Benchmarking: HEPSPEC

Copy over the files

• Note: Use SPEC2006_v12.tar.bz2

Copy over the spec2k6 files from the shared directory: //10.0.0.220/software/hpc/benchmarks/SPEC2006_v12.tar.bz2

NOTE Place all files in the same directory

32 bit libs

Make sure you have the 32bit libs installed!

# CentOS 6
yum groupinstall 'Development tools'
#OLD:yum -y install glibc-devel-2.12-1.47.el6.i686 compat-gcc-34-g77
yum -y install glibc-devel.i686 compat-gcc-34-g77
yum -y install libstdc++-devel.i686 sharutils

# CentOS 5
yum -y groupinstall 'Development tools'
yum -y install glibc-devel compat-gcc-34-g77

## JH Test
yum -y install glibc-devel.i686 libstdc++.i686 sharutils gcc-c++
yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 libstdc++-devel.i686 compat-libcap1.i686

Download the CERN HEPSPEC configuration file

# check https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/FIOgroup/TsiBenchHEPSPEC for the latest version
# OLD: wget --no-check-certificate https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/FIOgroup/TsiBenchHEPSPEC/spec2k6-2.14.tar.gz
wget --no-check-certificate https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/FIOgroup/TsiBenchHEPSPEC/spec2k6-2.23.tar.gz

Extract the spec config files

NB: When running HEPSPEC for a CERN configuration with the default CERN filesystem layout, do not attempt to run HEPSPEC from within "/" or "/root/". The default partition size is not big enough, the partition will run out of space and the benchmark will fail. Use "/pool/" instead.

david@cal1:~/$ mkdir -p scratch/hepspec && cd scratch/hepspec
david@cal1:~/scratch/hepspec$ mv ~/spec2k6-2.14.tar.gz .
david@cal1:~/scratch/hepspec$ tar zxvf spec2k6-2.14.tar.gz  
linux32-gcc_cern.cfg
linux64-gcc_cern.cfg
README.TXT
runspec.sh
simple.sh

Edit the runspec.sh file

NOTE 1 Make sure this is done or results get sent to cern (if email is configured on the server)
NOTE 2 The RESULTDIR variable must point to a directory that exists (the script won't create it). If it doesn't exist, the results won't be saved!

# vi runspec.sh
EMAIL="hpc@boston.co.uk"
RESULTDIR="/home/david/scratch/hepspec/results-spec"

Run HEPSPEC

# as root
./runspec.sh -d "Benchmark HEPSPEC2006 32bit" -a 32 -b all_cpp

# form hepix site:
./runspec.sh -d "HEP-SPEC06 32-bit" -a 32 -b all_cpp -e your.email@address.com

Note for multiple runs

NOTE Extracting the tar.bz2 files takes some time. If the build fails after the archive is extracted, remove the following line from runspec (around line 75) and rerun the build

tar xjf $SPECTARBALL || fail "Unable to extract SPECint!"

And remove or comment out the line near the end of the script (around line 190) which deletes the extracted spec files

rm -rf $SPECDIR

Results

Intel Results

http://wiki.bostonlabs.co.uk/w/index.php/Results:Hepspec

AMD Results

HEPSPEC2006 results for Dual CPU system

CPU	Freq	CPU	Hepspec
Abu Dhabi
6380	x.xxGHz	xx	286.4
Interlagos
6282	x.xxGHz	xx	308.82
6276	x.xxGHz	xx	288.90
6274	x.xxGHz	xx	268.98
6272	x.xxGHz	xx	259.01
6238	x.xxGHz	xx	179.32
6234	x.xxGHz	xx	171.85
6220	x.xxGHz	xx	109.58
6212	x.xxGHz	xx	99.62
Magney-Cours
6174	2.20GHz	12	195.42
6172	2.10GHz	12	186.54
6168	1.90GHz	12	168.77
6136	2.40GHz	8	142.12
6134	2.30GHz	8	136.2
6128	2.00GHz	8	118.44