SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM PowerLinux 7R2 (4.2 GHz, 16 core, SLES)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jan-2013
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Feb-2013
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Dec-2012
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER7+
CPU Characteristics: Intelligent Energy Optimization enabled,
up to 4.540 GHz
CPU MHz: 4228
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 16 cores, 2 chips, 8 cores/chip, 4 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 16 cores
Primary Cache: 32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache: 256 KB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 10 MB I+D on chip per core
Other Cache: None
Memory: 128 GB (16 x 8 GB) DDR3 1066 MHz
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 146.8 GB SAS SFF 15K RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
(ppc64) kernel 3.0.42-0.7-ppc64
Compiler: C/C++: Version 12.1 of IBM XL C/C++ 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: -Post-Link Optimization for Linux on
POWER, version 5.6.1-7
-MicroQuill SmartHeap 9

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 64 1193 524 1170 534 1169 535 64 997 627 978 639 971 644
401.bzip2 64 988 625 977 632 964 640 64 866 713 866 713 865 714
403.gcc 64 875 589 874 589 883 584 64 875 589 874 589 883 584
429.mcf 64 676 863 678 861 679 860 32 335 871 335 871 335 871
445.gobmk 64 920 730 924 727 922 728 64 765 877 769 873 771 871
456.hmmer 64 1024 583 1023 584 1024 583 64 544 1100 544 1100 542 1100
458.sjeng 64 1108 699 1109 698 1106 700 64 986 785 995 779 986 785
462.libquantum 64 2205 601 2205 602 2206 601 64 186 7120 184 7190 187 7100
464.h264ref 64 1498 945 1536 922 1578 898 64 1405 1010 1408 1010 1432 989
471.omnetpp 64 1416 282 1420 282 1416 283 64 1416 283 1414 283 1416 283
473.astar 64 846 531 852 528 854 526 64 843 533 847 530 849 529
483.xalancbmk 64 609 725 607 728 609 725 64 570 774 572 772 571 774

Compiler Invocation Notes

  C/C++ compiler updated to December 2012 PTF
  Version: 12.01.0000.0002

Peak Tuning Notes

 Post-Link optimization tool used for:
 400.perlbench
      with options -O4 -omullX for optimization phase,
      and -imullX for instrumentation phase
 401.bzip2
      with options -O4 -vrox
 403.gcc
     with options -O4 -nodp -rtb
 429.mcf 445.gobmk 458.sjeng 473.astar
     with options -O3
 462.libquantum
     with options -O4 -vrox -nodp
 464.h264ref
     with options -O4 -vrox -nodp -rtb
 471.omnetpp
     with options -O3 -lu -1 -nodp -sdp 9
 483.xalancbmk
     with options -O3 -m power7

Submit Notes

  The config file option 'submit' was used
  to assign benchmark copy to specific kernel thread using
  the "numactl" command (see flags file for details).

Operating System Notes

  ulimit -s (stack) set to 1048576.

  Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
  echo 4224 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages

  The following environment varibles were set before the runspec command:
    export HUGETLB_VERBOSE=0
    export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 xlc   -qlanglvl=extc99 

C++ benchmarks:

 xlC 

Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_PPC 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -qchars=signed 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -q32   -qipa=threads   -qalias=noansi   -qalloca   -lhugetlbfs 

C++ benchmarks:

 -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -q32   -qipa=threads   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

C++ benchmarks:

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 xlc   -qlanglvl=extc99 

C++ benchmarks:

 xlC 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_PPC 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -qchars=signed 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

400.perlbench:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -qalias=noansi   -qipa=level=2   -lsmartheap 
401.bzip2:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O3   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -lhugetlbfs 
403.gcc:  basepeak = yes 
429.mcf:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -lhugetlbfs 
445.gobmk:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -lhugetlbfs 
456.hmmer:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -qsimd   -qassert=refalign   -qipa=inline=threshold=2888   -qipa=inline=limit=11880   -lhugetlbfs 
458.sjeng:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -lhugetlbfs 
462.libquantum:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
464.h264ref:  Same as 458.sjeng 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -lhugetlbfs   -lsmartheap 
483.xalancbmk:  -Wl,-q   -O4   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qipa=threads   -qipa=partition=large   -lsmartheap 

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

C++ benchmarks:


The flags files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Power.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20121024.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Power.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20121024.xml.