Gordon (Navy DSRC)

Also known as Navy DSRC Gordon

Operated by Navy DSRC at Navy DSRC (Stennis Space Center) .

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: 1263 of 1345 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 56 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: 1.29 PFlop/s
Rpeak: 2.05 PFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 62.7%
Cores: 61,256
Power: 2.32 MW
Per watt: 0.6 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	- Cray XC40 supercomputer	Cray HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org defenseone.com
Accelerator	- Intel Xeon Phi 5120D coprocessors	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	top500.org
CPU	Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 CPUs x86-64 · 16C · 2.3 GHz · 22 nm · 135 W Intel Xeon E5-2698v3 16C 2.3GHz	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	top500.org
Interconnect	Cray Aries Interconnect Dragonfly · About 10 GB/s per direction · Around 1 microsecond Cray Aries interconnect	Cray HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org
Operating system	Cray Linux Environment Operating systems Linux, Cray-customised · Proprietary layer over open-source Linux Cray Linux Environment	Cray HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org

The read

Cray XC40 at the Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi: TOP500 lists Intel Xeon E5-2698v3 16-core 2.3 GHz processors with Intel Xeon Phi 5120D coprocessors over Aries, 61,256 cores, Rmax 1.286 PFlop/s, Rpeak 2.050 PFlop/s and 2,324 kW, installed 2015, first listed at rank 46 on the June 2015 list and last on the June 2020 list. Defense One reported in December 2014 that the HPCMP had contracted Cray for two XC40 systems and two Sonexion storage systems for the Navy center, to be installed in 2015 and to raise the center capacity two and a half times for coastal-ocean circulation and wave-model oceanography. It is the twin of Conrad (TOP500 system 178520). Not the same machine as the SDSC Gordon. Tier reported: the contract article does not name the machines.

Timeline

2015 First operational source

Site & facility

Navy DSRC (Stennis Space Center)

Location: Stennis Space Center, MS, USA

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Change history

2026-10-09 Added Gordon (Navy DSRC)

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
defenseone.com	does not name this system	-
top500.org	names system and part	Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3, Cray Aries, Cray Linux Environment

Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.