SPECaccel®2023 Result

Copyright 2023 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Supermciro (Test Sponsor: NVIDIA Corporation)

Tesla A100 PCIe 80GB

120GQ-TNRT

SPECaccel 2023_base = 2.57

SPECaccel 2023_peak = 2.57

accel2023 License: 9045 Test Date: Oct-2023
Test Sponsor: NVIDIA Corporation Hardware Availability: Mar-2023
Tested by: NVIDIA Corporation Software Availability: Nov-2023

Benchmark result graphs are available in the PDF report.

Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon Gold 6338
  Max MHz.: 3400
  Nominal: 2000
Enabled: 64 cores, 2 chips, 2 threads/core
Orderable: 2 chips
Cache L1: 32 KB I + 48 KB D on chip per core
  L2: 1280 KB I+D on chip per core
  L3: 48 MB I+D on chip per chip
  Other: None
Memory: 512 GB (16x 16GB, PC3200 CL3 DDR4)
Storage: 1TB SATA
Other: None
Base Threads Run: 1
Min. Peak Threads: 1
Max. Peak Threads: 1
Accelerator
Accel Model Name: A100 PCIe 80GB
Accel Vendor: NVIDIA
Accel Name: Tesla A100 PCIe 80GB
Type of Accel: GPU
Accel Connection: PCIe 4.0 16x
Does Accel Use ECC: Yes
Accel Description: See Notes
Accel Driver: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 525.60.13
Software
OS: Rocky Linux release 8.8 (Green Obsidian)
4.18.0-477.15.1.el8_8.x86_64
Compiler: C/Fortran: Version 23.11 of NVHPC SDK
Firmware: 1.1b 11/01/2021
File System: xfs
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Other: None
Base Parallel Model: LOP
Base Threads Run: 1
Peak Parallel Models: LOP
Max. Peak Threads: 1
Min. Peak Threads: 1

Results Table

Benchmark Base Peak
Model Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Model Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio
SPEC accel2023_base 2.57
SPEC accel2023_peak 2.57
Results appear in the order in which they were run. Bold underlined text indicates a median measurement.
403.stencil LOP 243 1.81 244 1.81 243 1.81 LOP 243 1.81 244 1.81 243 1.81
404.lbm LOP 136 3.34 136 3.34 136 3.35 LOP 136 3.34 136 3.34 136 3.35
450.md LOP 451 1.33 452 1.33 451 1.33 LOP 451 1.33 452 1.33 451 1.33
452.ep LOP 221 1.88 221 1.88 221 1.87 LOP 221 1.88 221 1.88 221 1.87
453.clvrleaf LOP 190 5.25 191 5.24 191 5.24 LOP 190 5.25 191 5.24 191 5.24
455.seismic LOP 243 3.21 244 3.19 245 3.18 LOP 243 3.21 244 3.19 245 3.18
456.spF LOP 141 3.36 141 3.36 144 3.29 LOP 141 3.36 141 3.36 144 3.29
457.spC LOP 224 2.41 223 2.42 223 2.42 LOP 224 2.41 223 2.42 223 2.42
459.miniGhost LOP 336 1.75 337 1.75 339 1.74 LOP 336 1.75 337 1.75 339 1.74
460.ilbdc LOP 235 2.36 235 2.36 235 2.36 LOP 235 2.36 235 2.36 235 2.36
463.swim LOP 213 2.06 213 2.07 224 1.96 LOP 213 2.06 213 2.07 224 1.96
470.bt LOP 218 4.83 218 4.83 218 4.83 LOP 218 4.83 218 4.83 218 4.83

Operating System Notes

Shell stacksize set to unlimited via "limit stacksize unlimited"

Platform Notes

 Information from nvaccelinfo
 CUDA Driver Version:           12000
 NVRM version:                  NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  525.60.13  Wed Nov 30 06:39:21 UTC 2022
 Device Number:                 0
 Device Name:                   NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe
 Device Revision Number:        8.0
 Global Memory Size:            85024112640
 Number of Multiprocessors:     108
 Concurrent Copy and Execution: Yes
 Total Constant Memory:         65536
 Total Shared Memory per Block: 49152
 Registers per Block:           65536
 Warp Size:                     32
 Maximum Threads per Block:     1024
 Maximum Block Dimensions:      1024, 1024, 64
 Maximum Grid Dimensions:       2147483647 x 65535 x 65535
 Maximum Memory Pitch:          2147483647B
 Texture Alignment:             512B
 Clock Rate:                    1410 MHz
 Execution Timeout:             No
 Integrated Device:             No
 Can Map Host Memory:           Yes
 Compute Mode:                  default
 Concurrent Kernels:            Yes
 ECC Enabled:                   Yes
 Memory Clock Rate:             1512 MHz
 Memory Bus Width:              5120 bits
 L2 Cache Size:                 41943040 bytes
 Max Threads Per SMP:           2048
 Async Engines:                 3
 Unified Addressing:            Yes
 Managed Memory:                Yes
 Concurrent Managed Memory:     Yes
 Preemption Supported:          Yes
 Cooperative Launch:            Yes
 Default Target:                cc80


