Supercomputers/Systems/Henri
USA · operational · mixed
Henri
Operated by Flatiron Institute at Flatiron Institute Data Center (New Jersey) .
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
- 2.88 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 3.58 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 80.4%
- Cores
- 8,288
- Power
- 44.07 kW
- Per watt
- 65.4 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 | - Lenovo ThinkSystem SR670 V2 | Lenovo | - | Verified | top500.orgsimonsfoundation.org |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe Accelerators CUDA (Hopper) NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe, 8 per server across 10 servers | NVIDIA | 80 reported | Verified | simonsfoundation.orgtop500.org |
| CPU | Intel Xeon Platinum 8362 (Ice Lake) CPUs x86-64 · 32C · 2.8 GHz · Intel 10nm SuperFin Intel Xeon Platinum 8362 32C 2.8GHz | Intel | - | Reported | top500.orgsimonsfoundation.org |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 200 Gb/s per port · About 0.6 microseconds NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand HDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.orgsimonsfoundation.org |
The read
Built by the Flatiron Institute, the Simons Foundation's internal computational research division, Henri was the first system anywhere to use NVIDIA's H100 GPU and topped the Green500 list in November 2022 at 65.09 GFlops/Watt, a title it held for three consecutive editions before the GH200 generation overtook it. By November 2024 it had settled to eighth place at 65.4 GFlops/Watt, still ahead of most much larger machines in this dataset, which is the point of the comparison: efficiency and scale are different axes, and Henri never tried to compete on the second one. TOP500's own system page and the Simons Foundation's release independently confirm the hardware and the historical rank, so the tier is verified.
Timeline
- 2022 Announced source
- 2022-11 First operational source
- 2024-11 List debut at #8 (November 2024) source
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Site & facility
Flatiron Institute Data Center (New Jersey)
- Location
- USA
- Commissioned
- 2022
Change history
- 2026-09-24 Henri added (Flatiron Institute, USA)
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, part and count | Intel Xeon Platinum 8362 (Ice Lake), NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe, NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR · counts: 80 |
| simonsfoundation.org | does not name this system | NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe, NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
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.
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.