Cherry Creek

Also known as UNLV Cherry Creek; Intel Cherry Creek cluster

Operated by UNLV at Switch SUPERNAP Las Vegas (UNLV) .

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: 193.86 TFlop/s
Rpeak: 355.91 TFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 54.5%
Cores: 18,249
Power: 222.5 kW
Per watt: 0.9 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	- Intel Cluster (Cherry Creek) built on Supermicro FatTwin servers	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Verified	top500.org unlv.edu
Accelerator	- Intel Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors, three per node in the initial 48-node configuration	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Verified	top500.org unlv.edu
CPU	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPUs x86-64 · 12C · 2.7 GHz · 22 nm · 130 W Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 12C 2.7GHz, dual-socket nodes (plus Xeon E5-2640 v3 hosts in the TOP500 configuration)	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Verified	top500.org unlv.edu
Interconnect	- Intel True Scale QDR fabric	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Verified	top500.org unlv.edu

The read

Intel's Cherry Creek cluster, made available to UNLV's National Supercomputing Institute and hosted at Switch's SUPERNAP data center in Las Vegas. UNLV's September 2014 announcement describes a 48-node cluster in two racks of Supermicro FatTwin servers, each node with dual Xeon E5-2697v2, three Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors, 128GB of DDR3 and Intel True Scale fabric, with 131.5 TFlop/s Linpack, 198.8 TFlop/s peak and 74 kW for that initial configuration. The TOP500 entry for June 2015 (rank 394) lists the larger Intel Cluster of 18,249 cores mixing Xeon E5-2640v3 and E5-2697v2 hosts with Xeon Phi SE10/7120/7120P on True Scale QDR, Rmax 193.9 and Rpeak 355.9 TFlop/s at 222.5 kW, running CentOS.

Timeline

2014-09-17 Announced source
2015 First operational source
2015-06 List debut at #394 (June 2015) source

Public list appearances

Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.

#394: TOP500, June 2015 →

Site & facility

Switch SUPERNAP Las Vegas (UNLV)

Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA

unlv.edu

Change history

2026-10-09 Added Cherry Creek

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
top500.org	names system and part	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2
unlv.edu	names system and part	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.