Supercomputers/Systems/DeepL Ceres
Sweden · operational · ai training
DeepL Ceres
Operated by DeepL .
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
- 11.30 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 16.92 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 66.8%
- Cores
- 20,480
- Power
- 278 kW
- Per watt
- 40.6 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 | - NVIDIA DGX H100 systems | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 Accelerators CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16,896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N · 700 W NVIDIA H100 in DGX H100 systems | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C CPUs x86-64 · 56C · 2 GHz · Intel 7 · 350 W Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C 56C 2GHz | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 400 Gb/s per port · Under 0.6 microseconds NVIDIA Infiniband NDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Operating system | Ubuntu Server Operating systems Linux distribution · Open source, free with paid support tiers Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS | Canonical | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Second DeepL cluster on the TOP500 after DeepL Mercury, listed under the site name DeepL Datacenter Sweden. TOP500 lists NVIDIA DGX H100 nodes with Xeon Platinum 8480C 56C 2GHz hosts, NVIDIA H100 GPUs and NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR under Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, installed 2023, with 20,480 cores, Rmax 11.30 PFlop/s, Rpeak 16.92 PFlop/s and 278 kW (194.89 kW on the power-optimised 9.06 PFlop/s run, level 1). It debuted at rank 107 on the November 2024 list and was 171st in June 2026. DeepL's August 2023 press release describes its 68-system DGX H100 SuperPOD in a Swedish renewable-energy data centre but does not name Ceres, so TOP500 is the only source tying these figures to the cluster and the tier is reported. The data-centre address and the DGX count are not published.
Timeline
- 2024-11 List debut at #107 (November 2024) source
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Change history
- 2026-10-07 Added DeepL Ceres (deepl)
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 Platinum 8480C, NVIDIA H100 SXM5, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2), Ubuntu Server |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
Inside a node
Latency-optimised versus throughput-optimised processors, NUMA, and the end of the host-to-device copy.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.