Directory
Parts taxonomy
The component layer the systems graph draws its edges into. Every part page lists the systems using it, so a question like “what is installed underneath Slingshot” has an answer you can click to rather than assemble by hand.
Accelerators
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Instinct MI355X | AMD | CDNA 4 | 2026 | 2 | 34.77 PFlop/s |
| Google TPU 8i TPU (systolic array) | Alphabet | TPU 8 | 2026 | 1 | - |
| Google TPU 8t TPU (systolic array) | Alphabet | TPU 8 | 2026 | 1 | - |
| Microsoft Maia 200 Maia · TSMC 3nm | Microsoft | Maia | 2026 | - | - |
| AWS Trainium3 NeuronCore-v4 | Amazon | Trainium | 2025 | 1 | - |
| Google TPU7x (Ironwood) TPU (systolic array) | Alphabet | TPU7x | 2025 | 4 | - |
| Huawei CloudMatrix 384 Da Vinci | Huawei | CloudMatrix | 2025 | 2 | - |
| NVIDIA B300 SXM CUDA (Blackwell Ultra) · TSMC 4NP | NVIDIA | Blackwell Ultra | 2025 | 1 | - |
| NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 | NVIDIA | Blackwell Ultra | 2025 | 13 | - |
| AMD Instinct MI325X ROCm (CDNA 3) · TSMC N5/N6 | AMD | CDNA 3 | 2024 | 1 | - |
| AWS Trainium2 NeuronCore-v3 · TSMC 5nm | Amazon | Trainium | 2024 | 4 | - |
| Cerebras WSE-3 Cerebras (wafer-scale) · 900000C · TSMC N5 | Cerebras | Wafer Scale Engine | 2024 | 4 | - |
| Google TPU v6e (Trillium) TPU (systolic array) | Alphabet | v6e | 2024 | 4 | - |
| Intel Gaudi 3 Gaudi · TSMC N5 | Habana Labs | Gaudi | 2024 | - | - |
| Meta MTIA v2 MTIA | Meta Platforms | MTIA | 2024 | - | - |
| NVIDIA B200 SXM CUDA (Blackwell) · TSMC 4NP | NVIDIA | Blackwell | 2024 | 36 | 534.0 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Arm CPU + CUDA GPU · TSMC 4NP | NVIDIA | Blackwell | 2024 | 14 | 27.37 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N | NVIDIA | Hopper | 2024 | 53 | 1.21 EFlop/s |
| AMD Instinct MI300A ROCm (CDNA 3) · TSMC N5/N6 | AMD | CDNA 3 | 2023 | 15 | 2.81 EFlop/s |
| AMD Instinct MI300X ROCm (CDNA 3) · TSMC N5/N6 | AMD | CDNA 3 | 2023 | 3 | 117.6 PFlop/s |
| Google TPU v5e TPU (systolic array) | Alphabet | v5e | 2023 | 1 | - |
| Google TPU v5p TPU (systolic array) · 1.75 GHz | Alphabet | TPU v5 | 2023 | 5 | - |
| Groq LPU Groq TSP · 14 nm | Groq | LPU | 2023 | 3 | - |
| Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 oneAPI (Xe-HPC) · Intel 7 / TSMC N5 | Intel | Ponte Vecchio | 2023 | 5 | 1.05 EFlop/s |
| Microsoft Maia 100 Maia · TSMC N5 | Microsoft | Maia | 2023 | - | - |
| NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip Arm CPU + CUDA GPU · TSMC 4N | NVIDIA | Grace Hopper | 2023 | 28 | 2.49 EFlop/s |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 94GB CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N | NVIDIA | Hopper | 2023 | 11 | 220.6 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA L40S CUDA (Ada Lovelace) | NVIDIA | Ada Lovelace | 2023 | 20 | - |
| AMD Instinct MI210 ROCm (CDNA 2) · TSMC N6 | AMD | CDNA 2 | 2022 | 5 | 63.21 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe CUDA (Hopper) | NVIDIA | Hopper | 2022 | 4 | 9.17 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N | NVIDIA | Hopper | 2022 | 81 | 2.21 EFlop/s |
| AMD Instinct MI250X ROCm (CDNA 2) · 1.7 GHz · TSMC N6 | AMD | CDNA 2 | 2021 | 15 | 2.39 EFlop/s |
| NUDT Matrix-3000 NUDT custom | NUDT | Matrix | 2021 | - | - |
| SambaNova RDU Reconfigurable dataflow · TSMC 5nm | SambaNova | RDU | 2021 | 1 | - |
| Tesla Dojo D1 Custom Dojo ISA (64-bit scalar + 64-byte SIMD vector) · 354C · 2 GHz · 7 nm | Tesla | D1 (Dojo v1) | 2021 | 1 | - |
| Anton 3 ASIC 528C · 7 nm | D. E. Shaw Research | Anton 3 | 2020 | 1 | - |
| Google TPU v4 | Alphabet | TPU v4 | 2020 | 2 | - |
| Graphcore IPU Graphcore IPU · TSMC 7nm | Graphcore | Colossus | 2020 | 1 | 7.94 PFlop/s |
| Hygon DCU ROCm-compatible | Hygon | DCU | 2020 | 1 | - |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB CUDA (Ampere GA100) · 6912C · 1.41 GHz · 7 nm | NVIDIA | Ampere | 2020 | 45 | 482.9 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 64GB CUDA (Ampere GA100) · 6912C · 1.41 GHz · 7 nm | NVIDIA | Ampere | 2020 | 2 | 244.7 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | NVIDIA | Ampere | 2020 | 14 | 59.26 PFlop/s |
| Huawei Ascend 910 Da Vinci · 7 nm | Huawei | Da Vinci | 2019 | 3 | - |
| NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Vector Engine NEC vector · 8C · 1.6 GHz · 16 nm | NEC | SX-Aurora | 2018 | 5 | 51.28 PFlop/s |
| Preferred Networks MN-Core (1st generation) TSMC 12nm | Preferred Networks | MN-Core 1 | 2018 | 1 | 2.18 PFlop/s |
| NUDT Matrix-2000 NUDT custom · 128C · 1.2 GHz · 28 nm | NUDT | Matrix | 2017 | 1 | 61.44 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA Tesla V100 CUDA (Volta GV100) · 5120C · 1.53 GHz · 12 nm | NVIDIA | Volta | 2017 | 91 | 529.0 PFlop/s |
| PEZY-SC2 MIPS64 (PE array) · 2048C · 0.7 GHz | PEZY Computing | SC2 | 2017 | 5 | 23.12 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Phi 7250 (Knights Landing) x86-64 (Knights Landing) · 68C · 1.4 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Knights Landing | 2016 | 6 | 58.29 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA Tesla P100 CUDA (Pascal GP100) · 3584C · 1.48 GHz · 16 nm | NVIDIA | Pascal | 2016 | 28 | 70.56 PFlop/s |
| AMD FirePro S9150 TSMC 28nm | AMD | GCN 2.0 (Hawaii) | 2014 | 1 | 316.70 TFlop/s |
| Anton 2 ASIC 66C · 40 nm | D. E. Shaw Research | Anton 2 | 2014 | 1 | - |
| Intel Xeon Phi 31S1P x86-64 (Knights Corner) · 57C · 1.1 GHz · 22 nm | Intel | Knights Corner | 2013 | 2 | 63.51 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Phi SE10P x86-64 (Knights Corner) · 61C | Intel | Knights Corner | 2012 | 1 | 5.17 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA Tesla K20X CUDA (Kepler GK110) · 2688C · 0.732 GHz · 28 nm | NVIDIA | Kepler | 2012 | 11 | 24.90 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA Tesla C2050 CUDA (Fermi) · 448C · 1.15 GHz · 40 nm | NVIDIA | Fermi | 2010 | 1 | 1.27 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA Tesla M2050 CUDA (Fermi) · 448C · 1.15 GHz · 40 nm | NVIDIA | Fermi | 2010 | 4 | 3.98 PFlop/s |
| ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 55 nm | AMD | TeraScale (RV770) | 2009 | 1 | 563.10 TFlop/s |
| IBM PowerXCell 8i Cell BE (PPE + 8 SPE) · 9C · 3.2 GHz · 65 nm | IBM | Cell BE | 2008 | 5 | 2.08 PFlop/s |
| AMD Instinct MI430X | AMD | Instinct MI400 | - | 4 | - |
| AMD Instinct MI455X CDNA | AMD | Instinct MI400 | - | - | - |
| Cerebras CS-2 (WSE-2) Cerebras (wafer-scale) | Cerebras | Wafer Scale Engine 2 | - | 5 | - |
| Huawei Ascend 910C Da Vinci | Huawei | Da Vinci | - | 1 | - |
| NVIDIA A100 (in DGX A100) | NVIDIA | Ampere | - | 13 | 95.65 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA Vera Rubin | NVIDIA | Rubin | - | 10 | - |
Cooling
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct-to-chip cold plate Cold plate on the package, air for the remainder · Removes roughly 50-80 percent of node heat to liquid | open standard | DLC | 2018 | 11 | 273.6 PFlop/s |
| Chilled-water indirect liquid cooling Closed-coupled liquid cooling, chiller-backed · 28 MW cooling capacity, Climaveneta chillers at Sunway TaihuLight | open standard | - | 2016 | 1 | 93.01 PFlop/s |
| Single-phase immersion Full submersion in a dielectric bath · 100 kW per tank and above | open standard | Immersion | 2015 | 5 | 43.39 PFlop/s |
| Direct liquid cooling, warm water Direct-to-chip cold plates, facility water loop · Removes 90+ percent of node heat to liquid | open standard | DLC | 2012 | 64 | 9.18 EFlop/s |
| Direct water-cooled LSI (pre-cold-plate era) Direct water cooling at the chip package | open standard | - | 2011 | 1 | 10.51 PFlop/s |
| Rear-door heat exchanger Liquid coil in the cabinet door · Roughly 30-60 kW per rack | open standard | RDHx | 2010 | - | - |
| Liquid-assisted air (in-cabinet coil) In-cabinet air, water-cooled coil · Roughly 20-45 kW per cabinet | open standard | Liquid-assisted air | 2007 | 6 | 74.75 PFlop/s |
| Conduction-cooled liquid (primary/secondary loop) Sealed primary loop at the package, secondary loop rejecting outdoors | open standard | - | 1993 | 1 | 124.0 GFlop/s |
| Air cooling (CRAC/CRAH) Room-level air handling · Practical ceiling around 15-20 kW per rack | open standard | Air | 1990 | 14 | 198.8 PFlop/s |
| ETA10 liquid nitrogen cooling | open standard | ETA10 | 1987 | 1 | - |
| Cray-2 Fluorinert immersion cooling | open standard | Cray-2 | 1985 | 1 | - |
CPUs
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD EPYC 9575F 64C · 3.3 GHz | AMD | Zen 5 (Turin) | 2026 | 5 | 34.77 PFlop/s |
