SPEC® CFP2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

SGI

SGI Altix ICE 8400EX (Intel Xeon X5680, 3.33GHz)

SPECfp®2006 = 61.2

CPU2006 license: 4 Test date: Jan-2011
Test sponsor: SGI Hardware Availability: May-2010
Tested by: SGI Software Availability: Apr-2011
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon X5680
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.60 GHz
CPU MHz: 3333
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 12 cores, 2 chips, 6 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 1,2 chip
Primary Cache: 32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache: 256 KB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 12 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 48 GB (12 x 4 GB 2Rx4 PC3-10600R-9, ECC)
Disk Subsystem: 8.8 TB RAID 5
60 x 146 GB SAS (Seagate Cheetah 15k.5)
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) SP1,
Kernel 2.6.32.13-0.4-default
Compiler: Intel C++ and Fortran Intel 64 Compiler XE
for applications running on Intel 64
Version 12.0 Update 3
Auto Parallel: Yes
File System: NFSv3 IPoIB
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 64-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: None

Results Table

Benchmark Base Peak
Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio
Results appear in the order in which they were run. Bold underlined text indicates a median measurement.
410.bwaves 77.9 175   78.3 174   87.1 156   78.9 172   73.9 184   78.9 172  
416.gamess 959   20.4 923   21.2 828   23.6 655   29.9 656   29.8 657   29.8
433.milc 165   55.8 164   55.8 164   56.1 161   56.9 161   56.9 162   56.8
434.zeusmp 77.1 118   86.3 106   77.1 118   77.1 118   86.3 106   77.1 118  
435.gromacs 304   23.5 302   23.6 302   23.6 283   25.3 282   25.3 284   25.2
436.cactusADM 45.5 263   41.3 289   40.9 292   45.5 263   41.3 289   40.9 292  
437.leslie3d 94.8 99.1 92.7 101   97.2 96.7 94.8 99.1 92.7 101   97.2 96.7
444.namd 382   21.0 382   21.0 381   21.0 375   21.4 375   21.4 375   21.4
447.dealII 265   43.1 266   43.1 265   43.1 265   43.1 266   43.1 265   43.1
450.soplex 240   34.7 240   34.8 240   34.8 240   34.7 240   34.8 240   34.8
453.povray 160   33.3 159   33.4 159   33.4 129   41.3 129   41.4 128   41.4
454.calculix 267   30.9 265   31.1 266   31.0 234   35.2 234   35.2 235   35.2
459.GemsFDTD 135   78.7 139   76.1 130   81.6 120   88.2 127   83.6 141   75.3
465.tonto 371   26.5 369   26.7 331   29.7 276   35.6 276   35.6 276   35.7
470.lbm 47.2 291   58.8 234   51.4 267   61.6 223   62.0 222   88.4 155  
481.wrf 222   50.2 225   49.7 235   47.5 222   50.2 225   49.7 235   47.5
482.sphinx3 347   56.2 356   54.8 355   54.9 317   61.5 313   62.2 309   63.1

Operating System Notes

'ulimit -s unlimited' was used to set environment stack size
Set 10800 in /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /tmp/hugepages

General Notes

OMP_NUM_THREADS set to number of cores
Binaries compiled on RHEL5.5 with binutils-2.17.50.0.6-14.el5

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m64 

Fortran benchmarks:

 ifort -m64 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 icc -m64   ifort -m64 

Base Portability Flags

410.bwaves:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
416.gamess:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
433.milc:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
434.zeusmp:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
435.gromacs:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
436.cactusADM:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
437.leslie3d:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
444.namd:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
447.dealII:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
450.soplex:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
453.povray:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
454.calculix:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
459.GemsFDTD:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
465.tonto:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
470.lbm:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
481.wrf:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_CASE_FLAG   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
482.sphinx3:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -static   -parallel   -opt-prefetch   -ansi-alias 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -static   -opt-prefetch   -ansi-alias 

Fortran benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -static   -parallel   -opt-prefetch 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -static   -parallel   -opt-prefetch   -ansi-alias 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m64 

Fortran benchmarks:

 ifort -m64 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 icc -m64   ifort -m64 

Peak Portability Flags

Same as Base Portability Flags

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

433.milc:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -static   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias 
470.lbm:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -parallel   -ansi-alias   -static   -auto-ilp32 
482.sphinx3:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -unroll2   -ansi-alias   -parallel 

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -fno-alias   -auto-ilp32 
447.dealII:  basepeak = yes 
450.soplex:  basepeak = yes 
453.povray:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll4   -ansi-alias   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 

Fortran benchmarks:

410.bwaves:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -parallel   -static 
416.gamess:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll2   -inline-level=0   -scalar-rep-   -static 
434.zeusmp:  basepeak = yes 
437.leslie3d:  basepeak = yes 
459.GemsFDTD:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll2   -inline-level=0   -opt-prefetch   -parallel   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 
465.tonto:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -inline-calloc   -opt-malloc-options=3   -auto   -unroll4   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -static   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias 
436.cactusADM:  basepeak = yes 
454.calculix:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias 
481.wrf:  basepeak = yes 

The flags file that was used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.0-linux64-revA.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.0-linux64-revA.xml.