Supercomputers/Systems/Guane-1
Colombia · operational · hpc
Guane-1
Also known as Guane-1 Reload; SC3 UIS Guane
Operated by Universidad Industrial de Santander at UIS Guatiguara Technology Park .
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
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- Rpeak
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- 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 | - HP ProLiant SL390s G7 nodes (16 nodes) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 16 reported | Reported | es.wikipedia.org |
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA Tesla M2075 and M2052/S2050 GPUs on eight GPU nodes each type | NVIDIA | - | Reported | es.wikipedia.org |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon E5645 and E5640 processors | Intel | - | Reported | es.wikipedia.org |
The read
Colombia's best-known GPU cluster, run by the Universidad Industrial de Santander's SC3 group at the Guatiguara Technology Park in Piedecuesta and inaugurated on 23 April 2012 as the country's fastest supercomputer. The Spanish Wikipedia entry lists 16 HP ProLiant SL390s G7 nodes (Xeon E5645 and E5640 CPUs, 104 GB of memory per node, Tesla M2075 and M2052 or S2050 GPUs, 128 TB of storage) with Gigabit and 10 Gb Ethernet plus InfiniBand, and quotes 150 TFlop/s at launch rising to 320 TFlop/s after the 2012 Guane-1 Reload upgrade; a 2015 Xataka Colombia report confirms the nodes, GPUs and operator. Because those peak figures are GPU-dominated marketing numbers from a Wikipedia entry and the core count is given inconsistently, no FLOPS or core figure is recorded. No current-status page was fetched, so operational status is unconfirmed. It has never been on TOP500. Neither source is a UIS page, so the tier is reported.
Timeline
- 2012-04-23 First operational source
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-04 Guane-1 added, the HP ProLiant and NVIDIA Tesla GPU cluster of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, inaugurated in April 2012 as Colombia's fastest supercomputer
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 |
|---|---|---|
| es.wikipedia.org | names system only | - |
| xataka.com.co | does not name this system | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.