MHPCC IBM SP2/384

IBM SP2 with 384 POWER2 66 MHz processors running AIX at the Maui High-Performance Computing Center in Kihei, Hawaii, Rmax 66.3 and Rpeak 102.14 GFlop/s. TOP500 lists the same configuration from the December 1995 list (rank 8, the list is labelled 11/1995 here) through November 1997 (rank 45) (https://www.top500.org/system/169604/). The 1996 TOP500 report on the top computer centres (https://netlib.org/benchmark/top500/reports/report95/Centers/node14.html), quoting the centre's own web page (the report is dated May 1996), says MHPCC was developed and is managed by a consortium led by the University of New Mexico under a cooperative agreement with the US Air Force Phillips Laboratory, awarded in September 1993 with about 21 million dollars of initial funding, roughly 70 percent for equipment and communications, that it was established in 1994, and that its main resource was a 384-processor SP-2; the same report gives the centre 83.7 GFlop/s in total. TOP500 also holds several smaller or differently sized MHPCC SP2 entries (32, 64 and 400 processors, for example https://www.top500.org/system/169566/ and https://www.top500.org/system/169615/), which look like earlier build-up stages and are not separately modelled. The operator id is the dataset's MHPCC DSRC record, which describes the same Maui centre in its later Air Force Research Laboratory form. The retirement date is unknown.