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CMIPS benchmarks with new Amazon c3.8xlarge and prices updated

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The new Amazon c3.8xlarge based on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz and SSD has been added. Is the most powerful instance tested to the date, beating Cloudsigma 37 Cores/80 Ghz by a little (although CloudSigma is much more cheaper).

The cool thing of c3.8xlarge comparing to cc2.8xlarge is that the first is not a Cluster like the last, so you can use a standard Linux distribution, not the specially cluster distributions.

In a graphic (more CMIPS means more CPU+RAM Speed power, so more is better):

cmips-net-2014-03-10-cmips-score-benchmarks

Prices for Amazon have been updated, only m3.xlarge (SSD) changed passing from $0.5 USD/hour to $0.45 USD/hour.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Prices for Azure have been reviewed but did not change since last update on 2013.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

cmips-net-2014-03-11-cups-score-benchmarks

Detailed results:

Type of Service Provider Name of the product Codename Zone Processor Ghz Processor Cores (from htop) RAM (GB) Os tested CMIPS Execution time (seconds) USD /hour USD /month
Cloud Amazon T1 Micro t1.micro US East Intel Xeon E5-2650 2 1 0.613 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 49 20,036.7 $0.02 $14.40
Cloud Amazon M1 Small m1.small US East Intel Xeon E5-2650 2 1 1.6 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 203 4,909.89 $0.06 $43.20
Cloud GoGrid Extra Small (512 MB) Extra Small US-East-1 Intel Xeon E5520 2.27 1 0.5 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 441 2,265.14 $0.04 $18.13
Physical (laptop) Intel SU4100 1.4 2 4 Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 64 bits 460 2,170.32
Cloud CloudSigma 1 Core / 1 Ghz 1 Core / 1 Ghz Zurich (Europe) Amd Opteron 6380 2.5 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz with Turbo 1 1 Ubuntu Server 12.04.3 64 bits 565 to 440 1,800 $0.04475 $32,22
Cloud Amazon M1 Large m1.large US East Intel Xeon E5-2650 2 2 7.5 Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits 817 1,223.67 $0.24 $172.80
Cloud Linode 1x priority (smallest) 1x priority London Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 8 1 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 1,427 700.348 n/a $20
Cloud Amazon M1 Extra Large m1.xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2650 2 4 15 Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits 1,635 606.6 $0.48 $345.60
Cloud LunaCloud 8 Core 1.5 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD CH 1.5 8 0.5 Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits 1,859 537.64 $0.0187 $58.87
Cloud CloudSigma 3 Core / 1,667 Ghz each / 5 Ghz Total 3 Core / 1,667 Ghz each / 5 Ghz Total Zurich (Europe) Amd Opteron 6380 2.5 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz with Turbo 3 1 Ubuntu Server 13.10 64 bits 1928 to 1675 518.64 $0.1875 $135
Cloud Amazon M3 Extra Large m3.xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 4 15 Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits 2,065 484.1 $0.45 $324
Cloud Linode 2x priority 2x priority Dallas, Texas, US Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 2 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 2,556 391.19 n/a $40
Cloud GoGrid Extra Large (8GB) Extra Large US-East-1 Intel Xeon E5520 2.27 8 8 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 2,965 327.226 $0.64 $290
Cloud Amazon C1 High CPU Extra Large c1.xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5506 2.13 8 7 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 3,101 322.39 $0.58 $417.60
Dedicated OVH Server EG 24G EG 24G France Intel Xeon W3530 2.8 8 24 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 3,881 257.01 n/a $99
Cloud Amazon M2 High Memory Quadruple Extra Large m2.4xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2665 2.4 8 68.4 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 4,281 233.545 $1.64 $1,180.80
Cloud Rackspace RackSpace First Generation 30 GB RAM – 8 Cores – 1200 GB US Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2374 HE 2.2 8 30 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 4,539 220.89 $1.98 $1,425.60
Physical (desktop workstation) Intel Core i7-4770S 3.1 (to 3.9 with turbo) 8 32 Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 64 bits 5,842 171.56
Cloud Digital Ocean Digital Ocean 48GB RAM – 16 Cores – 480 GB SSD Amsterdam 1 QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 16 48 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 6,172 161.996 $0.705 $480
Cloud Amazon High I/O Quadruple Extra Large hi1.4xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5620 2.4 16 60.5 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 6,263 159.65 $3.1 $2,232
Cloud Digital Ocean Digital Ocean 64GB RAM – 20 Cores – 640 GB SSD Amsterdam 1 QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 20 64 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 8,116 123.2 $0.941 $640
Cloud Digital Ocean Digital Ocean 96GB RAM – 24 Cores – 960 GB SSD New York 2 QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 24 96 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 9,733 102.743 $1.411 $960
Cloud GoGrid XXX Large (24GB) XXX Large US-East-1 Intel Xeon X5650 2.67 32 24 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 10,037 99.6226 $1.92 $870
Cloud CloudSigma 24 Core / 52 Ghz Total 24 Core / 52 Ghz Total Zurich (Europe) Amd Opteron 6380 2.5 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz with Turbo 24 1 Ubuntu Server 13.10 64 bits 10979 to 8530 98 $0.9975 $718.20
Cloud Amazon Memory Optimized CR1 Cluster 8xlarge cr1.8xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 32 244 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits for HVM instances (Cluster) 16,468 60.721 $3.5 $2,520
Cloud Amazon Compute Optimized CC2 Cluster 8xlarge cc2.8xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 32 60.5 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits for HVM instances (Cluster) 16,608 60.21 $2.4 $1,728
Cloud CloudSigma 37 Core / 2.16 Ghz each / 80 Ghz Total 37 Core / 2.16 Ghz each / 80 Ghz Total Zurich (Europe) Amd Opteron 6380 2.5 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz with Turbo 37 1 Ubuntu Server 13.10 64 bits 17136 to 8539 58 $1.5195 $1,094.10
Cloud Amazon Compute Optimized C3 8xlarge c3.8xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2680 2.8 32 60 Ubuntu Server 13.10 64 bits for HVM instances (Cluster) 17,476 57.21 $2.4 $1,728