| LingKun LX2 Armv9.2 SVE2/SME · 304C · 1.55 GHz | open standard | LX2 | 2026 | 1 | 2.20 EFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8570 x86-64 · 56C · 2.1 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Emerald Rapids | 2025 | 13 | 489.5 PFlop/s |
| Loongson 3C6000 LoongArch · 64C · 2.2 GHz · 12 nm | Loongson Technology | LA664 | 2025 | - | - |
| SiPearl Rhea1 Armv8.4 (Neoverse V1) · 80C · TSMC N6 | SiPearl | Neoverse V1 | 2025 | - | - |
| AMD EPYC 9005 (Turin) x86-64 · 192C · 2.7 GHz · TSMC N3E | AMD | Zen 5 | 2024 | 14 | 374.5 PFlop/s |
| AWS Graviton4 Armv9 (Neoverse V2) · 96C · 2.8 GHz · TSMC 4nm | Amazon | Neoverse V2 | 2024 | - | - |
| Intel Xeon 6 6700E (Sierra Forest) x86-64 · 144C · 2.4 GHz · Intel 3 | Intel | Sierra Forest | 2024 | 1 | 4.53 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon 6 6900P (Granite Rapids) x86-64 · 128C · 2 GHz · Intel 3 | Intel | Granite Rapids | 2024 | 7 | 150.3 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Gold 6548Y+ x86-64 · 32C · 2.5 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Emerald Rapids | 2024 | 3 | 44.37 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8558 x86-64 · 48C · 2.1 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Emerald Rapids | 2024 | 6 | 405.5 PFlop/s |
| AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C (in MI300A) x86-64 · 24C · 1.8 GHz · TSMC N5 | AMD | Zen 4 | 2023 | 10 | 2.75 EFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 x86-64 · 52C · 2 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Sapphire Rapids HBM | 2023 | 2 | 1.04 EFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Gold 6430 x86-64 · 32C · 2.1 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Sapphire Rapids | 2023 | 1 | 106.2 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+ x86-64 · 40C · 2 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Sapphire Rapids | 2023 | 4 | 143.4 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y+ x86-64 · 32C · 2.8 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Sapphire Rapids | 2023 | 10 | 246.2 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 x86-64 · 48C · 2.1 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Sapphire Rapids | 2023 | 11 | 346.1 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C x86-64 · 56C · 2 GHz · Intel 7 | Intel | Sapphire Rapids | 2023 | 27 | 1.53 EFlop/s |
| NVIDIA Grace Armv9 (Neoverse V2) · 72C · 3.1 GHz · TSMC 4N | NVIDIA | Grace | 2023 | 32 | 2.49 EFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 9004 (Genoa) x86-64 · 96C · 2.4 GHz · TSMC N5 | AMD | Zen 4 | 2022 | 47 | 456.9 PFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 7513 (Milan) x86-64 · 32C · 2.6 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 3 | 2021 | 5 | 21.79 PFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 7713 (Milan) x86-64 · 64C · 2 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 3 | 2021 | 19 | 33.80 PFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 7763 (Milan) x86-64 · 64C · 2.45 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 3 | 2021 | 27 | 216.8 PFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 7A53 (Trento) x86-64 · 64C · 2 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 3 | 2021 | 12 | 2.32 EFlop/s |
| Ampere Altra Max Armv8.2 (Neoverse N1) · 128C · 3 GHz · 7 nm | Ampere Computing | Altra | 2021 | - | - |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 x86-64 · 32C · 2.6 GHz · 10 nm | Intel | Ice Lake-SP | 2021 | 14 | 269.2 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8362 (Ice Lake) x86-64 · 32C · 2.8 GHz · Intel 10nm SuperFin | Intel | Ice Lake | 2021 | 3 | 4.65 PFlop/s |
| Sunway SW39000 Sunway (custom RISC) · 390C · 2.25 GHz | NRCPC | Sunway | 2021 | - | - |
| AMD EPYC 7V12 x86-64 · 48C · 2.45 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 2 (Rome) | 2020 | 6 | 150.4 PFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 7402 (Rome) x86-64 · 24C · 2.8 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 2 | 2019 | 3 | 50.14 PFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 7532 x86-64 · 32C · 2.4 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 2 (Rome) | 2019 | 2 | 25.81 PFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 7742 (Rome) x86-64 · 64C · 2.25 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 2 | 2019 | 38 | 298.7 PFlop/s |
