SPEC® CFP2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2017 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Dell Inc.

PowerEdge R940 (Intel Xeon Platinum 8168, 2.70
GHz)

CPU2006 license: 55 Test date: May-2017
Test sponsor: Dell Inc. Hardware Availability: Jul-2017
Tested by: Dell Inc. Software Availability: Nov-2016
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon Platinum 8168
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.70 GHz
CPU MHz: 2700
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 96 cores, 4 chips, 24 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 2,4 chip
Primary Cache: 32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache: 1 MB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 33 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 768 GB (48 x 16 GB 2Rx8 PC4-2666V-R)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 960 GB SATA SSD
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
4.4.21-69-default
Compiler: C/C++: Version 17.0.3.191 of Intel C/C++
Compiler for Linux;
Fortran: Version 17.0.3.191 of Intel Fortran
Compiler for Linux
Auto Parallel: Yes
File System: xfs
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32/64-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: None

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.
410.bwaves 192 1222 2130 1230 2120 1221 2140 96 593 2200 592 2210 593 2200
416.gamess 192 883 4260 882 4260 881 4260 192 853 4410 853 4410 854 4400
433.milc 192 845 2090 839 2100 844 2090 192 845 2090 839 2100 844 2090
434.zeusmp 192 464 3770 462 3780 462 3780 192 464 3770 462 3780 462 3780
435.gromacs 192 252 5440 252 5440 252 5450 192 247 5550 247 5550 247 5540
436.cactusADM 192 545 4210 544 4220 545 4210 192 545 4210 544 4220 545 4210
437.leslie3d 192 1137 1590 1146 1580 1139 1580 96 547 1650 546 1650 547 1650
444.namd 192 427 3600 428 3590 429 3590 192 414 3720 414 3720 413 3730
447.dealII 192 351 6260 348 6320 349 6300 192 351 6260 348 6320 349 6300
450.soplex 192 963 1660 966 1660 962 1660 96 393 2040 396 2020 394 2030
453.povray 192 192 5330 193 5300 192 5320 192 158 6450 159 6440 158 6450
454.calculix 192 272 5820 274 5780 272 5830 192 272 5820 274 5780 272 5830
459.GemsFDTD 192 1366 1490 1363 1490 1365 1490 192 1366 1490 1363 1490 1365 1490
465.tonto 192 488 3870 490 3850 490 3860 192 476 3970 482 3920 486 3890
470.lbm 192 869 3030 870 3030 869 3040 192 869 3030 870 3030 869 3040
481.wrf 192 814 2640 812 2640 812 2640 192 814 2640 812 2640 812 2640
482.sphinx3 192 1190 3140 1193 3140 1200 3120 192 1190 3140 1193 3140 1200 3120

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

 BIOS settings:
 Sub NUMA Cluster enabled
 Virtualization Technology disabled
 System Profile set to Custom
 CPU Performance set to Maximum Performance
 C States set to autonomous
 C1E disabled
 Uncore Frequency set to Dynamic
 Energy Efficiency Policy set to Performance
 Memory Patrol Scrub disabled
 Logical Processor enabled
 CPU Interconnect Bus Link Power Management disabled
 PCI ASPM L1 Link Power Management disabled
 Sysinfo program /home/cpu2006-1.2_ic17u3/config/sysinfo.rev6993
 Revision 6993 of 2015-11-06 (b5e8d4b4eb51ed28d7f98696cbe290c1)
 running on linux-kj6v Fri May 19 16:43:06 2017

 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) Platinum 8168 CPU @ 2.70GHz
       4 "physical id"s (chips)
       192 "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 : 24
       siblings  : 48
       physical 0: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 26
       27 28 29
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 26
       27 28 29
       physical 2: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 26
       27 28 29
       physical 3: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 26
       27 28 29
    cache size : 33792 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       791001148 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    SuSE-release:
       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)
       VERSION = 12
       PATCHLEVEL = 2
       # This file is deprecated and will be removed in a future service pack or
       release.
       # Please check /etc/os-release for details about this release.
    os-release:
       NAME="SLES"
       VERSION="12-SP2"
       VERSION_ID="12.2"
       PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2"
       ID="sles"
       ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
       CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:12:sp2"

 uname -a:
    Linux linux-kj6v 4.4.21-69-default #1 SMP Tue Oct 25 10:58:20 UTC 2016
    (9464f67) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 May 19 06:32 last=5

 SPEC is set to: /home/cpu2006-1.2_ic17u3
    Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda4      xfs   796G  5.1G  791G   1% /home
 Additional information from dmidecode:

    Warning: Use caution when you interpret this section. The 'dmidecode' program
    reads system data which is "intended to allow hardware to be accurately
    determined", but the intent may not be met, as there are frequent changes to
    hardware, firmware, and the "DMTF SMBIOS" standard.

   BIOS Dell Inc. 0.5.8 05/12/2017
   Memory:
    48x 00CE063200CE M393A2K43BB1-CTD 16 GB 2 rank 2666 MHz

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/home/cpu2006-1.2_ic17u3/lib/ia32:/home/cpu2006-1.2_ic17u3/lib/intel64:/home/cpu2006-1.2_ic17u3/sh10.2"

 Binaries compiled on a system with 1x Intel Core i7-4790 CPU + 32GB RAM
 memory using Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.2
 Transparent Huge Pages enabled by default
 Filesystem page cache cleared with:
 shell invocation of 'sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' prior to run
 runspec command invoked through numactl i.e.:
 numactl --interleave=all runspec <etc>

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:

 -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-p32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-p32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

Fortran benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-p32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks (except as noted below):

 icpc -m64 
450.soplex:  icpc -m32 -L/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2017/linux/lib/ia32 

Fortran benchmarks:

 ifort -m64 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 icc -m64   ifort -m64 

Peak 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:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
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 Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

433.milc:  basepeak = yes 
470.lbm:  basepeak = yes 
482.sphinx3:  basepeak = yes 

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -fno-alias   -auto-ilp32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
447.dealII:  basepeak = yes 
450.soplex:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -qopt-malloc-options=3   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
453.povray:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -unroll4   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

Fortran benchmarks:

410.bwaves:  -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch 
416.gamess:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -unroll2   -inline-level=0   -scalar-rep- 
434.zeusmp:  basepeak = yes 
437.leslie3d:  Same as 410.bwaves 
459.GemsFDTD:  basepeak = yes 
465.tonto:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -unroll4   -auto   -inline-calloc   -qopt-malloc-options=3 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-ilp32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
436.cactusADM:  basepeak = yes 
454.calculix:  basepeak = yes 
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-ic17.0-official-linux64-revF.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Dell-Platform-Flags-PowerEdge14G-revB.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic17.0-official-linux64-revF.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Dell-Platform-Flags-PowerEdge14G-revB.xml.