SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM System x3630 M4
(Intel Xeon E5-2428L v2, 1.80 GHz)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jun-2014
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Mar-2014
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Nov-2013
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon E5-2428L v2
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.30 GHz
CPU MHz: 1800
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: 192 GB (12 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R-11, ECC)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 2 TB SATA, 7200 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 32 951 329 951 329 951 329 32 784 399 785 398 786 398
401.bzip2 32 1257 246 1265 244 1259 245 32 1231 251 1230 251 1231 251
403.gcc 32 701 367 704 366 703 366 32 701 367 704 366 703 366
429.mcf 32 401 729 401 728 401 728 32 401 729 401 728 401 728
445.gobmk 32 1044 321 1046 321 1044 322 32 996 337 1018 330 1021 329
456.hmmer 32 498 600 497 600 498 600 32 449 665 451 661 449 664
458.sjeng 32 1203 322 1203 322 1205 321 32 1163 333 1161 334 1162 333
462.libquantum 32 227 2920 227 2920 227 2930 32 227 2920 227 2920 227 2930
464.h264ref 32 1292 548 1282 553 1293 548 32 1275 556 1280 553 1275 555
471.omnetpp 32 747 268 743 269 746 268 32 703 284 702 285 702 285
473.astar 32 862 261 862 261 861 261 32 862 261 862 261 861 261
483.xalancbmk 32 445 496 447 494 445 497 32 445 496 447 494 445 497

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"
 Zone reclaim mode enabled with:
 echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode
 Intel Idle Driver disabled with the following Linux kernel parameter in /etc/grub.conf:
 intel_idle.max_cstate=0

Platform Notes

 BIOS setting:
 Operating Mode set to Maximum Performance
 Sysinfo program /home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0/config/sysinfo.rev6818
 $Rev: 6818 $ $Date:: 2012-07-17 #$ e86d102572650a6e4d596a3cee98f191
 running on x3630M4 Thu Jun 19 01:20:21 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 E5-2428L v2 @ 1.80GHz
       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:       198461904 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 x3630M4 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 Jun 17 17:41

 SPEC is set to: /home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0
    Filesystem                     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vg_x3630m4-lv_home ext4  1.8T   11G  1.7T   1% /home

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   BIOS IBM -[BEE135VUS-1.60]- 01/14/2014
   Memory:
    12x Samsung M393B2G70QH0-YK0 16 GB 1600 MHz 2 rank

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0/libs/32:/home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0/libs/64:/home/SPECcpu-20140116-ic14.0/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:

 -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -opt-prefetch   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xSSE4.2   -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:  -xSSE4.2(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:  -xSSE4.2(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:  basepeak = yes 
429.mcf:  basepeak = yes 
445.gobmk:  -xSSE4.2(pass 2)   -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -ansi-alias   -opt-mem-layout-trans=3 
456.hmmer:  -xSSE4.2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -unroll2   -auto-ilp32 
458.sjeng:  -xSSE4.2(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:  -xSSE4.2(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:  -xSSE4.2(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/IBM-Platform-Flags-V1.2-IVB-B.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-B.xml.