Table 1. Hardware Specifications and the Software Configurations of the Tested Platforms in Detail
|
System Name |
Alpha500 |
E7505 |
E7501-S |
E7501-T |
K8-32 |
zx6000 |
IBM P690 |
|
CPU Type |
Alpha 21264A |
Intel P4 Xeon a |
Intel P4 Xeon a |
Intel P4 Xeon a |
AMD Opteron 244 |
Intel Itanium2 |
IBM RS6000 |
|
Architecture |
21264A |
IA32 |
IA32 |
IA32 |
AMD64 |
IA64 |
POWER4 |
|
L1 cache size |
64kB(I)+64kB(D) |
12km-ops(I)+8kB(D) |
12km-ops(I)+8kB(D) |
12km-ops(I)+8kB(D) |
64kB(I)+64kB(D) |
16kB(I)+16kB(D) |
64kB(I)+32kB(D) |
|
L2/L3 cache size |
4MB / 0 |
512kB / 0 |
512kB / 0 |
512kB / 0 |
1MB / 0 |
256kB / 1.5MB |
1440 kB / 128MB |
|
CPU Frequency |
500 MHz |
2.4 GHz |
2.4 GHz |
2.4 GHz |
1.8 GHz |
900 MHz |
1.3 GHz |
|
Installed CPUs |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
32 |
|
Motherboard |
API DP264 |
Iwill DP533 |
Supermicro X5DPE-G2 |
Tyan S2723GNN |
Rioworks R3140 |
HP zx6000 |
|
|
M/B chipset |
Compaq 21272 |
Intel E7505 |
Intel E7501 |
Intel E7501 |
AMD 8131/8111 |
HP zx1 |
|
|
RAM Size b |
2048 MB 128 MB×16 |
2048 MB 512 MB×4 |
2048 MB 512 MB×4 |
2048 MB 512 MB×4 |
8192 MB 1024 MB×8 |
6144 MB 512 MB×12 |
128 GB |
|
RAM Type |
83MHz SDRAM 256bit bus, 72bit ECC |
DDR266 ECC Registered CL2 |
DDR266 ECC Registered CL2.5 |
DDR266 ECC Registered CL2.5 |
DDR333 ECC Registered |
DDR266 ECC Registered |
|
|
Theoretical Bandwidth |
2650 MB/s |
4.3 GB/s |
4.3 GB/s |
4.3 GB/s |
5.3 GB/s per processor |
8.5 GB/s |
12.8 GB/s |
|
OS version c |
Tru64 v4.0F |
Linux 2.4.20 (S) |
Linux 2.4.20 (R9) |
Linux 2.4.20(S) |
Linux 2.4.19 (U) |
Linux 2.4.20 (R2) |
AIX 5L V5.1 |
|
C compiler |
DEC C V5.9-010 |
gcc 2.95.3 |
gcc 3.2.2 |
gcc 2.95.3 |
gcc 3.2.2 |
Intel v7.1 |
xlc v8.0 |
|
Fortran compiler d |
Digital Fortran v5.2 |
PGI / IFC |
PGI / IFC |
PGI / IFC |
PGI / IFC |
EFC |
xlf90 v8.0 |
|
Math Library e |
CXML(DXML) |
AT/M/G |
AT/M/G |
AT/M/G |
AT/M/AC |
AT/M/G |
ESSL 3.3 |
|
SpecFP2000 f |
383/422 |
934/944 (W) |
1093/1168g (L) |
1139/1139 (L) |
1202/1266 |
a All of the Intel P4/Xeon CPUs are socket 604 and operating at 533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). b All banks of memory modules of every tested platform are filled. c Linux (R9): RedHat 9.0; (S): Slackware 8.1; (U): SuSE SLES 8; (R2): RedHat Advanced Workstation 2.1. d PGI: Portland Group Inc. Fortran Compiler v5.0-1 for AMD64 and v5.0-2 for IA32; IFC: Intel Fortran Compiler v7.1, Build 20030307Z for IA32; EFC: Intel Fortran Compiler v7.1, Build 20030307Z for IA64. e AT: ATLAS 3.4.1/3.5.7; M: Intel MKL 6.0; G: GOTO library 0.6p for P4/Xeon and 0.7p for Itanium 2; AC: AMD ACML v1.0 for AMD64 (32 bit). f Published SpecFP2000 base/peak marks at http://www.spec.org/cpu2000 tested under native OS of Alpha and IBM, and Linux (L) and MS Windows (W) for Intel and AMD machines. g For 32-bit binary.