SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Dell Inc.

PowerEdge T420 (Intel Xeon E5-2420, 1.90 GHz)

CPU2006 license: 55 Test date: Jun-2012
Test sponsor: Dell Inc. Hardware Availability: Jun-2012
Tested by: Dell Inc. Software Availability: Feb-2012
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon E5-2420
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.40 GHz
CPU MHz: 1900
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: 15 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 96 GB (12 x 8 GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R-11, ECC, running
at 1333 MHz)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 300 GB 15000 RPM SAS
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2(x86_64)
3.0.13-0.27-default
Compiler: C/C++: Version 12.1.0.225 of Intel C++ Studio XE
for Linux
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext3
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: Microquill SmartHeap V9.01

Results Table

Benchmark Base Peak
Copies Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Copies Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio
Results appear in the order in which they were run. Bold underlined text indicates a median measurement.
400.perlbench 24 911 257 913 257 909 258 24 758 309 757 310 758 310
401.bzip2 24 1189 195 1187 195 1189 195 24 1150 201 1153 201 1150 201
403.gcc 24 681 284 679 285 680 284 24 681 284 681 284 682 283
429.mcf 24 382 573 382 573 380 576 24 382 573 382 573 380 576
445.gobmk 24 969 260 971 259 969 260 24 948 265 950 265 951 265
456.hmmer 24 512 437 511 438 511 438 24 427 525 426 526 427 525
458.sjeng 24 1121 259 1115 260 1123 259 24 1078 269 1078 269 1074 270
462.libquantum 24 238 2090 238 2090 238 2090 24 238 2090 238 2090 238 2090
464.h264ref 24 1227 433 1182 449 1219 436 24 1199 443 1203 442 1198 443
471.omnetpp 24 686 219 686 219 685 219 24 644 233 642 234 642 234
473.astar 24 800 210 810 208 807 209 24 800 210 810 208 807 209
483.xalancbmk 24 500 331 500 331 500 331 24 500 331 500 331 500 331

Submit Notes

 The numactl mechanism was used to bind copies to processors. The config file option 'submit'
 was used to generate numactl commands to bind each copy to a specific processor.
 For details, please see the config file.

Operating System Notes

 Stack size set to unlimited using "ulimit -s unlimited"

Platform Notes

 CPU Power Management set to Maximum Performance
 Memory Frequency set to Maximum Performance
 Turbo Boost set to Enabled
 C States/C1E set to Enabled
 Sysinfo program /root/CPU2006-1.2/config/sysinfo.rev6800
 $Rev: 6800 $ $Date:: 2011-10-11 #$ 6f2ebdff5032aaa42e583f96b07f99d3
 running on linux-316h Wed Jun  6 07:57:40 2012

 This section contains SUT (System Under Test) info as seen by
 some common utilities.  To remove or add to this section, see:
   http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/config.html#sysinfo

 From /proc/cpuinfo
    model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2420 0 @ 1.90GHz
       2 "physical id"s (chips)
       24 "processors"
    cores, siblings (Caution: counting these is hw and system dependent.  The
    following excerpts from /proc/cpuinfo might not be reliable.  Use with
    caution.)
       cpu cores : 6
       siblings  : 12
       physical 0: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5
    cache size : 15360 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       98994188 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    SuSE-release:
       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
       VERSION = 11
       PATCHLEVEL = 2

 uname -a:
    Linux linux-316h 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 13:33:49 UTC 2012
    (d73692b) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 Jun 6 07:56 last=S

 SPEC is set to: /root/CPU2006-1.2
    Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda2      ext3  271G  123G  135G  48% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/root/CPU2006-1.2/libs/32:/root/CPU2006-1.2/libs/64"

 Binaries compiled on a system with 1x Core i7-860 CPU + 8GB
 memory using RHEL5.5
 Transparent Huge Pages enabled with:
 echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
 Filesystem page cache cleared with:
 echo 1>       /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
 runspec command invoked through numactl i.e.:
 numactl --interleave=all runspec <etc>

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 icc -m32 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m32 

Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_IA32 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/smartheap -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

403.gcc:  -Dalloca=_alloca 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks (except as noted below):

 icc -m32 
400.perlbench:  icc -m64 
401.bzip2:  icc -m64 
456.hmmer:  icc -m64 
458.sjeng:  icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m32 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_X64 
401.bzip2:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
456.hmmer:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
458.sjeng:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

400.perlbench:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -auto-ilp32 
401.bzip2:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -opt-prefetch   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias 
403.gcc:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div 
429.mcf:  basepeak = yes 
445.gobmk:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -ansi-alias   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3 
456.hmmer:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -unroll2   -auto-ilp32 
458.sjeng:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll4   -auto-ilp32 
462.libquantum:  basepeak = yes 
464.h264ref:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll2   -ansi-alias 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -ansi-alias   -opt-ra-region-strategy=block   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/smartheap -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  basepeak = yes 
483.xalancbmk:  basepeak = yes 

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

403.gcc:  -Dalloca=_alloca 

The flags files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.1-official-linux64.20111122.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Dell-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revA.20120410.00.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.1-official-linux64.20111122.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Dell-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revA.20120410.00.xml.