CMIPS benchmarks updated with Lunacloud

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LunaCloud is an interesting provider. They don’t have the most powerful servers, but they have some interesting services like Jelastic -for deploying applications in PHP and Java and consume MongoDB, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, MySql, MariaDBability, Memcached-, cheap Load Balancers (16 USD/month), the ability to launch instances very fast, and with as low as 512 MB of RAM. That’s cool if you need more CPU and less RAM, so you avoid paying that extra.

They allow also to reserve an amount of bandwidth for the instance, that’s pretty interesting.

Like CloudSigma they allow you to balance the amount of RAM you want for the instance, and they allow to choose between 1 to 8 cores at 1,500 Ghz. That part is the most limited as the most powerful server, 8 cores, scores 1859 CMIPS, in the low band. In the other hand the great part is that the price for a 8 CPU with 512 MB of RAM is very interesting.

LunaCloud 8 cores at 1,500 Ghz (max.) scores a bit more than an Amazon M1 Extra Large, but it costs a fraction than the Amazon’s. 0.0817 USD/hour per LunaCloud instance,  0.48 USD/hour per Amazon’s m1.xlarge instance.

LunaCloud has the cheapest price per unit of power for a public instance, only over Linode. But taking in count that Linode charges per day, and so is not useful for Scaling up and down we can say that LunaCloud has the cheapest price per unit of power from the providers reviewed up to date (as said CPU maxed and memory minimized to 512 MB).

Also they are the only analyzed to the date with Data Centers in Lisbon (Portugal) and Paris (France).

Thanks to LunaCloud for providing 300 € in free credit to do the benchmarks.

We also add one of the physical servers from hetzner.de to be precise the EX-40 SSD (200 GB SSD in Raid 1) 32 GB RAM as it has an unbeatable price 81 USD/month (59 €/month *) for the CPU power that brings, and the amount of memory.

* Please note that this model has a one-time setup fee of 59 € that we did not include in the price per hour.

It is interesting to see that this server from hetzner has an Intel Core i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz CPU scoring 6172 CMIPS, almost a 6% more, comparing to the performance of my workstation equipped with an Intel Core i7-4770S scoring 5842 CMIPS.

This dedicated physical server costing 80 USD/month scores 6172 CMIPS that is the same score than the Digital Ocean 48GB RAM – 16 Cores – 480 GB SSD costing 480 USD per month, and scores much more than the RackSpace First Generation 30 GB RAM – 8 Cores – 1200 GB costing 1425.6 USD/month and scoring 4539 CMIPS or the M2 High Memory Quadruple Extra Large with 64 GB RAM costing 1180 USD/month and scoring 4281 CMIPS.

The graphic comparing the CPU performance (CMIPS score):

cmips-net-benchmarks-lunacloud-hetzner-de-cloudsigma-amazon-rackspace

The graphics of the costs, CUP – Cost of Unit Process:

cmips-net-cup-linacloud-hetzner-de-cloudsigma-amazon-linode

As you can see a dedicated server brings a lot of performance at the cheapest price.

CMIPS v.1.03 benchmarks updated with CloudSigma and Azure

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Here are provided the CMIPS results after the past tests with Microsoft Azure and CloudSigma Cloud.

