Supercomputers/Systems/The Hive (Disney)
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The Hive (Disney)
Also known as The Hive, Walt Disney Feature Animation
Operated by Walt Disney Feature Animation .
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
- 4.13 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 6.94 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 59.6%
- Cores
- 1,110
- 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 | - HPE Cluster Platform 3000 DL360 G3 with Verari BladeRack nodes | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | - Intel Pentium 4 Xeon 3.06GHz, 1,110 cores | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Walt Disney Feature Animation's animation render cluster 'The Hive', in its 2005 form of 1,110 Pentium 4 Xeon 3.06GHz cores in HPE Cluster Platform 3000 DL360 G3 and Verari BladeRack nodes on Gigabit Ethernet. TOP500 records 4.13 TFlop/s Rmax and 6.94 TFlop/s Rpeak. It debuted at rank 95 in November 2005, then fell to 128 in June 2006, 197 in November 2006 and 489 in June 2007, its last appearance. An earlier 900-core Myrinet version of The Hive ranked 58th in November 2004 and 103rd in June 2005 under a separate TOP500 entry (system 173876). The site page gives the country as the United States but no city, so the system is left unlocated. Status is recorded as of the last list appearance, not a confirmed retirement date.
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 The Hive, Walt Disney Feature Animation's render cluster
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 only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.