Amazon Linux AMI EC2 vs. Intel Hardware Benchmarks 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.
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Amazon Linux AMI EC2 vs. Intel Hardware Benchmarks Processor Memory Disk Motherboard Chipset Graphics Audio Network OS Kernel Compiler File-System System Layer Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Screen Resolution m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores) 8192MB 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 Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores) ASUS K56CA v1.0 Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM 4096MB 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100 Intel 3rd Gen Core (1050MHz) Realtek ALC270 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Ubuntu 13.10 3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) Xfce 4.10 X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1) intel 2.21.14 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69) GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3 1366x768 Intel Core i7-4750HQ @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores) System76 Galago UltraPro Intel Crystal Well DRAM 8192MB 120GB INTEL SSDMCEAC12 Intel Crystal Well IGP (1200MHz) Intel Haswell HDMI Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 3.11.0-7-generic (x86_64) 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0 GCC 4.8 1920x1080 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores) Intel 440BX 1 x 8192 MB DRAM 537GB Virtual disk CentOS Linux 7 3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64) GCC 4.8.3 20140911 1176x885 VMware OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - 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 - Core i3 3217U IvyBridge: --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 - Core i7 4750HQ Haswell: --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 - id.pnjvm1: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libgcj --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=x86-64 --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic Disk Mount Options Details - m1.large: data=ordered,noatime,rw Disk Details - Core i3 3217U IvyBridge: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - Core i7 4750HQ Haswell: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - id.pnjvm1: DEADLINE / data=ordered,grpquota,quota,relatime,rw,usrquota Processor Details - Core i3 3217U IvyBridge: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - Core i7 4750HQ Haswell: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand System Details - Core i3 3217U IvyBridge, Core i7 4750HQ Haswell, id.pnjvm1: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE.
Amazon Linux AMI EC2 vs. Intel Hardware Benchmarks openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance povray: Total Time n-queens: Elapsed Time ffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DV encode-flac: WAV To FLAC crafty: Elapsed Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression c-ray: Total Time build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile build-imagemagick: Time To Compile himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Sharpen x264: H.264 Video Encoding john-the-ripper: MD5 john-the-ripper: Traditional DES john-the-ripper: Blowfish mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment hmmer: Pfam Database Search ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine dolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamics postmark: Disk Transaction Performance aio-stress: Rand Write m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 44.43 1450 238.75 34.35 13.94 152.12 635 44.50 190.58 374.75 179.52 744.23 33 45 17 30.40 17556 3860667 1076 26.64 57.56 2599.04 55.59 1605 195.96 60.17 1414 164.90 30.88 10.76 156.79 360 31.51 114.46 356.83 205.80 784.96 41 60 25 40.81 18672 2443667 1454 18.81 39.68 2717.60 51.62 2124 58.70 121.83 744 47.26 5.60 82.03 102 7.92 28.32 88.11 56.09 1525.08 106 139 69 151.73 34124 8388000 5406 5.76 11.59 4962.37 25.59 4573 874.01 208.77 25.84 6.34 94.11 468 33.72 126.25 372.05 194.56 1304.97 46 67 18 43.62 32768 4065667 1148 20.23 44.57 4572.74 30.25 3456 1517.05 OpenBenchmarking.org
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 44.43 60.17 121.83 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell 300 600 900 1200 1500 1450 1414 744 -ltiff -ljpeg -ltiff -ljpeg -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lX11 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -malign-double -lz -lm
N-Queens Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.52, N = 3 238.75 164.90 47.26 208.77 1. (CC) gcc options: -static -fopenmp -O3
FFmpeg H.264 HD To NTSC DV OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.46, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 6 34.35 30.88 25.84 -lpthread 1. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lasound -lSDL -lm -pthread -std=c99 -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -fno-tree-vectorize -MMD -MF -MT
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 13.94 10.76 5.60 6.34 -logg -logg 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -lm
Crafty Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 152.12 156.79 82.03 94.11 1. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 140 280 420 560 700 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.67, N = 3 635 360 102 468 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 10 20 30 40 50 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 6 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 44.50 31.51 7.92 33.72 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 190.58 114.46 28.32 126.25 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 1.36, N = 3 SE +/- 0.41, N = 3 SE +/- 1.03, N = 3 374.75 356.83 88.11 372.05
Timed ImageMagick Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 179.52 205.80 56.09 194.56
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.83, N = 3 SE +/- 3.32, N = 3 744.23 784.96 1525.08 1304.97 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 33 41 106 46 -ljbig -llzma -ljbig -lSM -lICE -llzma -ltiff 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lX11 -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 45 60 139 67 -ljbig -llzma -ljbig -lSM -lICE -llzma -ltiff 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lX11 -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 17 25 69 18 -ljbig -llzma -ljbig -lSM -lICE -llzma -ltiff 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lX11 -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.17, N = 5 SE +/- 0.20, N = 5 SE +/- 0.39, N = 5 SE +/- 0.83, N = 10 30.40 40.81 151.73 43.62 1. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize
John The Ripper Test: MD5 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 7K 14K 21K 28K 35K SE +/- 24.98, N = 3 SE +/- 12.00, N = 3 SE +/- 14.42, N = 3 SE +/- 21.17, N = 3 17556 18672 34124 32768 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.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 2M 4M 6M 8M 10M SE +/- 26822.46, N = 3 SE +/- 7055.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 26014.95, N = 3 3860667 2443667 8388000 4065667 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 1200 2400 3600 4800 6000 SE +/- 3.67, N = 3 SE +/- 5.00, N = 3 SE +/- 18.00, N = 3 SE +/- 102.99, N = 6 1076 1454 5406 1148 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.43, N = 4 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 6 SE +/- 0.54, N = 6 26.64 18.81 5.76 20.23 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.86, N = 6 57.56 39.68 11.59 44.57 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 1100 2200 3300 4400 5500 SE +/- 11.25, N = 3 SE +/- 1.08, N = 3 SE +/- 7.08, N = 3 SE +/- 15.87, N = 3 2599.04 2717.60 4962.37 4572.74 -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 55.59 51.62 25.59 30.25
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 12.00, N = 3 SE +/- 28.00, N = 3 SE +/- 16.00, N = 3 1605 2124 4573 3456 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
AIO-Stress Test: Random Write OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write m1.large Core i3 3217U IvyBridge Core i7 4750HQ Haswell id.pnjvm1 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 29.60, N = 6 SE +/- 1.26, N = 6 SE +/- 2.61, N = 3 SE +/- 27.37, N = 3 195.96 58.70 874.01 1517.05 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio
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