SPEC® CINT2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2014 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM Corporation

IBM System x3950 X6
(Intel Xeon E7-8893 v2, 3.40 GHz)

CPU2006 license: 11 Test date: Jun-2014
Test sponsor: IBM Corporation Hardware Availability: Jun-2014
Tested by: IBM Corporation Software Availability: Nov-2013
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon E7-8893 v2
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.70 GHz
CPU MHz: 3400
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 48 cores, 8 chips, 6 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: 37.5 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 2 TB (128 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC3L-12800R-11, ECC,
running at 1333 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
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 96 556 1690 558 1680 555 1690 96 476 1970 475 1980 476 1970
401.bzip2 96 683 1360 680 1360 680 1360 96 658 1410 659 1410 658 1410
403.gcc 96 430 1800 429 1800 430 1800 96 430 1800 429 1800 430 1800
429.mcf 96 268 3270 268 3270 268 3270 96 268 3270 268 3270 268 3270
445.gobmk 96 610 1650 609 1650 609 1650 96 593 1700 594 1700 597 1690
456.hmmer 96 282 3180 282 3180 282 3180 96 252 3560 252 3550 251 3570
458.sjeng 96 726 1600 727 1600 727 1600 96 691 1680 690 1680 691 1680
462.libquantum 96 133 14900 133 15000 133 15000 96 133 14900 133 15000 133 15000
464.h264ref 96 732 2900 697 3050 698 3050 96 732 2900 697 3050 698 3050
471.omnetpp 96 522 1150 521 1150 521 1150 96 487 1230 487 1230 488 1230
473.astar 96 487 1380 491 1370 489 1380 96 487 1380 491 1370 489 1380
483.xalancbmk 96 257 2570 257 2570 259 2550 96 257 2570 257 2570 259 2550

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 Fri Jun  6 16:34:56 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 E7-8893 v2 @ 3.40GHz
       8 "physical id"s (chips)
       96 "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 : 6
       siblings  : 12
       physical 0: cores 3 4 5 6 10 11
       physical 1: cores 3 4 5 6 10 11
       physical 2: cores 3 4 5 6 10 11
       physical 3: cores 3 4 5 6 10 11
       physical 4: cores 3 4 5 6 10 11
       physical 5: cores 3 4 5 6 10 11
       physical 6: cores 3 4 5 6 10 11
       physical 7: cores 3 4 5 6 10 11
    cache size : 38400 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       2117464504 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 Jun 6 16:29

 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  8.6G  330G   3% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:
   BIOS IBM -[A8E107JUS-1.00]- 05/02/2014
   Memory:
    64x Hynix HMT42GR7AFR4A-PB 16 GB 1333 MHz 2 rank
    64x NO DIMM Unknown
    64x Samsung M393B2G70QH0-YK0 16 GB 1333 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 = "/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 -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:  basepeak = yes 

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-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.