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Airbus HPC6

Also known as HPC6

Operated by Airbus at Airbus Toulouse (Saint-Martin) .

Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.

Measured performance

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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.

What this machine is made of

One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.

Role Part Supplier at build Quantity Confidence Source
Integrator -
BullSequana XH3000 rack infrastructure, delivered by Bull (Eviden/Atos's advanced-computing business, rebranded from Eviden back to Bull in January 2026)
Eviden
ATOEPA rolls up to Atos
- Verified airbus.comtheregister.com
Accelerator -
Nvidia GPU blades, exact model undisclosed
NVIDIA - Reported theregister.com
CPU -
AMD EPYC, mix of Genoa and Turin generation processors
AMD - Reported theregister.com
Interconnect NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2)
Interconnect
Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 400 Gb/s per port · Under 0.6 microseconds
Nvidia InfiniBand NDR, 400 Gbps per port
NVIDIA - Reported theregister.com
Storage -
IBM Spectrum Scale (Storage Scale System appliances)
IBM - Reported theregister.com

The read

Airbus's own generation-6 in-house HPC platform, internally named HPC6 by Airbus itself on its own June 2026 newsroom story, which collides with the unrelated HPC6 already in this dataset that Eni operates in Italy: this row is titled 'Airbus HPC6' to keep the two systems distinct, the same disambiguation approach already used for AWE Vulcan against LLNL's unrelated Vulcan. Delivered by Bull (Atos/Eviden's advanced-computing business, itself rebranded from Eviden back to the historic Bull name in January 2026, with full corporate separation from Atos targeted for later in 2026) as two BullSequana XH3000 sites, Toulouse (operational December 2025) and Hamburg (operational April 2026), that run as a single virtual cluster under one task scheduler rather than as two separate machines; this row records Toulouse, the first and primary site, and treats the pair as one operator-defined system. The Register and Airbus's own account agree on a roughly 100 million euro, five-year HPC-as-a-service contract, AMD EPYC Genoa and Turin CPUs, unspecified NVIDIA GPU blades, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR at 400 Gbps per port, and IBM Spectrum Scale storage, tripling Airbus's prior simulation capacity for aerodynamics, acoustics, structural and digital-twin work including the A350 Freighter programme and next-generation helicopters. Airbus and Bull both declined to disclose node counts, GPU counts or a Linpack figure, calling them confidential, and no TOP500 submission was found, so cores, power and FLOPS are left blank and ranked is 0.

Timeline

Site & facility

Airbus Toulouse (Saint-Martin)

Location
Toulouse, France
Commissioned
2025

Change history

Source check

We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.

Cited sourceResultFound on the page
airbus.comnames system only-
theregister.comnames system and partNVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2)

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.

Further reading