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.
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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
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 |========================================================
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 |========
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 |========
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 |========
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 |========
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 |========
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 |=========
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 |==========
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 |===========================================================