Supercomputers/Systems/ANU Fujitsu VPP300
Australia · operational · hpc
ANU Fujitsu VPP300
Also known as Australian National University VPP300/13
Operated by Australian National University .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
- 27.7 GFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 28.6 GFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 96.9%
- Cores
- 13
- Power
- -
- Per watt
- - GF/W
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 | - Fujitsu VPP300/13 | Fujitsu | - | Reported | top500.orgtheregister.com |
| CPU | - Fujitsu VPP300 vector processing elements, 13 PEs | Fujitsu | 13 reported | Reported | top500.orgtheregister.com |
| Interconnect | - Fujitsu full distributed crossbar | Fujitsu | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Operating system | Fujitsu UXP Operating systems Unix (SVR4-derived), Fujitsu-customised · Proprietary Fujitsu UXP/V | Fujitsu | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Fujitsu VPP300/13 at the Australian National University: 13 vector processing elements on a full distributed crossbar, running UXP/V, Rmax 27.7 and Rpeak 28.6 GFlop/s (https://www.top500.org/system/172365/). It entered the TOP500 at rank 59 in November 1996 and last appeared at rank 400 in June 1999. TOP500 gives a 137 MHz clock; The Register's March 2003 piece describes the same four-cabinet machine as 13 processors at 143 MHz with 14 GB RAM, 28.6 Gflops peak and a 1996 installation, and reports that ANU was selling it on eBay (a single A$1 bid at the time), so it had been retired by early 2003. The exact shutdown date is unknown, so status is held as of the last TOP500 appearance. The clock-speed difference between the two sources is unresolved; neither figure is used in the structured fields.
Timeline
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Change history
- 2026-10-17 Added ANU Fujitsu VPP300
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 |
|---|---|---|
| theregister.com | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-18 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
Inside a node
Latency-optimised versus throughput-optimised processors, NUMA, and the end of the host-to-device copy.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.