SPEC CPU®2017 Floating Point Speed Result

Copyright 2017-2024 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Lenovo Global Technology

ThinkSystem SD530 V3
(2.10 GHz, Intel Xeon Gold 6538N)

SPECspeed®2017_fp_base = 32200

SPECspeed®2017_fp_peak = Not Run

CPU2017 License: 9017 Test Date: Feb-2024
Test Sponsor: Lenovo Global Technology Hardware Availability: Mar-2024
Tested by: Lenovo Global Technology Software Availability: Dec-2023

Benchmark result graphs are available in the PDF report.

Hardware
CPU Name: Intel Xeon Gold 6538N
  Max MHz: 4100
  Nominal: 2100
Enabled: 64 cores, 2 chips
Orderable: 1,2 chips
Cache L1: 32 KB I + 48 KB D on chip per core
  L2: 2 MB I+D on chip per core
  L3: 60 MB I+D on chip per chip
  Other: None
Memory: 1 TB (16 x 64 GB 2Rx4 PC5-5600B-R, running at
5200)
Storage: 1 x 480 GB M.2 SATA SSD
Other: None
Software
OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 (Plow)
Kernel 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.x86_64
Compiler: C/C++: Version 2023.2.3 of Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++
Compiler for Linux;
Fortran: Version 2023.2.3 of Intel Fortran
Compiler for Linux;
Parallel: Yes
Firmware: Lenovo BIOS Version FNE113F 2.20 released Jan-2024
File System: xfs
System State: Run level 3 (multi-user)
Base Pointers: 64-bit
Peak Pointers: Not Applicable
Other: jemalloc memory allocator V5.0.1
Power Management: BIOS and OS set to prefer performance at the cost
of additional power usage

Results Table

Benchmark Base Peak
Threads Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Threads Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio Seconds Ratio
SPECspeed®2017_fp_base 32200
SPECspeed®2017_fp_peak Not Run
Results appear in the order in which they were run. Bold underlined text indicates a median measurement.
603.bwaves_s 64 50.9 11600 50.7 11600 51.0 11600
607.cactuBSSN_s 64 41.8 3990 41.9 3970 41.7 4000
619.lbm_s 64 18.9 2770 19.6 2680 18.9 2780
621.wrf_s 64 62.7 2110 62.8 2110 62.6 2110
627.cam4_s 64 45.9 1930 46.0 1930 46.4 1910
628.pop2_s 64 1320 89.7 1340 88.7 1320 89.8
638.imagick_s 64 23.7 6090 23.0 6280 23.1 6250
644.nab_s 64 32.6 5370 32.6 5360 32.6 5360
649.fotonik3d_s 64 54.9 1660 54.9 1660 54.7 1670
654.roms_s 64 34.2 4600 34.6 4560 34.4 4580

Operating System Notes

 Stack size set to unlimited using "ulimit -s unlimited"

Environment Variables Notes

Environment variables set by runcpu before the start of the run:
KMP_AFFINITY = "granularity=fine,compact"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/home/cpu2017-1.1.9-ic2023.2.3/lib/intel64:/home/cpu2017-1.1.9-ic2023.2.3/je5.0.1-64"
MALLOC_CONF = "retain:true"
OMP_STACKSIZE = "192M"

General Notes

 Binaries compiled on a system with 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280M CPU + 384GB RAM
 memory using Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0
 Transparent Huge Pages enabled by default
 Prior to runcpu invocation
 Filesystem page cache synced and cleared with:
 sync; echo 3>       /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
NA: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown)
is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
Yes: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre variant 1)
is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
Yes: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2)
is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
 jemalloc, a general purpose malloc implementation
 built with the RedHat Enterprise 7.5, and the system compiler gcc 4.8.5
 sources available from jemalloc.net or https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/releases

Platform Notes

BIOS configuration:
Choose Operating Mode set to Maximum Performance and then set it to Custom Mode
CPU P-state Control set to Legacy
Hyper-Threading set to Disabled

 Sysinfo program /home/cpu2017-1.1.9-ic2023.2.3/bin/sysinfo
 Rev: r6732 of 2022-11-07 fe91c89b7ed5c36ae2c92cc097bec197
 running on localhost.localdomain Tue Feb 20 00:44:28 2024

 SUT (System Under Test) info as seen by some common utilities.

