Supercomputers/Systems/DeepL Mercury
Sweden · operational · ai training
DeepL Mercury
Also known as DeepL SuperPOD Cluster Mercury
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
- 21.85 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 33.85 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 64.5%
- Cores
- 40,960
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrator | - NVIDIA DGX H100 SuperPOD | NVIDIA | - | Verified | top500.orgprnewswire.com |
| 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.orgprnewswire.com |
| 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 | Canonical | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
DeepL's NVIDIA DGX H100 SuperPOD, listed by TOP500 as DGX H100 nodes with Xeon Platinum 8480C 56C hosts, NVIDIA H100 accelerators and NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR under Ubuntu 22.04, with 40,960 cores, Rmax 21.85 PFlop/s and Rpeak 33.85 PFlop/s. DeepL's 2025 announcement of its GB200 SuperPOD calls Mercury its previous flagship DGX H100 SuperPOD deployed in Sweden and places the new system in the same Swedish data centre. It ranked 34th on the November 2023 TOP500 and was still listed at 100th in June 2026. TOP500 gives no power figure and no page fetched states the DGX count or the exact data-centre address, so the site is left unlocated and the workload is classed ai_training on the strength of DeepL's language-model training use.
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
- 2026-10-02 Added DeepL Mercury, the DeepL DGX H100 SuperPOD in Sweden, 34th on the November 2023 TOP500
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 |
| prnewswire.com | names system and part | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 |
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.