Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux Performance Comparison

New Amazon c3.large vs. c3.xlarge vs. c3.2xlarge vs. c3.4xlarge vs. c3.8xlarge instance type with Ivy Bridge CPUs being benchmarked at Phoronix by Michael Larabel for a future article. Compared to various systems locally.

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AMD Opteron 2384
November 17 2013
 
AMD FX-8150
November 17 2013
 
AMD FX-8350
November 18 2013
 
Intel Core i7 4960X
November 18 2013
 
c3.large
November 15 2013
 
c3.xlarge
November 15 2013
 
c3.2xlarge
November 16 2013
 
c3.4xlarge
November 16 2013
 
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November 16 2013
 
arts-web4
March 06 2015
 
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Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux Performance Comparison New Amazon c3.large vs. c3.xlarge vs. c3.2xlarge vs. c3.4xlarge vs. c3.8xlarge instance type with Ivy Bridge CPUs being benchmarked at Phoronix by Michael Larabel for a future article. Compared to various systems locally. ,,"AMD Opteron 2384","AMD FX-8150","AMD FX-8350","Intel Core i7 4960X","c3.large","c3.xlarge","c3.2xlarge","c3.4xlarge","c3.8xlarge","arts-web4" Processor,,AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores),AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4960X @ 3.60GHz (12 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (2 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (16 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (32 Cores),2 x Intel Xeon E5606 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,TYAN S2927/S2927-E,MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,MSI X79MA-GD45 (MS-7738) v1.0,,,,,,Cisco s UCSC-BSE-SFF-C200 Chipset,,NVIDIA MCP55,AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0,AMD RD890 bridge,Intel Xeon E5 v2/Core,,,,,,Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R Memory,,4096MB,4096MB,8192MB,8192MB,4096MB,8192MB,15360MB,30720MB,60416MB,8 x 4096 MB 1333MHz Disk,,64GB AGILITY-EX,500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0,64GB OCZ AGILITY,320GB Seagate ST3320620AS,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,3999GB MR9260-8i Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB (675/1008MHz),Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 512MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,,,,,,Matrox s MGA G200e [Pilot] (SEP1) Audio,,ATI R6xx HDMI,Realtek ALC887-VD,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,,,,,, Monitor,,Acer P243W,,VA2431,Acer P243W,,,,,, Network,,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,,,,,,Intel 82576 Gigabit Connection OS,,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Debian 7.5 Kernel,,3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-13-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-11-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.1,,,,,, Display Server,,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.3,,,,,, Display Driver,,radeon 7.2.0,NVIDIA 304.88,radeon 7.2.0,radeon 7.2.0,,,,,, OpenGL,,3.1 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4,3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.88,3.1 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4,3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-e166a58) Gallium 0.4,,,,,, Compiler,,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8 + Clang 3.2-7ubuntu1,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.2,,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8, File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1200,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1200,,,,,, System Layer,,,,,,Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor, ,,"AMD Opteron 2384","AMD FX-8150","AMD FX-8350","Intel Core i7 4960X","c3.large","c3.xlarge","c3.2xlarge","c3.4xlarge","c3.8xlarge","arts-web4" "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,16.30,7.49,6.57,5.21,34.96,17.54,8.97,4.66,,11.17 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP Streamcluster (sec)",LIB,67.05,40.60,33.86,32.65,100.87,52.65,28.03,18.25,13.49,67.62 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,2966,6415,7120,8922,1247,2512,5023,10013,19968,3523 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,54.13,29.97,25.86,21.64,141.81,70.87,35.44,17.73,8.91,31.94 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,9546000,17224333,19168667,14891667,2095333,4190667,8354000,16777000,33128000,6777000 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,234.54,89.84,82.95,66.23,403.02,205.14,104.42,56.44,28.61,138.80 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,545.82,276.37,234.82,239.15,938.53,483.24,255.00,133.71,68.80,271.59 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,43.09,20.47,17.40,10.36,69.03,35.34,18.58,9.57,5.37,23.78 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,167.40,100.34,83.61,62.28,487.69,244.67,125.87,69.97,40.38, "Parboil - Test: OpenMP Stencl (sec)",LIB,94.04,41.94,39.13,35.68,123.49,67.67,34.53,19.01,11.96,48.63 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding (sec)",LIB,79.08,321.33,256.29,51.92,14.34,28.29,44.74,70.87,144.11,122.84