SPEC® CFP2006 Result

Bull SAS

NovaScale R450 F3 (Intel Xeon E5-2420, 1.90 GHz)

SPECfp®2006 = 58.1

SPECfp_base2006 = 55.4

CPU2006 license:	20	Test date:	Mar-2012
Test sponsor:	Bull SAS	Hardware Availability:	May-2012
Tested by:	Dell Inc.	Software Availability:	Feb-2012

Hardware
CPU Name:	Intel Xeon E5-2420
CPU Characteristics:	Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.40 GHz
CPU MHz:	1900
FPU:	Integrated
CPU(s) enabled:	12 cores, 2 chips, 6 cores/chip, 2 threads/core
CPU(s) orderable:	1,2 chip
Primary Cache:	32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache:	256 KB I+D on chip per core
L3 Cache:	15 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache:	None
Memory:	48 GB (6 x 8 GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R-11, ECC, running at 1333 MHz)
Disk Subsystem:	2 x 600 GB 15000 RPM SAS, RAID 1
Other Hardware:	None

Software
Operating System:	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (x86_64) 3.0.13-0.9-default
Compiler:	C/C++: Version 12.1.0.225 of Intel C++ Studio XE for Linux; Fortran: Version 12.1.0.225 of Intel Fortran Studio XE for Linux
Auto Parallel:	Yes
File System:	ext3
System State:	Run level 3 (add definition here)
Base Pointers:	64-bit
Peak Pointers:	32/64-bit
Other Software:	None

Results Table

Benchmark	Base						Peak
Benchmark	Seconds	Ratio	Seconds	Ratio	Seconds	Ratio	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	60.3	225	59.9	227	60.1	226	60.1	226	60.3	225	59.7	228
416.gamess	932	21.0	931	21.0	933	21.0	790	24.8	789	24.8	790	24.8
433.milc	207	44.4	207	44.4	207	44.4	204	45.1	204	45.0	204	45.1
434.zeusmp	88.1	103	88.1	103	88.1	103	88.1	103	88.1	103	88.1	103
435.gromacs	309	23.1	309	23.1	308	23.2	309	23.1	309	23.1	308	23.2
436.cactusADM	44.7	268	44.9	266	44.9	266	44.7	268	44.9	266	44.9	266
437.leslie3d	95.3	98.7	95.5	98.5	95.3	98.7	95.3	98.7	95.5	98.5	95.3	98.7
444.namd	489	16.4	489	16.4	489	16.4	481	16.7	482	16.6	481	16.7
447.dealII	311	36.8	312	36.7	312	36.7	311	36.8	312	36.7	312	36.7
450.soplex	279	29.9	280	29.8	279	29.9	279	29.9	280	29.8	279	29.9
453.povray	175	30.5	174	30.6	174	30.6	147	36.1	148	36.0	147	36.3
454.calculix	299	27.6	304	27.2	299	27.6	279	29.6	277	29.8	277	29.8
459.GemsFDTD	107	98.9	107	98.9	107	98.9	93.8	113	93.8	113	93.8	113
465.tonto	400	24.6	362	27.2	403	24.4	323	30.5	321	30.7	324	30.4
470.lbm	39.0	352	39.0	352	39.2	350	39.0	352	39.0	352	39.2	350
481.wrf	218	51.3	221	50.5	224	49.8	218	51.3	221	50.5	224	49.8
482.sphinx3	390	50.0	391	49.9	398	49.0	391	49.9	385	50.7	385	50.6

Operating System Notes

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

Platform Notes

 CPU Power Management set to Maximum Performance
 Memory Frequency set to Maximum Performance
 Turbo Boost set to Enabled
 C States/C1E set to Enabled
 Sysinfo program /root/CPU2006-1.2/config/sysinfo.rev6800
 $Rev: 6800 $ $Date:: 2011-10-11 #$ 6f2ebdff5032aaa42e583f96b07f99d3
 running on Silk-2P Mon Mar 19 19:21:35 2012

 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 E5-2420 0 @ 1.90GHz
       2 "physical id"s (chips)
       24 "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 0 1 2 3 4 5
       physical 1: cores 0 1 2 3 4 5
    cache size : 15360 KB

 From /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:       49381468 kB
    HugePages_Total:       0
    Hugepagesize:       2048 kB

 /usr/bin/lsb_release -d
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)

 From /etc/*release* /etc/*version*
    SuSE-release:
       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
       VERSION = 11
       PATCHLEVEL = 2

 uname -a:
    Linux Silk-2P 3.0.13-0.9-default #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 17:33:03 UTC 2012
    (54ddfaf) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 run-level 3 Mar 19 11:04 last=S

 SPEC is set to: /root/CPU2006-1.2
    Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda1      ext3  296G  9.1G  272G   4% /

 Additional information from dmidecode:

 (End of data from sysinfo program)

General Notes

Environment variables set by runspec before the start of the run:
KMP_AFFINITY = "granularity=fine,scatter"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "/root/CPU2006-1.2/libs/32:/root/CPU2006-1.2/libs/64"
OMP_NUM_THREADS = "12"

 Binaries compiled on a system with 1x Core i7-860 CPU + 8GB
 memory using RHEL5.5
 Transparent Huge Pages disabled with:
 echo never  > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
 Filesystem page cache cleared with:
 echo 1>       /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
 The Dell PowerEdge R520 and
 the Bull NovaScale R450 F3 models are electronically equivalent.
 The results have been measured on a Dell PowerEdge R520 model

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

Peak Compiler Invocation

C benchmarks:

icc -m64

C++ benchmarks:

icpc -m64

Fortran benchmarks:

ifort -m64

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

icc -m64 ifort -m64

Peak Portability Flags

Same as Base Portability Flags

Peak Optimization Flags

C benchmarks:

433.milc:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -static -auto-ilp32 -ansi-alias
470.lbm:	basepeak = yes
482.sphinx3:	-xAVX -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -unroll2 -ansi-alias -parallel

C++ benchmarks:

444.namd:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -fno-alias -auto-ilp32
447.dealII:	basepeak = yes
450.soplex:	basepeak = yes
453.povray:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -unroll4 -ansi-alias

Fortran benchmarks:

410.bwaves:	-xAVX -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -opt-prefetch -parallel -static
416.gamess:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -unroll2 -inline-level=0 -scalar-rep- -static
434.zeusmp:	basepeak = yes
437.leslie3d:	basepeak = yes
459.GemsFDTD:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -unroll2 -inline-level=0 -opt-prefetch -parallel
465.tonto:	-xAVX(pass 2) -prof-gen(pass 1) -ipo(pass 2) -O3(pass 2) -no-prec-div(pass 2) -prof-use(pass 2) -inline-calloc -opt-malloc-options=3 -auto -unroll4

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C:

435.gromacs:	basepeak = yes
436.cactusADM:	basepeak = yes
454.calculix:	-xAVX -ipo -O3 -no-prec-div -auto-ilp32 -ansi-alias
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-ic12.1-official-linux64.20111122.html,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Dell-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revA.20120410.00.html.

You can also download the XML flags sources by saving the following links:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Intel-ic12.1-official-linux64.20111122.xml,
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/flags/Dell-Platform-Settings-V1.2-revA.20120410.00.xml.