Supercomputers/Systems/BP CHPC
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BP CHPC
Also known as Center for High-Performance Computing
Operated by BP at BP CHPC (Houston) .
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
- 9.00 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- -
- Cores
- -
- 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 | - HPE Apollo System | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Verified | offshore-mag.comoilfieldtechnology.com |
| Accelerator | Intel Xeon Phi 7250 (Knights Landing) Accelerators x86-64 (Knights Landing) · 68C · 1.4 GHz · 14 nm · 215 W Intel Knights Landing processors (self-hosted many-core CPU) | Intel | - | Reported | offshore-mag.comoilfieldtechnology.com |
The read
BP's Center for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) at its Houston campus, the company's worldwide hub for research computing supporting advanced seismic imaging, rock physics and reservoir modeling across BP's upstream portfolio. Opened in October 2013 at roughly 2.2 PFlop/s (drillingcontractor.org and offshore-energy.biz both describe the opening, citing figures in the 1.2 to 2.2 PFlop/s range as the facility ramped up). BP doubled the system again in December 2017, its fourth upgrade since opening, to 9 PFlop/s using HPE's Apollo System with Intel Knights Landing processors, 1.14 PB of memory and 30 PB of storage; offshore-mag.com, oilfieldtechnology.com and nationaltechnology.co.uk all independently confirm the same December 14, 2017 announcement and figures. No TOP500 submission was found for the system since BP has not benchmarked it publicly, so ranked is 0 and the 9 PFlop/s figure is recorded as vendor-stated peak rather than HPL-measured.
Timeline
- 2013-10 First operational source
Site & facility
BP CHPC (Houston)
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Commissioned
- 2013
Change history
- 2026-09-27 BP CHPC added, BP's Houston commercial-research supercomputer for seismic imaging and reservoir modeling
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 |
|---|---|---|
| offshore-mag.com | names system only | - |
| oilfieldtechnology.com | blocked our fetch | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.