SPEC® CFP2006 Result

IBM Corporation

IBM System p 570 (4.7 GHz, 8 core, RHEL)

SPECfp®_rate2006 = 216

SPECfp_rate_base2006 = 185

CPU2006 license:	11	Test date:	Oct-2007
Test sponsor:	IBM Corporation	Hardware Availability:	Jun-2007
Tested by:	IBM Corporation	Software Availability:	Oct-2007

Hardware
CPU Name:	POWER6
CPU Characteristics:
CPU MHz:	4700
FPU:	Integrated
CPU(s) enabled:	8 cores, 4 chips, 2 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable:	2,4,8,12,16 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:	64 GB (32x2 GB) DDR2 667 MHz
Disk Subsystem:	2x73 GB SAS 15K RPM
Other Hardware:	None

Software
Operating System:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1 for IBM POWER
Compiler:	IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition for Linux, V9.0 IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Linux, V11.1
Auto Parallel:	No
File System:	ext3
System State:	Multi-User
Base Pointers:	32-bit
Peak Pointers:	32/64-bit
Other Software:	-IBM Post-Link Optimization for Linux on POWER, Version 5.4.0-10 -MicroQuill SmartHeap 8.1 -IBM Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library for Linux on POWER, Version 4.3

Results Table

Benchmark	Base							Peak
Benchmark	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	912	238	918	237	918	237	16	907	240	907	240	906	240
416.gamess	16	1790	175	1790	175	1790	175	16	1689	185	1690	185	1689	185
433.milc	16	1130	130	1128	130	1128	130	16	1130	130	1128	130	1128	130
434.zeusmp	16	910	160	911	160	906	161	16	558	261	554	263	554	263
435.gromacs	16	802	143	800	143	801	143	16	726	157	726	157	726	157
436.cactusADM	16	1148	167	1147	167	1152	166	16	802	238	807	237	807	237
437.leslie3d	16	846	178	847	178	843	178	8	366	205	366	205	371	203
444.namd	16	668	192	666	193	666	193	16	644	199	645	199	645	199
447.dealII	16	612	299	612	299	612	299	16	597	306	594	308	596	307
450.soplex	16	658	203	629	212	628	212	16	622	215	622	214	622	215
453.povray	16	541	157	541	157	541	157	16	427	199	427	199	427	199
454.calculix	16	688	192	687	192	689	192	16	592	223	593	223	593	223
459.GemsFDTD	16	1213	140	1212	140	1214	140	16	1173	145	1173	145	1171	145
465.tonto	16	1573	100	1575	100	1556	101	16	701	225	703	224	700	225
470.lbm	16	588	374	588	374	588	374	16	588	374	588	374	588	374
481.wrf	16	1223	146	1223	146	1223	146	16	1093	164	1094	163	1097	163
482.sphinx3	16	950	328	977	319	949	329	16	896	348	911	342	896	348

General Notes

 kernel release 2.6.18-52.el5.

 See flags file for details on following settings.

 ulimit -s (stack) set to 262144.


 System set to Enhanced mode when defining partition on HMC

 Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
     echo 1600 > /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

 fdpr binary optimization tool used for
     435.gromacs 436.cactusADM 482.sphinx3

 Benchmarks bound to a processor using numactl on the submit command.

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

xlc -qlanglvl=extc99

C++ benchmarks:

xlC

Fortran benchmarks:

xlf95

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

xlc -qlanglvl=extc99 xlf95

Base Portability Flags

410.bwaves:	-qfixed
416.gamess:	-qfixed
434.zeusmp:	-qfixed
435.gromacs:	-qfixed -qextname
436.cactusADM:	-qfixed -qextname
437.leslie3d:	-qfixed
454.calculix:	-qfixed -qextname
481.wrf:	-DNOUNDERSCORE
482.sphinx3:	-qchars=signed

Base Other Flags

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

xlc -qlanglvl=extc99

C++ benchmarks:

xlC

Fortran benchmarks:

xlf95

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

xlc -qlanglvl=extc99 xlf95

Peak Portability Flags

410.bwaves:	-qfixed
416.gamess:	-qfixed
434.zeusmp:	-qfixed
435.gromacs:	-qfixed -qextname
436.cactusADM:	-qfixed -qextname
437.leslie3d:	-qfixed
454.calculix:	-qfixed -qextname
481.wrf:	-DNOUNDERSCORE
482.sphinx3:	-qchars=signed

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

433.milc:	basepeak = yes
470.lbm:	-O3 -qarch=pwr6e -qtune=pwr6 -B/usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -tl -Wl,--hugetlbfs-link=BDT -q64
482.sphinx3:	-Wl,-q -qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O4 -lhugetlbfs

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O3 -qarch=pwr6e -qtune=pwr6
447.dealII:	-O5 -qrtti -qnoenablevmx -qstaticlink -Wl,--whole-archive /usr/lib/libsmartheap.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive
450.soplex:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O4 -qstrict -lhugetlbfs
453.povray:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O5 -lsmartheap

Fortran benchmarks:

410.bwaves:	-O5 -qsmallstack=dynlenonheap -lhugetlbfs
416.gamess:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O5 -qalias=nostd -qnoenablevmx
434.zeusmp:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O3 -qarch=pwr6e -qtune=pwr6 -qxlf90=nosignedzero -B/usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -tl -Wl,--hugetlbfs-link=BDT
437.leslie3d:	-O3 -qarch=pwr6e -qtune=pwr6 -B/usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -tl -Wl,--hugetlbfs-link=BDT -q64
459.GemsFDTD:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O5 -B/usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -tl -Wl,--hugetlbfs-link=BDT -q64
465.tonto:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O5 -lessl -lsmartheap -lxlf90_r

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:	-Wl,-q -O2 -qarch=pwr6e -qtune=pwr6 -lhugetlbfs
436.cactusADM:	-Wl,-q -qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O2 -qarch=pwr6e -qtune=pwr6 -lhugetlbfs
454.calculix:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O4 -B/usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -tl -Wl,--hugetlbfs-link=BDT
481.wrf:	-O5 -qnoenablevmx -qalias=nostd -lhugetlbfs

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

-qipa=noobject -qipa=threads

C++ benchmarks:

-qipa=noobject -qipa=threads

Fortran benchmarks:

-qipa=noobject -qipa=threads

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

-qipa=noobject -qipa=threads

The flags file that was used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/lop-xl-flags.20090714.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/lop-xl-flags.20090714.xml.