SPEC® CINT2006 Result

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IBM Corporation

IBM System p 570 (4.7 GHz, 8 core, RHEL)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Oct-2007
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Jun-2007
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Oct-2007
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER6
CPU Characteristics:
CPU MHz: 4700
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 8 cores, 4 chips, 2 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 2,4,8,12,16 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: 64 GB (32x2 GB) DDR2 667 MHz
Disk Subsystem: 2x73 GB SAS 15K RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1
for IBM POWER
Compiler: IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition for Linux, V9.0
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext3
System State: Multi-User
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: -IBM Post-Link Optimization for Linux on
POWER, Version 5.4.0-10
-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 16 1086 144 1085 144 1085 144 16 860 182 856 183 856 183
401.bzip2 16 860 180 858 180 858 180 16 766 201 766 202 767 201
403.gcc 16 645 200 646 199 644 200 16 565 228 569 226 566 227
429.mcf 16 403 362 403 362 404 361 16 402 363 401 363 402 363
445.gobmk 16 837 200 837 200 838 200 16 730 230 730 230 731 229
456.hmmer 16 846 176 844 177 840 178 16 800 187 792 189 794 188
458.sjeng 16 1089 178 1096 177 1089 178 16 974 199 974 199 974 199
462.libquantum 16 780 425 779 425 780 425 8 251 662 250 663 250 662
464.h264ref 16 1217 291 1226 289 1217 291 16 1006 352 1006 352 1006 352
471.omnetpp 16 646 155 646 155 645 155 16 620 161 620 161 620 161
473.astar 16 726 155 727 154 727 155 16 609 184 608 185 609 185
483.xalancbmk 16 512 216 512 216 512 216 16 482 229 482 229 482 229

General Notes

 kernel release 2.6.18-52.el5.

 See flags file for details on following settings.

 ulimit -s (stack) set to 262144.


 System set to Enhanced mode when defining partition on HMC

 Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
     echo 1600 > /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

 fdpr binary optimization tool used for
     400.perlbench 401.bzip2 403.gcc 429.mcf 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:  -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/lop-xl-flags.20090714.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/lop-xl-flags.20090714.xml.