SPEC® CFP2006 Result

IBM Corporation

IBM System x3950 X6
(Intel Xeon E7-8850 v2, 2.30 GHz)

SPECfp®_rate2006 = 2430

SPECfp_rate_base2006 = 2380

CPU2006 license:	11	Test date:	May-2014
Test sponsor:	IBM Corporation	Hardware Availability:	Jun-2014
Tested by:	IBM Corporation	Software Availability:	Nov-2013

Hardware
CPU Name:	Intel Xeon E7-8850 v2
CPU Characteristics:	Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.80 GHz
CPU MHz:	2300
FPU:	Integrated
CPU(s) enabled:	96 cores, 8 chips, 12 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable:	4,6,8 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:	24 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache:	None
Memory:	2 TB (128 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC3L-12800R-11, ECC, running at 1066 MHz)
Disk Subsystem:	1 x 400 GB SATA, SSD
Other Hardware:	None

Software
Operating System:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
Compiler:	C/C++: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel C++ Studio XE for Linux; Fortran: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel Fortran Studio XE for Linux
Auto Parallel:	No
File System:	ext4
System State:	Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers:	32/64-bit
Peak Pointers:	32/64-bit
Other Software:	None

Results Table

Benchmark	Base							Peak
Benchmark	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.
410.bwaves	192	1232	2120	1233	2120	1229	2120	192	1232	2120	1233	2120	1229	2120
416.gamess	192	1395	2700	1400	2690	1388	2710	192	1372	2740	1377	2730	1373	2740
433.milc	192	859	2050	859	2050	859	2050	192	860	2050	858	2050	859	2050
434.zeusmp	192	665	2630	664	2630	663	2640	192	665	2630	664	2630	663	2640
435.gromacs	192	427	3210	430	3190	430	3190	192	425	3220	423	3240	424	3230
436.cactusADM	192	793	2890	791	2900	796	2880	192	793	2890	791	2900	796	2880
437.leslie3d	192	1308	1380	1307	1380	1308	1380	96	593	1520	598	1510	596	1510
444.namd	192	710	2170	714	2160	726	2120	192	710	2170	714	2160	726	2120
447.dealII	192	492	4470	490	4480	491	4470	192	492	4470	490	4480	491	4470
450.soplex	192	1171	1370	1172	1370	1173	1370	96	574	1390	576	1390	577	1390
453.povray	192	279	3660	277	3690	280	3650	192	238	4290	238	4300	237	4310
454.calculix	192	571	2770	566	2800	570	2780	192	571	2770	566	2800	570	2780
459.GemsFDTD	192	1598	1280	1601	1270	1599	1270	192	1598	1280	1601	1270	1599	1270
465.tonto	192	720	2620	717	2630	717	2640	192	692	2730	692	2730	693	2730
470.lbm	192	1055	2500	1055	2500	1056	2500	192	1055	2500	1055	2500	1056	2500
481.wrf	192	856	2510	851	2520	857	2500	192	849	2520	851	2520	852	2520
482.sphinx3	192	1642	2280	1640	2280	1644	2280	192	1642	2280	1640	2280	1644	2280

Submit Notes

 The numactl mechanism was used to bind copies to processors. The config file option 'submit'
 was used to generate numactl commands to bind each copy to a specific processor.
 For details, please see the config file.

Operating System Notes

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

Platform Notes

 Operating Mode set to Maximum Perfomance in BIOS
 Memory Data Scrambling Disabled
 Patrol Scrub Disabled
 Sysinfo program /cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013/config/sysinfo.rev6818
 $Rev: 6818 $ $Date:: 2012-07-17 #$ e86d102572650a6e4d596a3cee98f191
 running on x3950x6 Wed May 21 07:25:56 2014

 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 E7-8850 v2 @ 2.30GHz
       8 "physical id"s (chips)
       192 "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 : 12
       siblings  : 24
       physical 0: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 2: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 3: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 4: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 5: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 6: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
       physical 7: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13
    cache size : 24576 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       2117452600 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    redhat-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
    system-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
    system-release-cpe: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6server:ga:server

 uname -a:
    Linux x3950x6 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Nov 10 22:19:54 EST 2013
    x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 May 20 11:52

 SPEC is set to: /cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013
    Filesystem                     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vg_x3950x6-lv_root ext4  357G  8.3G  331G   3% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   BIOS IBM -[A8E107JUS-1.00]- 05/02/2014
   Memory:
    64x Hynix HMT42GR7AFR4A-PB 16 GB 1067 MHz 2 rank
    64x NO DIMM Unknown
    64x Samsung M393B2G70QH0-YK0 16 GB 1067 MHz 2 rank

 (End of data from sysinfo program)
Memory speed from dmidecode lists the downclocked speed of the run.

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013/libs/32:/cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013/libs/64:/cpu2006.1.2_14_aug2013/sh"

 Binaries compiled on a system with 1x Core i7-860 CPU + 8GB
 memory using RedHat EL 6.4
 Transparent Huge Pages enabled with:
 echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/enabled
 Filesystem page cache cleared with:
 echo 1>       /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
 runspec command invoked through numactl i.e.:
 numactl --interleave=all runspec <etc>

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 (except as noted below):

	icpc -m64
450.soplex:	icpc -m32

Fortran benchmarks:

ifort -m64

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

icc -m64 ifort -m64

Peak 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
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 Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

433.milc:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -opt-mem-layout-trans=3(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -auto-ilp32
470.lbm:	basepeak = yes
482.sphinx3:	basepeak = yes

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:	basepeak = yes
447.dealII:	basepeak = yes
450.soplex:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -opt-mem-layout-trans=3(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -opt-malloc-options=3
453.povray:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -opt-mem-layout-trans=3(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-
434.zeusmp:	basepeak = yes
437.leslie3d:	-xAVX -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -opt-prefetch
459.GemsFDTD:	basepeak = yes
465.tonto:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -unroll4 -auto -inline-calloc -opt-malloc-options=3

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -opt-mem-layout-trans=3(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -opt-prefetch -auto-ilp32
436.cactusADM:	basepeak = yes
454.calculix:	basepeak = yes
481.wrf:	-xAVX -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -auto-ilp32

The flags files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic14.0-official-linux64.20140128.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-IVB-A.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic14.0-official-linux64.20140128.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-IVB-A.xml.