Supercomputers/Systems/Deepthought2
USA · operational · hpc
Deepthought2
Also known as UMD Deepthought2
Operated by University of Maryland .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
- 163.67 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 298.21 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 54.9%
- Cores
- 10,160
- 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 | - Dell C8220/C8220X cluster | Dell Technologies | - | Reported | top500.orglabmanager.com |
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA K20 | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 10C 2.8GHz | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR Interconnect Fat tree · 56 Gb/s per 4x port · About 1 microsecond Infiniband FDR | Mellanox NVDANASDAQ
rolls up to NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.orglabmanager.com |
The read
Deepthought2 is the University of Maryland's Dell cluster, unveiled in May 2014 as about ten times faster than the original Deepthought of 2006 and housed in the Cyberinfrastructure Center, a 9,000 square foot facility in the Rivertech Building at M Square Research Park. The university's release gives about 300 TFlop/s, 1 PB of storage and an InfiniBand network. TOP500 lists the Dell C8220/C8220X cluster with Xeon E5-2680v2 10C 2.8 GHz, InfiniBand FDR and NVIDIA K20 GPUs at 10,160 cores, 163.67 TFlop/s Rmax and 298.21 TFlop/s Rpeak, 346th in June 2014 and 425th in November 2014.
Timeline
Public list appearances
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Change history
- 2026-10-18 Deepthought2 added from its source pages
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.