SPEC® CFP2006 Result

Bull SAS

NovaScale R480 F2 (Intel Xeon E7520, 1.87 GHz)

SPECfp®2006 = 39.3

SPECfp_base2006 = 36.2

CPU2006 license:	20	Test date:	Apr-2011
Test sponsor:	Bull SAS	Hardware Availability:	Jul-2011
Tested by:	Dell Inc.	Software Availability:	Apr-2011

Hardware
CPU Name:	Intel Xeon E7520
CPU Characteristics:
CPU MHz:	1866
FPU:	Integrated
CPU(s) enabled:	16 cores, 4 chips, 4 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:	18 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache:	None
Memory:	512 GB (64 x 8 GB 4Rx8 PC3-8500R-7, ECC, running at 800 MHz)
Disk Subsystem:	1 x 500 GB 7200 RPM SAS 6Gb
Other Hardware:	None

Software
Operating System:	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (x86_64), Kernel 2.6.32.12-0.7-default
Compiler:	Intel C++ and Fortran Intel 64 Compiler XE for applications running on Intel 64 Version 12.0 Update 3
Auto Parallel:	Yes
File System:	ext3
System State:	Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers:	64-bit
Peak Pointers:	32/64-bit
Other Software:	None

Results Table

Benchmark	Base						Peak
Benchmark	Seconds	Ratio	Seconds	Ratio	Seconds	Ratio	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	49.7	273	49.5	274	49.5	274	51.7	263	49.3	276	49.5	274
416.gamess	1505	13.0	1507	13.0	1507	13.0	1271	15.4	1263	15.5	1266	15.5
433.milc	506	18.1	503	18.2	506	18.2	506	18.1	503	18.2	506	18.2
434.zeusmp	132	68.8	132	68.9	132	68.9	132	68.8	132	68.9	132	68.9
435.gromacs	575	12.4	575	12.4	574	12.4	537	13.3	538	13.3	538	13.3
436.cactusADM	56.9	210	56.9	210	57.5	208	56.9	210	56.9	210	57.5	208
437.leslie3d	74.3	127	74.6	126	73.4	128	74.3	127	74.6	126	73.4	128
444.namd	732	11.0	732	11.0	733	10.9	719	11.2	720	11.1	719	11.1
447.dealII	538	21.3	537	21.3	538	21.3	538	21.3	537	21.3	538	21.3
450.soplex	572	14.6	561	14.9	564	14.8	572	14.6	561	14.9	564	14.8
453.povray	312	17.0	315	16.9	312	17.1	247	21.5	248	21.5	247	21.5
454.calculix	493	16.7	491	16.8	492	16.8	445	18.5	445	18.5	446	18.5
459.GemsFDTD	177	60.1	139	76.5	200	53.0	115	91.9	95.1	112	173	61.2
465.tonto	686	14.3	702	14.0	693	14.2	526	18.7	525	18.8	526	18.7
470.lbm	44.2	311	44.2	311	44.2	311	44.2	311	44.2	311	44.2	311
481.wrf	438	25.5	430	25.9	439	25.4	438	25.5	430	25.9	439	25.4
482.sphinx3	592	32.9	595	32.8	596	32.7	556	35.0	540	36.1	557	35.0

Operating System Notes

 'ulimit -s unlimited' was used to set the stacksize to unlimited prior to run
 'mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/hugepages' was used to enable large pages
 echo 900 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
 export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes
 export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so

Platform Notes

 BIOS Settings:
 Power Management = Maximum Performance (Default = Active Power Controller)
 Node Interleaving = Enabled (Default = Disabled)

General Notes

The Dell PowerEdge R910 and
the Bull NovaScale R480 F2 models are electronically equivalent.
The results have been measured on a Dell PowerEdge R910 model.
 OMP_NUM_THREADS set to number of cores
 Binaries were compiled on RHEL5.5

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:

icpc -m64

Fortran benchmarks:

ifort -m64

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

icc -m64 ifort -m64

Peak Portability Flags

Same as Base Portability Flags

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

433.milc:	basepeak = yes
470.lbm:	basepeak = yes
482.sphinx3:	-xSSE4.2 -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -unroll2 -ansi-alias -parallel

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:	-xSSE4.2(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -fno-alias -auto-ilp32
447.dealII:	basepeak = yes
450.soplex:	basepeak = yes
453.povray:	-xSSE4.2(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -unroll4 -ansi-alias -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT

Fortran benchmarks:

410.bwaves:	-xSSE4.2 -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -opt-prefetch -parallel -static
416.gamess:	-xSSE4.2(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- -static
434.zeusmp:	basepeak = yes
437.leslie3d:	basepeak = yes
459.GemsFDTD:	-xSSE4.2(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 -opt-prefetch -parallel -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT
465.tonto:	-xSSE4.2(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -inline-calloc -opt-malloc-options=3 -auto -unroll4 -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:	-xSSE4.2(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -static -auto-ilp32 -ansi-alias
436.cactusADM:	basepeak = yes
454.calculix:	-xSSE4.2 -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -auto-ilp32 -ansi-alias
481.wrf:	basepeak = yes

The flags files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.0-linux64-revB.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-Linux64-Platform.20110524.00.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.0-linux64-revB.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-Linux64-Platform.20110524.00.xml.