 Sysinfo program /local/home/mcolgrove/ACCELV2/bin/sysinfo
 Rev: r6622 of 2021-04-07 b1a7d5f8f71be5aff70a755cad7211a0
 running on ice2 Tue Oct 24 10:32:15 2023

 SUT (System Under Test) info as seen by some common utilities.
 For more information on this section, see
    https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/Docs/config.html#sysinfo

 From /proc/cpuinfo
    model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6338 CPU @ 2.00GHz
       2  "physical id"s (chips)
       128 "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 : 32
       siblings  : 64
       physical 0: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
       25 26 27 28 29 30 31
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
       25 26 27 28 29 30 31

 From lscpu from util-linux 2.34:
      Architecture:                    x86_64
      CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit
      Byte Order:                      Little Endian
      Address sizes:                   46 bits physical, 57 bits virtual
      CPU(s):                          128
      On-line CPU(s) list:             0-127
      Thread(s) per core:              2
      Core(s) per socket:              32
      Socket(s):                       2
      NUMA node(s):                    2
      Vendor ID:                       GenuineIntel
      CPU family:                      6
      Model:                           106
      Model name:                      Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6338 CPU @ 2.00GHz
      Stepping:                        6
      Frequency boost:                 enabled
      CPU MHz:                         1774.338
      CPU max MHz:                     3200.0000
      CPU min MHz:                     800.0000
      BogoMIPS:                        4000.00
      Virtualization:                  VT-x
      L1d cache:                       3 MiB
      L1i cache:                       2 MiB
      L2 cache:                        80 MiB
      L3 cache:                        96 MiB
      NUMA node0 CPU(s):               0-31,64-95
      NUMA node1 CPU(s):               32-63,96-127
      Vulnerability Itlb multihit:     Not affected
      Vulnerability L1tf:              Not affected
      Vulnerability Mds:               Not affected
      Vulnerability Meltdown:          Not affected
      Vulnerability Mmio stale data:   Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
      Vulnerability Retbleed:          Not affected
      Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
      prctl and seccomp
      Vulnerability Spectre v1:        Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user
      pointer sanitization
      Vulnerability Spectre v2:        Mitigation; Enhanced IBRS, IBPB conditional, RSB
      filling, PBRSB-eIBRS SW sequence
      Vulnerability Srbds:             Not affected
      Vulnerability Tsx async abort:   Not affected
      Flags:                           fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
      pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx
      pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology
      nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2
      ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt
      tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault
      epb cat_l3 invpcid_single ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi
      flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid
      cqm rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap avx512ifma clflushopt clwb intel_pt
      avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc
      cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local wbnoinvd dtherm ida arat pln pts
      avx512vbmi umip pku ospke avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni
      avx512_bitalg tme avx512_vpopcntdq rdpid md_clear pconfig flush_l1d
      arch_capabilities

 From lscpu --cache:
      NAME ONE-SIZE ALL-SIZE WAYS TYPE        LEVEL
      L1d       48K       3M   12 Data            1
      L1i       32K       2M    8 Instruction     1
      L2       1.3M      80M   20 Unified         2
      L3        48M      96M   12 Unified         3

 /proc/cpuinfo cache data
    cache size : 49152 KB

 From numactl --hardware
 WARNING: a numactl 'node' might or might not correspond to a physical chip.
   available: 2 nodes (0-1)
   node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
   28 29 30 31 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88
   89 90 91 92 93 94 95
   node 0 size: 257622 MB
   node 0 free: 209175 MB
   node 1 cpus: 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
   57 58 59 60 61 62 63 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112
   113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127
   node 1 size: 257990 MB
   node 1 free: 244915 MB
   node distances:
   node   0   1
     0:  10  20
     1:  20  10

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       527987596 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor has
    performance

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    debian_version: bullseye/sid
    os-release:
       NAME="Ubuntu"
       VERSION="20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
       ID=ubuntu
       ID_LIKE=debian
       PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS"
       VERSION_ID="20.04"
       HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
       SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"

 uname -a:
    Linux ice2 5.4.0-153-generic #170-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 16 13:43:31 UTC 2023 x86_64
    x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 Kernel self-reported vulnerability status:

