Supercomputers/Systems/Oscar (Brown)
USA · operational · mixed
Oscar (Brown)
Also known as Oscar
Operated by Brown University .
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
- 28,608
- 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 | - 971 GPUs on 116 GPU nodes (B200, H100, A100, L40S, A6000, A40, V100 and older) | NVIDIA | 971 reported | Reported | docs.ccv.brown.edu |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon nodes from Haswell through Ice Lake | Intel | - | Reported | docs.ccv.brown.edu |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 9004 (Genoa) CPUs x86-64 · 96C · 2.4 GHz · TSMC N5 · 360 W AMD Genoa nodes | AMD | - | Reported | docs.ccv.brown.edu |
The read
Brown University's main HPC cluster, operated by the Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV). The system hardware page states 330 compute nodes, 28,608 CPU cores, 116 GPU nodes and 971 GPUs, and its partition table lists Intel (Skylake through Ice Lake) and AMD Genoa CPUs with NVIDIA B200, H100, A100, L40S, A6000, A40, V100 and older GPU models. CCV's service page describes more than 300 multi-core nodes. Both pages are Brown documentation, so confidence is reported. The data center location is not given on the cited pages. No benchmark FLOPS are published.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added Oscar, Brown University's HPC cluster
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ccv.brown.edu | names system only | - |
| docs.ccv.brown.edu | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.