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 hostA 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 Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 1 x 2048 MB DRAM 54GB Virtual disk VMware SVGA II VMware VMXNET3 CentOS 6.7 (Final) 2.6.32-573.3.1.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 - hostA 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. - hostA test: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Disk Mount Options Details - m1.small, m1.medium, m1.large, m1.xlarge, m3.xlarge: data=ordered,noatime,rw Disk Details - hostA 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 postmark: Disk Transaction Performance 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 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 hostA test 248.29 821.76 252 97.53 416 7.61 1685.11 5 802.18 14 122.54 10 895772333 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 1503 16.33 812.66 8 429.75 29 57.46 20 2146667 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 1605 30.40 374.75 17 190.58 45 34.35 33 3860667 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 1284 48.10 233.92 28 107.69 57 28.53 46 8103500 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 2049 60.82 211.43 39 125.53 91 19.71 61 8240667 93.40 1268.27 7.37 32.28 4203.54 97.60 933 26892 18.97 98.47 265 1766.91 60.27 230.58 790 25.97 3363 30.20 491.41 13 250.67 53 31.93 36 3691333 102.27 1393.91 7.12 33.07 4855.00 92.92 839 27468 45.58 256.84 553 728.19 OpenBenchmarking.org
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 1.23, N = 6 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 60.27 28.27 37.71 57.56 116.91 248.29 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 1.34, N = 3 SE +/- 1.67, N = 4 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 1.68, N = 3 230.58 97.99 123.88 179.52 360.01 821.76
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 2.00, N = 3 SE +/- 7.00, N = 3 SE +/- 60.15, N = 6 SE +/- 3.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.98, N = 6 790 2074 1989 1076 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 6 SE +/- 0.45, N = 6 SE +/- 0.43, N = 4 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 25.97 11.94 16.47 26.64 42.90 97.53 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 SE +/- 74.98, N = 6 SE +/- 17.00, N = 3 SE +/- 2.00, N = 3 SE +/- 3.33, N = 3 SE +/- 3.00, N = 3 SE +/- 11.19, N = 6 3363 2049 1284 1605 1503 416 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.86, N = 10 SE +/- 0.14, N = 5 SE +/- 0.37, N = 5 SE +/- 0.17, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.07, N = 5 30.20 60.82 48.10 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 8.50, N = 6 SE +/- 1.48, N = 3 SE +/- 1.34, N = 3 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 SE +/- 3.62, N = 3 491.41 211.43 233.92 374.75 812.66 1685.11
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge 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 13 39 28 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
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 1.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.72, N = 3 250.67 125.53 107.69 190.58 429.75 802.18 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge 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 53 91 57 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.51, N = 6 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.73, N = 3 31.93 19.71 28.53 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 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 36 61 46 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 200M 400M 600M 800M 1000M SE +/- 4807.40, N = 3 SE +/- 9527.74, N = 3 SE +/- 210894.88, N = 6 SE +/- 26822.46, N = 3 SE +/- 19333.33, N = 3 SE +/- 12265668.90, N = 6 3691333 8240667 8103500 3860667 2146667 895772333 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 102.27 93.40 43.23 44.43 55.77 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 5.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 1.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.74, N = 3 1393.91 1268.27 593.28 744.23 758.05 320.44 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.10, 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 7.12 7.37 14.60 13.94 12.47 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.47, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 33.07 32.28 67.74 55.59 54.76 128.75
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 SE +/- 2.52, N = 3 SE +/- 8.15, N = 3 SE +/- 16.05, N = 3 SE +/- 11.25, N = 3 SE +/- 2.36, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 4855.00 4203.54 2523.43 2599.04 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 92.92 97.60 169.75 152.12 168.41 336.84 1. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 839 933 1620 1450 1557 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K SE +/- 103.46, N = 3 SE +/- 397.43, N = 5 SE +/- 44.54, N = 3 SE +/- 24.98, N = 3 SE +/- 216.04, N = 3 SE +/- 131.34, N = 4 27468 26892 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.30, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 3.59, N = 4 45.58 18.97 19.54 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 256.84 98.47 114.65 238.75 457.55 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 1.86, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 553 265 331 635 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 hostA test m3.xlarge m1.xlarge m1.large m1.medium m1.small 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 7.95, N = 3 SE +/- 269.82, N = 6 SE +/- 70.49, N = 6 SE +/- 29.60, N = 6 SE +/- 3.79, N = 6 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 728.19 1766.91 693.57 195.96 59.04 35.29 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -laio
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