SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM System x3690 X5 (Intel Xeon E7-2870, 2.40
GHz)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jul-2012
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: May-2011
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Dec-2011
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon E7-2870
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.80 GHz
CPU MHz: 2400
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 20 cores, 2 chips, 10 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
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: 30 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 256 GB (32 x 8 GB 4Rx8 PC3-8500R-7, ECC)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 300 GB SAS, 10000 RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2
(Santiago)
2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64
Compiler: C/C++: Version 12.1.0.225 of Intel C++ Studio XE
for Linux
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext4
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 40 922 424 920 425 924 423 40 784 499 786 497 789 495
401.bzip2 40 1238 312 1241 311 1236 312 40 1180 327 1180 327 1183 326
403.gcc 40 756 426 754 427 755 427 40 756 426 754 427 755 427
429.mcf 40 476 766 476 767 475 767 40 476 766 476 767 475 767
445.gobmk 40 882 476 884 475 882 476 40 843 498 842 498 845 497
456.hmmer 40 565 660 564 661 563 663 40 437 853 437 854 440 849
458.sjeng 40 1062 456 1060 457 1059 457 40 984 492 984 492 984 492
462.libquantum 40 248 3340 248 3340 249 3330 40 248 3340 248 3340 249 3330
464.h264ref 40 1373 645 1373 645 1373 645 40 1362 650 1370 646 1366 648
471.omnetpp 40 808 310 807 310 807 310 40 749 334 749 334 749 334
473.astar 40 876 320 876 321 876 321 40 876 320 876 321 876 321
483.xalancbmk 40 481 574 482 573 480 575 40 481 574 482 573 480 575

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

 Turbo Boost Power Optimization set to Traditional in BIOS
 Sysinfo program /cpu2006.1.2/config/sysinfo.rev6800
 $Rev: 6800 $ $Date:: 2011-10-11 #$ 6f2ebdff5032aaa42e583f96b07f99d3
 running on megallon-pete Fri Jul 13 16:38:15 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 E7- 2870 @ 2.40GHz
       2 "physical id"s (chips)
       40 "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 : 10
       siblings  : 20
       physical 0: cores 0 1 2 8 9 16 17 18 24 25
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 8 9 16 17 18 24 25
    cache size : 30720 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       264468348 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    redhat-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
    system-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
    system-release-cpe: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6server:ga:server

 uname -a:
    Linux megallon-pete 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 9 08:03:13 EST 2011
    x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 Jul 13 16:23

 SPEC is set to: /cpu2006.1.2
    Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vg_megallonpete-lv_root
                  ext4    264G   86G  166G  35% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   Memory:
    32x Hynix HMT31GR7BFR8A-G7 8 GB 1067 MHz 4 rank

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/cpu2006.1.2/libs/32:/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/redhat_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:  basepeak = yes 
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/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-WSM-C.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/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-WSM-C.xml.