USA · operational · hpc

Hellfire

Also known as ARL Hellfire

Operated by ARL DSRC at ARL DSRC (Aberdeen Proving Ground) .

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Measured performance

Rmax: 1.05 PFlop/s
Rpeak: 1.16 PFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 90.2%
Cores: 33,088
Power: 432.5 kW
Per watt: 2.4 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	- SGI ICE XA (listed by TOP500 under HPE)	SGI HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org intelligencecommunitynews.com
CPU	- Intel Xeon E5-2699v4 22C 2.2GHz	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	top500.org
Interconnect	Mellanox InfiniBand EDR Interconnect Fat tree · 100 Gb/s per 4x port · About 0.9 microseconds Infiniband EDR	Mellanox NVDANASDAQ rolls up to NVIDIA	-	Reported	top500.org
Operating system	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating systems Linux distribution · Open source, commercial support subscription RHEL 7.2	Red Hat IBMNYSE rolls up to IBM	-	Reported	top500.org

The read

An SGI ICE XA system at the US Army Research Laboratory DoD Supercomputing Resource Center: 33,088 cores of Xeon E5-2699v4 22C 2.2 GHz on EDR InfiniBand running RHEL 7.2, with 1.051 PFlop/s Rmax, 1.165 PFlop/s Rpeak and 432.5 kW per TOP500, which lists HPE as the manufacturer. SGI's October 2016 announcement of the HPCMP technology insertion TI-16 covers two ARL DSRC systems valued at $8.9 million and $17.6 million with work to be done at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and an estimated completion date of 24 April 2021; it does not name Hellfire, so linking Hellfire to the first TI-16 system rests on the matching vendor, platform and 2017 installation year. Listed from June 2017 (rank 122) to June 2019 (rank 475). Tier is reported.

Timeline

2017 First operational source
2017-06 List debut at #122 (June 2017) source

Public list appearances

Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.

#122: TOP500, June 2017 →

Site & facility

ARL DSRC (Aberdeen Proving Ground)

Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA

intelligencecommunitynews.com

Change history

2026-10-17 Hellfire added from its source pages

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
intelligencecommunitynews.com	does not name this system	-
top500.org	names system and part	Mellanox InfiniBand EDR

Checked 2026-10-18 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.