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Olympus (PNNL)
Also known as PNNL Institutional Computing Olympus
Operated by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory .
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: 1263 of 1345 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 56 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
- 102.20 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 161.28 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 63.4%
- Cores
- 19,200
- 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 | - Atipa cluster, 604 servers | Atipa Technologies | - | Reported | top500.orgweb.archive.org |
| CPU | - AMD Opteron 6272 16C 2.1GHz | AMD | - | Reported | top500.orgweb.archive.org |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand QDR Interconnect Fat tree · 40 Gb/s per 4x port InfiniBand QDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.orgweb.archive.org |
The read
Atipa cluster serving PNNL Institutional Computing (PIC) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, described by PIC as its midrange computing resource. TOP500 lists AMD Opteron 6272 16C 2.1GHz processors on InfiniBand QDR running Linux, 19,200 cores, Rmax 102.20 TFlop/s and Rpeak 161.28 TFlop/s; it first appeared 179th on the June 2012 list and was last listed 458th in June 2013. A PIC resources page captured by the Internet Archive in 2014 describes Olympus as 604 servers on an InfiniBand QDR network and says it ranked 179th on the June 2012 TOP500; the rank agrees with TOP500, but TOP500's core count is not stated on the PIC page, so the tier is reported.
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
- 2026-10-09 Added Olympus (PNNL)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| web.archive.org | names system and part | Mellanox InfiniBand QDR |
| top500.org | names system and part | Mellanox InfiniBand QDR |
Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
Inside a node
Latency-optimised versus throughput-optimised processors, NUMA, and the end of the host-to-device copy.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.