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Fortran Execution Time Benchmarks - 64-bit Windows 7 on Intel Core i5 2500k

  Absoft
11.1.3
FTN95
6.10
G95
0.93
GFortran
4.5.2
Intel
20110811
Lahey
7.20
AC 5.28 10.10 10.73 6.24 5.00 10.54
AERMOD 12.25 22.30 29.88 22.99 10.63 17.00
AIR 1.75 6.77 6.01 3.92 1.20 5.09
CAPACITA 17.91 40.06 28.23 18.74 17.02 30.78
CHANNEL2 102.30 184.04 380.76 82.90 86.70 128.80
DODUC 20.77 31.66 29.37 23.14 14.05 21.33
FATIGUE2 77.21 262.79 755.41 108.53 74.52 174.08
GAS_DYN2 66.24 446.07 527.81 175.95 75.31 208.14
INDUCT2 44.50 385.06 160.15 72.25 26.63 308.83
LINPK 5.69 5.60 6.09 5.70 5.54 5.54
MDBX 7.86 13.36 8.82 7.72 4.57 10.21
MP_PROP_DESIGN 25.21 561.61 1021.36 194.50 19.51 114.39
NF 8.20 15.05 16.06 8.44 7.14 10.37
PROTEIN 20.29 35.38 34.49 21.83 19.14 34.69
RNFLOW 11.89 20.78 22.97 16.45 9.82 16.98
TEST_FPU2 72.61 122.31 106.15 57.38 37.39 79.78
TFFT2 44.69 55.15 47.53 43.29 43.38 48.13
 
Geometric Mean 19.29 48.79 51.75 26.71 15.69 34.38

Compiler Switches
Absoft af90 -m64 -O5 -speed_math=10 -fast_math -march=core -xINTEGER -stack:0x80000000
FTN95 ftn95 /p6 /optimize (slink was used to increase the stack size)
G95
g95 -march=nocona -ffast-math -funroll-loops -O3
GFortran
gfortran -O3 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
Intel ifort /fast /Qparallel /link /stack:64000000
Lahey lf95 -inline (35) -o1 -sse2 -nstchk -tp4 -ntrace -unroll (6) -zfm

  

Notes
All figures are Execution Times in Seconds - measured on a machine with a Core i5 2500k 3.30GHz processor, running at stock speed, with 16 GBytes memory, and running Windows 7 64-bit. Each figure is the average over at least 10 runs (many more for some). Measurement error is typically <1%.  Green cells highlight figures within 10% of the fastest.  Red cells indicate figures which are more than 150% of the fastest.

So far as possible, we have used the compiler switches which give the best overall results.  We have not attempted to tune individual benchmarks, and, in particular cases, different switch settings may give better results.  For all except G95, Lahey and FTN95, compiler switches were set to generate 64 bit executables.

The settings used for the Absoft and Intel compilers enable autoparallelization.  Autoparallelization settings are not used on any other compilers because we found that they produced no significant performance benefits on this benchmark set.

Thanks are due to Jos Bergervoet for permission to use his CAPACITA benchmark, to Quetzal Associates for permission to use their CHANNEL, FATIGUE, GAS_DYN, INDUCT, PROTEIN and RNFLOW benchmarks, to David Frank for his TEST_FPU benchmark, to Anthony Falzone for the use of MP_PROP_DESIGN, and to Ted Addison of McVehil-Monnett Associates for permission to use AERMOD, an air quality model used by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

All the benchmarks have been modified slightly to fit into our benchmarking harness. 

The NF benchmark uses  "nested factorization", a little known but very effective iterative linear solver for huge finite difference matrices.  A paper describing nested factorization, and comparing it to other methods is available here.

 

Other benchmark sets:

Intel/Linux

AMD/Windows

AMD/Linux

 

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