Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances. All benchmarks done by Phoronix-Test-Suite.com and OpenBenchmarking.org. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks Processor Memory Disk Motherboard Chipset Graphics Network OS Kernel Compiler File-System System Layer OpenGL Screen Resolution m1.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core) 2048MB 8GB Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64) GCC 4.6.3 20120306 ext4 Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core) 4096MB Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores) 8192MB Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores) 15360MB Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores) Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (1 Core) Intel 440BX Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 1 x 2048 MB DRAM 54GB Virtual disk VMware SVGA II VMware VMXNET3 Ubuntu 14.04 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64) 1.1.0 GCC 4.8 1176x885 VMware OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - m1.small: --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 - m1.medium: --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 - m1.large: --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 - m1.xlarge: --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 - m3.xlarge: --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 - idcloud2.sm1: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-libmudflap --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v System Details - m1.small: Python 2.6.8. - idcloud2.sm1: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Disk Mount Options Details - m1.small, m1.medium, m1.large, m1.xlarge, m3.xlarge: data=ordered,noatime,rw Disk Details - idcloud2.sm1: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks aio-stress: Rand Write c-ray: Total Time crafty: Elapsed Time dolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamics ffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DV ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine encode-flac: WAV To FLAC graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver john-the-ripper: Blowfish john-the-ripper: Traditional DES john-the-ripper: MD5 n-queens: Elapsed Time openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression postmark: Disk Transaction Performance povray: Total Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples hmmer: Pfam Database Search build-imagemagick: Time To Compile build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment x264: H.264 Video Encoding m1.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 35.29 802.18 336.84 128.75 122.54 1244.62 29.64 5 14 10 320.44 252 895772333 8529 1000.52 21.13 206.23 416 2997 2669 248.29 821.76 1685.11 97.53 7.61 59.04 429.75 168.41 54.76 57.46 2509.43 12.47 8 29 20 758.05 432 2146667 16432 457.55 55.77 80.44 1503 1557 1286 116.91 360.01 812.66 42.90 16.33 195.96 190.58 152.12 55.59 34.35 2599.04 13.94 17 45 33 744.23 1076 3860667 17556 238.75 44.43 44.50 1605 1450 635 57.56 179.52 374.75 26.64 30.40 693.57 107.69 169.75 67.74 28.53 2523.43 14.60 28 57 46 593.28 1989 8103500 18224 114.65 43.23 19.54 1284 1620 331 37.71 123.88 233.92 16.47 48.10 1766.91 125.53 97.60 32.28 19.71 4203.54 7.37 39 91 61 1268.27 2074 8240667 26892 98.47 93.40 18.97 2049 933 265 28.27 97.99 211.43 11.94 60.82 401.77 161.75 92.27 30.17 31.98 4658.20 6.42 13 52 36 1325.81 840 2061333 32018 276.01 102.97 42.48 1560 823 602 56.56 249.70 566.37 24.27 30.92 OpenBenchmarking.org
AIO-Stress Test: Random Write OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 269.82, N = 6 SE +/- 70.49, N = 6 SE +/- 3.91, N = 3 SE +/- 29.60, N = 6 SE +/- 3.79, N = 6 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 1766.91 693.57 401.77 195.96 59.04 35.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time m1.xlarge m3.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.97, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.72, N = 3 107.69 125.53 161.75 190.58 429.75 802.18 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
Crafty Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time idcloud2.sm1 m3.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 92.27 97.60 152.12 168.41 169.75 336.84 1. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics idcloud2.sm1 m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 30.17 32.28 54.76 55.59 67.74 128.75
FFmpeg H.264 HD To NTSC DV OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.73, N = 3 19.71 28.53 31.98 34.35 57.46 122.54 -lrt -lrt 1. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lm -pthread -std=c99 -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -fno-tree-vectorize -MMD -MF -MT
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine idcloud2.sm1 m3.xlarge m1.large m1.xlarge m1.medium m1.small 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 SE +/- 7.28, N = 3 SE +/- 8.15, N = 3 SE +/- 11.25, N = 3 SE +/- 16.05, N = 3 SE +/- 2.36, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 4658.20 4203.54 2599.04 2523.43 2509.43 1244.62 -pthread -lmpi_f90 -lmpi_f77 -lmpi -ldl -lhwloc -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC idcloud2.sm1 m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.03, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.06, N = 5 6.42 7.37 12.47 13.94 14.60 29.64 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -lm
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large idcloud2.sm1 m1.medium m1.small 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 39 28 17 13 8 5 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 91 57 52 45 29 14 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 61 46 36 33 20 10 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver idcloud2.sm1 m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 5.26, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 1.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.74, N = 3 1325.81 1268.27 758.05 744.23 593.28 320.44 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large idcloud2.sm1 m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 7.00, N = 3 SE +/- 60.15, N = 6 SE +/- 3.67, N = 3 SE +/- 3.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.98, N = 6 2074 1989 1076 840 432 252 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
John The Ripper Test: Traditional DES OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES m1.small m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium idcloud2.sm1 200M 400M 600M 800M 1000M SE +/- 12265668.90, N = 6 SE +/- 9527.74, N = 3 SE +/- 210894.88, N = 6 SE +/- 26822.46, N = 3 SE +/- 19333.33, N = 3 SE +/- 2666.67, N = 3 895772333 8240667 8103500 3860667 2146667 2061333 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
John The Ripper Test: MD5 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 idcloud2.sm1 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 7K 14K 21K 28K 35K SE +/- 425.25, N = 6 SE +/- 397.43, N = 5 SE +/- 44.54, N = 3 SE +/- 24.98, N = 3 SE +/- 216.04, N = 3 SE +/- 131.34, N = 4 32018 26892 18224 17556 16432 8529 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
N-Queens Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large idcloud2.sm1 m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 98.47 114.65 238.75 276.01 457.55 1000.52 1. (CC) gcc options: -static -fopenmp -O3
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance idcloud2.sm1 m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 102.97 93.40 55.77 44.43 43.23 21.13 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.30, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 3.59, N = 4 18.97 19.54 42.48 44.50 80.44 206.23 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance m3.xlarge m1.large idcloud2.sm1 m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 17.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 26.74, N = 3 SE +/- 3.00, N = 3 SE +/- 2.00, N = 3 SE +/- 11.19, N = 6 2049 1605 1560 1503 1284 416 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time idcloud2.sm1 m3.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 823 933 1450 1557 1620 2997 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -malign-double -lz -lm
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 1.86, N = 3 SE +/- 5.24, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 265 331 602 635 1286 2669 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.48, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 28.27 37.71 56.56 57.56 116.91 248.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
Timed ImageMagick Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large idcloud2.sm1 m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 1.67, N = 4 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 1.68, N = 3 97.99 123.88 179.52 249.70 360.01 821.76
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large idcloud2.sm1 m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 1.48, N = 3 SE +/- 1.34, N = 3 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 1.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 SE +/- 3.62, N = 3 211.43 233.92 374.75 566.37 812.66 1685.11
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.22, N = 6 SE +/- 0.45, N = 6 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 4 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 11.94 16.47 24.27 26.64 42.90 97.53 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding m3.xlarge m1.xlarge idcloud2.sm1 m1.large m1.medium m1.small 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.14, N = 5 SE +/- 0.37, N = 5 SE +/- 0.38, N = 8 SE +/- 0.17, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.07, N = 5 60.82 48.10 30.92 30.40 16.33 7.61 1. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize
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