Supercomputers/Systems/Ford HPC 10000 Cluster
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Ford HPC 10000 Cluster
Also known as Ford Sun HPC 10000 400 MHz Cluster
Operated by Ford Motor Company at Ford Motor Company Detroit Site .
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
- 137.1 GFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 204.8 GFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 66.9%
- Cores
- 256
- 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 | - Sun HPC 10000 400 MHz Cluster | Sun Microsystems | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | - UltraSPARC II 400MHz, 256 processors | Sun Microsystems | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Ford Motor Company's Sun HPC 10000 cluster of 256 UltraSPARC II 400MHz processors running Solaris, at 137.1 GFlop/s Rmax and 204.8 GFlop/s Rpeak. It ranked 136th in November 2000, 170th in June 2001, 270th in November 2001 and 483rd in June 2002, its last appearance. Ford also listed four standalone 64-processor HPC 10000 systems from 2000 on TOP500. The site page places Ford in Detroit. Status is recorded as of the last list appearance.
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 Ford's Sun HPC 10000 cluster
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 | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.