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 i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge 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 i7-4750HQ @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores) System76 Galago UltraPro Intel Crystal Well DRAM 120GB INTEL SSDMCEAC12 Intel Crystal Well IGP (1200MHz) Intel Haswell HDMI Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 Ubuntu 13.10 3.11.0-7-generic (x86_64) Xfce 4.10 X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1) intel 2.21.14 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0 GCC 4.8 1920x1080 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 3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69) GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3 1366x768 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 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 - 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 - 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 i7 4750HQ Haswell: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - Core i3 3217U IvyBridge: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - id.pnjvm1: DEADLINE / data=ordered,grpquota,quota,relatime,rw,usrquota Processor Details - Core i7 4750HQ Haswell: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - Core i3 3217U IvyBridge: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave System Details - Core i7 4750HQ Haswell, Core i3 3217U IvyBridge, id.pnjvm1: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE.
Amazon Linux AMI EC2 vs. Intel Hardware Benchmarks x264: H.264 Video Encoding graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding aio-stress: Rand Write ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver john-the-ripper: Blowfish john-the-ripper: Traditional DES john-the-ripper: MD5 openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance postmark: Disk Transaction Performance dolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamics hmmer: Pfam Database Search mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment build-imagemagick: Time To Compile build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile c-ray: Total Time compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples crafty: Elapsed Time encode-flac: WAV To FLAC ffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DV n-queens: Elapsed Time povray: Total Time m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 30.40 17 45 33 195.96 2599.04 744.23 1076 3860667 17556 44.43 1605 55.59 57.56 26.64 179.52 374.75 190.58 44.50 635 152.12 13.94 34.35 238.75 1450 151.73 69 139 106 874.01 4962.37 1525.08 5406 8388000 34124 121.83 4573 25.59 11.59 5.76 56.09 88.11 28.32 7.92 102 82.03 5.60 47.26 744 40.81 25 60 41 58.70 2717.60 784.96 1454 2443667 18672 60.17 2124 51.62 39.68 18.81 205.80 356.83 114.46 31.51 360 156.79 10.76 30.88 164.90 1414 43.62 18 67 46 1517.05 4572.74 1304.97 1148 4065667 32768 3456 30.25 44.57 20.23 194.56 372.05 126.25 33.72 468 94.11 6.34 25.84 208.77 OpenBenchmarking.org
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.17, N = 5 SE +/- 0.39, N = 5 SE +/- 0.20, N = 5 SE +/- 0.83, N = 10 30.40 151.73 40.81 43.62 1. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge 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 69 25 18 -ljbig -lSM -lICE -llzma -ljbig -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 i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 45 139 60 67 -ljbig -lSM -lICE -llzma -ljbig -llzma -ltiff 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lX11 -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 m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge 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 33 106 41 46 -ljbig -lSM -lICE -llzma -ljbig -llzma -ltiff 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lX11 -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
AIO-Stress Test: Random Write OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 29.60, N = 6 SE +/- 2.61, N = 3 SE +/- 1.26, N = 6 SE +/- 27.37, N = 3 195.96 874.01 58.70 1517.05 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio
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 i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 1100 2200 3300 4400 5500 SE +/- 11.25, N = 3 SE +/- 7.08, N = 3 SE +/- 1.08, N = 3 SE +/- 15.87, N = 3 2599.04 4962.37 2717.60 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
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 0.83, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 3.32, N = 3 744.23 1525.08 784.96 1304.97 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 m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 1200 2400 3600 4800 6000 SE +/- 3.67, N = 3 SE +/- 18.00, N = 3 SE +/- 5.00, N = 3 SE +/- 102.99, N = 6 1076 5406 1454 1148 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 i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 2M 4M 6M 8M 10M SE +/- 26822.46, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 7055.34, N = 3 SE +/- 26014.95, N = 3 3860667 8388000 2443667 4065667 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 m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 7K 14K 21K 28K 35K SE +/- 24.98, N = 3 SE +/- 14.42, N = 3 SE +/- 12.00, N = 3 SE +/- 21.17, N = 3 17556 34124 18672 32768 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 44.43 121.83 60.17 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 28.00, N = 3 SE +/- 12.00, N = 3 SE +/- 16.00, N = 3 1605 4573 2124 3456 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 55.59 25.59 51.62 30.25
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.86, N = 6 57.56 11.59 39.68 44.57 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.43, N = 4 SE +/- 0.22, N = 6 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.54, N = 6 26.64 5.76 18.81 20.23 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
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 i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.65, N = 3 179.52 56.09 205.80 194.56
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 i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.41, N = 3 SE +/- 1.36, N = 3 SE +/- 1.03, N = 3 374.75 88.11 356.83 372.05
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge 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 28.32 114.46 126.25 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 10 20 30 40 50 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 6 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 44.50 7.92 31.51 33.72 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 140 280 420 560 700 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 1.67, N = 3 635 102 360 468 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
Crafty Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 152.12 82.03 156.79 94.11 1. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 13.94 5.60 10.76 6.34 -logg -logg 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -lm
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
N-Queens Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge id.pnjvm1 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.52, N = 3 238.75 47.26 164.90 208.77 1. (CC) gcc options: -static -fopenmp -O3
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time m1.large Core i7 4750HQ Haswell Core i3 3217U IvyBridge 300 600 900 1200 1500 1450 744 1414 -ltiff -ljpeg -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lX11 -ltiff -ljpeg 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -malign-double -lz -lm
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