SPEC® CFP2006 Result

IBM Corporation

IBM BladeCenter HS22V (Intel Xeon E5603)

SPECfp®2006 = 31.2

SPECfp_base2006 = 29.4

CPU2006 license:	11	Test date:	Jun-2011
Test sponsor:	IBM Corporation	Hardware Availability:	Feb-2011
Tested by:	IBM Corporation	Software Availability:	Apr-2011

Hardware
CPU Name:	Intel Xeon E5603
CPU Characteristics:
CPU MHz:	1600
FPU:	Integrated
CPU(s) enabled:	8 cores, 2 chips, 4 cores/chip
CPU(s) orderable:	1,2 chips
Primary Cache:	32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache:	256 KB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache:	4 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache:	None
Memory:	48 GB (12 x 4 GB 2Rx8 PC3-10600R-9, ECC, running at 1066 MHz)
Disk Subsystem:	2 x 50 GB SATA, SSD, RAID 0
Other Hardware:	None

Software
Operating System:	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (x86_64), Kernel 2.6.32.12-0.7-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:	ext3
System State:	Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers:	64-bit
Peak Pointers:	32/64-bit
Other Software:	None

Results Table

Benchmark	Base						Peak
Benchmark	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	108	125	107	127	107	127	108	126	107	127	107	127
416.gamess	1646	11.9	1650	11.9	1646	11.9	1466	13.4	1471	13.3	1473	13.3
433.milc	323	28.5	322	28.5	323	28.5	316	29.0	316	29.1	316	29.0
434.zeusmp	163	55.8	164	55.7	163	55.9	163	55.8	164	55.7	163	55.9
435.gromacs	677	10.6	676	10.6	676	10.6	630	11.3	629	11.3	630	11.3
436.cactusADM	110	109	109	110	110	109	110	109	109	110	110	109
437.leslie3d	135	69.8	135	69.7	135	69.6	135	69.8	135	69.7	135	69.6
444.namd	858	9.35	858	9.34	858	9.35	843	9.52	842	9.52	843	9.52
447.dealII	573	20.0	573	20.0	573	20.0	573	20.0	573	20.0	573	20.0
450.soplex	510	16.3	512	16.3	510	16.3	510	16.3	512	16.3	510	16.3
453.povray	359	14.8	361	14.7	362	14.7	286	18.6	285	18.6	284	18.7
454.calculix	560	14.7	560	14.7	563	14.6	506	16.3	505	16.3	505	16.3
459.GemsFDTD	203	52.4	202	52.5	235	45.2	174	61.1	178	59.6	212	50.1
465.tonto	766	12.8	670	14.7	765	12.9	615	16.0	616	16.0	616	16.0
470.lbm	80.8	170	81.2	169	81.0	170	80.8	170	81.2	169	81.0	170
481.wrf	391	28.6	395	28.2	390	28.6	391	28.6	395	28.2	390	28.6
482.sphinx3	853	22.8	863	22.6	869	22.4	806	24.2	803	24.3	798	24.4

Operating System Notes

 'ulimit -s unlimited' was used to set the stacksize to unlimited prior to run
 'nodev    /mnt/hugepages   hugetlbfs   nodev   0 0' added to /etc/fstab
 echo 900 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
 export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes
 export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so

Platform Notes

 Load Default BIOS Settings and then change the following
   Power C-states enabled
   Demand Scrub disabled

General Notes

 Binaries compiled on RHEL5.5
 OMP_NUM_THREADS set to number of cores

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

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:	basepeak = yes
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 files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.0-linux64-revB.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-platform-linux64-revA.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.0-linux64-revB.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-platform-linux64-revA.xml.