SPEC® CINT2006 Result

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IBM Corporation

IBM Power 755 (3.3 GHz, 32 core, SLES)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jan-2010
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Feb-2010
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Dec-2009
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER7
CPU Characteristics: Intelligent Energy Optimization
enabled, up to 3.64 GHz
CPU MHz: 3300
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 32 cores, 4 chips, 8 cores/chip, 4 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 32 cores
Primary Cache: 32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache: 256 KB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 4 MB I+D on chip per core
Other Cache: None
Memory: 256 GB (32x8 GB) DDR3 1066 MHz
Disk Subsystem: 8x146.8 GB SAS SFF 15K RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
(ppc64), Kernel 2.6.27.19-5-ppc64
Compiler: IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V10.1
Updated with the Oct2009 PTF
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext3
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: -Post-Link Optimization for Linux on
POWER, Version 5.5.0-1
-MicroQuill SmartHeap 9

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 128 1486 841 1483 843 1467 853 128 1258 994 1210 1030 1233 1010
401.bzip2 128 1497 825 1521 812 1511 817 128 1428 865 1428 865 1420 870
403.gcc 128 1148 898 1143 902 1145 900 128 1054 978 1040 991 1053 979
429.mcf 128 939 1240 936 1250 941 1240 64 430 1360 423 1380 423 1380
445.gobmk 128 1278 1050 1277 1050 1277 1050 128 1010 1330 1021 1310 1016 1320
456.hmmer 128 1300 919 1299 920 1300 919 128 973 1230 984 1210 987 1210
458.sjeng 128 1436 1080 1429 1080 1434 1080 128 1322 1170 1323 1170 1316 1180
462.libquantum 128 2250 1180 2250 1180 2266 1170 32 522 1270 523 1270 522 1270
464.h264ref 128 2135 1330 2077 1360 2070 1370 128 1897 1490 1934 1460 1992 1420
471.omnetpp 128 1865 429 1865 429 1863 429 128 1849 433 1845 434 1847 433
473.astar 128 1333 674 1334 674 1333 674 128 1201 748 1206 745 1206 745
483.xalancbmk 128 857 1030 851 1040 858 1030 128 821 1080 817 1080 816 1080

Submit Notes

The config file option 'submit' was used.

Operating System Notes

 ulimit -s (stack) set to 1048576.
 Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
     echo 7040 > /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

General Notes

   The "IBM Power 750 Express (3.3 GHz)" and "IBM Power 755 (3.3 GHz)"
   are electronically equivalent. The results have been measured on the
   "IBM Power 755 (3.3 GHz)"

   IBM Post-Link Optimization tool with
   options "-O4 -omullX -see 0 -m power6" used for
       400.perlbench 401.bzip2 403.gcc 456.hmmer 458.sjeng
       483.xalancbmk
   options "-bf -dp -hr -las -pca -RC -RD -rmte -si -tlo -A 64 -isf 104 -lu 8 -rt 0.16
           -hrf 0.18 -ihf 40 -sdp 6 -sdpms 128 -shci 65 -si -sidf 45 -omullX" used for
      429.mcf
   options "-q -O3 -A 32 -omullX" used for
      445.gobmk
   options "-bf -dp -lro -nop -RC -RD -tb -tlo -vro -A 4
           -isf 88 -lu 8 -hrf 0.10 -sdp 4 -lun 27 -omullX" used for
      462.libquantum
   options "-O4 -omullX -see 1" used for
      473.astar
   options "-O4" used for
      464.h264ref
   Whenever option "-omullX" was used during the optimization phase,
      option "-imullX" was also used during the instrumentation phase.

 Benchmarks bound to a processor using numactl on the submit command.
 See flags file for details on settings.

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 
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)   -O3   -qarch=auto   -qtune=auto   -lhugetlbfs 
403.gcc:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qalloca   -lhugetlbfs 
429.mcf:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
445.gobmk:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
456.hmmer:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -lhugetlbfs 
458.sjeng:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -lhugetlbfs 
462.libquantum:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qnoenablevmx   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
464.h264ref:  Same as 456.hmmer 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qnoenablevmx   -lsmartheap 
483.xalancbmk:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -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/IBM-Linux-XL.20100302.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20100302.xml.