Supercomputers/Systems/Portage
USA · operational · hpc
Portage
Also known as HPE Portage
Operated by Hewlett Packard Enterprise .
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
- 24.50 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 32.10 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 76.3%
- Cores
- 129,024
- Power
- 369.66 kW
- Per watt
- 66.3 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 Cray EX255a | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.orgtop500.org |
| Accelerator | AMD Instinct MI300A Accelerators ROCm (CDNA 3) · TSMC N5/N6 · 550 W AMD Instinct MI300A | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C (in MI300A) CPUs x86-64 · 24C · 1.8 GHz · TSMC N5 AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz (in MI300A) | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | HPE Slingshot-11 Interconnect Dragonfly · 200 Gb/s per port · Around 2 microseconds Slingshot-11 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Operating system | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating systems Linux distribution · Open source, commercial support subscription RHEL 8.9 | Red Hat | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
HPE Cray EX255a system at Hewlett Packard Enterprise with AMD Instinct MI300A APUs (4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz), Slingshot-11 and RHEL 8.9; 129,024 cores. It ranked tenth on the November 2025 Green500 at 66.277 GFlops/Watt (24.50 PFlop/s Rmax on 369.66 kW; TOP500 rank 70, first listed June 2025 at 24.10 PFlop/s).
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
- 2026-10-07 Added Portage
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 | AMD Instinct MI300A, HPE Slingshot-11 |
| top500.org | names system and part | AMD Instinct MI300A, HPE Slingshot-11 |
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.