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CloudHarmony Added new GoGrid US East data center to our cloud speedtest and uptime monitoring http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest http://cloudharmony.com/status . New data center appears to use same E5520 Nehalem hardware as US West for 1-4GB instances.
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Just finished part 5 of the cloud server performance posts. This one focuses on encoding and encryption performance using 7 different benchmarks. Results seem to be mostly bound to CPU architecture and clock speed and not as influenced by # of CPUs/cores. Top performers were NewServers (Fast Server model), GoGrid (48GB... cloud server) and Bluelock.
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CloudHarmony Just completed part 4 of the cloud server performance blog posts. This one focuses on memory IO using 7 memory related benchmarks. Results were pretty consistent with the CPU architecture used by the provider. http://bit.ly/c4vVUi
CloudHarmony Used Google charts to add graphing to the Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 3: Java, Ruby, Python & PHP post http://bit.ly/ckixzs
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CloudHarmony Just completed part 3 of our cloud server performance benchmark blog posts. In this post we provide the results from benchmarking about 150 different cloud servers using 4 interpreted language benchmarks: SPECjvm2008, PyBench, Ruby Benchmark Suite and PHPBench. As with the previous posts there is a great deal of perfor...mance variation from one provider to another and between different server configurations. http://bit.ly/ckixzs
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CloudHarmony Got our Google Storage for Developers account today. Looks to be an awesome cloud storage service! We ran some network performance tests and found it to function and perform in many ways like a CDN. Testing from 17 servers in different global locations, resolved to 11 different Google storage file servers with generall...y very fast downlink throughput. http://bit.ly/9ZKbSf
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CloudHarmony Just finished writing blog post comparing cloud server disk IO performance in 20 different IaaS providers and about 140 different cloud server configurations. Used 4xSAS 15K Raid 1+0 as baseline. Interesting results. EC2 EBS performed decent on m2 instances (could perform better with multiple EBS volumes and striping).... Terremark was best performing SAN/vCloud provider. GoGrid (dunno if they use SAN or local storage, they will not disclose) performance was excellent across the board. Storm's 48GB cloud server was top performer again (also top performer for CPU benchmark). http://bit.ly/cO1Hl7
CloudHarmony Updated the blog post "What is an ECU? CPU Benchmarking in the Cloud" for better multi-core aware performance measurement. Original post applied equal weight for all benchmarks (single and multi-core aware). New metric applies greater weight to multi-core aware benchmarks. http://bit.ly/9MvSxp
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CloudHarmony Cloud servers with best CPU performance based on our 19 benchmark aggregate CCU metric: EC2 m2.4xlarge: 26 CCU; Storm 48GB Cloud Server: 35 CCU; 8GB GoGrid Cloud Server 24 CCU; Fast NewServers Server: 26.4 CCU; 4CPU/8GB BlueLock Cloud Server 24.8 CCU http://bit.ly/9MvSxp
CloudHarmony Just completed summary post based on 2 months of cloud server CPU benchmarking (150 cloud server configurations in 20 different IaaS clouds). Very interesting results. Attempted to formulate standard CPU performance metric form comparing cloud servers named: CCU - based closely on EC2's ECU metric. Also discovered that... heterogenous hardware environments tend to scale much better in terms of CPU performance but only 4 of the 20 clouds we evaluated use such an environment. http://bit.ly/9MvSxp
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tpcc-mysql top performers:
Rackspace Cloud 16GB 8285 TpmC http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/tpcc-
Cloud Central (AU) Huge 8014 TpmC http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/tpcc-
GoGrid 4GB 5618 TpmC http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/tpcc-
...bonnie++ top performers:
GoGrid 4GB http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/bonni
Terremark 2GB http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/bonni
Voxel 4GB http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/bonni
IOZone 4GB write top performers
Storm On Demand 32GB 317 MB/s
GoGrid 8GB 304 MB/s
NewServers Jumbo 296 MB/s
EC2 EU West m2.xlarge 285 MB/s
IOZone 4GB read top performers
Storm On Deman 8GB 1447 MB/s
GoGrid 8GB 1186 MB/s
NewServers Jumbo 1101 MB/s
EC2 EU West m2.2xlarge 766 MB/s
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Completed benchmarking 110 cloud servers in 20 different public clouds, 32 servers remaining. Benchmarks include about 100 performance (CPU, Disk I/O, Memory) and high level benchmarks (i.e. tpcc, SpecJVM, pgbench, pybench, redis bench, etc.)
geekbench top performers are
1) IBM Developer Cloud, Large Instance w/score: 10...256 http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/vi
2) Storm On Demand 32GB w/score 8326 http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/vi
3) GoGrid 8GB w/score: 8105 http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/vi
Unixbench parallel top performers are
1) Newservers Jumbo w/score 2810 http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/unixb
2) Storm On Demand 32GB w/score 2374 http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/unixb
3) Storm On Demand 8GB w/score 2285 http://benchmarks.cloudharmony.com/unixb
Still have high-end servers for bluelock, elastichosts, flexiscale, OpSource, ReliaCloud, Terremark and Linode to test. Will publish performance results blog post upon completion.
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Information about Linux PC (Intel Xeon X5570), Unknown Motherboard, Intel Xeon X5570
CloudHarmony Working on first performance benchmark run this week. Just completed benchmark images/templates in 20 different IaaS clouds that will be included in the first run.
CloudHarmony Just finished writing a new blog post dealing with intracloud network connectivity: Connecting Clouds - Summary of Our Intracloud Network Testing. It includes a summary of about 3 months of networking testing (throughput and latency) between 28 different public clouds we maintain test nodes in and shows the 10 best con...nected clouds for each of those 28: http://bit.ly/ctLAiW
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Over the past few months we've been conducting some intracloud network testing. To get started, we first setup testing nodes in 28 different infrastructure/server clouds (a.k.a IaaS). Twice daily at random ...
CloudHarmony Cloud speedtest is mostly completed and functional at http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest as well as linked from our homepage http://cloudharmony.com/. Speedtest setup form lets you select download size (1-5MB), upload size (0.5-2.5 MB) and which cloud services to test
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This will test the speed of your Internet connection against various cloud services including Content Delivery Networks like Limelight, Cloud Platforms like Google AppEngine, and Cloud Servers like Amazon's EC2.
