CPU2006 Flag Description
Bull SAS NovaScale B280 (Intel Xeon L5420, 2.50 GHz)

Copyright © 2006 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.


Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks

C++ benchmarks


Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks (except as noted below)

401.bzip2

456.hmmer

C++ benchmarks


Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench

462.libquantum

483.xalancbmk


Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench

401.bzip2

456.hmmer

462.libquantum

483.xalancbmk


Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks

C++ benchmarks


Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks

400.perlbench

401.bzip2

403.gcc

429.mcf

445.gobmk

456.hmmer

458.sjeng

462.libquantum

464.h264ref

C++ benchmarks

471.omnetpp

473.astar

483.xalancbmk


Base Other Flags

C benchmarks

403.gcc


Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks

403.gcc


Implicitly Included Flags

This section contains descriptions of flags that were included implicitly by other flags, but which do not have a permanent home at SPEC.


System and Other Tuning Information

One or more of the following settings may have been set. If so, the corresponding notes sections of the report will say so; and you can read below to find out more about what these settings mean.

OMP_NUM_THREADS

This Environment Variable sets the maximum number of threads to use for OpenMP* parallel regions if no other value is specified in the application. This environment variable applies to both -openmp and -parallel (Linux and Mac OS X) or /Qopenmp and /Qparallel (Windows). Example syntax on a Linux system with 8 cores:
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=8
Default is the number of cores visible to the OS.

KMP_AFFINITY

KMP_AFFINITY = < physical | logical >, starting-core-id
This Environment Variable specifies the static mapping of user threads to physical cores, for example, if you have a system configured with 8 cores, OMP_NUM_THREADS=8 and KMP_AFFINITY=physical,2. Thread 0 will mapped to core 2, thread 1 will be mapped to core 3, and so on in a round-robin fashion.

Hardware Prefetch:

This BIOS option allows the enabling/disabling of a processor mechanism to prefetch data into the cache according to a pattern-recognition algorithm.

In some cases, setting this option to Disabled may improve performance. Users should only disable this option after performing application benchmarking to verify improved performance in their environment.

Adjacent Sector Prefetch:

This BIOS option allows the enabling/disabling of a processor mechanism to fetch the adjacent cache line within an 128-byte sector that contains the data needed due to a cache line miss.

In some cases, setting this option to Disabled may improve performance. Users should only disable this option after performing application benchmarking to verify improved performance in their environment.

Snoop Filter Enabled/Disabled:

This BIOS option enables/disables the Snoop Filter. The Snoop Filter is designed to reduce system bus utilization coming from cache misses. On the Intel 5000X and 5400 chipset, it is built as a cache structure able to minimize unnecessary snoop traffic.
When enabled, it can lead to significant memory performance improvements for several workstation applications on suitable memory configurations.

ulimit -s < n | unlimited >

This Linux command (a bash builtin command) sets the stack size to n kbytes, or unlimited to allow the stack size to grow without limit.

submit= MYMASK=`printf '0x%x' \$((1<<\$SPECCOPYNUM))`; /usr/bin/taskset \$MYMASK $command

When running multiple copies of benchmarks, the SPEC config file feature submit is sometimes used to cause individual jobs to be bound to specific processors. This specific submit command is used for Linux. The description of the elements of the command are:


Flag description origin markings:

[user] Indicates that the flag description came from the user flags file.
[suite] Indicates that the flag description came from the suite-wide flags file.
[benchmark] Indicates that the flag description came from a per-benchmark flags file.

The flags file that was used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/EM64T_Intel101_int_flags.20090713.00.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/EM64T_Intel101_int_flags.20090713.00.xml.


For questions about the meanings of these flags, please contact the tester.
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Tested with SPEC CPU2006 v1.0.
Report generated on Tue Jul 22 19:03:56 2014 by SPEC CPU2006 flags formatter v6906.