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 Table of contents
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  1. uname -a
  2. w
  3. Username
  4. ulimit -a
  5. sysinfo process ancestry
  6. /proc/cpuinfo
  7. lscpu
  8. numactl --hardware
  9. /proc/meminfo
 10. who -r
 11. Systemd service manager version: systemd 252 (252-18.el9)
 12. Services, from systemctl list-unit-files
 13. Linux kernel boot-time arguments, from /proc/cmdline
 14. cpupower frequency-info
 15. sysctl
 16. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage
 17. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged
 18. OS release
 19. Disk information
 20. /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id
 21. dmidecode
 22. BIOS
 ------------------------------------------------------------

 ------------------------------------------------------------
 1. uname -a
   Linux localhost.localdomain 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 3 11:12:36 EDT 2023
   x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 ------------------------------------------------------------
 2. w
    00:44:28 up 0 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.66, 0.53, 0.19
   USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
   root     tty1      00:44   12.00s  1.01s  0.00s -bash

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 3. Username
   From environment variable $USER:  root

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 4. ulimit -a
   real-time non-blocking time  (microseconds, -R) unlimited
   core file size              (blocks, -c) 0
   data seg size               (kbytes, -d) unlimited
   scheduling priority                 (-e) 0
   file size                   (blocks, -f) unlimited
   pending signals                     (-i) 4126971
   max locked memory           (kbytes, -l) 64
   max memory size             (kbytes, -m) unlimited
   open files                          (-n) 1024
   pipe size                (512 bytes, -p) 8
   POSIX message queues         (bytes, -q) 819200
   real-time priority                  (-r) 0
   stack size                  (kbytes, -s) unlimited
   cpu time                   (seconds, -t) unlimited
   max user processes                  (-u) 4126971
   virtual memory              (kbytes, -v) unlimited
   file locks                          (-x) unlimited

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 5. sysinfo process ancestry
  /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --switched-root --system --deserialize 31
  login -- root
  -bash
  -bash
  -bash
  runcpu --nobuild --action validate --define default-platform-flags -c
    ic2023.2.3-lin-core-avx512-speed-20231121.cfg --define cores=64 --tune base -o all --define drop_caches
    fpspeed
  runcpu --nobuild --action validate --define default-platform-flags --configfile
    ic2023.2.3-lin-core-avx512-speed-20231121.cfg --define cores=64 --tune base --output_format all --define
    drop_caches --nopower --runmode speed --tune base --size refspeed fpspeed --nopreenv --note-preenv
    --logfile $SPEC/tmp/CPU2017.330/templogs/preenv.fpspeed.330.0.log --lognum 330.0 --from_runcpu 2
  specperl $SPEC/bin/sysinfo
 $SPEC = /home/cpu2017-1.1.9-ic2023.2.3

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 6. /proc/cpuinfo
     model name      : INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6538N
     vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
     cpu family      : 6
     model           : 207
     stepping        : 2
     microcode       : 0x21000200
     bugs            : spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass swapgs eibrs_pbrsb
     cpu cores       : 32
     siblings        : 32
     2 physical ids (chips)
     64 processors (hardware threads)
     physical id 0: core ids 0-31
     physical id 1: core ids 0-31
     physical id 0: apicids
     0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62
     physical id 1: apicids
     128,130,132,134,136,138,140,142,144,146,148,150,152,154,156,158,160,162,164,166,168,170,172,174,176,178,1
     80,182,184,186,188,190
   Caution: /proc/cpuinfo data regarding chips, cores, and threads is not necessarily reliable, especially for
   virtualized systems.  Use the above data carefully.

