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 m1.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge bizgio test 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 E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz (1 Core) Intel 440BX Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 1 x 2048 MB DRAM 43GB Virtual disk VMware SVGA II VMware VMXNET3 CentOS 6.6 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) GCC 4.4.7 20120313 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 - bizgio test: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-ppl --with-tune=generic System Details - m1.small: Python 2.6.8. - bizgio test: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Disk Mount Options Details - m1.small, m1.medium, m1.large, m1.xlarge, m3.xlarge: data=ordered,noatime,rw Disk Details - bizgio test: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw
Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks hmmer: Pfam Database Search build-imagemagick: Time To Compile john-the-ripper: Blowfish mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment x264: H.264 Video Encoding build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile graphics-magick: Sharpen c-ray: Total Time graphics-magick: Resizing ffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DV graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding john-the-ripper: Traditional DES postmark: Disk Transaction Performance openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver encode-flac: WAV To FLAC dolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamics ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine crafty: Elapsed Time povray: Total Time john-the-ripper: MD5 compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression n-queens: Elapsed Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples aio-stress: Rand Write m1.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge bizgio test 248.29 821.76 252 97.53 7.61 1685.11 5 802.18 14 122.54 10 895772333 416 21.13 320.44 29.64 128.75 1244.62 336.84 2997 8529 206.23 1000.52 2669 35.29 116.91 360.01 432 42.90 16.33 812.66 8 429.75 29 57.46 20 2146667 1503 55.77 758.05 12.47 54.76 2509.43 168.41 1557 16432 80.44 457.55 1286 59.04 57.56 179.52 1076 26.64 30.40 374.75 17 190.58 45 34.35 33 3860667 1605 44.43 744.23 13.94 55.59 2599.04 152.12 1450 17556 44.50 238.75 635 195.96 37.71 123.88 1989 16.47 48.10 233.92 28 107.69 57 28.53 46 8103500 1284 43.23 593.28 14.60 67.74 2523.43 169.75 1620 18224 19.54 114.65 331 693.57 28.27 97.99 2074 11.94 60.82 211.43 39 125.53 91 19.71 61 8240667 2049 93.40 1268.27 7.37 32.28 4203.54 97.60 933 26892 18.97 98.47 265 1766.91 64.95 227.82 727 26.36 31.86 445.73 11 241.77 50 33.77 37 3381333 1172 98.83 1376.91 7.41 34.77 4394.42 99.76 911 24132 44.25 287.33 570 73.57 OpenBenchmarking.org
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 m1.large bizgio test m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 28.27 37.71 57.56 64.95 116.91 248.29 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 bizgio test 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 +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 1.68, N = 3 97.99 123.88 179.52 227.82 360.01 821.76
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 bizgio test 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 +/- 2.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.98, N = 6 2074 1989 1076 727 432 252 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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge bizgio test 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 26.36 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 bizgio test m1.large m1.medium m1.small 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.14, N = 5 SE +/- 0.37, N = 5 SE +/- 0.54, N = 10 SE +/- 0.17, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.07, N = 5 60.82 48.10 31.86 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
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 bizgio test 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 +/- 0.40, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 SE +/- 3.62, N = 3 211.43 233.92 374.75 445.73 812.66 1685.11
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large bizgio test 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 11 8 5 -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time m1.xlarge m3.xlarge m1.large bizgio test m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.72, N = 3 107.69 125.53 190.58 241.77 429.75 802.18 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing m3.xlarge m1.xlarge bizgio test 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 50 45 29 14 -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
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 bizgio test m1.large m1.medium m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.54, N = 4 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.73, N = 3 19.71 28.53 33.77 34.35 57.46 122.54 -lasound -lSDL -lpthread -lbz2 1. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lm -pthread -lrt -std=c99 -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -fno-tree-vectorize -MMD -MF -MT
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 bizgio test 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 37 33 20 10 -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
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 bizgio test m1.medium 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 +/- 1201.85, N = 3 SE +/- 19333.33, N = 3 895772333 8240667 8103500 3860667 3381333 2146667 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -ldl
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance m3.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge bizgio test m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 17.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 3.00, N = 3 SE +/- 2.00, N = 3 SE +/- 10.99, N = 3 SE +/- 11.19, N = 6 2049 1605 1503 1284 1172 416 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance bizgio test m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.12, 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 98.83 93.40 55.77 44.43 43.23 21.13 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver bizgio test m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 12.03, 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 1376.91 1268.27 758.05 744.23 593.28 320.44 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC m3.xlarge bizgio test m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.01, 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 7.37 7.41 12.47 13.94 14.60 29.64 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -lm
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics m3.xlarge bizgio test m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 32.28 34.77 54.76 55.59 67.74 128.75
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine bizgio test m3.xlarge m1.large m1.xlarge m1.medium m1.small 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 1.91, 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 4394.42 4203.54 2599.04 2523.43 2509.43 1244.62 -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
Crafty Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time m3.xlarge bizgio test m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.04, 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 97.60 99.76 152.12 168.41 169.75 336.84 1. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time bizgio test m3.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 911 933 1450 1557 1620 2997 -ltiff -ljpeg 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -malign-double -lz -lm
John The Ripper Test: MD5 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 m3.xlarge bizgio test m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K SE +/- 397.43, N = 5 SE +/- 6.93, N = 3 SE +/- 44.54, N = 3 SE +/- 24.98, N = 3 SE +/- 216.04, N = 3 SE +/- 131.34, N = 4 26892 24132 18224 17556 16432 8529 1. (CC) gcc options: -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lz -fopenmp -lcrypt -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 bizgio test m1.large m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.30, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 3.59, N = 4 18.97 19.54 44.25 44.50 80.44 206.23 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread
N-Queens Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large bizgio test 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 +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 98.47 114.65 238.75 287.33 457.55 1000.52 1. (CC) gcc options: -static -fopenmp -O3
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples m3.xlarge m1.xlarge bizgio test m1.large m1.medium m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 1.86, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 265 331 570 635 1286 2669 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
AIO-Stress Test: Random Write OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large bizgio test m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 269.82, N = 6 SE +/- 70.49, N = 6 SE +/- 29.60, N = 6 SE +/- 1.74, N = 6 SE +/- 3.79, N = 6 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 1766.91 693.57 195.96 73.57 59.04 35.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio
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