SPEC® CFP2006 Result

IBM Corporation

IBM Power 730 Express (3.7 GHz, 12 core, RedHat)

SPECfp®_rate2006 = 422

SPECfp_rate_base2006 = 380

CPU2006 license:	11	Test date:	Jan-2011
Test sponsor:	IBM Corporation	Hardware Availability:	Sep-2010
Tested by:	IBM Corporation	Software Availability:	Nov-2010

Hardware
CPU Name:	POWER7
CPU Characteristics:	Intelligent Energy Optimization enabled, up to 3.92 GHz
CPU MHz:	3724
FPU:	Integrated
CPU(s) enabled:	12 cores, 2 chips, 6 cores/chip, 4 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable:	12 cores
Primary Cache:	32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache:	256 KB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache:	4 MB I+D on chip per core
Other Cache:	None
Memory:	128 GB (16 x 8 GB) DDR3 1066 MHz
Disk Subsystem:	2 x 146.8 GB SAS SFF 15K RPM
Other Hardware:	None

Software
Operating System:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (ppc64), Kernel 2.6.32-71.el6.ppc64
Compiler:	IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V11.1 Version: 11.01.0000.0001 IBM XL Fortran for Linux, V13.1 Version: 13.01.0000.0001
Auto Parallel:	No
File System:	ext3
System State:	Run Level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers:	32-bit
Peak Pointers:	32/64-bit
Other Software:	-Post-Link Optimization for Linux on POWER, Version 5.6.0-2 -MicroQuill SmartHeap 9 -Apache C++ Standard Library V4.2.1

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	48	1604	407	1604	407	1603	407	12	390	418	390	419	390	418
416.gamess	48	2425	388	2427	387	2421	388	48	2269	414	2276	413	2270	414
433.milc	48	1140	387	1138	387	1139	387	48	1140	387	1138	387	1139	387
434.zeusmp	48	1232	354	1232	354	1224	357	48	1232	354	1232	354	1224	357
435.gromacs	48	1084	316	1115	307	1117	307	48	838	409	896	382	851	403
436.cactusADM	48	1105	519	1108	518	1105	519	48	1105	519	1108	518	1105	519
437.leslie3d	48	1745	259	1743	259	1735	260	12	384	294	383	295	385	293
444.namd	48	765	503	764	504	765	503	48	742	519	741	519	740	520
447.dealII	48	754	729	755	727	754	729	48	582	944	586	938	582	943
450.soplex	48	1527	262	1530	262	1530	262	24	701	285	695	288	701	286
453.povray	48	585	437	589	433	585	436	48	482	529	482	530	481	531
454.calculix	48	1080	367	1082	366	1085	365	48	1051	377	1047	378	1040	381
459.GemsFDTD	48	2358	216	2361	216	2362	216	48	2358	216	2361	216	2362	216
465.tonto	48	1711	276	1707	277	1709	276	48	967	488	966	489	963	490
470.lbm	48	1121	588	1121	588	1122	588	48	1121	588	1121	588	1122	588
481.wrf	48	1426	376	1425	376	1425	376	48	1248	430	1257	426	1250	429
482.sphinx3	48	2370	395	2363	396	2369	395	48	2370	395	2363	396	2369	395

Peak Tuning Notes

IBM Post-Link Optimization tool with
options "-O4 -nodp" used for
  433.milc 435.gromacs 436.cactusADM 450.soplex 482.sphinx3
options "-O4 -vrox -nodp" used for
  434.zeusmp
options "-O3 -lu -1 -nodp -sdp 9" used for
  437.leslie3d 444.namd
options "-O4" used for
  465.tonto

Submit Notes

The config file option 'submit' was used.
Benchmarks bound to a processor using numactl on the submit command.

Operating System Notes

ulimit -s (stack) set to 1048576.
Large pages reserved as follows by root user:
  echo 4224 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
The following environment varibles were set before the runspec command:
  XLFRTEOPTS=intrinthds=1
  HUGETLB_VERBOSE=0
  HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes
  HUGETLB_ELFMAP=RW

447.dealII (peak): "apache_stdcxx_4_2_1" src.alt was used.
447.dealII (base): "apache_stdcxx_4_2_1" src.alt was used.

The Apache C++ Standard Library V4.2.1 was installed from
http://stdcxx.apache.org/download.html using:
    gmake BUILDTYPE=8d CONFIG=gcc.config

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

C benchmarks:

C++ benchmarks:

Fortran benchmarks:

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

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
453.povray:	-DSPEC_CPU_LP64
454.calculix:	-qfixed -qextname
481.wrf:	-DNOUNDERSCORE
482.sphinx3:	-qchars=signed

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

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

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:	-Wl,-q -qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O5 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -lhugetlbfs
447.dealII:	-O4 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -qrtti -qcpp_stdinc=/autobench/sources/stdcxx-4.2.1/dist/include/ansi:/autobench/sources/stdcxx-4.2.1/dist/include:/opt/ibmcmp/vacpp/11.1/include -lsmartheap -L/autobench/sources/stdcxx-4.2.1/dist/lib -R/autobench/sources/stdcxx-4.2.1/dist/lib -lstd8d
450.soplex:	-Wl,-q -qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O3 -qtune=auto -qarch=pwr5 -lhugetlbfs
453.povray:	-Wl,-q -qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O4 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -qsimd -q64 -lsmartheap64

Fortran benchmarks:

410.bwaves:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O4 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -qsmallstack=dynlenonheap -q64 -lhugetlbfs
416.gamess:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O5 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -qalias=nostd -lhugetlbfs
434.zeusmp:	basepeak = yes
437.leslie3d:	-Wl,-q -O5 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -q64 -B/usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -tl -Wl,--hugetlbfs-align
459.GemsFDTD:	basepeak = yes
465.tonto:	-Wl,-q -qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O5 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -qsimd -lhugetlbfs

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:	-Wl,-q -qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O4 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -qsimd -lhugetlbfs
436.cactusADM:	basepeak = yes
454.calculix:	-qpdf1(pass 1) -qpdf2(pass 2) -O5 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -B/usr/share/libhugetlbfs/ -tl -Wl,--hugetlbfs-align
481.wrf:	-O3 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qipa=threads -q64 -lhugetlbfs

Peak Other Flags

C benchmarks:

C++ benchmarks:

Fortran benchmarks:

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

The flags file that was used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20110426.html.

You can also download the XML flags source by saving the following link:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/IBM-Linux-XL.20110426.xml.