Using spec cpu2006 benchmark results to compare the compute. Spec designed cpu2006 to provide a comparative measure of computeintensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware using workloads developed from real user applications. Using the performance events collected by performance monitor unit, we compare their performance differences and analyze the causes from the features of architectures and. We patch our headers when our headers are broken, not when an external source is broken. Spec cpu 2006, released by standard performance evaluation corporation, is designed to provide performance measurements that can be used to compare computeintensive workloads on different computer systems. Using spec cpu2006 in lacasa lab 1 about spec cpu2006 cpu2006 is spec s industrystandardized, cpuintensive benchmark suite, stressing a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler. If you dont want to use that script, you can proceed with the instructions below. The spec cpu 2006 benchmark is spec s industrystandardized, cpuintensive benchmark suite, stressing a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler benchmark retirement. The standard performance evaluation corporation spec cpu2006 benchmark is an industrystandard.
Run spec cpu2006 on linux with either an intel, arm, or powerpc processors. The biggest difference between time and space is that you cant reuse time. The spec cpu 2006 benchmark is specs industrystandardized, cpuintensive benchmark suite, stressing a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler. Memory performance characterization of spec cpu2006. Intel shatters performance benchmarks with new xeon processor e78894 v4 intel today extended the performance capabilities of the intel xeon processor e78800 v4 product family with the addition of a highperformance sku in the processor familys advanced sku stack. For understanding the performance differences caused by different computer architectures and optimization technologies, the paper characterizes performance of spec cpu2006 benchmarks both on intel and amd platform. This post briefly describes the way to install and execute the spec cpu 2006 v1. See below for details on the retirement schedule and result submission requirements. Specs cpu benchmarks have been the worldwide standard for measuring computeintensive performance since their introduction in 1989.
Mar 29, 2017 spec, which is a standard corporation for the benchmark1, makes and shares various benchmark suites. Spec cpu2006 command lines the following command lines for each of the spec cpu2006 benchmarks were obtained using specinvoke n in the needed run directories. Cpu2006 is a set of benchmarks designed to test the cpu performance of a modern server computer system. Specs cpu2006 benchmarks on azure azure government. These are checkpoints pinballs for entire runs and representative regions pinpoints of. Intel shatters performance benchmarks with new xeon. In this paper we present a detailed evaluation of the memory hierarchy performance for both the cpu2006 and singlethreaded cpu2017 benchmarks.
Intel shatters performance benchmarks with new xeon processor. By restricting source code changes, spec separates the activity of porting benchmarks, which has a goal of being performance neutral, from the activity of using the benchmarks, where the goal is getting the best score possible. Install the spec cpu2006 benchmarks using the install. In this page we present a few benchmark results which show the performance of tango. The role of the compiler is fundamental to exploit the hardware capabilities of a system running a particular application, minimizing the sequential execution time and, in some cases, offering the possibility of parallelizing part of the code automatically. Mar 29, 2012 the biggest difference between time and space is that you cant reuse time. Download pinballs for full runs and pinpoints terms and conditions for use. Using spec cpu2006 requires access to a computer system running a supported operating system with the necessary compilers and tools needed for generating executable binaries for the system.
There are source code of the benchmarks, source code of tool programs that helps compile, execution, and verification of the benchmarks, precompiled tool programs, rule. It will not find the appropriate memory size for a system or indicate the io throughput of a system. It has made to measure performance of computation intensive workload and widely being used now. Below is an example of the pod information config file. Dynamic instruction count of spec cpu 2006 benchmarks. The tools have evolved over time from a collection of editityourself. Jun 10, 2010 the role of the compiler is fundamental to exploit the hardware capabilities of a system running a particular application, minimizing the sequential execution time and, in some cases, offering the possibility of parallelizing part of the code automatically. Spec 2006 analysis of redundancy and application balance in the spec cpu2006 benchmark suite.
