Supercomputers/Systems/Fir
Canada · operational · mixed
Fir
Also known as Fir (GPU)
Operated by Simon Fraser University at SFU Burnaby .
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
- 19.96 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 33.32 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 59.9%
- Cores
- 92,160
- Power
- 475.73 kW
- Per watt
- 42.0 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 | - Lenovo (built Fir) | Lenovo | - | Verified | top500.orgbc.net |
| Accelerator | - 640 NVIDIA H100 GPUs | NVIDIA | 640 reported | Verified | bc.nettop500.org |
| CPU | - AMD EPYC 9454 48C 2.75GHz | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | - Infiniband (generation not stated) | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Canada's largest general-purpose academic system, hosted by Simon Fraser University in Burnaby for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and replacing Cedar. Built by Lenovo with AMD EPYC processors and 640 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, 165,888 compute cores in total, 50 PB of storage and direct-to-chip liquid cooling; funding was more than CA$80 million from the Alliance, the BC Knowledge Development Fund, SFU and partners. SFU says it became fully operational in September 2025. TOP500 lists the GPU partition (Fir GPU, EPYC 9454 48C, H100, 92,160 cores, Rmax 19.96 PFlop/s, Rpeak 33.32 PFlop/s, 476 kW), which ranked 78th on the June 2025 list, its best rank; the core count here is that partition's, not the whole system's 165,888. Workload is mixed because it serves simulation and AI training for researchers across Canada.
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
- 2026-10-02 Added Fir, Canada's SFU H100 research system, 78th on the June 2025 TOP500
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 | - |
| bc.net | does not name this system | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
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.