SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Cisco Systems

Cisco UCS C240 M4 (Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 @
3.50GHz)

CPU2006 license: 9019 Test date: Dec-2014
Test sponsor: Cisco Systems Hardware Availability: Sep-2014
Tested by: Cisco Systems Software Availability: Nov-2013
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.70 GHz
CPU MHz: 3500
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 8 cores, 2 chips, 4 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: 15 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 256 GB (16 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC4-2133P-R)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 300GB SAS, 15K RPM
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
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext4
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: Microquill SmartHeap V10.0

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 16 461   339 466   335 462   338 16 379   412 381   410 378   413
401.bzip2 16 672   230 673   229 673   229 16 641   241 641   241 640   241
403.gcc 16 371   348 372   347 370   348 16 372   346 371   347 374   345
429.mcf 16 239   610 242   604 244   597 16 239   610 242   604 244   597
445.gobmk 16 571   294 570   294 572   293 16 553   303 552   304 556   302
456.hmmer 16 222   671 225   664 222   673 16 218   683 218   684 218   685
458.sjeng 16 617   314 611   317 616   315 16 595   326 593   327 582   332
462.libquantum 16 70.1 4730 70.2 4720 73.0 4540 16 70.1 4730 70.2 4720 73.0 4540
464.h264ref 16 686   517 694   510 665   533 16 657   539 661   536 675   524
471.omnetpp 16 418   239 417   240 418   239 16 394   254 394   254 394   254
473.astar 16 441   255 433   260 433   259 16 441   255 433   260 433   259
483.xalancbmk 16 208   531 208   531 207   533 16 208   531 208   531 207   533

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

CPU performance set to HPC
Power Technology set to Custom
Processor Power State C6 set to Disabled
Energy Performance BIAS setting set to Performance
Memory RAS configuration set to Maximum Performance
Snoop Mode set to Early Snoop
 Sysinfo program /opt/cpu2006-1.2/config/sysinfo.rev6818
 $Rev: 6818 $ $Date:: 2012-07-17 #$ e86d102572650a6e4d596a3cee98f191
 running on rhel65 Wed Dec  3 13:13:34 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 E5-2637 v3 @ 3.50GHz
       2 "physical id"s (chips)
       16 "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 : 4
       siblings  : 8
       physical 0: cores 0 1 4 5
       physical 1: cores 0 1 4 5
    cache size : 15360 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       264260856 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 rhel65 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 Dec 3 13:11

 SPEC is set to: /opt/cpu2006-1.2
    Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sdb1      ext4  245G   32G  201G  14% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   BIOS Cisco Systems, Inc. C240M4.2.0.3c.0.091920142008 09/19/2014
   Memory:
    16x 0xCE00 M393A2G40DB0-CPB 16 GB 2133 MHz 2 rank
    8x NO DIMM NO DIMM

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/opt/cpu2006-1.2/libs/32:/opt/cpu2006-1.2/libs/64:/opt/cpu2006-1.2/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 -m32 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m32 

Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_IA32 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/sh -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

403.gcc:  -Dalloca=_alloca 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks (except as noted below):

 icc -m32 
400.perlbench:  icc -m64 
401.bzip2:  icc -m64 
456.hmmer:  icc -m64 
458.sjeng:  icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m32 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_X64 
401.bzip2:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
456.hmmer:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
458.sjeng:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

400.perlbench:  -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -auto-ilp32 
401.bzip2:  -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -opt-prefetch   -auto-ilp32   -ansi-alias 
403.gcc:  -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div 
429.mcf:  basepeak = yes 
445.gobmk:  -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -ansi-alias   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3 
456.hmmer:  -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -unroll2   -auto-ilp32 
458.sjeng:  -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll4   -auto-ilp32 
462.libquantum:  basepeak = yes 
464.h264ref:  -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -unroll2   -ansi-alias 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -ansi-alias   -opt-ra-region-strategy=block   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -L/sh -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  basepeak = yes 
483.xalancbmk:  basepeak = yes 

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

403.gcc:  -Dalloca=_alloca 

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/Cisco-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revC.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/Cisco-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revC.xml.