Supercomputers/Systems/EthERNet HPC Facility
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EthERNet HPC Facility
Also known as Ethiopian national HPC facility
Operated by EthERNet .
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
- 55.00 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- -
- Cores
- -
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | - Intel Xeon processors on 18 compute nodes (192 GB each) | Intel | - | Reported | ubuntunet.net |
| Interconnect | - Mellanox InfiniBand cards on management and compute nodes | Mellanox NVDANASDAQ
rolls up to NVIDIA | - | Reported | ubuntunet.net |
| Storage | - Tecal RH1288H V3 and RH2288 V3 storage nodes, 200 TB effective capacity | Huawei | - | Reported | ubuntunet.net |
The read
Ethiopia's shared national HPC facility, established in 2019 by the Ethiopian Education and Research Network (EthERNet) for higher-education institutions and research centres, and used by around twenty universities including Addis Ababa, Hawassa and Jimma. The UbuntuNet Alliance profile describes two management nodes and 18 Intel Xeon compute nodes with 192 GB each, Huawei Tecal storage nodes with 200 TB of effective capacity, Mellanox InfiniBand, and 55 TFlop/s across the compute nodes; GPU accelerators are mentioned only as a future expansion. The physical location within Ethiopia is not stated, so the site is left unlocated. Only one page was fetched for this system, so the tier is reported.
Timeline
- 2019 First operational source
Change history
- 2026-10-04 EthERNet HPC Facility added, Ethiopia's 55 TFlop/s national research HPC facility for universities, established in 2019
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ubuntunet.net | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
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.
Storage and I/O
Parallel file systems, why checkpointing dominates the write load, and the metadata failure mode nobody expects.