SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM System x3950 X6
(Intel Xeon E7-8857 v2, 3.60 GHz)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jun-2014
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Jun-2014
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Nov-2013
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon E7-8857 v2
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.60 GHz
CPU MHz: 3000
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 96 cores, 8 chips, 12 cores/chip
CPU(s) orderable: 4,6,8 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: 30 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 2 TB (128 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC3L-12800R-11, ECC,
running at 1333 MHz)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 400 GB SATA, SSD
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5
(Santiago)
2.6.32-431.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 96 380   2470 381   2460 380   2470 96 318   2950 318   2950 317   2950
401.bzip2 96 561   1650 559   1660 561   1650 96 546   1700 546   1700 546   1700
403.gcc 96 331   2330 332   2330 332   2330 96 331   2330 332   2330 332   2330
429.mcf 96 194   4510 194   4500 194   4520 96 194   4510 194   4500 194   4520
445.gobmk 96 460   2190 459   2190 459   2200 96 453   2220 452   2230 453   2220
456.hmmer 96 192   4660 192   4650 193   4650 96 184   4870 183   4900 183   4900
458.sjeng 96 501   2320 501   2320 500   2320 96 482   2410 482   2410 482   2410
462.libquantum 96 90.2 22100 90.2 22100 90.2 22000 96 90.2 22100 90.2 22100 90.2 22000
464.h264ref 96 452   4700 449   4730 449   4730 96 439   4830 439   4840 440   4830
471.omnetpp 96 411   1460 411   1460 411   1460 96 406   1480 406   1480 407   1470
473.astar 96 378   1790 377   1790 378   1780 96 378   1790 377   1790 378   1780
483.xalancbmk 96 188   3520 190   3490 187   3530 96 188   3520 190   3490 187   3530

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"

Platform Notes

 Operating Mode set to Maximum Perfomance in BIOS
 Memory Data Scrambling Disabled
 Patrol Scrub Disabled
 Sysinfo program /cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013/config/sysinfo.rev6818
 $Rev: 6818 $ $Date:: 2012-07-17 #$ e86d102572650a6e4d596a3cee98f191
 running on x3950x6 Wed Jun 11 19:55:13 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 E7-8857 v2 @ 3.00GHz
       8 "physical id"s (chips)
       96 "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 : 12
       siblings  : 12
       physical 0: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 2: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 3: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 4: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 5: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 6: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 7: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
    cache size : 30720 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       2117464504 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    redhat-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
    system-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
    system-release-cpe: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6server:ga:server

 uname -a:
    Linux x3950x6 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Nov 10 22:19:54 EST 2013
    x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 Jun 11 15:56

 SPEC is set to: /cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013
    Filesystem                     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vg_x3950x6-lv_root ext4  357G  8.6G  330G   3% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   BIOS IBM -[A8E107JUS-1.00]- 05/02/2014
   Memory:
    64x Hynix HMT42GR7AFR4A-PB 16 GB 1333 MHz 2 rank
    64x NO DIMM Unknown
    64x Samsung M393B2G70QH0-YK0 16 GB 1333 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 = "/cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013/libs/32:/cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013/libs/64:/cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013/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-A.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-A.xml.