CMIPS v.1.03 benchmarks* Please note that values published in the graph for CloudSigma’s CMIPS are the max obtained, as results fluctuated during the tests, as indicated in the review. The range is below, on the html table.

*2 Costs for CloudSigma came in EUR, so have been exchanged from EUR to USD using google. Prices show subscription (not burst mode)

And the CUP (Cost per Unit Process), the orange bar.

cmips-cup-2013-12-cloudsigma-aws-rackspace-linode

Detailed results:

Type of Service Provider Name of the product Codename Zone Processor Ghz Processor Cores (from htop) RAM (GB) Os tested CMIPS Execution time (seconds) USD /hour USD /month
Cloud Amazon T1 Micro t1.micro US East Intel Xeon E5-2650 2 1 0.613 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 49 20,036.7 $0.02 $14.40
Cloud Amazon M1 Small m1.small US East Intel Xeon E5-2650 2 1 1.6 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 203 4,909.89 $0.06 $43.20
Cloud GoGrid Extra Small (512 MB) Extra Small US-East-1 Intel Xeon E5520 2.27 1 0.5 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 441 2,265.14 $0.04 $18.13
Physical (laptop) Intel SU4100 1.4 2 4 Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 64 bits 460 2,170.32
Cloud CloudSigma 1 Core / 1 Ghz 1 Core / 1 Ghz Zurich (Europe) Amd Opteron 6380 2.5 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz with Turbo 1 1 Ubuntu Server 12.04.3 64 bits 565 to 440 1,800 $0.04475 $32,22
Cloud Amazon M1 Large m1.large US East Intel Xeon E5-2650 2 2 7.5 Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits 817 1,223.67 $0.24 $172.80
Cloud Linode 1x priority (smallest) 1x priority London Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 8 1 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 1,427 700.348 n/a $20
Cloud Amazon M1 Extra Large m1.xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2650 2 4 15 Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits 1,635 606.6 $0.48 $345.60
Cloud CloudSigma 3 Core / 1,667 Ghz each / 5 Ghz Total 3 Core / 1,667 Ghz each / 5 Ghz Total Zurich (Europe) Amd Opteron 6380 2.5 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz with Turbo 3 1 Ubuntu Server 13.10 64 bits 1928 to 1675 518.64 $0.1875 $135
Cloud Amazon M3 Extra Large m3.xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 4 15 Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits 2,065 484.1 $0.50 $360
Cloud Linode 2x priority 2x priority Dallas, Texas, US Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 2 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 2,556 391.19 n/a $40
Cloud GoGrid Extra Large (8GB) Extra Large US-East-1 Intel Xeon E5520 2.27 8 8 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 2,965 327.226 $0.64 $290
Cloud Amazon C1 High CPU Extra Large c1.xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5506 2.13 8 7 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 3,101 322.39 $0.58 $417.60
Dedicated OVH Server EG 24G EG 24G France Intel Xeon W3530 2.8 8 24 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 3,881 257.01 n/a $99
Cloud Amazon M2 High Memory Quadruple Extra Large m2.4xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2665 2.4 8 68.4 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 4,281 233.545 $1.64 $1,180.80
Cloud Rackspace RackSpace First Generation 30 GB RAM – 8 Cores – 1200 GB US Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2374 HE 2.2 8 30 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 4,539 220.89 $1.98 $1,425.60
Physical (desktop workstation) Intel Core i7-4770S 3.1 (to 3.9 with turbo) 8 32 Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 64 bits 5,842 171.56
Cloud Digital Ocean Digital Ocean 48GB RAM – 16 Cores – 480 GB SSD Amsterdam 1 QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 16 48 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 6,172 161.996 $0.705 $480
Cloud Amazon High I/O Quadruple Extra Large hi1.4xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5620 2.4 16 60.5 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 6,263 159.65 $3.1 $2,232
Cloud Digital Ocean Digital Ocean 64GB RAM – 20 Cores – 640 GB SSD Amsterdam 1 QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 20 64 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 8,116 123.2 $0.941 $640
Cloud Digital Ocean Digital Ocean 96GB RAM – 24 Cores – 960 GB SSD New York 2 QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 24 96 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits 9,733 102.743 $1.411 $960
Cloud GoGrid XXX Large (24GB) XXX Large US-East-1 Intel Xeon X5650 2.67 32 24 Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bits 10,037 99.6226 $1.92 $870
Cloud CloudSigma 24 Core / 52 Ghz Total 24 Core / 52 Ghz Total Zurich (Europe) Amd Opteron 6380 2.5 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz with Turbo 24 1 Ubuntu Server 13.10 64 bits 10979 to 8530 98 $0.9975 $718.20
Cloud Amazon Memory Optimized CR1 Cluster 8xlarge cr1.8xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 32 244 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits for HVM instances (Cluster) 16,468 60.721 $3.5 $2,520
Cloud Amazon Compute Optimized CC2 Cluster 8xlarge cc2.8xlarge US East Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 32 60.5 Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bits for HVM instances (Cluster) 16,608 60.21 $2.4 $1,728
Cloud CloudSigma 37 Core / 2.16 Ghz each / 80 Ghz Total 37 Core / 2.16 Ghz each / 80 Ghz Total Zurich (Europe) Amd Opteron 6380 2.5 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz with Turbo 37 1 Ubuntu Server 13.10 64 bits 17136 to 8539 58 $1.5195 $1,094.10

