SPEC® CFP2006 Result

Copyright 2006-2017 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Cisco Systems

Cisco UCS C240 M5 (Intel Xeon Platinum 8156,
3.60GHz)

CPU2006 license: 9019 Test date: Aug-2017
Test sponsor: Cisco Systems Hardware Availability: Aug-2017
Tested by: Cisco Systems Software Availability: Apr-2017
Benchmark results graph
Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon Platinum 8156
CPU Characteristics: Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.70 GHz
CPU MHz: 3600
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: 1 MB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache: 16.5 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory: 384 GB (24 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666V-R)
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 480 GB SSD SAS
Other Hardware: None
Software
Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 (x86_64)
4.4.21-69-default
Compiler: C/C++: Version 17.0.3.191 of Intel C/C++
Compiler for Linux;
Fortran: Version 17.0.3.191 of Intel Fortran
Compiler for Linux
Auto Parallel: Yes
File System: xfs
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 32/64-bit
Peak Pointers: 32/64-bit
Other Software: None

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.
410.bwaves 16 334 651 335 649 334 651 16 334 651 334 650 334 651
416.gamess 16 686 457 689 455 686 457 16 663 472 664 472 664 472
433.milc 16 207 709 207 709 207 710 16 207 709 207 709 207 710
434.zeusmp 16 229 636 228 638 227 641 16 229 636 228 638 227 641
435.gromacs 16 197 579 202 565 195 586 16 199 574 189 604 192 597
436.cactusADM 16 285 671 288 664 285 670 16 285 671 288 664 285 670
437.leslie3d 16 417 361 397 379 404 372 16 392 383 396 380 392 384
444.namd 16 360 357 361 356 359 357 16 359 357 359 358 358 358
447.dealII 16 254 721 254 721 254 722 16 254 721 254 721 254 722
450.soplex 16 352 379 350 382 350 381 16 339 394 339 393 340 392
453.povray 16 134 634 134 636 134 633 16 116 734 116 731 116 732
454.calculix 16 182 726 183 721 184 717 16 182 726 183 721 184 717
459.GemsFDTD 16 528 322 527 322 530 320 16 527 322 530 320 530 320
465.tonto 16 293 538 287 549 290 543 16 273 576 270 583 272 580
470.lbm 16 365 602 365 603 365 602 16 365 602 365 603 365 602
481.wrf 16 245 728 245 729 243 737 16 245 728 245 729 243 737
482.sphinx3 16 630 495 629 496 626 498 16 630 495 629 496 626 498

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

BIOS Settings:
Intel HyperThreading Technology set to Enabled
CPU performance set to Enterprise
Power Performance Tuning set to OS
SNC set to Enabled
IMC Interleaving set to 1-way Interleave
Patrol Scrub set to Disabled
 Sysinfo program /home/cpu2006-1.2/config/sysinfo.rev6993
 Revision 6993 of 2015-11-06 (b5e8d4b4eb51ed28d7f98696cbe290c1)
 running on linux-j64x Thu Aug 24 10:02:08 2017

 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) Platinum 8156 CPU @ 3.60GHz
       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 5 8 10 11
       physical 1: cores 3 4 6 7
    cache size : 16896 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       394864400 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    SuSE-release:
       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)
       VERSION = 12
       PATCHLEVEL = 2
       # This file is deprecated and will be removed in a future service pack or
       release.
       # Please check /etc/os-release for details about this release.
    os-release:
       NAME="SLES"
       VERSION="12-SP2"
       VERSION_ID="12.2"
       PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2"
       ID="sles"
       ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
       CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:12:sp2"

 uname -a:
    Linux linux-j64x 4.4.21-69-default #1 SMP Tue Oct 25 10:58:20 UTC 2016
    (9464f67) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 Aug 24 02:00

 SPEC is set to: /home/cpu2006-1.2
    Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sdb7      xfs   416G   19G  398G   5% /home
 Additional information from dmidecode:

    Warning: Use caution when you interpret this section. The 'dmidecode' program
    reads system data which is "intended to allow hardware to be accurately
    determined", but the intent may not be met, as there are frequent changes to
    hardware, firmware, and the "DMTF SMBIOS" standard.

   BIOS Cisco Systems, Inc. C240M5.3.1.1d.0.0615170707 06/15/2017
   Memory:
    24x 0xCE00 M393A2G40EB2-CTD 16 GB 2 rank 2666 MHz

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/home/cpu2006-1.2/lib/ia32:/home/cpu2006-1.2/lib/intel64:/home/cpu2006-1.2/sh10.2"

 Binaries compiled on a system with 1x Intel Core i7-4790 CPU + 32GB RAM
 memory using Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.2
 Transparent Huge Pages enabled with:
 echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
 Filesystem page cache cleared with:
 shell invocation of 'sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' prior to run
 runspec command invoked through numactl i.e.:
 numactl --interleave=all runspec <etc>

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks:

 icpc -m64 

Fortran benchmarks:

 ifort -m64 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 icc -m64   ifort -m64 

Base Portability Flags

410.bwaves:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
416.gamess:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
433.milc:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
434.zeusmp:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
435.gromacs:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
436.cactusADM:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
437.leslie3d:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
444.namd:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
447.dealII:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
450.soplex:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
453.povray:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
454.calculix:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
459.GemsFDTD:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
465.tonto:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
470.lbm:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
481.wrf:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_CASE_FLAG   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
482.sphinx3:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-p32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

C++ benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-p32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

Fortran benchmarks:

 -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-p32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 icc -m64 

C++ benchmarks (except as noted below):

 icpc -m64 
450.soplex:  icpc -m32 -L/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2017/linux/lib/ia32 

Fortran benchmarks:

 ifort -m64 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 icc -m64   ifort -m64 

Peak Portability Flags

410.bwaves:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
416.gamess:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
433.milc:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
434.zeusmp:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
435.gromacs:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
436.cactusADM:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
437.leslie3d:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
444.namd:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
447.dealII:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
450.soplex:  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
453.povray:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
454.calculix:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -nofor_main 
459.GemsFDTD:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
465.tonto:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
470.lbm:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 
481.wrf:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64   -DSPEC_CPU_CASE_FLAG   -DSPEC_CPU_LINUX 
482.sphinx3:  -DSPEC_CPU_LP64 

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

433.milc:  basepeak = yes 
470.lbm:  basepeak = yes 
482.sphinx3:  basepeak = yes 

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -fno-alias   -auto-ilp32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
447.dealII:  basepeak = yes 
450.soplex:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -qopt-malloc-options=3   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
453.povray:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -unroll4   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 

Fortran benchmarks:

410.bwaves:  -xCORE-AVX2   -ipo   -O3   -no-prec-div   -qopt-prefetch 
416.gamess:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -unroll2   -inline-level=0   -scalar-rep- 
434.zeusmp:  basepeak = yes 
437.leslie3d:  Same as 410.bwaves 
459.GemsFDTD:  Same as 410.bwaves 
465.tonto:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -ipo(pass 2)   -O3(pass 2)   -no-prec-div(pass 2)   -unroll4   -auto   -inline-calloc   -qopt-malloc-options=3 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:  -prof-gen(pass 1)   -prof-use(pass 2)   -xCORE-AVX2(pass 2)   -par-num-threads=1(pass 1)   -qopt-prefetch   -auto-ilp32   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=3 
436.cactusADM:  basepeak = yes 
454.calculix:  basepeak = yes 
481.wrf:  basepeak = yes 

The flags files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic17.0-official-linux64-revF.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Cisco-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revH.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic17.0-official-linux64-revF.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Cisco-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revH.xml.