Supercomputers/Systems/Klone (UW)
USA · operational · mixed
Klone (UW)
Also known as Hyak Klone
Operated by University of Washington .
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
- -
- Rpeak
- -
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- -
- Cores
- 44,184
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | - 954 GPU cards of Turing, Ampere and Hopper generations | NVIDIA | 954 reported | Reported | hyak.uw.eduhyak.uw.edu |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 200 Gb/s per port · About 0.6 microseconds 100 Gbps HDR100 InfiniBand in a 3:1 blocking two-layer fat tree | NVIDIA | - | Reported | hyak.uw.edu |
| Operating system | Rocky Linux Operating systems RHEL-compatible Linux, community-maintained · Downstream rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux source Rocky Linux 8 | Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation | - | Reported | hyak.uw.edu |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerators | 954 accelerators | 2026-10 | Operator stated | Page states 954 GPU cards across Turing, Ampere and Hopper generations. | hyak.uw.edu |
The read
The University of Washington's third-generation Hyak HPC cluster, in service since January 2021. The system architecture page states 44,184 CPU cores (AMD Genoa, Intel Cascade Lake, Intel Ice Lake), 954 GPU cards (Turing, Ampere, Hopper generations), HDR100 InfiniBand in a 3:1 blocking two-layer fat tree and 2.7 PB of GPFS; the GPU page lists L40, L40S, A40, 2080 Ti, Titan, RTX6000, A100 and P100 cards. No FLOPS figure is published.
Timeline
- 2021-01 First operational source
Change history
- 2026-10-07 Added Klone (UW)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| hyak.uw.edu | names system and part | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR, Rocky Linux |
| hyak.uw.edu | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
Inside a node
Why accelerators exist, what the memory hierarchy costs, and how the CPU and accelerator merged onto one package.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.
Programming a supercomputer
The software stack beneath the application, and why the OS is now a sovereignty signal as much as a technical choice.