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== Running the HEPSPEC-06 benchmark == | == Running the HEPSPEC-06 benchmark == | ||
| − | This article describes the steps that were taken to run the HEPSPEC-06 benchmark on the worker nodes at Nikhef. The procedure is in principle described on the [ | + | This article describes the steps that were taken to run the HEPSPEC-06 benchmark on the worker nodes at Nikhef. The procedure is in principle described on the [http://w3.hepix.org/benchmarking/how_to_run_hs06.html HEPiX web site] and some additional information can be found at [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/FAQ_HEP_SPEC06 EGI]. However, some modifications were needed to get the benchmark to run. |
Procedure | Procedure | ||
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| + | 0. Run as root, otherwise the memory queries done by the procedure will fail. Also, you may need to install the package sharutils, as the script expects to find uuencode in its path. | ||
1. Create the base directory for the test | 1. Create the base directory for the test | ||
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4. Get the SPEC2006 test suite. If you got an NDPF account, you can get [https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/ndpf/files/nikhef-only/spec2006/cpu2006.tar.bz2 cpu2006.tar.bz2]. Extract the file | 4. Get the SPEC2006 test suite. If you got an NDPF account, you can get [https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/ndpf/files/nikhef-only/spec2006/cpu2006.tar.bz2 cpu2006.tar.bz2]. Extract the file | ||
| − | tar | + | tar xjvf /tmp/cpu2006.tar.bz2 |
| − | 5. Prepare a result directory: | + | 5. Prepare a result directory in another tree, eg $HOME: |
| − | mkdir myresults | + | mkdir /root/myresults |
6. To run the test, start a screen session and start the benchmark in it: | 6. To run the test, start a screen session and start the benchmark in it: | ||
screen | screen | ||
| − | ./runspec.sh -f myresults -a 32 -d "mynode CentOS 5.9 x86_64 HS06" | + | ./runspec.sh -f /root/myresults -a 32 -d "mynode CentOS 5.9 x86_64 HS06" |
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| + | 7. Wait until the test completed (this may take 4 hours or more, depending on the hardware). The results appear in the specfied results directory: | ||
| − | + | head myresults/spec2k6-wn-car-019-20130411-111830/system.txt | |
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| − | head spec2k6-wn-car-019-20130411-111830/system.txt | ||
SPECall_cpp2006 with 32-bit binaries. | SPECall_cpp2006 with 32-bit binaries. | ||
Description: wn-car CentOS 5.9 x86_64 HS06 | Description: wn-car CentOS 5.9 x86_64 HS06 | ||
Latest revision as of 12:28, 13 April 2018
Running the HEPSPEC-06 benchmark
This article describes the steps that were taken to run the HEPSPEC-06 benchmark on the worker nodes at Nikhef. The procedure is in principle described on the HEPiX web site and some additional information can be found at EGI. However, some modifications were needed to get the benchmark to run.
Procedure
0. Run as root, otherwise the memory queries done by the procedure will fail. Also, you may need to install the package sharutils, as the script expects to find uuencode in its path.
1. Create the base directory for the test
SPEC=/tmp/benchmark mkdir $SPEC
2. Get the benchmark configuration tarball and extract it in the base directory
cd $SPEC tar xzvf spec2k6-2.13.tar.gz
3. Overwrite runspec.sh with this version of runspec.sh
4. Get the SPEC2006 test suite. If you got an NDPF account, you can get cpu2006.tar.bz2. Extract the file
tar xjvf /tmp/cpu2006.tar.bz2
5. Prepare a result directory in another tree, eg $HOME:
mkdir /root/myresults
6. To run the test, start a screen session and start the benchmark in it:
screen ./runspec.sh -f /root/myresults -a 32 -d "mynode CentOS 5.9 x86_64 HS06"
7. Wait until the test completed (this may take 4 hours or more, depending on the hardware). The results appear in the specfied results directory:
head myresults/spec2k6-wn-car-019-20130411-111830/system.txt SPECall_cpp2006 with 32-bit binaries. Description: wn-car CentOS 5.9 x86_64 HS06 Result: 142.88 Start time: Thu Apr 11 11:18:30 CEST 2013 End time: Thu Apr 11 15:21:38 CEST 2013 Kernel: Linux wn-car-019.farm.nikhef.nl 2.6.18-348.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Mar 11 19:39:25 EDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Processors: 12 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz Memory: 49447624 kB GCC: gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)
For this node, the rating is 142.88 for 12 cores.
