SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2017 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Cisco Systems

Cisco UCS C240 M5 (Intel Xeon Platinum 8156,
3.60GHz)

CPU2006 license: 9019 Test date: Aug-2017
Test sponsor: Cisco Systems Hardware Availability: Aug-2017
Tested by: Cisco Systems Software Availability: Apr-2017
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.70 GHz
CPU MHz: 3600
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 8 cores, 2 chips, 4 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: 1 MB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 16.5 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 384 GB (24 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666V-R)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 480 GB SSD SAS
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 (x86_64)
4.4.21-69-default
Compiler: C/C++: Version 17.0.3.191 of Intel C/C++
Compiler for Linux
Auto Parallel: Yes
File System: xfs
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: Microquill SmartHeap V10.2

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 16 409   382 407   384 410   381 16 337   463 338   463 338   463
401.bzip2 16 611   253 624   248 616   251 16 578   267 582   265 583   265
403.gcc 16 314   410 316   408 314   410 16 313   411 310   416 314   410
429.mcf 16 185   791 182   800 184   793 16 185   791 182   800 184   793
445.gobmk 16 539   312 539   311 539   311 16 540   311 541   310 542   310
456.hmmer 16 195   765 195   767 194   768 16 148   1010 148   1010 148   1010
458.sjeng 16 585   331 585   331 585   331 16 543   356 543   356 544   356
462.libquantum 16 36.9 8980 37.0 8960 37.0 8950 16 36.9 8980 37.0 8960 37.0 8950
464.h264ref 16 592   599 619   572 597   593 16 604   586 576   614 607   583
471.omnetpp 16 375   266 376   266 376   266 16 344   290 343   292 344   291
473.astar 16 357   315 355   316 357   315 16 357   315 355   316 357   315
483.xalancbmk 16 151   732 150   737 151   731 16 151   732 150   737 151   731

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

BIOS Settings:
Intel HyperThreading Technology set to Enabled
CPU performance set to Enterprise
Power Performance Tuning set to OS
SNC set to Enabled
IMC Interleaving set to 1-way Interleave
Patrol Scrub set to Disabled
 Sysinfo program /home/cpu2006-1.2/config/sysinfo.rev6993
 Revision 6993 of 2015-11-06 (b5e8d4b4eb51ed28d7f98696cbe290c1)
 running on linux-j64x Thu Aug 24 02:38:12 2017

 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) Platinum 8156 CPU @ 3.60GHz
       2 "physical id"s (chips)
       16 "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 : 4
       siblings  : 8
       physical 0: cores 5 8 10 11
       physical 1: cores 3 4 6 7
    cache size : 16896 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       394864400 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    SuSE-release:
       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)
       VERSION = 12
       PATCHLEVEL = 2
       # This file is deprecated and will be removed in a future service pack or
       release.
       # Please check /etc/os-release for details about this release.
    os-release:
       NAME="SLES"
       VERSION="12-SP2"
       VERSION_ID="12.2"
       PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2"
       ID="sles"
       ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
       CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:12:sp2"

 uname -a:
    Linux linux-j64x 4.4.21-69-default #1 SMP Tue Oct 25 10:58:20 UTC 2016
    (9464f67) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 Aug 24 02:00

 SPEC is set to: /home/cpu2006-1.2
    Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sdb7      xfs   416G   19G  398G   5% /home
 Additional information from dmidecode:

    Warning: Use caution when you interpret this section. The 'dmidecode' program
    reads system data which is "intended to allow hardware to be accurately
    determined", but the intent may not be met, as there are frequent changes to
    hardware, firmware, and the "DMTF SMBIOS" standard.

   BIOS Cisco Systems, Inc. C240M5.3.1.1d.0.0615170707 06/15/2017
   Memory:
    24x 0xCE00 M393A2G40EB2-CTD 16 GB 2 rank 2666 MHz

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/home/cpu2006-1.2/lib/ia32:/home/cpu2006-1.2/lib/intel64:/home/cpu2006-1.2/sh10.2"

 Binaries compiled on a system with 1x Intel Core i7-4790 CPU + 32GB RAM
 memory using Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.2
 Transparent Huge Pages enabled with:
 echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
 Filesystem page cache cleared with:
 shell invocation of 'sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' prior to run
 runspec command invoked through numactl i.e.:
 numactl --interleave=all runspec <etc>

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 icc -m32 -L/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2017/linux/lib/ia32 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m32 -L/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2017/linux/lib/ia32 

Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_IA32 
401.bzip2:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
403.gcc:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
429.mcf:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
445.gobmk:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
456.hmmer:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
458.sjeng:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
462.libquantum:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
471.omnetpp:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
473.astar:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
483.xalancbmk:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/sh10.2 -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

403.gcc:  -Dalloca=_alloca 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks (except as noted below):

 icc -m32 -L/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2017/linux/lib/ia32 
400.perlbench:  icc -m64 
401.bzip2:  icc -m64 
456.hmmer:  icc -m64 
458.sjeng:  icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m32 -L/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2017/linux/lib/ia32 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_X64 
401.bzip2:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
403.gcc:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
429.mcf:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
445.gobmk:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
456.hmmer:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
458.sjeng:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
462.libquantum:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
471.omnetpp:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
473.astar:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
483.xalancbmk:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

400.perlbench:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -auto-ilp32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
401.bzip2:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-ilp32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
403.gcc:  -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
429.mcf:  basepeak = yes 
445.gobmk:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
456.hmmer:  -xCORE-AVX512   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -unroll2   -auto-ilp32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
458.sjeng:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -unroll4   -auto-ilp32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
462.libquantum:  basepeak = yes 
464.h264ref:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -unroll2   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX512(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -qopt-ra-region-strategy=block    -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/sh10.2 -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-ic17.0-official-linux64-revF.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Cisco-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revH.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic17.0-official-linux64-revF.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Cisco-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revH.xml.