Supercomputers/Systems/Anton 2
USA · operational · hpc
Anton 2
Operated by D. E. Shaw Research at D. E. Shaw Research (New York) .
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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- Per watt
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | Anton 2 ASIC Accelerators 66C · 40 nm 512 Anton 2 ASICs, one per compute node | D. E. Shaw Research | 512 reported | Reported | nextplatform.com |
The read
D.E. Shaw Research's second-generation special-purpose molecular dynamics machine: 512 nodes, each a single custom 40nm ASIC combining dedicated pairwise-interaction pipelines with 66 general-purpose programmable cores. NextPlatform's independent reporting and DESRES both describe roughly a 4x speed gain and 5x more atoms per simulation over Anton 1, an order of magnitude over Anton 1 overall and two orders of magnitude over general-purpose supercomputers. Anton machines never submit HPL results, so no TOP500 rank exists and ranked is 0. PSC separately hosts a smaller, publicly accessible 128-node Anton 2 allocation funded by NIH grant R01GM116961 for non-commercial academic research, distinct from DESRES's own larger internal fleet used for proprietary drug discovery; this row records the latter.
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-09-24 Anton 2 added
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 source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| nextplatform.com | names system, part and count | Anton 2 ASIC · counts: 512 |
| psc.edu | names system and part | Anton 2 ASIC |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.