Supercomputers/Systems/Red Storm
USA · decommissioned · hpc
Red Storm
Operated by Sandia National Laboratories at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque .
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
- 101.40 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 127.41 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 79.6%
- Cores
- 26,544
- 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 | - Cray XT3, AMD Opteron, XT3 Internal Interconnect | Cray HPENYSE
rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Sandia's Cray XT3 and XT4 system, at its peak TOP500 entry in November 2006 with 26,544 cores. Sandia's 2004 release describes it as air cooled and built with Cray. Wikipedia says it ran until 2012, which we do not record as a date because it is the only source. The TOP500 entry is the only source for the figures and no independent source confirms them, so the tier is reported. Only the parts a fetched source names are recorded as edges.
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
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Cooling
- Chilled water
- Commissioned
- 1990
Change history
- 2026-09-20 Added with a rank pointer on the edition where it ranked highest
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 only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.