| AMD EPYC 7H12 (Rome, high frequency) x86-64 · 64C · 2.6 GHz · 7 nm | AMD | Zen 2 | 2019 | 10 | 53.14 PFlop/s |
| Fujitsu A64FX Armv8.2-A SVE · 48C · 2.2 GHz · 7 nm | Fujitsu | Armv8.2-A SVE | 2019 | 9 | 517.8 PFlop/s |
| Huawei Kunpeng 920 Armv8.2 · 64C · 2.6 GHz · 7 nm | Huawei | Kunpeng | 2019 | - | - |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M (Cascade Lake) x86-64 · 24C · 2.4 GHz | Intel | Cascade Lake | 2019 | 1 | 2.18 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 x86-64 · 28C · 2.7 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Cascade Lake | 2019 | 4 | 30.11 PFlop/s |
| Hygon Dhyana x86-64 · 32C · 2 GHz · 14 nm | Hygon | Zen (licensed) | 2018 | 1 | 4.33 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8174 x86-64 · 24C · 3.1 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Skylake-SP | 2018 | 4 | 34.70 PFlop/s |
| IBM POWER9 22C POWER · 22C · 3.07 GHz · 14 nm | IBM | POWER9 | 2017 | 8 | 303.2 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Gold 6148 x86-64 · 20C · 2.4 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Skylake-SP | 2017 | 31 | 103.6 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 x86-64 · 24C · 2.1 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Skylake-SP | 2017 | 5 | 37.27 PFlop/s |
| Phytium FT-2000+/64 Armv8 · 64C · 2.4 GHz · 16 nm | Phytium | FT-2000 | 2017 | - | - |
| Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 x86-64 · 12C · 2.2 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Broadwell | 2016 | 5 | 5.00 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 x86-64 · 14C · 2.4 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Broadwell-EP | 2016 | 12 | 26.92 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 x86-64 · 16C · 2.1 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Broadwell-EP | 2016 | 2 | 2.18 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4 x86-64 · 18C · 2.1 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Broadwell-EP | 2016 | 23 | 38.82 PFlop/s |
| Sunway SW26010 Sunway (custom RISC) · 260C · 1.45 GHz · 28 nm | NRCPC | Sunway | 2016 | 1 | 93.01 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon D-1571 x86-64 · 16C · 1.3 GHz · 14 nm | Intel | Broadwell-DE | 2015 | 4 | 22.30 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 x86-64 · 12C · 2.6 GHz · 22 nm | Intel | Haswell-EP | 2014 | 16 | 38.75 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 x86-64 · 14C · 2.6 GHz · 22 nm | Intel | Haswell-EP | 2014 | 8 | 8.81 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 x86-64 · 16C · 2.3 GHz · 22 nm | Intel | Haswell-EP | 2014 | 11 | 40.31 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 (Ivy Bridge EP) x86-64 · 6C · 2.1 GHz | Intel | Ivy Bridge EP | 2013 | 1 | 125.20 TFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 x86-64 · 10C · 3 GHz · 22 nm | Intel | Ivy Bridge-EP | 2013 | 3 | 914.16 TFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2692 v2 x86-64 · 12C · 2.2 GHz · 22 nm | Intel | Ivy Bridge-EP | 2013 | 2 | 63.51 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 x86-64 · 12C · 2.7 GHz · 22 nm | Intel | Ivy Bridge-EP | 2013 | 12 | 8.76 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2670 x86-64 · 8C · 2.6 GHz · 32 nm | Intel | Sandy Bridge-EP | 2012 | 48 | 19.46 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5-2680 x86-64 · 8C · 2.7 GHz · 32 nm | Intel | Sandy Bridge-EP | 2012 | 5 | 11.01 PFlop/s |
| AMD Opteron 6274 (Interlagos) x86-64 · 16C · 2.2 GHz · 32 nm | AMD | Bulldozer | 2011 | 2 | 17.59 PFlop/s |
| AMD Opteron 6276 (Interlagos) x86-64 · 16C · 2.3 GHz · 32 nm | AMD | Bulldozer | 2011 | 6 | 2.25 PFlop/s |
| Fujitsu SPARC64 IXfx SPARC64 · 16C · 1.848 GHz | Fujitsu | SPARC64 | 2011 | 2 | 1.21 PFlop/s |
| IBM PowerPC A2 (Power BQC) PowerPC A2 · 18C · 1.6 GHz · 45 nm | IBM | BlueGene/Q | 2011 | 15 | 43.81 PFlop/s |
| ShenWei SW1600 ShenWei (custom RISC) · 16C · 0.975 GHz | NRCPC | ShenWei | 2011 | 1 | 795.90 TFlop/s |
| Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx SPARC64 · 8C · 2 GHz · 45 nm | Fujitsu | SPARC64 | 2010 | 1 | 10.51 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon X5650 x86-64 · 6C · 2.66 GHz · 32 nm | Intel | Westmere-EP | 2010 | 8 | 2.00 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon X5670 x86-64 · 6C · 2.93 GHz · 32 nm | Intel | Westmere-EP | 2010 | 10 | 6.38 PFlop/s |