The firstly released spec cpu benchmark suite is a collection of ten computeintensive benchmark programs. Even though spec cpu2006 is more hpc and workstation oriented, it contains a good variety of integer workloads. The lenovo thinksystem sr950 server delivers worldrecord eightprocessor rack server performance for computeintensive applications. Note that all commands can run without root permissions. With the release of the spec cpu 2017 benchmark suite, the cpu 2006 suite will be retired. Spec cpu2006 provides benchmarks in source code form, which are. I dont have spec cpu2006 suite and i dont think its free. Partial use of benchmark suites by researchers, due to simulation time constraints, compiler difficulties, or library or system call issues is.
These are checkpoints pinballs for entire runs and representative regions pinpoints of spec cpu2006 reference runs. The timing results are from the simple cpu model and spec cpu2006 testing data set. Spec releases major new cpu benchmark suite the spec cpu2017 benchmark suite features updated and improved workloads, use of openmp to accommodate more cores and threads, and optional metric for. Spec has invested substantial effort to make the benchmarks portable across a wide variety of hardware architectures, operating systems, and compilers. Submit notes processes were assigned to specific processors using pbind commands. Ibm posts spec cpu2006 scores for ibm system x3650 m5 ibm system x3650 m5 delivers processor performance for computeintensive applications september 8, 2014. Their tutorial is a good place to start to learn about how to create your own pinballs and pinpoints for use with sniper. In order to evaluate the effect of our dynamic hardware prefetcher controller, we generate 60 fourcore workloads by combining selected benchmarks from the spec cpu2006 60, spec cpu2017 126. For good measure, download the flags files for icc and. The type of file system must be disclosed in reported results. Aggregate scores are calculated when the benchmark run is int all integer benchmarks, fp all floating point benchmarks, or all both integer and floating point.
The recently released spec cpu2006 benchmark suite is expected to be used by computer designers and computer architecture researchers for presilicon early design analysis. Nov 07, 2011 specs cpu2006 isnt the only benchmark were introducing to our revamped suite of course, so stay tuned as well be discussing the others through the week. Spec has chosen not to allow source code changes for the cpu2006 suite, except under very limited circumstances. Speedup of spec cpu2006 integer benchmarks running in 64bit mode vs. Easily running spec cpu2006 benchmarks in the gem5. If you want to learn more about this benchmark, hit up specs site below, and also feel free to. If you want to learn more about this benchmark, hit up specs site below, and also feel free to post any questions in our related comment thread. Analysis of memory sensitive spec cpu2006 integer benchmarks for big data benchmarking kathlene hurt and eugene john department of electrical and computer engineering university of texas at san antonio san antonio, united states kathlene. Manually installing the spec cpu2006 benchmark suite and running the hs06. Specs cpu2006 added to our cpu test suite techgage. Spec cpu2006 is a source code benchmark, and portability of that source code is one of the chief goals of spec cpu2006. What spec cpu2006 is not intended to measure the spec cpu2006 benchmark is designed to measure the performance of a systems processors, memory, chip set and compiler. Copyright 20062016 standard performance evaluation. Performance characterization of spec cpu2006 integer.
Spec defines a base runtime for each of the 12 benchmark programs. Specs cpu2006 isnt the only benchmark were introducing to our revamped suite of course, so stay tuned as well be discussing the others through the week. Ibm posts spec cpu2006 scores for ibm system x3650 m5. Operating system notes ulimit s 1072 was used to allow the stack to grow up to 1072 kb aka 128 mb. Spec allows any type of file system diskbased, memorybased, nfs, dfs, fat, ntfs etc. Copyright 20062014 standard performance evaluation. The document lists the result, summarizes the major components of the configuration under test, and provides the link to the relevant. This paper analyzes the spec cpu2006 benchmarks using performance counter based experimentation from several state of the art systems, and uses statistical techniques such as principal component analysis and clustering to draw inferences on the similarity of the benchmarks and the redundancy in the suite and arrive at meaningful subsets. Performance characterization of spec cpu2006 integer benchmarks on x8664 architecture, booktitle in proceedings of the ieee international symposium on workload characterization iiswc, year. Provides the benchmark results for spec cpu2006 singlethreaded performance for an intel atom processor c2750based server platform. Btw, is it possible for me to patch mingw headers instead of cpu2006 sources. To check the write access patterns of various benchmarks from spec cpu2006 5 and crono 1, we first give a few vital statistics about the write requests of singlecore and multicore workloads. Building spec cpu2006 cpu2006 is spec s currentgeneration processor benchmark suite that stresses a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler.