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 7. lscpu

 From lscpu from util-linux 2.37.4:
   Architecture:                       x86_64
   CPU op-mode(s):                     32-bit, 64-bit
   Address sizes:                      46 bits physical, 57 bits virtual
   Byte Order:                         Little Endian
   CPU(s):                             64
   On-line CPU(s) list:                0-63
   Vendor ID:                          GenuineIntel
   BIOS Vendor ID:                     Intel(R) Corporation
   Model name:                         INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6538N
   BIOS Model name:                    INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6538N
   CPU family:                         6
   Model:                              207
   Thread(s) per core:                 1
   Core(s) per socket:                 32
   Socket(s):                          2
   Stepping:                           2
   Frequency boost:                    enabled
   CPU max MHz:                        2101.0000
   CPU min MHz:                        800.0000
   BogoMIPS:                           4200.00
   Flags:                              fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
                                       clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb
                                       rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl
                                       xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq
                                       dtes64 ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca
                                       sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c
                                       rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cat_l2 cdp_l3
                                       invpcid_single intel_ppin cdp_l2 ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced
                                       tpr_shadow flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2
                                       smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap
                                       avx512ifma clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw avx512vl
                                       xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total
                                       cqm_mbm_local split_lock_detect avx_vnni avx512_bf16 wbnoinvd dtherm
                                       ida arat pln pts hfi vnmi avx512vbmi umip pku ospke waitpkg
                                       avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg tme
                                       avx512_vpopcntdq la57 rdpid bus_lock_detect cldemote movdiri movdir64b
                                       enqcmd fsrm md_clear serialize tsxldtrk pconfig arch_lbr ibt amx_bf16
                                       avx512_fp16 amx_tile amx_int8 flush_l1d arch_capabilities
   Virtualization:                     VT-x
   L1d cache:                          3 MiB (64 instances)
   L1i cache:                          2 MiB (64 instances)
   L2 cache:                           128 MiB (64 instances)
   L3 cache:                           120 MiB (2 instances)
   NUMA node(s):                       2
   NUMA node0 CPU(s):                  0-31
   NUMA node1 CPU(s):                  32-63
   Vulnerability Gather data sampling: Not affected
   Vulnerability Itlb multihit:        Not affected
   Vulnerability L1tf:                 Not affected
   Vulnerability Mds:                  Not affected
   Vulnerability Meltdown:             Not affected
   Vulnerability Mmio stale data:      Not affected
   Vulnerability Retbleed:             Not affected
   Vulnerability Spec store bypass:    Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
   Vulnerability Spectre v1:           Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
   Vulnerability Spectre v2:           Mitigation; Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB conditional, RSB filling,
                                       PBRSB-eIBRS SW sequence
   Vulnerability Srbds:                Not affected
   Vulnerability Tsx async abort:      Not affected

 From lscpu --cache:
      NAME ONE-SIZE ALL-SIZE WAYS TYPE        LEVEL  SETS PHY-LINE COHERENCY-SIZE
      L1d       48K       3M   12 Data            1    64        1             64
      L1i       32K       2M    8 Instruction     1    64        1             64
      L2         2M     128M   16 Unified         2  2048        1             64
      L3        60M     120M   15 Unified         3 65536        1             64

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 8. numactl --hardware
 NOTE: a numactl 'node' might or might not correspond to a physical chip.
   available: 2 nodes (0-1)
   node 0 cpus: 0-31
   node 0 size: 515699 MB
   node 0 free: 514678 MB
   node 1 cpus: 32-63
   node 1 size: 516082 MB
   node 1 free: 514862 MB
   node distances:
   node   0   1
     0:  10  21
     1:  21  10

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 9. /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       1056544636 kB

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 10. who -r
   run-level 3 Feb 20 00:43

 ------------------------------------------------------------
 11. Systemd service manager version: systemd 252 (252-18.el9)
   Default Target  Status
   multi-user      running

