Supercomputers/Systems/Engaging (MIT)
USA · operational · mixed
Engaging (MIT)
Also known as ORCD Engaging
Operated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology at MGHPCC Holyoke .
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
- -
- Rpeak
- -
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- -
- Cores
- 50,000
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | - Over 1000 GPU cards including A100, RTX6000, L40S, H100 and H200 GPUs | NVIDIA | 1,000 reported | Reported | orcd-docs.mit.edu |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA L40S Accelerators CUDA (Ada Lovelace) · 350 W NVIDIA L40S GPUs available in the mit_normal_gpu partition | NVIDIA | - | Reported | orcd-docs.mit.edu |
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 | 1,000 accelerators | 2026-10 | Operator stated | ORCD states 'over 1000 GPU cards'; treat as a lower bound. | orcd-docs.mit.edu |
The read
MIT's Office of Research Computing and Data shared cluster, open to all MIT research projects. The ORCD documentation states it has around 50,000 x86 CPU cores and over 1000 GPU cards including A100, RTX6000, L40S, H100 and H200 GPUs, with new hardware added continuously; The Tech (MIT's student newspaper) reports the machines are hosted off campus at the MGHPCC and that ORCD plans to add over 200 B200 GPUs through the Massachusetts AI Hub grant. Per-partition tables list L40S, H100, H200 NVL and A100 nodes. No FLOPS figure is published.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-07 Added Engaging (MIT)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| orcd-docs.mit.edu | names system and part | NVIDIA L40S |
| thetech.com | blocked our fetch | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.