Quriosity (2017)

Also known as BASF Quriosity

Operated by BASF at BASF Ludwigshafen 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: 1.75 PFlop/s
Rpeak: 2.71 PFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 64.6%
Cores: 35,280
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	Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPENYSE	-	Verified	basf.com top500.org
CPU	Intel Xeon Gold 6148 CPUs x86-64 · 20C · 2.4 GHz · 14 nm · 150 W Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Verified	top500.org basf.com
Interconnect	Omni-Path Architecture Interconnect Fat tree · 100 Gb/s per port · About 1 microsecond Intel Omni-Path	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	top500.org

The read

BASF's first Quriosity, an HPE Apollo 6000 cluster of Intel Xeon Gold 6148 (20-core, 2.4 GHz) CPUs on Intel Omni-Path at the Ludwigshafen site, assembled by HPE in Houston and about one year from planning to start-up. BASF's own write-up and TOP500 agree on the HPE hardware, the Xeon Gold 6148 and the 1.75 PFlop/s figure; TOP500 adds 35,280 cores, Rpeak 2.71 PFlop/s and the Omni-Path interconnect. BASF describes it as about ten times the computing power its R&D teams had before, and as the top chemical-industry machine on the November 2017 list. It first appeared on the June 2017 TOP500 list at rank 66 and last appeared in November 2022. BASF's May 2023 announcement of the successor says this machine was being recycled by HPE (over 95 percent refurbished for reuse), so status is decommissioned with no exact retirement date.

Timeline

2017 First operational source
2017-06 List debut at #66 (June 2017) source

Public list appearances

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

#66: TOP500, June 2017 →

Site & facility

BASF Ludwigshafen Site

Location: Ludwigshafen, Germany
Cooling: Direct liquid cooling (warm water)
Commissioned: 2017

basf.com basf.com

Change history

2026-10-02 Added Quriosity (2017), BASF's HPE Apollo 6000 chemicals supercomputer, 66th on the June 2017 TOP500

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
basf.com	names system and part	Intel Xeon Gold 6148
top500.org	names system and part	Intel Xeon Gold 6148, Omni-Path Architecture

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.