 

CMIPS benchmarks and costs updated with Azure

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After testing Microsoft Azure Small (A1), Large (A3), Extra Large (A4) and A7, this is how the results are.

(More CMIPS means more perfomance so a most powerful instance).

cmips-net-performance-of-clouds-added-microsoft-azure

As you can see Azure Extra Large and Azure A7 have the same CMIPS performance, the main difference is in the number of RAM.

About Linux prices we can say that Azure are not the cheapest, but they try to be much cheaper than Amazon. They have a long path to provide so many and so quality products as Amazon, but they are working intensely.

As we are commited to Start ups and Open Source we didn’t compare prices for Windows Servers between Amazon and Microsoft Azure.

In the next graphic you can see the CMIPS (CPU power + memory speed), blue bar -longer bar means more power-, and the CUP (Cost of Unit of Process) multiplied to 10M to fit the graphic scale, orange bar -shorter bar means cheap price, longer bar means expensive price per CMIP.

The best power-price are up on the list (long blue bar) but have a small orange bar.

Linode has an amazing relationg between power and price, the physical dedicated server from OVH introduced to have a wider picture has also a very good CUP ratio and with high computing power Digital Ocean (they equip SSD disks) beats the game with very powerful instances yet not so expensive as Amazon.

cmips-net-cup-cost-performance-of-clouds-added-microsoft-azure-gogrid-amazon-digitalocean

 

Introducing CUPS

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CUP – Cost of Unit Process, CUP is the cost in USD to get 1 CMIP for a given instance.

CUP is get by diving cost of the instance per-hour-running by the number of CMIPS that the instance achieved in the tests.

So we get the next table, sorted from cheapest to expensive:

Instance name CMIPS Price/CMIP
Linode 1x priority (smallest) 1427 0.0000194658568870202
Linode 2x priority 2556 0.000021735350373848
OVH Server EG 24G 3881 0.000035429
Digital Ocean 48GB RAM – 16 Cores – 480 GB SSD 6172 0.0001142255
Digital Ocean 64GB RAM – 20 Cores – 640 GB SSD 8116 0.0001159438
Amazon CC2 Cluster Compute 16608 0.0001445087
Digital Ocean 96GB RAM – 24 Cores – 960 GB SSD 9733 0.0001449707
Amazon C1 High CPU Extra Large 3101 0.0001870364
Amazon Memory Optimized CR1 Cluster 8xlarge 16468 0.0002125334
Amazon Second Generation M3 Extra Large 2065 0,0002421308
Amazon M1 Extra Large 1635 0.000293578
Amazon M1 Large 817 0.0002937576
Amazon M1 Small 203 0.0002955665
Amazon M2 High Memory Quadruple Extra Large 4281 0.0003830881
Amazon T1 Micro 49 0.0004081633
RackSpace First Generation 30 GB RAM – 8 Cores – 1200 GB 4539 0.0004362194
Amazon High I/O Quadruple Extra Large 6263 0.0004949705

And the graphic, sorted from expensive to cheap.

Orange bars reflect CUP (multiplied by 10M to fit well in the graph), and blue bars show MIPS achieved by the instance.

cmips-cups-2013-09-21-cost-unit-power

Desktop: Intel i7-4770S and Laptop: Intel SU4100 have no CUP associated as are included in the graph only to compare CPU performance.

So, having also all the other parameters in mind (bandwidth per instance, cost per exceeded Gigabyte, storage, speed of the storage, time to launch a new instance, if provisioning is paid by hour, by day or by month, etc…) most Startups that use webservers and the Cloud to scale up Arrays of instances to deal with peaks at highly traffic hours, and scale down the number of instances at valley hours or when number or users/traffic decreases, will consider using the instances with lower CUP, or find a balance between instance with enough performance and low Cost of Unit Process.