Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux Performance
New Amazon c3.large vs. c3.xlarge vs. c3.2xlarge vs. c3.4xlarge instance type with Ivy Bridge CPUs being benchmarked at Phoronix by Michael Larabel.


c3.large: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 8GB

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor

c3.xlarge: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 8GB

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor

c3.2xlarge: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor

c3.4xlarge: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (16 Cores), Memory: 30720MB, Disk: 8GB

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP LBM
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 938.53 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 483.24 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 255.00 |================
c3.4xlarge . 133.71 |========


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP CUTCP
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 69.03 |===========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 35.34 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 18.58 |================
c3.4xlarge . 9.57  |========


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP Stencl
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 123.49 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 67.67  |================================
c3.2xlarge . 34.53  |================
c3.4xlarge . 19.01  |=========


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 14.34 |============
c3.xlarge .. 28.29 |========================
c3.2xlarge . 44.74 |=====================================
c3.4xlarge . 70.87 |===========================================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP CFD Solver
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 403.02 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 205.14 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 104.42 |===============
c3.4xlarge . 56.44  |========


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP Streamcluster
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 100.87 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 52.65  |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 28.03  |================
c3.4xlarge . 18.25  |==========


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
c3.large ... 1247  |=======
c3.xlarge .. 2512  |===============
c3.2xlarge . 5023  |==============================
c3.4xlarge . 10013 |===========================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
c3.large ... 2095333  |=======
c3.xlarge .. 4190667  |==============
c3.2xlarge . 8354000  |============================
c3.4xlarge . 16777000 |========================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 487.69 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 244.67 |=============================
c3.2xlarge . 125.87 |===============
c3.4xlarge . 69.97  |========


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 141.81 |==========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 70.87  |=============================
c3.2xlarge . 35.44  |==============
c3.4xlarge . 17.73  |=======


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
c3.large ... 34.96 |===========================================================
c3.xlarge .. 17.54 |==============================
c3.2xlarge . 8.97  |===============
c3.4xlarge . 4.66  |========