 ------------------------------------------------------------
 12. Services, from systemctl list-unit-files
   STATE            UNIT FILES
   enabled          NetworkManager NetworkManager-dispatcher NetworkManager-wait-online auditd crond
                    dbus-broker firewalld getty@ insights-client-boot irqbalance kdump low-memory-monitor
                    mdmonitor microcode nis-domainname rhsmcertd rsyslog rtkit-daemon selinux-autorelabel-mark
                    sshd sssd systemd-boot-update systemd-network-generator udisks2 upower
   enabled-runtime  systemd-remount-fs
   disabled         canberra-system-bootup canberra-system-shutdown canberra-system-shutdown-reboot
                    console-getty cpupower debug-shell dnf-system-upgrade kvm_stat man-db-restart-cache-update
                    nftables pesign rdisc rhcd rhsm rhsm-facts rpmdb-rebuild selinux-check-proper-disable
                    serial-getty@ sshd-keygen@ systemd-boot-check-no-failures systemd-pstore systemd-sysext
   indirect         sssd-autofs sssd-kcm sssd-nss sssd-pac sssd-pam sssd-ssh sssd-sudo systemd-sysupdate
                    systemd-sysupdate-reboot

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 13. Linux kernel boot-time arguments, from /proc/cmdline
   BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt3)/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.x86_64
   root=UUID=be3ee7bd-6dba-4efc-8d0a-4f4f123b4865
   ro
   resume=UUID=8de8c2d1-84ee-4c60-9038-a9e1ae2929c4

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 14. cpupower frequency-info
   analyzing CPU 0:
     current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 2.10 GHz.
                     The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
                     within this range.
     boost state support:
       Supported: yes
       Active: yes

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 15. sysctl
   kernel.numa_balancing               1
   kernel.randomize_va_space           2
   vm.compaction_proactiveness        20
   vm.dirty_background_bytes           0
   vm.dirty_background_ratio          10
   vm.dirty_bytes                      0
   vm.dirty_expire_centisecs        3000
   vm.dirty_ratio                     20
   vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs      500
   vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds     43200
   vm.extfrag_threshold              500
   vm.min_unmapped_ratio               1
   vm.nr_hugepages                     0
   vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy           0
   vm.nr_overcommit_hugepages          0
   vm.swappiness                      60
   vm.watermark_boost_factor       15000
   vm.watermark_scale_factor          10
   vm.zone_reclaim_mode                0

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 16. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage
   defrag          always defer defer+madvise [madvise] never
   enabled         [always] madvise never
   hpage_pmd_size  2097152
   shmem_enabled   always within_size advise [never] deny force

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 17. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged
   alloc_sleep_millisecs   60000
   defrag                      1
   max_ptes_none             511
   max_ptes_shared           256
   max_ptes_swap              64
   pages_to_scan            4096
   scan_sleep_millisecs    10000

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 18. OS release
   From /etc/*-release /etc/*-version
   os-release     Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 (Plow)
   redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.3 (Plow)
   system-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.3 (Plow)

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 19. Disk information
 SPEC is set to: /home/cpu2017-1.1.9-ic2023.2.3
   Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
   /dev/sda4      xfs   372G   25G  347G   7% /home

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 20. /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id
     Vendor:         Lenovo
     Product:        ThinkSystem SD530 V3
     Product Family: ThinkSystem
     Serial:         PASDVMK006

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 21. dmidecode
   Additional information from dmidecode 3.5 follows.  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.
   Memory:
     15x Samsung M321R8GA0PB0-CWMKH 64 GB 2 rank 5600, configured at 5200
     1x Samsung M321R8GA0PB0-CWMXH 64 GB 2 rank 5600, configured at 5200


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 22. BIOS
 (This section combines info from /sys/devices and dmidecode.)
    BIOS Vendor:       Lenovo
    BIOS Version:      FNE113F-2.20
    BIOS Date:         01/02/2024
    BIOS Revision:     2.20
    Firmware Revision: 1.10

