Supercomputers/Systems/Finis Terrae
Spain · operational · hpc
Finis Terrae
Also known as FinisTerrae; CESGA Finis Terrae (2007)
Operated by CESGA at CESGA (Santiago de Compostela) .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
- 14.01 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 16.18 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 86.6%
- Cores
- 2,528
- 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 | - HP Integrity rx7640 nodes (142-node cluster, 16 cores each) with HP Integrity Superdome servers | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 142 reported | Reported | scientific-computing.comtop500.org |
| CPU | - Intel Itanium 2 Montecito 1.6 GHz dual-core, 2,528 cores in the 2008 TOP500 entry | Intel | - | Reported | top500.orgscientific-computing.com |
The read
Itanium 2 shared-memory cluster at CESGA in Galicia, deployed by HP with Intel. HP's description calls it one of the largest Itanium-based shared-memory supercomputers, built from 142 HP Integrity rx7640 nodes of 16 cores each plus Superdome servers, with 1.3 TB of main memory on the Superdomes, an accumulated shared memory space of 19 TB across the rx7640 nodes, InfiniBand between all nodes, and 390 TB of disk plus 1 PB of tape. A two-week acceptance test used half the system for 350,000 calculation hours. TOP500 carries it twice: the November 2007 entry (system 175541, rx7640/Superdome, 2,400 cores, 12.97 TFlop/s Rmax, 15.36 peak, ranked 101st) and a 2008 entry (system 175803, labelled rx5670, 2,528 cores of 1.6 GHz Montecito, 14.01 TFlop/s Rmax, 16.18 peak, ranked 210th in June 2008 and 427th in November 2008). The 2008 figures are recorded because they come from the later and larger run; the rx5670 versus rx7640 label difference is TOP500's and is not explained there. The HP page gives no total core count, deployment date or peak. Successor machine in the dataset: finisterrae-ii.
Timeline
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-17 Finis Terrae added from its source pages
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 |
|---|---|---|
| scientific-computing.com | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-18 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.