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Impressive SPEC OMPL2001 (OpenMP Benchmark Suite) Results for M9000
The SPEC OMPbenchmark is used to rate certain types of system for HPC applications …
SPEC OMP (OpenMP Benchmark Suite) is SPEC’s first benchmark suite for evaluating performance based on OpenMP (http://www.openmp.org) applications. SPEC OMP continues the SPEC tradition of giving HPC users the most objective and representative benchmark suite for measuring the performance of SMP (shared memory multi-processor) systems
SPEC OMPL2001 is targeted at system vendors, software vendors, and customers of high-performance computing systems. It uses a set of shared-memory, parallel-processing applications to measure the performance of the computing system’s processors, memory architecture, operating system and compiler. Nine different application tests - covering everything from quantum chromodynamics to finite-element crash simulation to shallow water modeling - are included in the benchmark suite. SPEC OMPL2001 contains larger working sets and longer run times than SPEC/HPG’s SPEC OMPM2001
Sun has posted results for the SPARC Enterprise M9000 server using the new SPARC64 VII 2.52 GHz processor:
| Result | Cores | Chips | OpenMP Threads |
System | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peak | Base | ||||
| 1,456,653 | 1,250,890 | 256 | 64 | 192 | Sun SE M9000, SPARC64 VII 2.52GHz |
| 1,230,446 | 1,148,235 | 128 | 64 | 128 | Sun SE M9000, SPARC64 VI 2.4GHz |
| 1,056,459 | 1,005,583 | 64 | 32 | 128 | IBM p5 595, POWER5 2.3GHz |
| 1,005,076 | 987,139 | 256 | 128 | 256 | SGI Altix 4700, Itanium 2 1.6GHz |
| 672,757 | 620,741 | 64 | 32 | 128 | IBM p5 595, POWER5 1.9GHz |
| 581,807 | 532,576 | 64 | 16 | 64 | Sun SE M8000, SPARC64 VII 2.52GHz |
Result Landscape SPECompL2001 (bigger is better, Results ordered by peak metric)
The Sun blog post with the results have the full SPEC disclosures.