Using spec cpu2006 benchmark results to compare the. Installing spec cpu2006 under unix, linux, and mac os x. Building spec cpu2006 cpu2006 is specs currentgeneration processor benchmark suite that stresses a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler. Intel atom processor c2000 spec cpu2006 benchmark performance. The benchmark platforms support both 32bit and 64bit arm in hardware to allow for a fair comparison. Using spec cpu2006 to evaluate the sequential and parallel code.
Lastly, section vi gives a brief conclusion obtained from our analysis. The spec cpu2006 rules allows rulecompliant results to be. These benchmarks are provided as source code and require the user to. Spec recommends that you do not become root, because. Spec cpu2006 consists of a total of 29 individual benchmarks. Performance characterization of spec cpu2006 benchmarks. To run tc078 in your local sut, there are two parameters you need to modify depend on your sut. This document summarizes the the spec cpu2006 benchmark result for the thinksystem sr950 that was published on 11 july, 2017. Prior to the first production use of cpu2006, spec. How to run hepspec06 benchmark hepix working groups. Spec designed cpu2006 to provide a comparative measure of computeintensive performance. The specjbb 2015 benchmark has been updated to version 1. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda.
Occasionally, users of unix systems have asked whether it is necessary to elevate privileges, or to become root, prior to entering the above command. In this paper, they first report performance characterization of spec cpu2006 suite on intel core 2 duo processor which represents an emerging popular computing platform. World record spec cpu2006 benchmark result for thinksystem. Spec cpu2000 search and download spec cpu2000 open source project source codes from. It is split into two components, the first being cint2006, the other being cfp2006, for floating point testing. It appears that a good number of people found my articles from 20 on building gem5 and spec cpu2006 benchmarks for alpha useful. Analysis of redundancy and application balance in the spec. Specs cpu2006 benchmarks on azure january 7th, 2016 the cpu2006 suite by spec is a complex set of tools and tests that allow the user to measure the performance and throughput of a machines cpu. Note that saying 1072 is preferable to unlimited, because there is a tradeoff between space for the stack vs. Using spec cpu2006 in lacasa lab 1 about spec cpu2006 cpu2006 is specs industrystandardized, cpuintensive benchmark suite, stressing a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler. If so, download the new version to a scratch directory outside of the spec tree and try building it there. The benchmarks that make up the spec cpu2006 benchmark suite are setup, run, timed, and scored by the cpu tools harness.
Download scientific diagram dynamic instruction count of spec cpu 2006 benchmarks from publication. Analysis of memory sensitive spec cpu2006 integer benchmarks. Memory hierarchy characterization of spec cpu2006 and spec. Pdf performance characterization of spec cpu2006 integer. Sep 20, 2014 it appears that a good number of people found my articles from 20 on building gem5 and spec cpu2006 benchmarks for alpha useful. The config file option submit was used, along with a list of processors in.
If you do not wish to build this tool yourself, you may be able to use one of the pre compiled crosscompilers available on the m5 download page. It started as a pure quantum computer simulator, but support for general quantum simulation has been recently added. Using the performance events collected by performance monitor unit, we compare their performance differences and analyze the causes from the features of architectures and the. Performance characterization of spec cpu2006 benchmarks on.