Mustang (AFRL)

Also known as AFRL DSRC Mustang

Operated by AFRL DSRC at AFRL DSRC (Wright-Patterson AFB) .

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: 3.22 PFlop/s
Rpeak: 4.78 PFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 67.4%
Cores: 55,296
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	- HPE SGI 8600, four-system AFRL DSRC purchase (unclassified Mustang)	Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPENYSE	-	Reported	top500.org nextplatform.com
Accelerator	NVIDIA Tesla P100 Accelerators CUDA (Pascal GP100) · 3,584C · 1.48 GHz · 16 nm · 300 W NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs in 24 nodes	NVIDIA NVDANASDAQ	-	Reported	nextplatform.com
CPU	- Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 24C 2.7GHz, 1,176 dual-socket nodes	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	nextplatform.com top500.org
Interconnect	Omni-Path Architecture Interconnect Fat tree · 100 Gb/s per port · About 1 microsecond Intel Omni-Path	Cornelis Networks	-	Reported	top500.org nextplatform.com
Storage	Lustre Storage Parallel filesystem, separate metadata and object servers 8.4 PB Lustre storage	DDN	-	Reported	nextplatform.com
Operating system	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating systems Linux distribution · Open source, commercial support subscription Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Red Hat IBMNYSE rolls up to IBM	-	Reported	top500.org

The read

The unclassified HPE SGI 8600 at the Air Force Research Laboratory DoD Supercomputing Resource Center, bought alongside three classified sister systems (Voodoo, Shadow and Spectre) in the HPCMP's seven-system HPE contract valued at 57 million dollars including five years of support. The Next Platform reports 1,176 dual-socket Xeon Platinum 8168 nodes, 24 nodes with NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs, Intel Omni-Path, 8.4 PB of Lustre storage and about 4.9 PFlop/s peak, operational in December 2018. TOP500 lists 55,296 cores, Rmax 3.22 PFlop/s and Rpeak 4.78 PFlop/s, first at rank 48 on the June 2018 list and last in June 2025 at rank 349. Peak, core count and operational date differ slightly between the two sources; TOP500 figures are recorded. The name Mustang is also used by an unrelated 2011 Los Alamos cluster already in the register.

Timeline

2018-06 List debut at #48 (June 2018) source
2018-12 First operational source

Public list appearances

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

#48: TOP500, June 2018 →

Site & facility

AFRL DSRC (Wright-Patterson AFB)

Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

afresearchlab.com spacemart.com

Change history

2026-10-07 Added Mustang, the AFRL DSRC unclassified HPE SGI 8600

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	names system and part	Omni-Path Architecture
nextplatform.com	names system and part	NVIDIA Tesla P100, Omni-Path Architecture, Lustre

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