Supercomputers/Systems/Kan Balam
Mexico · operational · hpc
Kan Balam
Also known as KanBalam
Operated by UNAM (DGTIC) at UNAM Ciudad Universitaria .
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
- 5.09 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 7.07 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 72.0%
- Cores
- 1,360
- Power
- -
- 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 Cluster Platform 4000 DL145 (TOP500 manufacturer field: HPE) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.orgxataka.com.mx |
| CPU | - AMD Opteron dual core 2.6GHz, 1,360 cores (TOP500 listing) | AMD | - | Reported | top500.orgxataka.com.mx |
The read
A cluster built by HP in 2007 for UNAM's computing directorate, located on the university's main campus in Mexico City per Wikipedia. TOP500 lists an HP Cluster Platform 4000 DL145 of 1,360 Opteron dual core 2.6GHz cores on InfiniBand running Linux, installed in 2006, 5.09 TFlop/s Rmax and 7.07 TFlop/s Rpeak, ranked 126th on the November 2006 list and 310th on June 2007, which is the basis for the status date. Xataka Mexico describes 1,368 AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz processors, 3,016 GB of memory and about 7 teraflops, used among other things to study silent earthquakes. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan_Balam) adds 337 compute nodes with 8 GB each plus five 64 GB nodes, 160 TB of storage, two 576-port InfiniBand switches and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a start of work on 16 January 2007 and the number one place in Latin America until June 2008; that is context rather than a confirmed fact. The 1,368 versus 1,360 difference is processors versus TOP500 cores and is left as published. UNAM's later Miztli is already in this dataset.
Timeline
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-09 Added Kan Balam
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 | does not name this system | - |
| xataka.com.mx | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.