Secretary, spec cpu subcommittee, and performance engineer, sun microsystems. Jun 10, 2010 this paper relies on the spec cpu2006 v1. Astoundingly, shadowreplica also reduces the cpu cycles used up to 30%. For specint2006, that number ranges from to 3000 seconds. Performance characterization of spec cpu2006 benchmarks. To construct this suite, spec has selected benchmarks that are derived from real world applications. Lastly, for the gpus, we used the parboil, rodinia, and shoc benchmarking suites.
Spec cpu2006 contains two different methods of performance measurement. Cpu2006, spec cpu2017 has been provided with three input sets. In 2, the spec cpu2006 benchmark suite, a common benchmark suite used in both academia and industry, was analyzed to find the similarities and redundancies between each of the programs. World record spec cpu2006 benchmark result for thinksystem. Spec cpu is one of the most common benchmark suites used in computer architecture research. See below for details on the retirement schedule and result submission.
Spec cloud iaas 2018 benchmark info published results order benchmark spec cloud iaas 2018 builds on the original 2016 release, updates metrics, and workloads and adds easier setup. The benchmarks that make up the spec cpu2006 benchmark suite are setup, run, timed, and scored by the cpu tools harness. Descriptions of the individual benchmarks which make up the floating point component of the cpu2006 suite. The spec cpu 2006 benchmark is spec s industrystandardized, cpuintensive benchmark suite, stressing a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler. Using spec cpu2006 benchmark results to compare the compute. Computing performance benchmarks among cpu, gpu, and.
Spec cpu2006 is a computeintensive benchmark suite designed to stress a computer systems processor, memory subsystem, and compiler. Spec designed cpu2006 to provide a comparative measure of computeintensive performance. Compared to the cpu2006 24 benchmark suite, cpu2017 changes its organization. The above figure shows the results across the 19 different architecture configurations we examined for gcc166 from the spec 2000 benchmark suite. Spec benchmarks are widely used to evaluate the performance of computer systems. Spec cpu2006 consists of a total of 29 individual benchmarks.
A good reference for the correct command line options can be found here. The work also explore the benchmarks sensitivity to certain performance characteristics, changes from previous. The spec cpu 2006 benchmark has several different ways to measure server performance. The first, speed, determines the time required to complete a single task. Performance is measure in terms of base speed for reference problem sizes. The experiments were executed on an intel xeon skylakesp, which is the first intel processor to. Dynamic instruction count of spec cpu 2006 benchmarks. Since that time, more than 43,000 spec cpu2006 performance results have been published on spec s website. This benchmark suite includes the specint benchmarks and the specfp benchmarks. See below for details on the retirement schedule and result submission requirements. World record spec cpu2006 benchmark result for 1processor. 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. Other components, such as disk io and network, are not measured by this benchmark.
Prior to the first production use of cpu2006, spec. Amd cpus typically in this chart include amd mobile cpus, amd turion iis, amd opteron dual core cpus. Microquill smartheap overview improve your spec cpu2006. The spec cpu benchmarks are widely used in both industry and academia 3. Iiswc 2006 2 outline motivation and background performance characteristics of cpu2006 integer benchmarks on x8664 64bit mode vs. Updated with runspec update base compiler invocation c benchmarks.
It is split into two components, the first being cint2006, the other being cfp2006, for floating point testing. Download citation spec cpu2006 benchmark descriptions on august 24, 2006, the standard performance evaluation corporation spec announced cpu2006 2, which replaces cpu2000. Spec cpu 2006 standard performance evaluation corporation. The spec cpu2006 speed run is designed to measure the speed of a core. The standard performance evaluation corporation spec is an american non profit corporation that aims to produce, establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of performance benchmarks for computers. By looking at spec cpu2006 results, you can immediately tell that not all cores are equal. Spec chose to make run times for cpu2006 benchmarks longer to take into account future performance and prevent this from being an issue for the lifetime of the suites. Apr 07, 2020 microquill smartheap overview improve your spec cpu2006 scores page 1 today william takes a look at a wellknown software product that will optimize spec cpu2006 scores, and that is smartheap. The spec cpu 2006 benchmark is specs industrystandardized, cpuintensive benchmark suite, stressing a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler benchmark retirement. Intel cpus in this chart include the slower intel core2 duo cpus, intel xeon cpus and intel celeron cpus. Since that time, more than 43,000 spec cpu2006 performance results have been published on specs website. The standard performance evaluation corporation spec is an american nonprofit corporation that aims to produce, establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of performance benchmarks for computers. The recently released spec cpu2006 benchmark suite is expected to be used by computer designers and computer architecture researchers for presilicon early design analysis. Invited paper for the hot workloads special session hot.
Spec benchmarks are widely used to evaluate the performance of computer. It becomes clear that number of cores and processor gigahertz speeds. The spec benchmarks are available from the license is a site license, i. The suite consists of the intial mpim2007 suite and mpil2007, which contains larger working sets and longer run times than mpim2007. The benchmark stresses the provisioning, compute, storage, and network resources of. Benchmark execution will always use the runspec action validate signifying the following. References 1 instrumentationdriven simulation a pinbased memory characterization of the spec cpu2000 and spec cpu2006 benchmark 2 characterization of spec cpu2006 benchmarks on intel and proceedings of the 2009 first international workshop on education technology and computer science, vol. Build if needed, run, check for correct answers, and generate reports 2.
