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 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. ,,"RHEL 6.4","Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09","SUSE Linux Enterprise 11" Processor,,Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores) Memory,,15360MB,15360MB,16384MB Disk,,6GB,8GB,10GB OS,,RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.4,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09,SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Kernel,,2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.62-53.42.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.0.82-0.7-ec2 (x86_64) Compiler,,GCC 4.4.7 20120313,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.3 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext3 System Layer,,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor ,,"RHEL 6.4","Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09","SUSE Linux Enterprise 11" "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1685,2055,779 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,24392,26860,18533 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP Leukocyte (sec)",LIB,103.46,100.77,88.75 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,27.60,29.24,25.46 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,238.34,210.61, "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,131.61,129.56,118.54 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,224.44,247.46,227.31 "Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,36.66,33.50, "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,4355.77,3986.60,4043.54 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,7279333,7940333,7951333 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,19.93,19.14,18.55 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,13.10,12.43,12.28 "PolyBench-C - Test: Correlation Computation (sec)",LIB,6.72,6.72,6.39 "PolyBench-C - Test: Covariance Computation (sec)",LIB,6.71,6.68,6.39 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP Streamcluster (sec)",LIB,56.85,55.74,54.14 "PolyBench-C - Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications (sec)",LIB,25.66,25.68,24.71 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,1907,1975,1972 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1214.54,1199.42,1189.83