| AMD Opteron 2435 (Istanbul) x86-64 · 6C · 2.6 GHz · 45 nm | AMD | K10 | 2009 | 1 | 1.76 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5540 x86-64 · 4C · 2.53 GHz · 45 nm | Intel | Nehalem-EP | 2009 | 1 | 563.10 TFlop/s |
| AMD Opteron Quad-Core 1.9GHz x86-64 · 4C · 1.9 GHz | AMD | K10 (Barcelona/Shanghai) | 2008 | 1 | 180.60 TFlop/s |
| AMD Opteron (Barcelona) 2.0GHz x86-64 · 4C · 2 GHz · 65 nm | AMD | K10 Barcelona | 2007 | 1 | 326.00 TFlop/s |
| IBM PowerPC 450 850MHz PowerPC · 4C · 0.85 GHz · 90 nm | IBM | BlueGene/P | 2007 | 8 | 1.01 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon E5450 x86-64 · 4C · 3 GHz · 45 nm | Intel | Harpertown | 2007 | 6 | 875.78 TFlop/s |
| AMD Opteron 2210 (Santa Rosa) x86-64 · 2C · 1.8 GHz · 90 nm | AMD | K8 | 2006 | 1 | 1.03 PFlop/s |
| Intel Xeon 5160 x86-64 · 2C · 3 GHz · 65 nm | Intel | Woodcrest | 2006 | 1 | 9.60 TFlop/s |
| IBM PowerPC 440 700MHz PowerPC · 2C · 0.7 GHz · 130 nm | IBM | BlueGene/L | 2004 | 11 | 767.28 TFlop/s |
| NEC SX-6 vector processor NEC vector · 1C · 0.5 GHz · 150 nm | NEC | SX | 2002 | 2 | 36.11 TFlop/s |
| IBM POWER3-II POWER · 1C · 0.375 GHz · 220 nm | IBM | POWER3 | 1999 | 3 | 8.92 TFlop/s |
| DEC Alpha 21264 (EV68) Alpha · 1C · 1.25 GHz · 180 nm | Digital Equipment Corporation | Alpha | 1998 | 3 | 22.32 TFlop/s |
| IBM PowerPC 604e PowerPC · 1C · 0.332 GHz · 350 nm | IBM | PowerPC 604e | 1998 | 1 | 2.14 TFlop/s |
| SGI Origin 2000 (MIPS R10000) MIPS IV · 1C · 0.25 GHz · 350 nm | SGI | MIPS R10000 | 1998 | 1 | 1.61 TFlop/s |
| Hitachi SR2201 processing unit PA-RISC 1.1 · 1C · 0.15 GHz | Hitachi | SR2201 | 1996 | 3 | 610.8 GFlop/s |
| Intel Pentium Pro 200 MHz x86 (P6) · 1C · 0.2 GHz · 350 nm | Intel | P6 | 1996 | 1 | 1.07 TFlop/s |
| Fujitsu VPP500 vector processing element Fujitsu vector · 1C · 0.105 GHz · GaAs | Fujitsu | VPP500 | 1993 | 2 | 222.9 GFlop/s |
| Thinking Machines CM-5 vector node SPARC + custom vector · 1C · 0.032 GHz | Thinking Machines | Connection Machine | 1993 | 4 | 120.5 GFlop/s |
| Intel i860/XP i860 RISC · 1C · 0.05 GHz · 1000 nm | Intel | i860 | 1991 | 3 | 285.7 GFlop/s |
| Cray Y-MP CPU Cray Y-MP (custom) · 1C · 0.1667 GHz | Cray | Cray Y-MP | 1988 | 1 | - |
| ETA10 CPU ETA10 (custom CMOS) · 1C · 0.095 GHz | ETA Systems | ETA10 | 1987 | 1 | - |
| Thinking Machines CM-2 processor array 1-bit SIMD + Weitek FPU · 65536C | Thinking Machines | Connection Machine CM-2 | 1987 | 1 | - |
| Cray-2 CPU Cray-2 (custom) · 1C · 0.244 GHz | Cray | Cray-2 | 1985 | 1 | - |
| Cray X-MP CPU Cray X-MP (custom) · 1C · 0.105 GHz | Cray | Cray X-MP | 1982 | 1 | - |
| Cray-1 CPU Cray-1 (custom) · 1C · 0.08 GHz | Cray | Cray-1 | 1976 | 3 | - |
| AMD 3rd Gen EPYC 64C (Andromeda hosts) | AMD | Milan | - | 1 | - |
Facility
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry cooler Closed-loop air-side heat rejection | open standard | - | 2005 | - | - |
| Medium-voltage switchgear Utility-to-building electrical boundary · Typically tens of MW at a large campus | open standard | - | 2000 | - | - |
| Evaporative cooling tower Open or closed evaporative heat rejection | open standard | - | 1990 | - | - |
Interconnect
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LingQi LQLink Dual-plane multi-rail fat-tree · 1.6 Tb/s per node · ~1 microsecond | open standard | LQLink | 2026 | 1 | 2.20 EFlop/s |
| NVIDIA InfiniBand XDR (Quantum-X800) Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 800 Gb/s per port | NVIDIA | XDR | 2024 | 9 | 19.80 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA NVLink 5 / NVSwitch All-to-all within an NVLink domain · 1.8 TB/s per GPU | NVIDIA | NVLink 5 | 2024 | 3 | 5.16 PFlop/s |
| Broadcom RoCE Ethernet | Broadcom | Tomahawk/NetXtreme | 2023 | 5 | 205.7 PFlop/s |
| NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 400 Gb/s per port · Under 0.6 microseconds | NVIDIA | NDR | 2022 | 149 | 5.03 EFlop/s |
| HPE Slingshot-11 Dragonfly · 200 Gb/s per port · Around 2 microseconds | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Slingshot | 2021 | 56 | 7.67 EFlop/s |
| HPE Slingshot-10 Dragonfly · 100 Gb/s per port | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Slingshot | 2020 | 11 | 102.4 PFlop/s |
