Avg: 247.46 / Max: 249.29Min: 227.04 / Avg: 227.31 / Max: 227.591. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterRodinia 2.4Test: OpenMP StreamclusterRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 111326395265SE +/- 0.14, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 356.8555.7454.141. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterRodinia 2.4Test: OpenMP StreamclusterRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 111122334455Min: 56.58 / Avg: 56.85 / Max: 57Min: 55.68 / Avg: 55.74 / Max: 55.78Min: 53.92 / Avg: 54.14 / Max: 54.281. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fopenmp

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 DynamicsRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09816243240SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 336.6633.50
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterDolfyn 0.527Computational Fluid DynamicsRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09816243240Min: 36.52 / Avg: 36.66 / Max: 36.88Min: 33.4 / Avg: 33.5 / Max: 33.62

PolyBench-C

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPolyBench-C 3.2Test: Covariance ComputationRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11246810SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 36.716.686.391. (CC) gcc options: -O3
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPolyBench-C 3.2Test: Covariance ComputationRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 113691215Min: 6.7 / Avg: 6.71 / Max: 6.73Min: 6.67 / Avg: 6.68 / Max: 6.68Min: 6.38 / Avg: 6.39 / Max: 6.41. (CC) gcc options: -O3

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPolyBench-C 3.2Test: Correlation ComputationRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11246810SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 36.726.726.391. (CC) gcc options: -O3
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPolyBench-C 3.2Test: Correlation ComputationRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 113691215Min: 6.71 / Avg: 6.72 / Max: 6.72Min: 6.71 / Avg: 6.72 / Max: 6.73Min: 6.39 / Avg: 6.39 / Max: 6.41. (CC) gcc options: -O3

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPolyBench-C 3.2Test: 3 Matrix MultiplicationsRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11612182430SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 325.6625.6824.711. (CC) gcc options: -O3
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPolyBench-C 3.2Test: 3 Matrix MultiplicationsRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11612182430Min: 25.62 / Avg: 25.66 / Max: 25.73Min: 25.65 / Avg: 25.68 / Max: 25.71Min: 24.67 / Avg: 24.71 / Max: 24.731. (CC) gcc options: -O3

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 RoutineRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 119001800270036004500SE +/- 14.72, N = 3SE +/- 51.13, N = 3SE +/- 71.29, N = 64355.773986.604043.54-m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterFFTE 5.0Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT RoutineRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 118001600240032004000Min: 4328.3 / Avg: 4355.77 / Max: 4378.7Min: 3885.53 / Avg: 3986.6 / Max: 4050.59Min: 3691.29 / Avg: 4043.54 / Max: 4128.681. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp

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 SearchRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11714212835SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 327.6029.2425.461. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed HMMer Search 2.3.2Pfam Database SearchRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11612182430Min: 27.53 / Avg: 27.6 / Max: 27.72Min: 29.19 / Avg: 29.24 / Max: 29.31Min: 25.44 / Avg: 25.46 / Max: 25.481. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm

Timed MAFFT Alignment

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed MAFFT Alignment 6.864Multiple Sequence AlignmentRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 113691215SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.22, N = 6SE +/- 0.20, N = 613.1012.4312.281. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed MAFFT Alignment 6.864Multiple Sequence AlignmentRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 1148121620Min: 13.08 / Avg: 13.1 / Max: 13.13Min: 11.73 / Avg: 12.43 / Max: 12.88Min: 11.65 / Avg: 12.28 / Max: 12.671. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread

John The Ripper

OpenBenchmarking.orgReal C/S, More Is BetterJohn The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7Test: BlowfishRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11400800120016002000SE +/- 6.67, N = 3SE +/- 33.08, N = 6SE +/- 0.00, N = 31907197519721. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
OpenBenchmarking.orgReal C/S, More Is BetterJohn The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7Test: BlowfishRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 1130060090012001500Min: 1900 / Avg: 1906.67 / Max: 1920Min: 1811 / Avg: 1975.17 / Max: 2016Min: 1972 / Avg: 1972 / Max: 19721. (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 DESRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 112M4M6M8M10MSE +/- 63024.69, N = 3SE +/- 21666.67, N = 3SE +/- 35964.49, N = 37279333794033379513331. (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 DESRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 111.4M2.8M4.2M5.6M7MMin: 7159000 / Avg: 7279333.33 / Max: 7372000Min: 7897000 / Avg: 7940333.33 / Max: 7962000Min: 7880000 / Avg: 7951333.33 / Max: 79950001. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl

OpenBenchmarking.orgReal C/S, More Is BetterJohn The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7Test: MD5RHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 116K12K18K24K30KSE +/- 60.53, N = 3SE +/- 140.68, N = 3SE +/- 24.69, N = 32439226860185331. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
OpenBenchmarking.orgReal C/S, More Is BetterJohn The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7Test: MD5RHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 115K10K15K20K25KMin: 24276 / Avg: 24392 / Max: 24480Min: 26580 / Avg: 26860 / Max: 27024Min: 18484 / Avg: 18533.33 / Max: 185601. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl

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 SolverRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 1130060090012001500SE +/- 1.14, N = 3SE +/- 1.47, N = 3SE +/- 0.95, N = 31214.541199.421189.831. (CC) gcc options: -O3
OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterHimeno Benchmark 3.0Poisson Pressure SolverRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 112004006008001000Min: 1213.05 / Avg: 1214.54 / Max: 1216.79Min: 1197.21 / Avg: 1199.42 / Max: 1202.19Min: 1188.4 / Avg: 1189.83 / Max: 1191.631. (CC) gcc options: -O3

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1Time To CompileRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.0950100150200250SE +/- 0.83, N = 3SE +/- 0.96, N = 3238.34210.61
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1Time To CompileRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.094080120160200Min: 237.37 / Avg: 238.34 / Max: 239.99Min: 209.33 / Avg: 210.61 / Max: 212.49

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 TimeRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11306090120150SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3131.61129.56118.541. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterC-Ray 1.1Total TimeRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 1120406080100Min: 131.51 / Avg: 131.61 / Max: 131.75Min: 129.54 / Avg: 129.56 / Max: 129.59Min: 118.53 / Avg: 118.54 / Max: 118.551. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3

Parallel BZIP2 Compression

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterParallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6256MB File CompressionRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11510152025SE +/- 0.34, N = 3SE +/- 0.18, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 319.9319.1418.551. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterParallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6256MB File CompressionRHEL 6.4Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09SUSE Linux Enterprise 11510152025Min: 19.26 / Avg: 19.93 / Max: 20.34Min: 18.78 / Avg: 19.14 / Max: 19.34Min: 18.54 / Avg: 18.55 / Max: 18.561. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread