Jade (CINES)

Operated by GENCI at CINES .

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: 128.40 TFlop/s
Rpeak: 146.74 TFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 87.5%
Cores: 12,288
Power: 608 kW
Per watt: 0.2 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	- SGI Altix ICE 8200EX	SGI HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Verified	top500.org en.wikipedia.org
CPU	Intel Xeon E5450 CPUs x86-64 · 4C · 3 GHz · 45 nm · 120 W Xeon E5450 4C 3GHz (TOP500; Wikipedia names E5472 for the first block)	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	top500.org
Operating system	- SLES10 + SGI ProPack 5	SUSE	-	Reported	top500.org

The read

SGI Altix ICE 8200EX bought through GENCI for the CINES national centre in Montpellier, 15th on the November 2008 TOP500 and one of the first national-centre petascale-track machines in France. TOP500 gives 12,288 cores of Xeon E5450 4-core 3.0 GHz on InfiniBand, 128.4 TFlop/s Rmax and 146.74 TFlop/s Rpeak; an AEF-info dispatch dated June 2008 reports the purchase as a 147 teraflop machine, matching the TOP500 peak. Wikipedia's CINES article describes later growth with 1,344 Nehalem X5560 nodes added to the original 1,536 dual-socket nodes (it names E5472 CPUs for the first block, which differs from TOP500's E5450), so the status is upgraded and the TOP500 figures describe the initial 12,288-core configuration, last listed in November 2009 under this entry. No shutdown date is recorded.

Timeline

2008 First operational source
2008-06 Announced source
2008-11 List debut at #15 (November 2008) source

Public list appearances

Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.

#15: TOP500, November 2008 →

Site & facility

CINES

Location: Montpellier, France
Commissioned: 2022

cines.fr

Change history

2026-10-02 Added Jade, CINES SGI Altix ICE

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.

Every source cited on this page was readable, and none of them mentions this system. They are cited at page granularity, normally because no stable deep link could be found. That is a real weakness in this row and it is why the system carries a confidence tier below verified. See how this check works.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
aefinfo.fr	does not name this system	-
top500.org	does not name this system	Intel Xeon E5450

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.