Supercomputers/Systems/Double Helix
United Kingdom · operational · hpc
Double Helix
Operated by Genomics England at Genomics England Research Environment (AWS) .
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
- 1,900
- 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 | - Hosted on Amazon EC2 within the Genomics England Research Environment; genomic data stored in Amazon S3 | Amazon | - | Reported | re-docs.genomicsengland.co.ukaws.amazon.com |
The read
Genomics England's AWS-hosted HPC cluster inside its Research Environment, replacing the previous 'Helix' cluster in a May 2024 changeover. Genomics England's own user-guide documentation states 80 compute nodes at 24 cores each (about 1,900 CPU cores/job slots), Amazon Linux 2, and IBM Spectrum LSF scheduling, used by NHS and academic researchers to analyse genomic and clinical data from the 100,000 Genomes Project and successor programmes. AWS's own case study independently confirms Genomics England runs its genomic compute on Amazon EC2 and stores the underlying ~50 petabytes of sequencing data in Amazon S3, but does not name Double Helix specifically or restate its node/core counts, so the tier stays reported rather than verified. No GPUs, FLOPS figure or power draw were found on either page.
Timeline
- 2024-05 First operational source
Site & facility
Genomics England Research Environment (AWS)
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Commissioned
- 2024
Change history
- 2026-09-24 Double Helix (Genomics England) added (United Kingdom)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| aws.amazon.com | does not name this system | - |
| re-docs.genomicsengland.co.uk | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.