SPEC® CINT2006 Result

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IBM Corporation

IBM Power 595 (5.0 GHz, 64 core, RedHat)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jun-2008
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Jun-2008
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: May-2008
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: POWER6
CPU Characteristics:
CPU MHz: 5000
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 64 cores, 32 chips, 2 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable: 8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64 cores
Primary Cache: 64 KB I + 64 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache: 4 MB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 32 MB I+D off chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 512 GB (256x2 GB) DDR2 667 MHz
Disk Subsystem: 4x146 GB SCSI 15K RPM
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.2
for IBM POWER
Compiler: IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition for Linux, V9.0
Updated with the Mar2008 PTF.
Auto Parallel: No
File System: ext3
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: -IBM Post-Link Optimization for Linux on
POWER, Version 5.4.0-17
-MicroQuill SmartHeap 8.1

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 128 1023 1220 1020 1230 1020 1230 128 814 1540 817 1530 815 1540
401.bzip2 128 816 1510 817 1510 817 1510 128 731 1690 731 1690 731 1690
403.gcc 128 574 1800 574 1790 574 1800 128 513 2010 513 2010 513 2010
429.mcf 128 399 2920 399 2930 399 2930 128 393 2970 392 2980 395 2960
445.gobmk 128 791 1700 791 1700 790 1700 128 625 2150 625 2150 626 2140
456.hmmer 128 799 1490 799 1490 796 1500 128 747 1600 751 1590 742 1610
458.sjeng 128 1011 1530 1014 1530 1010 1530 128 923 1680 922 1680 920 1680
462.libquantum 128 527 5030 527 5030 527 5030 128 419 6330 419 6330 418 6350
464.h264ref 128 1153 2460 1153 2460 1153 2460 128 909 3120 909 3120 910 3110
471.omnetpp 128 619 1290 620 1290 620 1290 128 589 1360 590 1360 589 1360
473.astar 128 673 1340 673 1330 673 1340 128 567 1590 567 1580 566 1590
483.xalancbmk 128 483 1830 483 1830 482 1830 128 465 1900 463 1910 463 1910

Submit Notes

The config file option 'submit' was used.

General Notes

 kernel release 2.6.18-92.el5.

 See flags file for details on following settings.

 ulimit -s (stack) set to 1048576.


 System in normal architected mode

 Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
     echo 8960 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
 System configured with libhugetlbfs library for application access to large pages
 Environment variables set before executing benchmarks.
     export HUGETLB_VERBOSE=0
     export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes
     export XLFRTEOPTS=intrinthds=1
 IBM Post-Link Optimization tool used for
     400.perlbench 401.bzip2 403.gcc 429.mcf 456.hmmer 458.sjeng
     462.libquantum 464.h264ref 473.astar 483.xalancbmk
 Benchmarks bound to a processor using numactl on the submit command.

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 xlc   -qlanglvl=extc99 

C++ benchmarks:

 xlC 

Base Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_PPC 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -qchars=signed 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -O5   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qalias=noansi   -qalloca   -lhugetlbfs 

C++ benchmarks:

 -O5   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 

Base Other Flags

C benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

C++ benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 xlc   -qlanglvl=extc99 

C++ benchmarks:

 xlC 

Peak Portability Flags

400.perlbench:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX_PPC 
403.gcc:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
462.libquantum:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
464.h264ref:  -qchars=signed 
483.xalancbmk:  -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

400.perlbench:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qalias=noansi   -lsmartheap 
401.bzip2:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -lhugetlbfs 
403.gcc:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qalloca   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
429.mcf:  -Wl,-q   -O5   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
445.gobmk:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O4   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qnoenablevmx   -lhugetlbfs 
456.hmmer:  Same as 401.bzip2 
458.sjeng:  Same as 401.bzip2 
462.libquantum:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qnoenablevmx   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 
464.h264ref:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -q64   -lhugetlbfs 

C++ benchmarks:

471.omnetpp:  -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qrtti   -lsmartheap 
473.astar:  -Wl,-q   -qpdf1(pass 1)   -qpdf2(pass 2)   -O5   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -qnoenablevmx   -lsmartheap 
483.xalancbmk:  -Wl,-q   -O4   -qarch=pwr6   -qtune=pwr6   -lsmartheap 

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

C++ benchmarks:

 -qipa=noobject   -qipa=threads 

The flags file that was used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20090713.00.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20090713.00.xml.