SPEC® CFP2006 Result

IBM Corporation

IBM Flex System x220
(Intel Xeon E5-2450, 2.10 GHz)

SPECfp®2006 = 71.9

SPECfp_base2006 = 68.2

CPU2006 license:	11	Test date:	May-2012
Test sponsor:	IBM Corporation	Hardware Availability:	Jun-2012
Tested by:	IBM Corporation	Software Availability:	Dec-2011

Hardware
CPU Name:	Intel Xeon E5-2450
CPU Characteristics:	Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.90 GHz
CPU MHz:	2100
FPU:	Integrated
CPU(s) enabled:	16 cores, 2 chips, 8 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:	256 KB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache:	20 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache:	None
Memory:	96 GB (12 x 8 GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R-11, ECC)
Disk Subsystem:	1 x 500 GB SAS, 10000 RPM
Other Hardware:	None

Software
Operating System:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago) 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64
Compiler:	C/C++: Version 12.1.0.225 of Intel C++ Studio XE for Linux; Fortran: Version 12.1.0.225 of Intel Fortran Studio XE for Linux
Auto Parallel:	Yes
File System:	ext4
System State:	Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers:	64-bit
Peak Pointers:	32/64-bit
Other Software:	None

Results Table

Benchmark	Base						Peak
Benchmark	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.
410.bwaves	52.2	260	47.4	286	47.4	286	52.2	260	47.4	286	47.4	286
416.gamess	770	25.4	770	25.4	770	25.4	641	30.5	642	30.5	641	30.5
433.milc	167	54.9	167	54.8	167	55.0	164	55.8	164	55.8	163	56.2
434.zeusmp	71.6	127	72.0	126	71.8	127	71.6	127	72.0	126	71.8	127
435.gromacs	304	23.5	303	23.5	304	23.5	304	23.5	303	23.5	304	23.5
436.cactusADM	29.7	402	29.5	405	29.7	403	29.7	402	29.5	405	29.7	403
437.leslie3d	65.6	143	63.6	148	65.8	143	65.6	143	63.6	148	65.8	143
444.namd	405	19.8	405	19.8	405	19.8	398	20.2	398	20.2	398	20.2
447.dealII	258	44.3	259	44.2	259	44.2	258	44.3	259	44.2	259	44.2
450.soplex	216	38.6	216	38.6	216	38.6	216	38.6	216	38.6	216	38.6
453.povray	144	36.8	145	36.8	147	36.2	122	43.5	122	43.6	121	43.8
454.calculix	251	32.9	251	32.8	251	32.9	230	35.8	230	35.8	229	36.1
459.GemsFDTD	83.5	127	83.1	128	83.9	126	72.2	147	71.8	148	72.0	147
465.tonto	341	28.8	345	28.5	343	28.7	265	37.1	269	36.6	265	37.2
470.lbm	33.8	406	34.6	397	34.0	404	33.8	406	34.6	397	34.0	404
481.wrf	187	59.9	186	60.1	185	60.3	187	59.9	186	60.1	185	60.3
482.sphinx3	321	60.8	322	60.5	324	60.1	317	61.5	319	61.2	319	61.2

Operating System Notes

 Stack size set to unlimited using "ulimit -s unlimited"

Platform Notes

 Operating Mode set to Maximum Perfomance in BIOS
 Sysinfo program /cpu2006.1.2/config/sysinfo.rev6800
 $Rev: 6800 $ $Date:: 2011-10-11 #$ 6f2ebdff5032aaa42e583f96b07f99d3
 running on kestral-pete Sun May 27 11:29:25 2012

 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) CPU E5-2450 0 @ 2.10GHz
       2 "physical id"s (chips)
       32 "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 : 8
       siblings  : 16
       physical 0: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    cache size : 20480 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       99042568 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    redhat-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
    system-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
    system-release-cpe: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6server:ga:server

 uname -a:
    Linux kestral-pete 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 9 08:03:13 EST 2011
    x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 May 25 12:03

 SPEC is set to: /cpu2006.1.2
    Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vg_kestralpete-lv_root
                  ext4    449G  6.1G  420G   2% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   Memory:
    12x Micron 36JSF1G72PZ-1G6M1 8 GB 1600 MHz 2 rank

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
KMP_AFFINITY = "granularity=fine,compact,1,0"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/cpu2006.1.2/libs/32:/cpu2006.1.2/libs/64"
OMP_NUM_THREADS = "16"

 Binaries compiled on a system with 1x Core i7-860 CPU + 8GB
 memory using RHEL5.5
 Transparent Huge Pages enabled with:
 echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/enabled

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

icc -m64

C++ benchmarks:

icpc -m64

Fortran benchmarks:

ifort -m64

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

icc -m64 ifort -m64

Base Portability Flags

410.bwaves:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
416.gamess:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
433.milc:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
434.zeusmp:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
435.gromacs:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64 -nofor_main
436.cactusADM:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64 -nofor_main
437.leslie3d:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
444.namd:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
447.dealII:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
450.soplex:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
453.povray:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
454.calculix:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64 -nofor_main
459.GemsFDTD:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
465.tonto:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
470.lbm:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
481.wrf:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64 -DSPEC_CPU_CASE_FLAG -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX
482.sphinx3:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

icc -m64

C++ benchmarks:

icpc -m64

Fortran benchmarks:

ifort -m64

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

icc -m64 ifort -m64

Peak Portability Flags

Same as Base Portability Flags

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

433.milc:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -static -auto-ilp32 -ansi-alias
470.lbm:	basepeak = yes
482.sphinx3:	-xAVX -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -unroll2 -ansi-alias -parallel

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -fno-alias -auto-ilp32
447.dealII:	basepeak = yes
450.soplex:	basepeak = yes
453.povray:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -unroll4 -ansi-alias

Fortran benchmarks:

410.bwaves:	basepeak = yes
416.gamess:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -unroll2 -inline-level=0 -scalar-rep- -static
434.zeusmp:	basepeak = yes
437.leslie3d:	basepeak = yes
459.GemsFDTD:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -unroll2 -inline-level=0 -opt-prefetch -parallel
465.tonto:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -inline-calloc -opt-malloc-options=3 -auto -unroll4

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:	basepeak = yes
436.cactusADM:	basepeak = yes
454.calculix:	-xAVX -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -auto-ilp32 -ansi-alias
481.wrf:	basepeak = yes

The flags files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.1-official-linux64.20120425.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-SNB-C.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.1-official-linux64.20120425.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-SNB-C.xml.