SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM Power 730 Express (3.55 GHz, 16 core, SLES)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jul-2010
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Sep-2010
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Aug-2010
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER7
CPU Characteristics: Intelligent Energy Optimization
enabled, up to 3.86 GHz
CPU MHz: 3556
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 16 cores, 2 chips, 8 cores/chip, 4 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 16 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: 128 GB (16x8 GB) DDR3 1066 MHz
Disk Subsystem: 2x146.8 GB SAS SFF 15K RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
(ppc64), Kernel 2.6.32.12-0.7-ppc64
Compiler: IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V11.1
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 5.5.0-3
-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 64 1357 461 1412 443 1370 457 64 1201 521 1197 522 1148 545
401.bzip2 64 1364 453 1364 453 1367 452 64 1339 461 1321 468 1316 469
403.gcc 64 1064 484 1070 482 1068 482 64 993 519 1004 513 990 520
429.mcf 64 848 689 847 689 849 687 32 369 790 369 791 369 792
445.gobmk 64 1074 625 1071 627 1071 627 64 910 738 907 740 912 736
456.hmmer 64 1117 535 1114 536 1114 536 64 658 907 665 898 663 901
458.sjeng 64 1277 606 1276 607 1274 608 64 1162 666 1161 667 1168 663
462.libquantum 64 2178 609 2171 611 2172 610 32 1058 627 1050 631 1055 628
464.h264ref 64 1930 734 1890 749 1868 758 64 1728 820 1749 810 1749 810
471.omnetpp 64 1701 235 1696 236 1696 236 64 1666 240 1668 240 1667 240
473.astar 64 1131 397 1130 397 1131 397 64 1066 422 1079 416 1062 423
483.xalancbmk 64 757 583 764 578 756 584 64 724 610 735 601 720 614

Peak Tuning Notes

fdpr binary optimization tool used for:
  400.perlbench
     with options -O4 -omullX for optimization phase,
     and -imullX for instrumentation phase
  401.bzip2
     with options -O4 -vrox
  403.gcc
     with options -O4 -nodp -rtb
  429.mcf 445.gobmk 458.sjeng 473.astar
     with options -O3
  456.hmmer
     with options -O4 -nodp -m power7
  462.libquantum
     with options -O4 -vrox -nodp
  464.h264ref
     with options -O4 -vrox -nodp -rtb
  471.omnetpp
     with options -O3 -lu -1 -nodp -sdp 9
  483.xalancbmk
     with options -O3 -m power7

Submit Notes

The config file option 'submit' was used.
Benchmarks bound to a processor using numactl on the submit command.

Operating System Notes

ulimit -s (stack) set to 1048576.
Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
  echo 3520 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
The following environment varibles were set before the runspec command:
  export XLFRTEOPTS=intrinthds=1
  export HUGETLB_VERBOSE=0
  export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes
  export HUGETLB_ELFMAP=RW

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   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qalias=noansi   -qalloca   -lhugetlbfs 

C++ benchmarks:

 -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

 -qipa=threads 

C++ benchmarks:

 -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   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qalias=noansi   -qipa=level=2   -lsmartheap 
401.bzip2:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O3   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -lhugetlbfs 
403.gcc:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qalloca   -lhugetlbfs 
429.mcf:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -lhugetlbfs 
445.gobmk:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -lhugetlbfs 
456.hmmer:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qsimd   -qassert=refalign   -qipa=inline=threshold=2888   -qipa=inline=limit=11880   -lhugetlbfs 
458.sjeng:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -lhugetlbfs 
462.libquantum:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
464.h264ref:  Same as 458.sjeng 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -lhugetlbfs   -lsmartheap 
483.xalancbmk:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qarch=pwr7   -qtune=pwr7   -lsmartheap 

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

 -qipa=threads 

C++ benchmarks:

 -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.20100901.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20100901.xml.