SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM BladeCenter PS702 Express (3.0 GHz, 16 core,
SLES)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Mar-2010
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Jun-2010
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Dec-2009
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER7
CPU Characteristics: Intelligent Energy Optimization
enabled, up to 3.30 GHz
CPU MHz: 3000
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: 4 MB I+D on chip per core
Other Cache: None
Memory: 128 GB (32x4 GB) DDR3 1066 MHz
Disk Subsystem: 1x300 GB SAS SFF 10K RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
(ppc64), Kernel 2.6.27.19-5-ppc64
Compiler: IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V10.1
Updated with the Oct2009 PTF
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 5.5.0-1
-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 1616 387 1615 387 1603 390 64 1328 471 1316 475 1321 473
401.bzip2 64 1548 399 1567 394 1566 394 64 1455 424 1469 420 1454 425
403.gcc 64 1157 445 1154 446 1166 442 64 1061 485 1054 489 1054 489
429.mcf 64 929 628 932 626 931 627 32 413 707 411 710 412 709
445.gobmk 64 1393 482 1394 482 1385 485 64 1098 611 1093 614 1094 614
456.hmmer 64 1405 425 1406 425 1405 425 64 1060 563 1067 560 1079 553
458.sjeng 64 1545 501 1535 504 1531 506 64 1417 547 1424 544 1421 545
462.libquantum 64 2196 604 2195 604 2189 606 16 511 648 515 644 513 646
464.h264ref 64 2329 608 2298 616 2253 629 64 2077 682 2116 669 2112 671
471.omnetpp 64 1721 232 1733 231 1731 231 64 1703 235 1714 233 1713 233
473.astar 64 1354 332 1351 333 1348 333 64 1196 376 1209 372 1210 371
483.xalancbmk 64 846 522 832 531 832 531 64 802 551 787 561 788 560

Submit Notes

The config file option 'submit' was used.
Benchmarks bound to a processor using numactl on the submit command.

Operating System Notes

 ulimit -s (stack) set to 1048576.
 Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
     echo 3520 > /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

General Notes


   IBM Post-Link Optimization tool with
   options "-O4 -omullX -see 0 -m power6" used for
       400.perlbench 401.bzip2 403.gcc 456.hmmer 458.sjeng
       483.xalancbmk
   options "-bf -dp -hr -las -pca -RC -RD -rmte -si -tlo -A 64 -isf 104 -lu 8 -rt 0.16
           -hrf 0.18 -ihf 40 -sdp 6 -sdpms 128 -shci 65 -si -sidf 45 -omullX" used for
      429.mcf
   options "-q -O3 -A 32 -omullX" used for
      445.gobmk
   options "-bf -dp -lro -nop -RC -RD -tb -tlo -vro -A 4
           -isf 88 -lu 8 -hrf 0.10 -sdp 4 -lun 27 -omullX" used for
      462.libquantum
   options "-O4 -omullX -see 1" used for
      473.astar
   options "-O4" used for
      464.h264ref
   Whenever option "-omullX" was used during the optimization phase,
      option "-imullX" was also used during the instrumentation phase.

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 
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)   -O3   -qarch=auto   -qtune=auto   -lhugetlbfs 
403.gcc:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qalloca   -lhugetlbfs 
429.mcf:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
445.gobmk:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
456.hmmer:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -lhugetlbfs 
458.sjeng:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -lhugetlbfs 
462.libquantum:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
464.h264ref:  Same as 456.hmmer 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qnoenablevmx   -lsmartheap 
483.xalancbmk:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -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.20100302.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20100302.xml.