Supercomputers/Systems/Eagle
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Eagle
Also known as Microsoft Azure Eagle
Operated by Microsoft at Microsoft Azure (undisclosed US region) .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
- 561.2 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 846.8 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 66.3%
- Cores
- 2,073,600
- 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 | - Microsoft Azure NDv5 | Microsoft | - | Reported | azure.microsoft.com |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 Accelerators CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16,896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N · 700 W NVIDIA H100, Azure NDv5 | NVIDIA | - | Reported | azure.microsoft.com |
| CPU | Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C CPUs x86-64 · 56C · 2 GHz · Intel 7 · 350 W Xeon Platinum 8480C 48C 2GHz | Intel | - | Reported | azure.microsoft.com |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 400 Gb/s per port · Under 0.6 microseconds NVIDIA Quantum-2 NDR InfiniBand | NVIDIA | - | Verified | azure.microsoft.comtop500.org |
| Operating system | Ubuntu Server Operating systems Linux distribution · Open source, free with paid support tiers Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 | Canonical | - | Reported | top500.org |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerators | 14,400 accelerators | 2023-11 | Operator stated | Microsoft: Azure Eagle has 14,400 NVIDIA H100 GPUs on Quantum-2 InfiniBand, Top500 #3 in Nov 2023; STH repeats the figure; page date not shown, SC23 debut used | techcommunity.microsoft.comservethehome.com |
The read
The most useful system on this site, because of what it implies rather than what it is. Eagle is a slice of Azure that Microsoft chose to submit for HPL measurement. Neither its power draw nor its physical site has been disclosed, and the far larger commercial clusters built over the same period were never submitted at all. It is the one calibration point we have between the ranked world and the unranked one, and every estimate on our shadow-list page is anchored to it.
Timeline
- 2023 Announced source
- 2023-11 List debut at #3 (November 2023) source
- 2023-11 First operational source
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Site & facility
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 |
|---|---|---|
| techcommunity.microsoft.com | names system and part | NVIDIA H100 SXM5, Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) |
| servethehome.com | names system and part | NVIDIA H100 SXM5, Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) |
Checked 2026-10-18 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
Inside a node
Why accelerators exist, what the memory hierarchy costs, and how the CPU and accelerator merged onto one package.
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.