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Anton 3

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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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 3 ASIC Accelerators 528C · 7 nm · 500 W 528 custom CPUs plus 528 pairwise-interaction accelerators per 7nm chip; 512-node system	D. E. Shaw Research	512 reported	Reported	techinsights.com nextplatform.com

The read

D.E. Shaw Research's third-generation molecular dynamics ASIC. TechInsights' independent teardown reporting gives a 7nm TSMC chip with 528 custom CPUs and 528 specialized pairwise-interaction accelerators per die, around 500W, with engineering samples in Q3 2020; NextPlatform separately describes a 512-node machine built from a redesigned tile-based ASIC layout, first detailed publicly at SC21 in November 2021. The exact date the full system went live is not independently confirmed by any source fetched here, so first_operational_date is left blank rather than guessed. PSC separately operates a smaller, 64-node community-access Anton 3 allocation that went live in April 2025 under NIH NIGMS grant 1R24GM154042; that is a distinct, later deployment from DESRES's own machine recorded in this row.

Timeline

2021 Announced source

Site & facility

D. E. Shaw Research (New York)

Location: New York, NY, USA

deshawresearch.com

Change history

2026-09-24 Anton 3 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 3 ASIC · counts: 512
techinsights.com	names system and part	Anton 3 ASIC

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