Supercomputers/Systems/sciCORE
Switzerland · operational · mixed
sciCORE
Also known as University of Basel sciCORE cluster
Operated by University of Basel .
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
- Rmax
- -
- Rpeak
- -
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- -
- Cores
- 14,528
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storage | - GPFS cluster file system, 16 PB of disk | IBM | - | Reported | scicore.unibas.ch |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerators | 128 accelerators | 2026-10 | Operator stated | GPUs in the main sciCORE cluster; sciCORE+ has a further 8. | scicore.unibas.ch |
The read
sciCORE is the scientific computing centre of the University of Basel, serving mainly life-science users. Its HPC resources page tabulates the main sciCORE cluster at 223 nodes, 14,528 cores, 79 TB of RAM, 128 GPUs and 100G Ethernet and InfiniBand, with a 16 PB GPFS file system. A separate DMZ cluster (12 nodes, 304 cores) and the sciCORE+ cluster (16 nodes, 1,104 cores, 8 GPUs) are listed separately and not counted here. Operator documentation only, so the tier is reported.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Change history
- 2026-10-09 Added sciCORE at the University of Basel
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 |
|---|---|---|
| scicore.unibas.ch | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.