SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM System x3550 M4
(Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2, 3.50 GHz)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Aug-2014
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Dec-2013
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Sep-2013
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.80 GHz
CPU MHz: 3500
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 12 cores, 2 chips, 6 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 1,2 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: 25 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 256 GB (16 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC3-14900R-13, ECC)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 400 GB SAS SSD, RAID 0
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4
(Santiago)
2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64
Compiler: C/C++: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel C++ Studio XE
for Linux
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext4
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: Microquill SmartHeap V10.0

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 24 528 444 529 443 529 444 24 443 529 444 529 443 529
401.bzip2 24 672 344 672 345 672 345 24 654 354 655 353 653 355
403.gcc 24 391 494 392 492 395 489 24 391 494 392 492 395 489
429.mcf 24 232 945 231 947 231 947 24 232 945 231 947 231 947
445.gobmk 24 570 442 574 439 578 435 24 556 453 561 449 557 452
456.hmmer 24 274 819 273 819 273 820 24 244 918 244 916 244 918
458.sjeng 24 672 432 666 436 672 432 24 650 447 654 444 648 448
462.libquantum 24 127 3900 127 3900 127 3910 24 127 3900 127 3900 127 3910
464.h264ref 24 714 744 713 745 712 746 24 703 756 703 755 708 750
471.omnetpp 24 442 339 442 339 443 339 24 416 360 415 361 415 361
473.astar 24 464 363 470 358 465 362 24 464 363 470 358 465 362
483.xalancbmk 24 242 684 242 685 242 684 24 242 684 242 685 242 684

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"
 Zone reclaim mode enabled with:
 echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode
 Intel Idle Driver disabled with the following Linux kernel parameter in /etc/grub.conf:
 intel_idle.max_cstate=0

Platform Notes

 BIOS setting:
 Operating Mode set to Maximum Performance
 Sysinfo program /home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0/config/sysinfo.rev6818
 $Rev: 6818 $ $Date:: 2012-07-17 #$ e86d102572650a6e4d596a3cee98f191
 running on x3550M4 Thu Aug  7 13:42:19 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 E5-2643 v2 @ 3.50GHz
       2 "physical id"s (chips)
       24 "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 : 6
       siblings  : 12
       physical 0: cores 2 3 4 8 9 10
       physical 1: cores 2 3 4 8 9 10
    cache size : 25600 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       264464556 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    redhat-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
    system-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
    system-release-cpe: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6server:ga:server

 uname -a:
    Linux x3550M4 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 2 17:04:38 EDT 2013
    x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 Aug 7 13:40

 SPEC is set to: /home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0
    Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vg_x3550m4-lv_home
                  ext4    312G  208G   90G  70% /home

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   BIOS IBM -[D7E139YUS-1.70]- 05/13/2014
   Memory:
    8x Not Specified Not Specified
    16x Samsung M393B2G70QH0-CMA 16 GB 1867 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 = "/home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0/libs/32:/home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0/libs/64:/home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0/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 -m32 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m32 

Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_IA32 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/sh -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

403.gcc:  -Dalloca=_alloca 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks (except as noted below):

 icc -m32 
400.perlbench:  icc -m64 
401.bzip2:  icc -m64 
456.hmmer:  icc -m64 
458.sjeng:  icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m32 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_X64 
401.bzip2:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
456.hmmer:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
458.sjeng:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
483.xalancbmk:  -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)   -auto-ilp32 
401.bzip2:  -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   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias 
403.gcc:  basepeak = yes 
429.mcf:  basepeak = yes 
445.gobmk:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -ansi-alias   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3 
456.hmmer:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -unroll2   -auto-ilp32 
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   -auto-ilp32 
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 

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)   -ansi-alias   -opt-ra-region-strategy=block   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/sh -lsmartheap 
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-ic14.0-official-linux64.20140128.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-IVB-B.html.

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