SPEC® CINT2006 Result

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IBM Corporation

IBM System p 570 (4.7 GHz, 4 core, SLES)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jun-2007
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Jun-2007
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Sep-2007
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER6
CPU Characteristics:
CPU MHz: 4700
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 4 cores, 2 chips, 2 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 2,4,8,12,16 cores
Primary Cache: 64 KB I + 64 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache: 4 MB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 32 MB I+D off chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 32 GB (16x2 GB) DDR2 667 MHz
Disk Subsystem: 2x73 GB SAS 15K RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP1
Compiler: IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition for Linux, V9.0
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ReiserFS
System State: Multi-User
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: -Post-Link Optimization for Linux on
POWER, Version 5.4.0
-MicroQuill SmartHeap 7.3

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 8 1114 70.2 1110 70.4 1110 70.4 8 894 87.5 893 87.5 893 87.5
401.bzip2 8 855 90.3 855 90.3 854 90.4 8 761 101   760 102   760 102  
403.gcc 8 637 101   640 101   637 101   8 553 117   549 117   550 117  
429.mcf 8 392 186   391 186   392 186   8 387 189   387 189   387 189  
445.gobmk 8 844 99.5 843 99.5 844 99.5 8 736 114   736 114   737 114  
456.hmmer 8 836 89.3 837 89.2 837 89.2 8 772 96.7 772 96.6 772 96.7
458.sjeng 8 1090 88.8 1085 89.2 1086 89.2 8 980 98.7 981 98.7 982 98.6
462.libquantum 8 590 281   590 281   590 281   4 260 318   260 318   260 318  
464.h264ref 8 1213 146   1210 146   1210 146   8 1002 177   1002 177   1006 176  
471.omnetpp 8 758 66.0 756 66.1 757 66.1 8 712 70.2 714 70.0 712 70.3
473.astar 8 780 72.0 781 71.9 781 71.9 8 676 83.1 675 83.2 675 83.2
483.xalancbmk 8 550 100   550 100   549 100   8 512 108   513 108   512 108  

General Notes

 kernel release 2.6.16.46-0.12-ppc64.

 See flags file for details on following settings.

 ulimit -s (stack) set to unlimited.


 System set to Enhanced mode when defining partition on HMC

 Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
     echo 800 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
 System configured with libhugetlbfs library for application access to large pages
 Environment variables set before executing benchmarks.
     export HUGETLB_VERBOSE=0
     export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes
     export HUGETLB_MORECORE_HEAPBASE=0x50000000
     export XLFRTEOPTS=intrinthds=1

 fdpr binary optimization tool used for
     400.perlbench 401.bzip2 403.gcc 429.mcf 456.hmmer 458.sjeng
     462.libquantum 464.h264ref 473.astar 483.xalancbmk

 Benchmarks bound to a processor using taskset on the submit command.

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 xlc   -qlanglvl=extc99 

C++ benchmarks:

 xlC 

Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_PPC 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -qchars=signed 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -O5   -qalias=noansi   -qalloca   -lhugetlbfs 

C++ benchmarks:

 -O5   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

C++ benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 xlc   -qlanglvl=extc99 

C++ benchmarks:

 xlC 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_PPC 
403.gcc:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -qchars=signed 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

400.perlbench:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qalias=noansi   -lsmartheap 
401.bzip2:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -lhugetlbfs 
403.gcc:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qalloca   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
429.mcf:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
445.gobmk:  -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
456.hmmer:  Same as 401.bzip2 
458.sjeng:  Same as 401.bzip2 
462.libquantum:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
464.h264ref:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
483.xalancbmk:  -Wl,-q   -O4   -lsmartheap 

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

C++ benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

The flags file that was used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/lop-xl-flags.20090714.01.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/lop-xl-flags.20090714.01.xml.