Supercomputers/Systems/Cypress (Tulane)
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Cypress (Tulane)
Also known as Tulane Cypress HPC cluster
Operated by Tulane 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
- 220.98 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 355.14 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 62.2%
- Cores
- 17,608
- Power
- 87 kW
- Per watt
- 2.5 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 | - Dell C8220X cluster, 124 nodes | Dell Technologies | - | Reported | top500.orgnews.tulane.edu |
| Accelerator | - Intel Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors, two per node | Intel | - | Reported | top500.orgnews.tulane.edu |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 10C 2.8 GHz, two per node | Intel | - | Reported | top500.orgnews.tulane.edu |
The read
Tulane University's campus supercomputer, a Dell C8220X cluster of 124 nodes, each with two 10-core Xeon E5-2680v2 CPUs and two 60-core Xeon Phi coprocessors, which Tulane's January 2022 news story says is still open to faculty research groups, with a combined theoretical 369 TFlop/s (about 69 TFlop/s without the coprocessors). TOP500 first listed it at 271st in November 2014 on 40G Ethernet with 17,608 cores including coprocessor cores, 220.98 TFlop/s Rmax, 355.14 TFlop/s Rpeak and 87 kW, and kept it through November 2015 (465th). Tulane's theoretical figure differs a little from the TOP500 Rpeak.
Timeline
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Change history
- 2026-10-09 Added Cypress (Tulane), listed on the TOP500 in 2014-11
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 |
|---|---|---|
| news.tulane.edu | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.