SPEC® CINT2006 Result

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IBM Corporation

IBM Power 575 (4.7 GHz, 32 core, RedHat)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: May-2008
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: May-2008
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: May-2008
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER6
CPU Characteristics:
CPU MHz: 4700
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 32 cores, 16 chips, 2 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 32 cores
Primary Cache: 64 KB I + 64 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache: 4 MB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 32 MB I+D off chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 128 GB (64x2 GB) DDR2 533 MHz
Disk Subsystem: 2x146 GB SFF SAS 10K RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.2
for IBM POWER
Compiler: IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition for Linux, V9.0
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext3
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: -IBM Post-Link Optimization for Linux on
POWER, Version 5.4.0-17
-MicroQuill SmartHeap 8.1

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 1167 536 1174 532 1177 531 64 1196 523 1153 542 1102 567
401.bzip2 64 943 655 954 647 949 651 64 858 720 867 712 864 715
403.gcc 64 645 799 644 800 642 803 64 578 892 574 898 576 894
429.mcf 64 433 1350 431 1350 432 1350 64 429 1360 428 1360 425 1370
445.gobmk 64 836 803 837 802 835 804 64 667 1010 667 1010 667 1010
456.hmmer 64 844 708 845 706 844 708 64 790 756 786 760 784 762
458.sjeng 64 1064 728 1063 728 1076 719 64 981 789 985 786 981 789
462.libquantum 64 826 1610 825 1610 824 1610 32 250 2650 250 2650 250 2650
464.h264ref 64 1223 1160 1216 1160 1216 1160 64 976 1450 979 1450 994 1430
471.omnetpp 64 693 577 693 577 693 577 64 670 597 670 597 670 597
473.astar 64 731 615 729 616 728 617 64 611 735 611 736 614 732
483.xalancbmk 64 578 765 582 758 579 763 64 520 850 520 850 520 850

General Notes

 kernel release 2.6.18-91.el5.
 See flags file for details on following settings.

 ulimit -s (stack) set to 1048576.

 System set to Enhanced mode when defining partition on HMC
 System set to "Chip affinity" mode using the HMC command
  chsyscfg ... -i "addr_broadcast_perf_policy=chip_affinity"
 Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
     echo 4240 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
 System configured with libhugetlbfs library for application access to large pages
 Environment variables set before executing benchmarks.
     export HUGETLB_VERBOSE=0
     export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes
     export XLFRTEOPTS=intrinthds=1

 IBM Post-Link Optimization tool used for
     400.perlbench 401.bzip2 403.gcc 429.mcf 445.gobmk 456.hmmer 458.sjeng
     462.libquantum 464.h264ref 473.astar 483.xalancbmk

 Benchmarks bound to a processor using numactl on the submit command.

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   -qalias=noansi   -qalloca   -lhugetlbfs 

C++ benchmarks:

 -O5   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

C++ benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 xlc   -qlanglvl=extc99 

C++ benchmarks:

 xlC 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_PPC 
403.gcc:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
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   -qalias=noansi   -lsmartheap 
401.bzip2:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -lhugetlbfs 
403.gcc:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qalloca   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
429.mcf:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
445.gobmk:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
456.hmmer:  Same as 401.bzip2 
458.sjeng:  Same as 401.bzip2 
462.libquantum:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
464.h264ref:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -lsmartheap 
483.xalancbmk:  -Wl,-q   -O4   -lsmartheap 

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

C++ benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

The flags file that was used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20090713.00.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20090713.00.xml.