 CVE-2018-12207 (iTLB Multihit):                        Not affected
 CVE-2018-3620 (L1 Terminal Fault):                     Not affected
 Microarchitectural Data Sampling:                      Not affected
 CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown):                              Not affected
 mmio_stale_data:                                       Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT
                                                        vulnerable
 retbleed:                                              Not affected
 CVE-2018-3639 (Speculative Store Bypass):              Mitigation: Speculative Store
                                                        Bypass disabled via prctl and
                                                        seccomp
 CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre variant 1):                     Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs
                                                        barriers and __user pointer
                                                        sanitization
 CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2):                     Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB:
                                                        conditional, RSB filling,
                                                        PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
 CVE-2020-0543 (Special Register Buffer Data Sampling): Not affected
 CVE-2019-11135 (TSX Asynchronous Abort):               Not affected

 run-level 3 Aug 10 17:47

 SPEC is set to: /local/home/mcolgrove/ACCELV2
    Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/nvme1n1p1 ext4  916G   24G  846G   3% /local

 From /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id
     Vendor:         Supermicro
     Product:        SYS-120GQ-TNRT
     Product Family: SMC X12

 Cannot run dmidecode; consider saying (as root)
    chmod +s /usr/sbin/dmidecode

 BIOS:
    BIOS Vendor:       American Megatrends International, LLC.
    BIOS Version:      1.1b
    BIOS Date:         11/01/2021

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

Compiler Version Notes

==============================================================================
C          | 457.spC(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o: in function `_start':
(.text+0x24): undefined reference to `main'
pgacclnk: child process exit status 1: /usr/bin/ld
nvc 23.11-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp icelake-server 
NVIDIA Compilers and Tools
Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.  All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

==============================================================================
C          | 403.stencil(base) 404.lbm(base) 452.ep(base) 470.bt(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nvc 23.11-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp icelake-server 
NVIDIA Compilers and Tools
Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.  All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

==============================================================================
C          | 457.spC(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o: in function `_start':
(.text+0x24): undefined reference to `main'
pgacclnk: child process exit status 1: /usr/bin/ld
nvc 23.11-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp icelake-server 
NVIDIA Compilers and Tools
Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.  All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

==============================================================================
C          | 403.stencil(base) 404.lbm(base) 452.ep(base) 470.bt(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nvc 23.11-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp icelake-server 
NVIDIA Compilers and Tools
Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.  All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

==============================================================================
Fortran    | 450.md(base) 455.seismic(base) 456.spF(base) 460.ilbdc(base)
           | 463.swim(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nvfortran 23.11-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp icelake-server 
NVIDIA Compilers and Tools
Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.  All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

==============================================================================
Fortran, C | 453.clvrleaf(base) 459.miniGhost(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nvfortran 23.11-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp icelake-server 
NVIDIA Compilers and Tools
Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.  All rights reserved.
nvc 23.11-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp icelake-server 
NVIDIA Compilers and Tools
Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.  All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 nvc 

Fortran benchmarks:

 nvfortran 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 nvfortran   nvc 

Base Portability Flags

403.stencil:  -DSPEC_NO_NOTHING 
457.spC:  -mcmodel=medium   -Wl,--no-relax 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -Ofast   -mp=gpu   -Mfprelaxed   -Mstack_arrays   -static-nvidia 

Fortran benchmarks:

 -Ofast   -mp=gpu   -Mfprelaxed   -Mstack_arrays   -static-nvidia 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

453.clvrleaf:  -Ofast   -mp=gpu   -Mfprelaxed   -Mstack_arrays   -static-nvidia 
459.miniGhost:  -Mnomain   -Ofast   -mp=gpu   -Mfprelaxed   -Mstack_arrays   -static-nvidia 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

403.stencil:  basepeak = yes 
404.lbm:  basepeak = yes 
452.ep:  basepeak = yes 
457.spC:  basepeak = yes 
470.bt:  basepeak = yes 

Fortran benchmarks:

450.md:  basepeak = yes 
455.seismic:  basepeak = yes 
456.spF:  basepeak = yes 
460.ilbdc:  basepeak = yes 
463.swim:  basepeak = yes 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

453.clvrleaf:  basepeak = yes 
459.miniGhost:  basepeak = yes 

The flags file that was used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/accel2023/flags/nv2023_flags_v2.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/accel2023/flags/nv2023_flags_v2.xml.