Supercomputers/Systems/NASA Cabeus
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NASA Cabeus
Also known as Cabeus
Operated by NASA at NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility .
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
- 20.67 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- -
- Cores
- -
- 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 | NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip Accelerators Arm CPU + CUDA GPU · TSMC 4N NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper superchip nodes (350) | NVIDIA | 350 reported | Reported | nas.nasa.govnas.nasa.gov |
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA A100 GPUs (128 nodes with 4 GPUs each) | NVIDIA | 512 reported | Reported | nas.nasa.govnas.nasa.gov |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7763 (Milan) CPUs x86-64 · 64C · 2.45 GHz · 7 nm · 280 W AMD EPYC 7763 64-core, one per A100 node (128 nodes) | AMD | 128 reported | Reported | nas.nasa.gov |
| CPU | NVIDIA Grace CPUs Armv9 (Neoverse V2) · 72C · 3.1 GHz · TSMC 4N NVIDIA Grace 72-core Neoverse V2 CPU in each GH200 node (350) | NVIDIA | 350 reported | Reported | nas.nasa.gov |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 200 Gb/s per port · About 0.6 microseconds InfiniBand HDR (A100 nodes) | NVIDIA | - | Reported | nas.nasa.gov |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 400 Gb/s per port · Under 0.6 microseconds InfiniBand NDR (GH200 nodes) | NVIDIA | - | Reported | nas.nasa.gov |
The read
NASA Advanced Supercomputing's GPU system at Ames, named after a lunar south-pole crater. The NAS resource page lists 128 A100 nodes (one 64-core AMD EPYC 7763 and four A100 GPUs per node, 7.29 PFlop/s peak, InfiniBand HDR) plus 350 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper nodes (72-core Grace CPU and H100 GPU each, 13.11 PFlop/s peak, InfiniBand NDR). NAS stories date the first A100 release to late December 2023 at about 5 PFlop/s, the GH200 installation to September 2024 and release to users in March 2025, and give 20.67 PFlop/s total peak after 57 V100 nodes migrated from Pleiades were added. The peak figure is NASA's own, so the basis is operator_stated. No TOP500 entry was found.
Timeline
- 2023-12 First operational source
Site & facility
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility
- Location
- Moffett Field, CA, USA
- Cooling
- Air and liquid hybrid
- Commissioned
- 1987
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added NASA Cabeus
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 |
|---|---|---|
| nas.nasa.gov | names system, part and count | NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, AMD EPYC 7763 (Milan), NVIDIA Grace, NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) · counts: 350, 128, 350 |
| nas.nasa.gov | blocked our fetch | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.