The left yaxis represents the performance in instructions per cycle and the xaxis represents different memory configurations from the baseline architecture. Jun 20, 2017 the spec cpu2017 benchmark suite replaces spec cpu2006, launched in 2006. The spec cpu2017 suite is available for downloading on the spec website. The workload includes spamassassin, mhonarc an email indexer, and specdiff specs tool that checks benchmark outputs. We use the fastest speed compilation flags for both compilers. The cpu and gpu suites tested mathematical algorithms, high performance. Spec release 1 is a cpu benchmarking suite of four integer benchmarks written in c and six. Analysis of redundancy and application balance in the spec. The speed gap between processor and memory has become the most important factor influencing.
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. Cpu2017 has recently been released to replace cpu2006. Using spec cpu2006 benchmark results to compare the. So, spec cpu2006 resembles much the previous version of the product spec cpu2000 in its purpose, structure, and load on system components. Spec 2006 analysis of redundancy and application balance in the spec cpu2006 benchmark suite. Cpu2006 is a set of benchmarks designed to test the cpu performance of a modern server computer system. This benchmark suite includes the specint benchmarks and the. Nov 08, 2017 the spec cpu 2006 benchmark is spec s industrystandardized, cpuintensive benchmark suite, stressing a systems processor, memory subsystem and compiler. 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. The tools have evolved over time from a collection of editityourself. Spec has chosen not to allow source code changes for the cpu2006 suite, except under very limited circumstances.
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. The suite consists of the intial mpim2007 suite and mpil2007, which contains larger working. Computing performance benchmarks among cpu, gpu, and fpga. Memory hierarchy characterization of spec cpu2006 and spec. In this paper we present a detailed evaluation of the memory hierarchy performance for both the cpu2006 and singlethreaded cpu2017 benchmarks. Both sequential and automatic parallel performance obtained is. Memory performance characterization of spec cpu2006. 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. Cint2006 for measuring computeintensive integer performance, and cfp2006 for computeintensive floating point performance. Running spec cpu2006 is a good way to evaluate single threaded or core performance. Our evaluation shows that shadowreplica is on average. As applications grow in complexity and size, cpu2000 becomes less representative of what runs on current systems. Nov 14, 2019 benchmark execution will always use the runspec action validate signifying the following. Gives extensive descriptions of each of the component programs in the spec cpu2006 benchmark suite.
Metrics for both integer and floating point compute intensive performance are provided, with both speed and rate metrics for each. Spec defines a base runtime for each of the 12 benchmark programs. Cpu2006 is a set of benchmarks designed to test the cpu and memory performance of a modern server computer system. This document summarizes the the spec cpu2006 benchmark result for the thinksystem sr950 that was published on 11 july, 2017. Spec has invested substantial effort to make the benchmarks portable across a wide variety of hardware architectures, operating systems, and compilers. Spec releases major new cpu benchmark suite hpcwire. In addition to base and peak metrics, spec cpu2006 has rate and speed metrics. The document lists the result, summarizes the major components of the configuration under test, and provides the link to the relevant. The standard performance evaluation corporation spec is an american nonprofit corporation that aims to produce, establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of performance benchmarks for computers spec was founded in 1988. This benchmark runs the integer or floatingpoint workloads end to end in a serial fashion, calculating a score based on the amount of time needed to complete the test. The spec cpu2017 benchmark suite replaces spec cpu2006, launched in 2006.
Download citation spec cpu2006 benchmark descriptions on august 24, 2006, the standard performance evaluation corporation spec announced cpu2006 2. Using spec cpu2006 to evaluate the sequential and parallel. The lenovo thinksystem sr950 server delivers worldrecord eightprocessor rack server performance for computeintensive applications. Performance characterization of spec cpu2006 integer. Using the performance events collected by performance monitor unit, we compare their performance differences and analyze the causes from the features of architectures and. This chart comparing mid range cpus is made using thousands of performancetest benchmark results and is updated daily. Cpu2006 is a set of benchmarks designed to test the cpu and memory performance of a modern server. Analysis of memory sensitive spec cpu2006 integer benchmarks. Strictly speaking, cpu2006 is not a single benchmark but consists of two. Cpu2006 is a benchmark developed to allow a performance comparison between systems in case of computebound activities. With the release of the spec cpu 2017 benchmark suite, the cpu 2006 suite will be retired. Memory centric characterization and analysis of spec. Partial use of benchmark suites by researchers, due to simulation time constraints, compiler difficulties, or library or system call issues is likely to happen. Intel atom processor c2000 spec cpu2006 benchmark performance.
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. Microquill smartheap overview improve your spec cpu2006 scores page 1 today william takes a look at a wellknown software product that will. Jun 15, 2016 even though spec cpu2006 is more hpc and workstation oriented, it contains a good variety of integer workloads. These are standardized tools, measuring the speed of individual system components or the speed of the entire system. Standard performance evaluation corporation wikipedia. 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. References 1 instrumentationdriven simulation a pinbased memory characterization of the spec cpu2000 and spec cpu2006 benchmark 2 characterization of spec cpu2006 benchmarks on intel and proceedings of the 2009 first international workshop on education technology and. Performance characterization of spec cpu2006 benchmarks on. Spec mpi 2007 is specs benchmark suite for evaluating mpiparallel, floating point, compute intensive performance across a wide range of cluster and smp hardware. Even though spec cpu2006 is more hpc and workstation oriented, it contains a good variety of integer workloads. The spec cpu2017 benchmark suite replaces spec cpu2006, launched.
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