Supercomputers/Systems/Raider
USA · operational · mixed
Raider
Operated by AFRL DSRC at AFRL DSRC (Wright-Patterson AFB) .
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
- 4.02 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 8.66 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 46.4%
- Cores
- 206,304
- 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 | - Penguin Computing | Penguin Computing | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7713 (Milan) CPUs x86-64 · 64C · 2 GHz · 7 nm · 225 W AMD EPYC 7713 64C 2GHz | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 200 Gb/s per port · About 0.6 microseconds Infiniband HDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Penguin Computing system at the US Air Force Research Laboratory DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, part of the DoD HPCMP and a shared resource for Air Force, Army and Navy users. It succeeds the 3.1 petaFLOPS Thunder system installed in 2015. AFRL describes it as a 12 petaFLOPS machine with about 189,000 cores, while TOP500 lists AMD EPYC 7713 64C 2GHz over InfiniBand HDR with Rmax 4.02 PFlop/s, Rpeak 8.66 PFlop/s and 206,304 cores, installed 2022; the dataset records the TOP500 figures and notes the operator's larger headline number here. First TOP500 appearance in the tracked history is the June 2024 list at rank 213. TOP500 is the only source for Rmax, Rpeak and core count, 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.
Site & facility
AFRL DSRC (Wright-Patterson AFB)
- Location
- Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
Change history
- 2026-10-01 Added Raider (AFRL DSRC)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| afresearchlab.com | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system and part | AMD EPYC 7713 (Milan), NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR |
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.