| MN-Core DirectConnect 112 Gb/s per link | Preferred Networks | DirectConnect | 2020 | 1 | 2.18 PFlop/s |
| AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter Cloud fabric · Up to 3.2 Tb/s per instance · Low, but not deterministic | Amazon | EFA | 2019 | 3 | - |
| Fujitsu Tofu Interconnect D 6D mesh/torus · 6.8 GB/s per link per direction | Fujitsu | Tofu D | 2019 | 7 | 513.9 PFlop/s |
| Huawei HCCS Mesh within a node | Huawei | HCCS | 2019 | 1 | - |
| NUDT TH Express-3 Fat tree | NUDT | TH Express | 2019 | - | - |
| NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 200 Gb/s per port · About 0.6 microseconds | NVIDIA | HDR | 2019 | 171 | 1.34 EFlop/s |
| Eviden BXI v2 Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 100 Gb/s per port | Eviden | BXI | 2016 | 2 | 114.0 PFlop/s |
| Sunway interconnect Two-level fat tree · 16 GB/s per node · About 1 microsecond | NRCPC | Sunway | 2016 | 1 | 93.01 PFlop/s |
| Omni-Path Architecture Fat tree · 100 Gb/s per port · About 1 microsecond | Cornelis Networks | OPA | 2015 | 79 | 250.8 PFlop/s |
| Mellanox InfiniBand EDR Fat tree · 100 Gb/s per 4x port · About 0.9 microseconds | NVIDIA | EDR | 2014 | 83 | 543.6 PFlop/s |
| NUDT TH Express-2 Fat tree · 160 Gb/s per link · About 1.6 microseconds | NUDT | TH Express | 2013 | 2 | 63.51 PFlop/s |
| Cray Aries Dragonfly · About 10 GB/s per direction · Around 1 microsecond | Cray | Aries | 2012 | 51 | 154.4 PFlop/s |
| IBM BlueGene/Q 5D torus 5D torus · 2 GB/s per link per direction | IBM | BlueGene/Q | 2011 | 14 | 43.09 PFlop/s |
| Mellanox InfiniBand FDR Fat tree · 56 Gb/s per 4x port · About 1 microsecond | NVIDIA | FDR | 2011 | 125 | 105.0 PFlop/s |
| Cray Gemini 3D torus · About 6 GB/s per direction per link · Around 1 microsecond | Cray | Gemini | 2010 | 16 | 25.44 PFlop/s |
| Fujitsu Tofu Interconnect 6D mesh/torus · 5 GB/s per link per direction | Fujitsu | Tofu | 2010 | 3 | 11.72 PFlop/s |
| NUDT Arch interconnect Hybrid fat tree, optoelectronic · 160 Gb/s bidirectional per link · 1.57 microseconds per hop | NUDT | Arch | 2010 | 1 | 2.57 PFlop/s |
| Mellanox InfiniBand QDR Fat tree · 40 Gb/s per 4x port | NVIDIA | QDR | 2008 | 75 | 22.54 PFlop/s |
| Cray SeaStar2+ 3D torus · 9.6 GB/s per direction | Cray | SeaStar | 2007 | 1 | 1.76 PFlop/s |
| Sun Magnum InfiniBand DDR Switch full non-blocking fat tree · DDR 4x, 20Gb/s per port | Sun Microsystems | - | 2007 | 1 | 326.00 TFlop/s |
| Mellanox InfiniBand DDR Fat tree · 20 Gb/s per 4x port · About 2 microseconds | NVIDIA | DDR | 2006 | 22 | 2.28 PFlop/s |
| IBM BlueGene 3D torus 3D torus, plus separate collective and barrier networks · 175 MB/s per link per direction | IBM | BlueGene | 2004 | 13 | 1.70 PFlop/s |
| NEC Earth Simulator crossbar Single-stage full crossbar · 12.3 GB/s per direction per node | NEC | SX | 2002 | 1 | 35.86 TFlop/s |
| IBM SP Switch2 Multi-stage (omega) switch · 500 MB/s per direction bidirectional | IBM | SP | 2000 | 1 | 4.94 TFlop/s |
| Quadrics QsNet Fat tree · 340 MB/s per direction · About 2 microseconds | Quadrics | QsNet | 1999 | 8 | 116.53 TFlop/s |
| HIPPI 800 Mbit/s per HIPPI-800 link | SGI | - | 1998 | 1 | 1.61 TFlop/s |
| IBM SP Switch multi-stage Omega network · 150 MB/s per node | IBM | SP Switch (TB3) | 1998 | 3 | 6.13 TFlop/s |
| Hitachi 3D hyper-crossbar 3D hyper-crossbar · 300 MB/s point to point | Hitachi | SR2201 | 1996 | 3 | 610.8 GFlop/s |
| Intel ASCI Red mesh 2D mesh · 400 MB/s per direction | Intel | Paragon | 1996 | 1 | 1.07 TFlop/s |
| Fujitsu VPP500 crossbar Full crossbar · 400 MB/s per direction | Fujitsu | VPP500 | 1993 | 2 | 222.9 GFlop/s |
| Thinking Machines CM-5 fat tree Fat tree · 20 MB/s per link | Thinking Machines | Connection Machine | 1993 | 1 | 59.7 GFlop/s |
| Intel Paragon 2D mesh 2D mesh with torus wraparound · 200 MB/s per link | Intel | Paragon | 1992 | 3 | 285.7 GFlop/s |
| Thinking Machines CM-2 hypercube network Hypercube | Thinking Machines | Connection Machine CM-2 | 1987 | 1 | - |
| Google TPU inter-chip interconnect (3D torus) 3D torus · 1,200 GB/s bidirectional per chip (v5p and TPU7x) | Alphabet | ICI | - | 4 | - |
Memory
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HBM3E JEDEC HBM3E (extended) · Up to 36 GB per stack · Over 1.2 TB/s per stack | open standard | HBM3E | 2024 | - | - |
