Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances against a couple Intel Ivy Bridge and Haswell platforms. All benchmarks done by Phoronix-Test-Suite.com and OpenBenchmarking.org. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Processor: Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
Compiler Notes: --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
System Notes: Python 2.6.8.
Disk Mount Options Notes: data=ordered,noatime,rw
Changed Processor to Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core).
Changed Memory to 4096MB.
Changed Processor to Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores).
Changed Memory to 8192MB.
Changed Processor to Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores).
Changed Memory to 15360MB.
Changed Processor to Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores).
Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69), Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --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
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE.
Processor: Intel Core i7-4750HQ @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Galago UltraPro, Chipset: Intel Crystal Well DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDMCEAC12, Graphics: Intel Crystal Well IGP (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --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
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE.
Processor: Intel Xeon E312xx @ 2.60GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: IBM OpenStack Nova, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1536MB, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device
OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --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-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v
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This test searches through the Pfam database of profile hidden markov models. The search finds the domain structure of Drosophila Sevenless protein. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
The Himeno benchmark is a linear solver of pressure Poisson using a point-Jacobi method. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Dolfyn is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code of modern numerical simulation techniques. The Dolfyn test profile measures the execution time of the bundled computational fluid dynamics demos that are bundled with Dolfyn. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FFTE is a package by Daisuke Takahashi to compute Discrete Fourier Transforms of 1-, 2- and 3- dimensional sequences of length (2^p)*(3^q)*(5^r). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This is a test of NetApp's PostMark benchmark designed to simulate small-file testing similar to the tasks endured by web and mail servers. This test profile will set PostMark to perform 25,000 transactions with 500 files simultaneously with the file sizes ranging between 5 and 512 kilobytes. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This is a test of the OpenMP version of a test that solves the N-queens problem. The board problem size is 18. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
AIO-Stress is an a-synchronous I/O benchmark created by SuSE. Current this profile uses a 2048MB test file and a 64KB record size. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Processor: Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
Compiler Notes: --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
System Notes: Python 2.6.8.
Disk Mount Options Notes: data=ordered,noatime,rw
Testing initiated at 16 September 2013 20:57 by user .
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
Compiler Notes: --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
Disk Mount Options Notes: data=ordered,noatime,rw
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 14:03 by user .
Processor: Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
Compiler Notes: --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
Disk Mount Options Notes: data=ordered,noatime,rw
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 20:28 by user root.
Processor: Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
Compiler Notes: --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
Disk Mount Options Notes: data=ordered,noatime,rw
Testing initiated at 18 September 2013 00:42 by user root.
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
Compiler Notes: --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
Disk Mount Options Notes: data=ordered,noatime,rw
Testing initiated at 18 September 2013 15:49 by user root.
Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69), Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --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
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE.
Testing initiated at 19 September 2013 12:45 by user fatima.
Processor: Intel Core i7-4750HQ @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Galago UltraPro, Chipset: Intel Crystal Well DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDMCEAC12, Graphics: Intel Crystal Well IGP (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --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
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE.
Testing initiated at 19 September 2013 09:27 by user phoronix.
Processor: Intel Xeon E312xx @ 2.60GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: IBM OpenStack Nova, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1536MB, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device
OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Compiler Notes: --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-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Mount Options Notes: data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Testing initiated at 6 July 2015 21:39 by user ibmcloud.