SPEC® CFP2006 Result

IBM Corporation

IBM Flex System x480 X6
(Intel Xeon E7-4870 v2, 2.30 GHz)

SPECfp®_rate2006 = 1560

SPECfp_rate_base2006 = 1530

CPU2006 license:	11	Test date:	Jul-2014
Test sponsor:	IBM Corporation	Hardware Availability:	Jun-2014
Tested by:	IBM Corporation	Software Availability:	Nov-2013

Hardware
CPU Name:	Intel Xeon E7-4870 v2
CPU Characteristics:	Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.90 GHz
CPU MHz:	2300
FPU:	Integrated
CPU(s) enabled:	60 cores, 4 chips, 15 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable:	2,4 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:	1 TB (64 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC3L-12800R-11, ECC, running at 1333 MHz)
Disk Subsystem:	1 x 300 GB SAS, 10000 RPM
Other Hardware:	None

Software
Operating System:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
Compiler:	C/C++: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel C++ Studio XE for Linux; Fortran: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel Fortran Studio XE for Linux
Auto Parallel:	No
File System:	ext4
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
Benchmark	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	120	1210	1350	1213	1340	1217	1340	120	1210	1350	1213	1340	1217	1340
416.gamess	120	1411	1670	1414	1660	1415	1660	120	1373	1710	1363	1720	1362	1730
433.milc	120	846	1300	845	1300	845	1300	120	845	1300	844	1310	844	1300
434.zeusmp	120	639	1710	636	1720	639	1710	120	639	1710	636	1720	639	1710
435.gromacs	120	432	1980	432	1980	433	1980	120	425	2010	427	2010	424	2020
436.cactusADM	120	787	1820	788	1820	789	1820	120	787	1820	788	1820	789	1820
437.leslie3d	120	1282	880	1284	878	1284	878	60	587	961	588	960	588	959
444.namd	120	685	1400	684	1410	691	1390	120	680	1410	691	1390	684	1410
447.dealII	120	477	2880	477	2880	478	2870	120	477	2880	477	2880	478	2870
450.soplex	120	1149	871	1149	871	1148	872	60	558	897	559	895	555	902
453.povray	120	283	2250	282	2260	281	2270	120	249	2560	242	2630	246	2600
454.calculix	120	439	2260	438	2260	439	2250	120	439	2260	438	2260	439	2250
459.GemsFDTD	120	1569	811	1568	812	1569	811	120	1569	811	1568	812	1569	811
465.tonto	120	717	1650	718	1640	719	1640	120	681	1730	687	1720	683	1730
470.lbm	120	1025	1610	1025	1610	1025	1610	120	1025	1610	1025	1610	1025	1610
481.wrf	120	865	1550	864	1550	865	1550	120	851	1580	850	1580	852	1570
482.sphinx3	120	1605	1460	1605	1460	1604	1460	120	1605	1460	1605	1460	1604	1460

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

 Operating Mode set to Maximum Perfomance in BIOS
 Memory Data Scrambling Disabled
 Patrol Scrub Disabled
 Sysinfo program /cpu2006.1.2_14.0_aug2013/config/sysinfo.rev6818
 $Rev: 6818 $ $Date:: 2012-07-17 #$ e86d102572650a6e4d596a3cee98f191
 running on newport-rhel6.5 Sat Jul 26 07:29:17 2014

 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 E7-4870 v2 @ 2.30GHz
       4 "physical id"s (chips)
       120 "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 : 15
       siblings  : 30
       physical 0: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
       physical 2: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
       physical 3: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
    cache size : 30720 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       1058503308 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    redhat-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
    system-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
    system-release-cpe: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6server:ga:server

 uname -a:
    Linux newport-rhel6.5 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Nov 10 22:19:54 EST
    2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 Jul 24 22:33 last=5

 SPEC is set to: /cpu2006.1.2_14.0_aug2013
    Filesystem                          Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vg_newportrhel6-lv_root ext4  265G   29G  223G  12% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   BIOS IBM -[N2E107JUS-1.00]- 05/03/2014
   Memory:
    32x Hynix HMT42GR7AFR4A-PB 16 GB 1333 MHz 2 rank
    32x NO DIMM Unknown
    32x Samsung M393B2G70QH0-YK0 16 GB 1333 MHz 2 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_14.0_aug2013/libs/32:/cpu2006.1.2_14.0_aug2013/libs/64:/cpu2006.1.2_14.0_aug2013/sh"

 Binaries compiled on a system with 1x Core i7-860 CPU + 8GB
 memory using RedHat EL 6.4
 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 -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

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

icc -m64

C++ benchmarks (except as noted below):

	icpc -m64
450.soplex:	icpc -m32

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
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:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -opt-mem-layout-trans=3(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -auto-ilp32
470.lbm:	basepeak = yes
482.sphinx3:	basepeak = yes

C++ benchmarks:

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

Fortran benchmarks:

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

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -opt-mem-layout-trans=3(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -opt-prefetch -auto-ilp32
436.cactusADM:	basepeak = yes
454.calculix:	basepeak = yes
481.wrf:	-xAVX -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -auto-ilp32

The flags files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-IVB-A.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic14.0-official-linux64.20140128.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-IVB-A.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic14.0-official-linux64.20140128.xml.