SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM System p 570 (4.7 GHz, 1 core, RHEL)

SPECint®2006 = 21.7

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Oct-2007
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Jun-2007
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Oct-2007
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER6
CPU Characteristics:
CPU MHz: 4700
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 1 core, 1 chip, 2 cores/chip
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: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1
for IBM POWER
Compiler: IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition for Linux, V9.0
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext3
System State: Multi-User
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: -IBM Post-Link Optimization for Linux on
POWER, Version 5.4.0-10
-MicroQuill SmartHeap 8.1

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 867 11.3 867 11.3 867 11.3 672 14.5 672 14.5 672 14.5
401.bzip2 678 14.2 681 14.2 676 14.3 595 16.2 597 16.2 598 16.1
403.gcc 479 16.8 479 16.8 479 16.8 391 20.6 392 20.6 391 20.6
429.mcf 259 35.2 259 35.2 259 35.2 246 37.1 246 37.1 246 37.1
445.gobmk 665 15.8 665 15.8 665 15.8 570 18.4 570 18.4 570 18.4
456.hmmer 721 12.9 721 12.9 721 12.9 573 16.3 573 16.3 573 16.3
458.sjeng 873 13.9 873 13.9 874 13.9 768 15.7 768 15.8 768 15.7
462.libquantum 402 51.5 402 51.6 402 51.6 209 99.3 208 99.4 208 99.5
464.h264ref 933 23.7 933 23.7 932 23.7 725 30.5 725 30.5 725 30.5
471.omnetpp 431 14.5 431 14.5 434 14.4 404 15.5 402 15.6 402 15.5
473.astar 582 12.1 582 12.1 582 12.1 484 14.5 485 14.5 485 14.5
483.xalancbmk 381 18.1 381 18.1 381 18.1 355 19.4 356 19.4 356 19.4

General Notes

 kernel release 2.6.18-52.el5.

 See flags file for details on following settings.

 ulimit -s (stack) set to 262144.


 System set to Enhanced mode when defining partition on HMC

 Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
     echo 200 > /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 XLFRTEOPTS=intrinthds=1
 Linux booted with the options:
        maxcpus=1 smt-enabled=off

 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 numactl 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   -lsmartheap 
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.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/lop-xl-flags.20090714.xml.