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SPEC CPU®2017 Documentation Index

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Updates

SPEC CPU 2017 may be updated from time to time. To update your copy, use runcpu --update.

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Tools

Getting Started
Quick Start A one-pager to get you started quickly.
Overview/What's New Overview of the suite and the process, including Why this benchmark? What are the metrics? How does CPU 2017 differ from previous suites?
System Requirements Hardware and software needed to use SPEC CPU 2017.
Installing on Unix
Installing on Windows
Installation guides. The "Unix" guide applies to AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and similar systems. The Windows guide is for Microsoft Windows systems.
Basic Use
Using SPEC CPU 2017
(runcpu)
The runcpu command is the primary user interface for running SPEC CPU 2017 benchmarks and reporting results. Everyone using the suite will need this document.
SPEC CPU 2017
Run and Reporting Rules
The rules must be studied carefully prior to submitting results to SPEC for publication, and prior to quoting results in public. Caution: the rules may be updated. Published result must comply with the current version at www.spec.org/cpu2017/Docs/runrules.html.
Customizing Your Testing
Config Files SPEC CPU 2017 provides benchmarks in source code form. A "config file" specifies how to compile them and controls many aspects of how they are run. If you are a new user, you will probably start with an existing config file, such as one downloaded from www.spec.org/cpu2017.
Flag Description Files

When the benchmarks are compiled, compilation flags (such as -O2 or -unroll) are detected and automatically reported. Flag description files help the tools recognize flags and report on them. Your compiler vendor may supply a flag description file for you, which you can reference via the config file flagsurl field.
In addition to compiler flags files, there are also "platform" flags files, where you describe items such as Operating System tuning and BIOS settings. It is likely that you will need to write your own Platform Flags File.

Advanced Topics
Make Variables To understand exactly how the benchmarks are built, use this document to help you decipher the process.
Monitoring Facility Information about monitoring hooks.
Utilities How to use specinvoke, specdiff, specmake and other utilities. Also, manpages are available for FILEPP (specpp) and RXP (specrxp).
Avoiding runcpu Although runcpu automates many benchmarking tasks, sometimes you may prefer to work "by hand", perhaps because you want to modify a benchmark, collect traces for a simulator, or debug an experimental compiler. This document describes how to minimize use of SPEC's toolset.
Trouble
FAQ Frequently asked technical questions
Known Problems Known problems and errata information.
Technical Support Information on SPEC technical support.
Building the Toolset How to build (or re-build) the tools (Hint: you probably don't need to.)
Miscellany
Credits Information about the contributors to SPEC CPU 2017.
Licenses Copyright notice and license information.

The Benchmarks

SPEC CPU 2017 has 43 benchmarks, organized into 4 suites:

 SPECrate 2017 Integer            SPECspeed 2017 Integer
 SPECrate 2017 Floating Point     SPECspeed 2017 Floating Point

Benchmark pairs shown as:

 5nn.benchmark_r / 6nn.benchmark_s

are similar to each other. Differences include: compile flags; workload sizes; and run rules. See: [OpenMP]   [memory]   [rules]

SPECrate®2017
Integer
SPECspeed®2017
Integer
Language[1] KLOC[2] Application Area
500.perlbench_r 600.perlbench_s C 362 Perl interpreter
502.gcc_r 602.gcc_s C 1,304 GNU C compiler
505.mcf_r 605.mcf_s C 3 Route planning
520.omnetpp_r 620.omnetpp_s C++ 134 Discrete Event simulation - computer network
523.xalancbmk_r 623.xalancbmk_s C++ 520 XML to HTML conversion via XSLT
525.x264_r 625.x264_s C 96 Video compression
531.deepsjeng_r 631.deepsjeng_s C++ 10 Artificial Intelligence: alpha-beta tree search (Chess)
541.leela_r 641.leela_s C++ 21 Artificial Intelligence: Monte Carlo tree search (Go)
548.exchange2_r 648.exchange2_s Fortran 1 Artificial Intelligence: recursive solution generator (Sudoku)
557.xz_r 657.xz_s C 33 General data compression
 
SPECrate®2017
Floating Point
SPECspeed®2017
Floating Point
Language[1] KLOC[2] Application Area
503.bwaves_r 603.bwaves_s Fortran 1 Explosion modeling
507.cactuBSSN_r 607.cactuBSSN_s C++, C, Fortran 257 Physics: relativity
508.namd_r   C++ 8 Molecular dynamics
510.parest_r   C++ 427 Biomedical imaging: optical tomography with finite elements
511.povray_r   C++, C 170 Ray tracing
519.lbm_r 619.lbm_s C 1 Fluid dynamics
521.wrf_r 621.wrf_s Fortran, C 991 Weather forecasting
526.blender_r   C++, C 1,577 3D rendering and animation
527.cam4_r 627.cam4_s Fortran, C 407 Atmosphere modeling
  628.pop2_s Fortran, C 338 Wide-scale ocean modeling (climate level)
538.imagick_r 638.imagick_s C 259 Image manipulation
544.nab_r 644.nab_s C 24 Molecular dynamics
549.fotonik3d_r 649.fotonik3d_s Fortran 14 Computational Electromagnetics
554.roms_r 654.roms_s Fortran 210 Regional ocean modeling
  [1] For multi-language benchmarks, the first one listed determines library and link options (details)
  [2] KLOC = line count (including comments/whitespace) for source files used in a build / 1000

Some individual benchmark in the suite have additional documents, found in the benchmark "Docs" subdirectory on your installed benchmark tree, or on the SPEC CPU 2017 distribution media. For example, additional information about 554.roms_r may be found in your installed copy of SPEC CPU 2017 at:

   $SPEC/benchspec/CPU/554.roms_r/Docs/ (Unix)
or
   %SPEC%\benchspec\CPU\554.roms_r\Docs\ (Windows)

Open Source Components

On the SPEC distribution media (ISO image), you will find:

redistributable_sources/README Information about freely-available sources
                               that have been incorporated in SPEC CPU 2017

Information about which components are used and their licenses is in SPEC CPU 2017 Licenses.

SPEC CPU®2017 Documentation Index: Copyright © 2017-2020 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®)