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 Chipset Graphics Network OS Kernel Compiler File-System System Layer m1.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge dtcomm_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 E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (1 Core) Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 1 x 2048 MB DRAM Virtual disk + 2GB Virtual disk + 15GB Virtual disk + 35GB Virtual disk VMware SVGA II VMware VMXNET3 CentOS 5.11 2.6.18-406.el5 (x86_64) GCC 4.1.2 20080704 ext3 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 - dtcomm_test: --disable-dssi --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-plugin --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-redhat-linux --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-cpu=generic --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre System Details - m1.small: Python 2.6.8. Disk Mount Options Details - m1.small: data=ordered,noatime,rw - m1.medium: data=ordered,noatime,rw - m1.large: data=ordered,noatime,rw - m1.xlarge: data=ordered,noatime,rw - m3.xlarge: data=ordered,noatime,rw - dtcomm_test: data=ordered,rw
Amazon Linux AMI EC2 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.small m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m3.xlarge dtcomm_test 21.13 2997 1000.52 122.54 29.64 336.84 2669 206.23 802.18 1685.11 821.76 320.44 10 14 5 7.61 8529 895772333 252 97.53 248.29 1244.62 128.75 416 35.29 55.77 1557 457.55 57.46 12.47 168.41 1286 80.44 429.75 812.66 360.01 758.05 20 29 8 16.33 16432 2146667 432 42.90 116.91 2509.43 54.76 1503 59.04 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 43.23 1620 114.65 28.53 14.60 169.75 331 19.54 107.69 233.92 123.88 593.28 46 57 28 48.10 18224 8103500 1989 16.47 37.71 2523.43 67.74 1284 693.57 93.40 933 98.47 19.71 7.37 97.60 265 18.97 125.53 211.43 97.99 1268.27 61 91 39 60.82 26892 8240667 2074 11.94 28.27 4203.54 32.28 2049 1766.91 104.10 958 271.87 31.97 7.46 93.22 651 44.64 237.91 420.67 193.06 1200.06 34 52 17 30.48 20580 3887333 764 25.74 87.01 3606.11 1749 120.03 OpenBenchmarking.org
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance dtcomm_test m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.06, 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 = 3 104.10 93.40 55.77 44.43 43.23 21.13 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 m3.xlarge dtcomm_test m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 933 958 1450 1557 1620 2997 -malign-double -ltiff -ljpeg -lSM -lICE -lX11 -malign-double -malign-double -malign-double -malign-double 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -lz -lm
N-Queens Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large dtcomm_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 +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 98.47 114.65 238.75 271.87 457.55 1000.52 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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge dtcomm_test m1.large m1.medium m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.73, N = 3 19.71 28.53 31.97 34.35 57.46 122.54 -lasound -lSDL -lpthread -lbz2 -fno-signed-zeros -fno-signed-zeros 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-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 m3.xlarge dtcomm_test m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.04, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.06, N = 5 7.37 7.46 12.47 13.94 14.60 29.64 -logg 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -lm
Crafty Elapsed Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time dtcomm_test m3.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.07, 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 93.22 97.60 152.12 168.41 169.75 336.84 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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large dtcomm_test m1.medium m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 1.86, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 265 331 635 651 1286 2669 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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large dtcomm_test m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.30, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 3.59, N = 4 18.97 19.54 44.50 44.64 80.44 206.23 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.xlarge m3.xlarge m1.large dtcomm_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 +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.72, N = 3 107.69 125.53 190.58 237.91 429.75 802.18 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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large dtcomm_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 +/- 2.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 SE +/- 3.62, N = 3 211.43 233.92 374.75 420.67 812.66 1685.11
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 dtcomm_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 +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 1.68, N = 3 97.99 123.88 179.52 193.06 360.01 821.76
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver m3.xlarge dtcomm_test m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 0.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 1.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.74, N = 3 1268.27 1200.06 758.05 744.23 593.28 320.44 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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge dtcomm_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 34 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
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing m3.xlarge m1.xlarge dtcomm_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 52 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
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen m3.xlarge m1.xlarge dtcomm_test m1.large 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 17 8 5 -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge dtcomm_test m1.large m1.medium m1.small 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.14, N = 5 SE +/- 0.37, N = 5 SE +/- 0.39, N = 7 SE +/- 0.17, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.07, N = 5 60.82 48.10 30.48 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
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 dtcomm_test m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K SE +/- 397.43, N = 5 SE +/- 56.52, N = 3 SE +/- 44.54, N = 3 SE +/- 24.98, N = 3 SE +/- 216.04, N = 3 SE +/- 131.34, N = 4 26892 20580 18224 17556 16432 8529 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 dtcomm_test m1.large m1.medium 200M 400M 600M 800M 1000M SE +/- 12265668.90, N = 6 SE +/- 9527.74, N = 3 SE +/- 210894.88, N = 6 SE +/- 9735.39, N = 3 SE +/- 26822.46, N = 3 SE +/- 19333.33, N = 3 895772333 8240667 8103500 3887333 3860667 2146667 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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large dtcomm_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 +/- 2.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.98, N = 6 2074 1989 1076 764 432 252 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 dtcomm_test m1.large m1.medium m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.22, N = 6 SE +/- 0.45, N = 6 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 4 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 11.94 16.47 25.74 26.64 42.90 97.53 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 m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large dtcomm_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 +/- 0.85, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 28.27 37.71 57.56 87.01 116.91 248.29 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 m3.xlarge dtcomm_test m1.large m1.xlarge m1.medium m1.small 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 8.15, N = 3 SE +/- 12.54, N = 3 SE +/- 11.25, N = 3 SE +/- 16.05, N = 3 SE +/- 2.36, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 4203.54 3606.11 2599.04 2523.43 2509.43 1244.62 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -m64 -O2 -fPIC -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt
Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics m3.xlarge m1.medium m1.large m1.xlarge m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 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 32.28 54.76 55.59 67.74 128.75
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance m3.xlarge dtcomm_test m1.large m1.medium m1.xlarge m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 17.00, N = 3 SE +/- 35.22, N = 3 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 3.00, N = 3 SE +/- 2.00, N = 3 SE +/- 11.19, N = 6 2049 1749 1605 1503 1284 416 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
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 dtcomm_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 +/- 4.64, N = 6 SE +/- 3.79, N = 6 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 1766.91 693.57 195.96 120.03 59.04 35.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio
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