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NETL HPCEE

Also known as HPCEE

Operated by National Energy Technology Laboratory at NETL HPC Facility (Morgantown) .

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Measured performance

Rmax: 413.50 TFlop/s
Rpeak: 503.19 TFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 82.2%
Cores: 24,192
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	- SGI Rackable C2112-4RP3 in an SGI ICE Cube Air modular data center	SGI HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org energy.gov
CPU	Intel Xeon E5-2670 CPUs x86-64 · 8C · 2.6 GHz · 32 nm · 115 W Intel Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.6GHz	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	top500.org
Interconnect	Mellanox InfiniBand QDR Interconnect Fat tree · 40 Gb/s per 4x port Infiniband QDR	Mellanox NVDANASDAQ rolls up to NVIDIA	-	Reported	top500.org

The read

NETL's HPCEE machine: an SGI Rackable C2112-4RP3 cluster of 24,192 Xeon E5-2670 cores on QDR InfiniBand, housed in an SGI ICE Cube Air modular data center at the Simulation-Based Engineering User Center in Morgantown, West Virginia. The DOE announcement of 15 January 2013 calls it a 503 TFlop/s system, ranked 55th in the world then, and quotes a PUE of 1.01 to 1.1 with cooling using about 1 percent of total electricity; it also says the simulations target phenomena hard to measure, such as coal jet penetration into a gasifier. TOP500 lists 413.5 TFlop/s Rmax against 503.19 TFlop/s Rpeak and an installation year of 2012; in this dataset's range it appears from June 2015 (rank 159) to November 2016 (rank 419). TOP500 also lists 3,628.8 kW of power, which is not recorded because the DOE page states no draw to cross-check it. NETL's later machines are joule-2-0 and joule-3-0. Tier is reported.

Timeline

2012 First operational source
2016-11 List debut at #419 (November 2016) source

Public list appearances

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

#419: TOP500, November 2016 →

Site & facility

NETL HPC Facility (Morgantown)

Location: Morgantown, WV, USA

hpc.netl.doe.gov netl.doe.gov

Change history

2026-10-17 NETL HPCEE added from its source pages

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
energy.gov	names system only	-
top500.org	names system and part	Intel Xeon E5-2670, Mellanox InfiniBand QDR

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