Benchmarking: HEPSPEC

Copy over the files

Copy over the spec2k6 files from the shared directory : software/hpc/benchmarks/SPEC2006_v11.tar.bz2

NOTE Place all files in the same directory

Download the HEPSPEC configuration file

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

Extract the spec config files

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

Run HEPSPEC

./runspec.sh -d "Benchmark HEPSPEC2006 32bit" -a 32 -b all_cpp -e power.david@gmail.com

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!"