Supercomputers/Systems/Resnick HPC Cluster
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Resnick HPC Cluster
Also known as Caltech Central HPC Cluster
Operated by California Institute of Technology .
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
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- Rpeak
- -
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
- 30,000
- 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 Tesla P100 Accelerators CUDA (Pascal GP100) · 3,584C · 1.48 GHz · 16 nm · 300 W 200 NVIDIA P100 GPUs on 50 nodes | NVIDIA | 200 reported | Reported | hpc.caltech.edu |
| Accelerator | - 64 NVIDIA H200 and 16 NVIDIA H100 GPUs on 4-GPU nodes | NVIDIA | 80 reported | Reported | hpc.caltech.edu |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA L40S Accelerators CUDA (Ada Lovelace) · 350 W 16 NVIDIA L40S GPUs on 4 nodes | NVIDIA | 16 reported | Reported | hpc.caltech.edu |
| Storage | VAST Data Platform Storage Disaggregated shared-everything 4.6 PB VAST storage system | VAST Data | - | Reported | hpc.caltech.edu |
The read
The central HPC cluster of Caltech's Resnick High Performance Computing Center, set up with a 2 million dollar founding grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation matched by Caltech. The resources page lists 580+ compute nodes with 30,000+ CPU cores and 350 TB+ memory (Intel Skylake, Cascade Lake and Ice Lake nodes), 74 GPU nodes holding 200 P100, 4 V100, 16 H100, 64 H200 and 16 L40S GPUs, EDR InfiniBand (NDR on the L40S and H200 nodes) and a 4.6 PB VAST storage system. The about page summarizes the center as 600+ nodes and over 30,000 cores. Both pages come from the center itself, so confidence is reported. The campus data center location is not stated on the cited pages. No benchmark FLOPS are published.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added the Caltech Resnick 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 |
|---|---|---|
| hpc.caltech.edu | names system, part and count | NVIDIA L40S, VAST Data Platform · counts: 200, 16 |
| hpc.caltech.edu | names system, part and count | NVIDIA L40S, VAST Data Platform · counts: 200, 16 |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.