| Micron HBM3E 8-High JEDEC HBM3E (extended) · 24 GB per stack · About 1.2 TB/s per stack | Micron | HBM3E | 2024 | - | - |
| SK hynix HBM3E 12-High JEDEC HBM3E (extended) · 36 GB per stack · Over 1.2 TB/s per stack | SK hynix | HBM3E | 2024 | - | - |
| HBM3 JEDEC HBM3 · Up to 24 GB per stack · About 819 GB/s per stack | open standard | HBM3 | 2022 | - | - |
| DDR5 RDIMM JEDEC DDR5 · Typically 32-128 GB per module · Up to about 51 GB/s per module at DDR5-6400 | open standard | DDR5 | 2021 | - | - |
| LPDDR5X JEDEC LPDDR5X · Up to 480 GB per Grace socket · Up to 512 GB/s per Grace socket | open standard | LPDDR5X | 2021 | - | - |
| HBM2E JEDEC HBM2E · 16 GB per stack · About 460 GB/s per stack | open standard | HBM2E | 2020 | - | - |
| HBM2 JEDEC HBM2 · Up to 8 GB per stack · About 256 GB/s per stack | open standard | HBM2 | 2016 | - | - |
| GDDR5 JEDEC GDDR5, board-mounted, not stacked · 3-8 GB per accelerator in this era · 150-320 GB/s per accelerator | open standard | GDDR5 | 2008 | - | - |
Networking
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arista 7800R4 AI Modular Ethernet chassis · Up to 800G per port | Arista Networks | 7800R | 2024 | 1 | - |
| Broadcom Tomahawk 5 Ethernet switch ASIC · 51.2 Tb/s aggregate, 64 ports at 800G | Broadcom | Tomahawk | 2022 | - | - |
| NVIDIA Spectrum-4 Ethernet switch ASIC · 51.2 Tb/s aggregate, 64 ports at 800G | NVIDIA | Spectrum | 2022 | 3 | 41.50 PFlop/s |
Operating systems
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HPE Cray Operating System SUSE-derived Linux, container-based management · Proprietary layer over open-source Linux | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | COS | 2019 | 27 | 4.05 EFlop/s |
| McKernel Lightweight multi-kernel (IHK-partitioned), co-resident with Linux · Research software, RIKEN-developed | RIKEN | McKernel | 2016 | 1 | 442.0 PFlop/s |
| Sunway RaiseOS Linux derivative for the Sunway architecture · Domestic distribution | NRCPC | RaiseOS | 2016 | 1 | 93.01 PFlop/s |
| Kylin Linux Linux distribution · State-endorsed Chinese distribution | KylinSoft | Kylin | 2010 | 5 | 2.26 EFlop/s |
| Windows HPC Server 2008 Windows Server kernel with HPC Pack job scheduler · Commercial license | Microsoft | Windows HPC Server | 2008 | 3 | 277.43 TFlop/s |
| Cray Linux Environment Linux, Cray-customised · Proprietary layer over open-source Linux | Cray | CLE | 2007 | 47 | 152.0 PFlop/s |
| Tri-Lab Operating System Stack Linux distribution, RHEL-derived, HPC-tuned · Open source, LLNL-maintained | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | TOSS | 2007 | 24 | 2.22 EFlop/s |
| CentOS Linux distribution, RHEL-compatible rebuild · Open source, community-maintained | The CentOS Project | CentOS | 2004 | 38 | 207.5 PFlop/s |
| IBM Compute Node Kernel Microkernel, no dynamic scheduling · Proprietary | IBM | CNK | 2004 | 11 | 31.48 PFlop/s |
| Ubuntu Server Linux distribution · Open source, free with paid support tiers | Canonical | Ubuntu LTS | 2004 | 52 | 1.77 EFlop/s |
| NEC SUPER-UX Unix (NEC SX-proprietary) · Proprietary | NEC | SUPER-UX | 2002 | 8 | 168.42 TFlop/s |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Linux distribution · Open source, commercial support subscription | Red Hat | RHEL | 2002 | 110 | 4.05 EFlop/s |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Linux distribution · Open source, commercial support subscription | SUSE | SLES | 2000 | 34 | 123.9 PFlop/s |
| Compaq Tru64 UNIX Unix (OSF/1-derived) · Proprietary | Compaq | Tru64 UNIX | 1998 | 3 | 22.32 TFlop/s |
| IRIX | SGI | - | 1998 | 1 | 1.61 TFlop/s |
| Cougar Custom lightweight kernel, no Unix layer · Open source, government-authored | Sandia National Laboratories | Cougar | 1997 | 1 | 1.07 TFlop/s |
| Hitachi HI-UX/MPP Unix (Mach 3.0 microkernel), Hitachi-customised · Proprietary | Hitachi | HI-UX/MPP | 1996 | 8 | 5.72 TFlop/s |
| Fujitsu UXP Unix (SVR4-derived), Fujitsu-customised · Proprietary | Fujitsu | UXP | 1993 | 5 | 1.36 TFlop/s |
| SUNMOS Custom lightweight kernel, no Unix layer · Open source, government-authored | Sandia National Laboratories | SUNMOS | 1993 | 1 | 143.4 GFlop/s |
| Thinking Machines CMost Unix (TMC-proprietary variant) · Proprietary | Thinking Machines | CMost | 1991 | 4 | 120.5 GFlop/s |