Compiler Version Notes

============================================================================================================
C               | 619.lbm_s(base) 638.imagick_s(base) 644.nab_s(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intel(R) oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 2023.2.3 Build x
Copyright (C) 1985-2023 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

============================================================================================================
C++, C, Fortran | 607.cactuBSSN_s(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intel(R) oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 2023.2.3 Build x
Copyright (C) 1985-2023 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Intel(R) oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 2023.2.3 Build x
Copyright (C) 1985-2023 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 2023.2.3 Build x
Copyright (C) 1985-2023 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

============================================================================================================
Fortran         | 603.bwaves_s(base) 649.fotonik3d_s(base) 654.roms_s(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 2023.2.3 Build x
Copyright (C) 1985-2023 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

============================================================================================================
Fortran, C      | 621.wrf_s(base) 627.cam4_s(base) 628.pop2_s(base)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 2023.2.3 Build x
Copyright (C) 1985-2023 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Intel(R) oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 2023.2.3 Build x
Copyright (C) 1985-2023 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Base Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

 icx 

Fortran benchmarks:

 ifx 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 ifx   icx 

Benchmarks using Fortran, C, and C++:

 icpx   icx   ifx 

Base Portability Flags

603.bwaves_s:  -DSPEC_LP64 
607.cactuBSSN_s:  -DSPEC_LP64 
619.lbm_s:  -DSPEC_LP64 
621.wrf_s:  -DSPEC_LP64   -DSPEC_CASE_FLAG   -convert big_endian 
627.cam4_s:  -DSPEC_LP64   -DSPEC_CASE_FLAG 
628.pop2_s:  -DSPEC_LP64   -DSPEC_CASE_FLAG   -convert big_endian   -assume byterecl 
638.imagick_s:  -DSPEC_LP64 
644.nab_s:  -DSPEC_LP64 
649.fotonik3d_s:  -DSPEC_LP64 
654.roms_s:  -DSPEC_LP64 

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

 -w   -std=c11   -m64   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -xCORE-AVX512   -Ofast   -ffast-math   -flto   -mfpmath=sse   -funroll-loops   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=4   -fiopenmp   -DSPEC_OPENMP   -Wno-implicit-int   -L/usr/local/jemalloc64-5.0.1/lib   -ljemalloc 

Fortran benchmarks:

 -w   -m64   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -DSPEC_OPENMP   -xCORE-AVX512   -Ofast   -ffast-math   -flto   -mfpmath=sse   -funroll-loops   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=4   -fiopenmp   -nostandard-realloc-lhs   -align array32byte   -auto   -L/usr/local/jemalloc64-5.0.1/lib   -ljemalloc 

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

 -w   -m64   -std=c11   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -xCORE-AVX512   -Ofast   -ffast-math   -flto   -mfpmath=sse   -funroll-loops   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=4   -fiopenmp   -DSPEC_OPENMP   -Wno-implicit-int   -nostandard-realloc-lhs   -align array32byte   -auto   -L/usr/local/jemalloc64-5.0.1/lib   -ljemalloc 

Benchmarks using Fortran, C, and C++:

 -w   -std=c++14   -m64   -std=c11   -Wl,-z,muldefs   -xCORE-AVX512   -Ofast   -ffast-math   -flto   -mfpmath=sse   -funroll-loops   -qopt-mem-layout-trans=4   -fiopenmp   -DSPEC_OPENMP   -Wno-implicit-int   -nostandard-realloc-lhs   -align array32byte   -auto   -L/usr/local/jemalloc64-5.0.1/lib   -ljemalloc 

The flags files that were used to format this result can be browsed at
http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/flags/Lenovo-Platform-SPECcpu2017-Flags-V1.2-Eaglestream-AA.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/flags/Intel-ic2023p2-official-linux64.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/flags/Lenovo-Platform-SPECcpu2017-Flags-V1.2-Eaglestream-AA.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/flags/Intel-ic2023p2-official-linux64.xml.