Supercomputers/Systems/BioHive-1
USA · operational · ai training
BioHive-1
Operated by Recursion at Recursion Pharmaceuticals HQ (Salt Lake City) .
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
- 4.90 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 5.71 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 85.8%
- Cores
- 39,680
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | NVIDIA A100 (in DGX A100) Accelerators NVIDIA A100 (NVIDIA DGX A100 SuperPOD) | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7742 (Rome) CPUs x86-64 · 64C · 2.25 GHz · 7 nm · 225 W AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | - Mellanox HDR InfiniBand | Mellanox NVDANASDAQ
rolls up to NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Recursion Pharmaceuticals' first on-premise AI supercomputer, an NVIDIA DGX A100 SuperPOD of AMD EPYC 7742 hosts and NVIDIA A100 GPUs on Mellanox HDR InfiniBand at the company's Salt Lake City headquarters. It debuted 84th on the June 2021 TOP500 list and was later superseded in throughput by BioHive-2, though no decommissioning notice was found for it. NVIDIA's own account ties the machine to training Recursion's Phenom-1 cellular imaging model but does not restate the exact core count or Rmax/Rpeak TOP500 reports, so those figures stay TOP500-only and the tier is reported. Because the (top500, 2026-06) edition already holds fifty tracked rows, this dataset records BioHive-1's June 2021 debut appearance rather than a more recent one; TOP500 itself continued to list the unchanged system through at least June 2026.
Timeline
- 2021-04 Announced source
- 2021-06 List debut at #84 (June 2021) source
- 2021-06 First operational source
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Site & facility
Recursion Pharmaceuticals HQ (Salt Lake City)
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Commissioned
- 2021
Change history
- 2026-09-24 BioHive-1 added, reported on TOP500 and NVIDIA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| blogs.nvidia.com | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system and part | AMD EPYC 7742 (Rome), NVIDIA A100 (in DGX A100) |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.