Supercomputers/Systems/Goethe-NHR
Germany · operational · hpc
Goethe-NHR
Operated by Goethe University Frankfurt .
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
- 9.09 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 19.34 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 47.0%
- Cores
- 96,768
- Power
- 195.24 kW
- Per watt
- 46.6 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 | - MEGWARE with Supermicro AS-4124GS-TNR GPU nodes | MEGWARE | - | Reported | top500.orgnhrsw.de |
| Integrator | - Supermicro AS-4124GS-TNR | Supermicro | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Accelerator | AMD Instinct MI210 Accelerators ROCm (CDNA 2) · TSMC N6 · 300 W AMD Instinct MI210 64 GB (NHR-SW cites 880 cards over 105 nodes) | AMD | - | Reported | top500.orgnhrsw.de |
| CPU | - AMD EPYC 7452 32C 2.35GHz | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand EDR Interconnect Fat tree · 100 Gb/s per 4x port · About 0.9 microseconds Mellanox InfiniBand EDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Goethe University Frankfurt's NHR South-West cluster, built by MEGWARE and Supermicro around AMD EPYC 7452 hosts and AMD Instinct MI210 GPUs on InfiniBand EDR. It ranked ninth on the Green500 in June 2023 at 46.5 GFlops/Watt, the best efficiency in Germany at the time, and 70th on the June 2023 TOP500 with 9.09 PFlop/s Rmax and 195.24 kW. NHR-SW describes 105 GPU nodes and 880 MI210 cards at the Industriepark Hoechst site; other public descriptions give 864 cards, so no GPU quantity is recorded. The cited pages do not confirm the cluster's current physical location, so no site is attached.
Timeline
- 2023-06 List debut at #9 (June 2023) source
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added Goethe-NHR, Frankfurt's MI210 cluster, 9th on the June 2023 Green500
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 |
|---|---|---|
| nhrsw.de | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system and part | AMD Instinct MI210, Mellanox InfiniBand EDR |
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.