Supercomputers/Analysis/Data trust

Analysis 12

How far to trust this data

234 of 1153 systems (20%) are marked verified, meaning two independent organisations directly confirm the same specific fact. The rest are reported: one credible source, cited, and not contradicted. Nothing in the dataset is guessed, but most of it rests on a single source, and this page says where. When every cited source was re-read, 1092 systems had at least one that names the system, and only 40 had readable sources that all failed to.

• Verified
• Reported or estimated

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Table view: How well each sector is sourced

Sector	Systems	Verified	Reported	Estimated	Share verified
Government labs	233	42	191	0	18%
Research HPC	568	127	441	0	22%
Big tech	99	20	79	0	20%
AI labs	19	4	15	0	21%
Neoclouds	85	14	71	0	16%
Industry	125	22	103	0	18%
Finance	7	2	5	0	29%
Life sciences	17	3	14	0	18%

How this was calculated

Each system carries a confidence tier set when it was added: verified only if two independent organisations confirm the same specific fact and both links are recorded, reported for one credible cited source, estimated for our own bounded figures. The same three tiers are recorded on every component edge, so a system can be reported while one of its parts is verified, and the validator checks each edge for its own second source rather than inheriting the system's.

The source re-check, pnpm verify, fetches every cited source for every system and asks whether the page names the system and mentions the parts and quantities the row claims. It is a name-mention signal, not a fact check: a page can name a system and still disagree with the row, and a paywalled or blocking page tells us nothing either way. It never changes a tier. It proposes a shortlist and a human decides.

By status, by country

The component graph

The edge table, the part of the dataset that says which supplier's part is in which machine, has 4258 rows: 724 verified (17%), 3532 reported and 2 estimated. Tiers are set edge by edge, so the graph is better sourced in places than the system rows above it.

What the source re-check found

Of the 1142 systems with at least one readable source, 96% are corroborated. “Unsupported” is evidence about the citation, not about the fact: a page can be rewritten, moved behind a login or trimmed after we cited it.

Ready to be promoted

27 systems are still marked reported although two different hosts each independently name the system, a part and a quantity. That is the shortlist the re-check proposes for a human to look at. A name-mention cannot establish that two sources agree in the sense verified requires, so none is promoted automatically.

Needs a second look

40 systems have cited sources that could be read and that do not name them. That does not mean the fact is wrong. Some are naming mismatches, where the page describes the same hardware under another name (the last column shows what the check did find), and some are citations that should be replaced:

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