Supercomputers/Systems/MPI/IPP Garching Cray T3E
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MPI/IPP Garching Cray T3E
Also known as RZG Cray T3E
Operated by MPCDF .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
- 355.0 GFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 487.2 GFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 72.9%
- Cores
- 812
- 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 | - Cray T3E, 812 PEs after the 1998 upgrade | Cray HPENYSE
rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.orgmpcdf.mpg.de |
| Interconnect | - Cray T3E 3-D torus interconnect | Cray HPENYSE
rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Cray T3E of the Max Planck Society's Garching computing centre (today's MPCDF, listed by TOP500 as Max-Planck-Gesellschaft MPI/IPP). MPCDF's history page records a T3E/128 in October 1996, following a Cray T3D/128 in 1995, upgraded to 816 PEs in February 1998. TOP500 follows the growth as separate entries: 128 PEs in November 1996 (rank 34, https://www.top500.org/system/171037/), 512 in June 1997 (rank 7, Rmax 176 GFlop/s, https://www.top500.org/system/171099/), 672 in November 1997 (https://www.top500.org/system/171121/), 784 in June 1998 (rank 7, Rmax 342 GFlop/s, https://www.top500.org/system/171134/) and 812 cores from November 1998 (EV5 300 MHz, 3-D torus, UNICOS, Rmax 355 and Rpeak 487.2 GFlop/s, rank 15), the final configuration recorded here (https://www.top500.org/system/171137/). TOP500 dates the larger configurations to 1997 while MPCDF dates the system to October 1996, and 812 TOP500 cores differ from MPCDF's 816 PEs; the October 1996 date is used for first operation. It stayed on the list until June 2003 (rank 329), after the IBM p690 system (mpi-ipp-garching-p690) took over.
Timeline
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Change history
- 2026-10-17 Added MPI/IPP Garching Cray T3E
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 |
|---|---|---|
| mpcdf.mpg.de | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system only | - |
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