| IBM AIX Unix (System V-derived) · Proprietary | IBM | AIX | 1986 | 20 | 586.99 TFlop/s |
| Rocky Linux RHEL-compatible Linux, community-maintained · Downstream rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux source | open standard | - | - | 16 | 168.5 PFlop/s |
Power
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schneider Galaxy VX UPS Modular three-phase UPS, N+1 typical · Up to about 3.75 MW per frame, expandable | Schneider Electric | Galaxy | 2016 | - | - |
| Vertiv Liebert UPS Large-frame UPS, typically N+1 or 2N · Up to several MW per frame | Vertiv | Liebert | 2015 | 1 | 241.2 PFlop/s |
| Eaton Power Xpert busway Overhead busway, tap-off boxes to each row · Typically 800A to 5000A per run | Eaton | Power Xpert | 2014 | - | - |
Racks
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Grand Teton Integrated GPU server on OCP OpenRack | Meta Platforms | Grand Teton | 2022 | 2 | - |
| OCP Open Rack v3 Open rack, 48V busbar, front and rear liquid manifolds · Rated up to roughly 100 kW, higher with liquid options | open standard | ORv3 | 2022 | - | - |
| HPE Cray EX cabinet 100% direct-liquid-cooled blade cabinet · Roughly 400 kW per cabinet | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Cray EX | 2019 | - | - |
Storage
| Part | Supplier | Generation | Released | Systems | Rmax underneath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Tectonic Distributed storage, FUSE client | Meta Platforms | Tectonic | 2021 | 2 | - |
| Intel DAOS Object store, no POSIX layer underneath · 230 PB on Aurora · About 31 TB/s | Intel | DAOS | 2020 | 3 | 1.03 EFlop/s |
| HPE Cray ClusterStor E1000 Lustre appliance, flash and disk tiers · 700 PB on Frontier (Orion) · About 10 TB/s peak | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | ClusterStor | 2019 | 17 | 4.98 EFlop/s |
| VAST Data Platform Disaggregated shared-everything | VAST Data | VAST | 2019 | 17 | 237.7 PFlop/s |
| DDN EXAScaler Lustre appliance | DDN | EXAScaler | 2018 | 18 | 474.0 PFlop/s |
| WEKA Data Platform Parallel filesystem, software-defined | WEKA | WEKA | 2018 | 7 | 79.46 PFlop/s |
| IBM Spectrum Scale ESS (GPFS) Parallel filesystem (GPFS), erasure-coded declustered RAID · 250 PB on Summit (Alpine) · About 2.5 TB/s | IBM | Spectrum Scale | 2017 | 18 | 1.55 EFlop/s |
| Sunway TaihuLight storage network Storage network plus disk array · 20 PB · 288 GB/s total I/O bandwidth | NRCPC | - | 2016 | 1 | 93.01 PFlop/s |
| Cray ClusterStor 300 Lustre appliance, scale-out storage server units (SSUs) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | ClusterStor 300 | 2014 | 1 | 10.68 PFlop/s |
| H2FS Hybrid virtual namespace over local + shared tiers, Lustre backend | NUDT | H2FS | 2013 | 1 | 61.44 PFlop/s |
| Fujitsu FEFS Lustre-based parallel filesystem · Roughly 150 PB across multiple volumes on Fugaku | Fujitsu | FEFS | 2011 | 4 | 453.7 PFlop/s |
| Ceph Distributed object storage, erasure-coded pools | open standard | Ceph | 2010 | 1 | 6.92 PFlop/s |
| DDN S2A9900 Block-storage SAN, parallel filesystem layered on top | DDN | S2A9900 | 2008 | 1 | 458.61 TFlop/s |
| Panasas ActiveScale (PanFS) Object storage, blade shelves (1 director + 10 storage blades) | Panasas | ActiveScale | 2008 | 4 | 1.14 PFlop/s |
| Lustre Parallel filesystem, separate metadata and object servers | open standard | Lustre | 2003 | 25 | 294.9 PFlop/s |
| NEC Earth Simulator tape library Tape library, staged behind disk · More than 1.5 PB | NEC | - | 2002 | 1 | 35.86 TFlop/s |
| Distributed RAID 5 disk array Direct-attached, no separate metadata server · Hundreds of GB, era-dependent | open standard | - | 1996 | 1 | 368.2 GFlop/s |
| Paragon I/O node RAID storage Direct-attached RAID behind dedicated I/O nodes, diskless compute nodes | Intel | XP/S RAID | 1993 | 1 | 143.4 GFlop/s |
| Scalable Disk Array Direct-attached disk nodes on the CM-5 data network, NFS-mountable | Thinking Machines | SDA | 1993 | 2 | 59.7 GFlop/s |
| BeeGFS Distributed parallel filesystem, no dedicated storage-node tier | open standard | - | - | 1 | 334.80 TFlop/s |
| HPE Cray ClusterStor E2000 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | ClusterStor E2000 | - | 3 | 603.2 PFlop/s |
| Pure Storage FlashArray | Pure Storage | - | - | 1 | - |
| Pure Storage FlashBlade | Pure Storage | - | - | 2 | 7.57 PFlop/s |