Canada · operational · hpc

Banting

Also known as ECCC U1 Banting; Sir Frederick Banting supercomputer

Operated by Shared Services Canada at Canadian Meteorological Centre (Dorval) .

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: 1263 of 1345 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 56 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

Rmax: 2.68 PFlop/s
Rpeak: 4.09 PFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 65.5%
Cores: 53,200
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	- Cray XC50 supercomputer	Cray HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org events.ecmwf.int
CPU	Intel Xeon Gold 6148 CPUs x86-64 · 20C · 2.4 GHz · 14 nm · 150 W Intel Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	top500.org
Interconnect	Cray Aries Interconnect Dragonfly · About 10 GB/s per direction · Around 1 microsecond Cray Aries interconnect	Cray HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org
Operating system	Cray Linux Environment Operating systems Linux, Cray-customised · Proprietary layer over open-source Linux Cray Linux Environment	Cray HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org

The read

One of the two Cray XC50 supercomputers (with Daley) that Shared Services Canada runs for Environment and Climate Change Canada, the first upgrade (U1) of the HPC renewal contract after the Hare and Brooks XC40 pair. An ECCC presentation at the ECMWF HPC workshop labels the Banting and Daley pair as the U1 Cray XC50 upgrade of about 5.2 PFlop/s dated 2020, and the Government of Canada HPC page lists Roger Daley and Sir Frederick Banting among the earlier generation of named systems before Robert and Underhill. TOP500 lists Banting as Cray XC50 with Xeon Gold 6148 20-core 2.4 GHz on Aries, 53,200 cores, Rmax 2.68 PFlop/s and Rpeak 4.09 PFlop/s, installed 2019 per TOP500, first listed at rank 107 on the June 2020 list and still present at rank 496 on the June 2026 list, so it is recorded as operational at that date even though SSC now calls the pair previous generation. The two independent sources (ECCC and TOP500) agree on the names, the XC50 platform and the roughly 5.2 PFlop/s combined size (Banting plus Daley Rmax is 5.28 PFlop/s).

Timeline

2020 First operational source

Site & facility

Canadian Meteorological Centre (Dorval)

Location: Dorval, QC, Canada
Commissioned: 2022

canada.ca en.wikipedia.org

Change history

2026-10-09 Added Banting

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
events.ecmwf.int	does not name this system	-
top500.org	names system and part	Intel Xeon Gold 6148, Cray Aries, Cray Linux Environment

Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.