SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Bull SAS

NovaScale R480 F2 (Intel Xeon E7520, 1.87 GHz)

SPECint®2006 = 24.0

CPU2006 license: 20 Test date: Apr-2011
Test sponsor: Bull SAS Hardware Availability: Jul-2011
Tested by: Dell Inc. Software Availability: Jan-2011
Benchmark results graph
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++ Intel 64 Compiler XE for applications
running on Intel 64
Version 12.0.1.116 Build 20101116
Auto Parallel: Yes
File System: ext3
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32/64-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: Microquill SmartHeap V9.01

Results Table

Benchmark Base Peak
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.
400.perlbench 655   14.9 657   14.9 657   14.9 582   16.8 583   16.8 581   16.8
401.bzip2 879   11.0 878   11.0 878   11.0 838   11.5 837   11.5 837   11.5
403.gcc 554   14.5 552   14.6 551   14.6 532   15.1 532   15.1 536   15.0
429.mcf 376   24.2 375   24.3 377   24.2 329   27.7 330   27.7 328   27.8
445.gobmk 754   13.9 768   13.7 779   13.5 736   14.3 736   14.3 735   14.3
456.hmmer 350   26.7 350   26.7 350   26.7 345   27.0 345   27.0 345   27.0
458.sjeng 833   14.5 834   14.5 835   14.5 811   14.9 816   14.8 812   14.9
462.libquantum 31.0 669   31.0 669   34.4 603   31.0 669   31.0 669   34.4 603  
464.h264ref 1006   22.0 1011   21.9 1005   22.0 934   23.7 933   23.7 933   23.7
471.omnetpp 501   12.5 499   12.5 499   12.5 380   16.4 380   16.4 380   16.5
473.astar 502   14.0 503   13.9 509   13.8 502   14.0 503   13.9 509   13.8
483.xalancbmk 318   21.7 319   21.6 315   21.9 318   21.7 319   21.6 315   21.9

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)

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 

Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_X64 
401.bzip2:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
403.gcc:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
429.mcf:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
445.gobmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
456.hmmer:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
458.sjeng:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
471.omnetpp:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
473.astar:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -parallel   -opt-prefetch   -auto-p32   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/smartheap -lsmartheap64   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

403.gcc:  -Dalloca=_alloca 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks (except as noted below):

 icc -m64 
400.perlbench:  icc -m32 
429.mcf:  icc -m32 
445.gobmk:  icc -m32 
464.h264ref:  icc -m32 

C++ benchmarks (except as noted below):

 icpc -m64 
471.omnetpp:  icpc -m32 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_IA32 
401.bzip2:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
403.gcc:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
456.hmmer:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
458.sjeng:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
473.astar:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

400.perlbench:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -opt-prefetch   -ansi-alias   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 
401.bzip2:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div   -prof-use(pass 2)   -auto-ilp32   -opt-prefetch   -ansi-alias 
403.gcc:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -inline-calloc   -opt-malloc-options=3   -auto-ilp32   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 
429.mcf:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 
445.gobmk:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 
456.hmmer:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -unroll2   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-melf_x86_64 -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 
458.sjeng:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll4 
462.libquantum:  basepeak = yes 
464.h264ref:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll2   -ansi-alias   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -opt-ra-region-strategy=block   -ansi-alias   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/smartheap -lsmartheap   -B /usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -Wl,-hugetlbfs-link=BDT 
473.astar:  basepeak = yes 
483.xalancbmk:  basepeak = yes 

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

403.gcc:  -Dalloca=_alloca 

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.