Supercomputers/Systems/P&G Apollo 6000 Cluster
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P&G Apollo 6000 Cluster
Also known as Procter & Gamble Apollo 6000 XL230a
Operated by Procter & Gamble at Procter & Gamble Cincinnati Site .
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
- 233.99 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 307.20 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 76.2%
- Cores
- 7,680
- 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 Apollo 6000 XL230a | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon E5-2680v3 12C 2.5GHz, 7,680 cores | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR Interconnect Fat tree · 56 Gb/s per 4x port · About 1 microsecond InfiniBand FDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Procter & Gamble's 2015 HPE Apollo 6000 XL230a cluster of 7,680 Xeon E5-2680v3 (12-core, 2.5GHz) cores on InfiniBand FDR, at 233.99 TFlop/s Rmax and 307.2 TFlop/s Rpeak. It appeared once, at rank 440 in November 2015, and is the later of P&G's two named-site clusters after the 2012 Nimbus. Status is recorded as of that single list appearance.
Timeline
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added P&G's 2015 HPE Apollo 6000 cluster
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 | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR |
Checked 2026-10-09 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.