Supercomputers/Systems/Hala Point
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Hala Point
Also known as Intel Hala Point at Sandia
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
- -
- Rpeak
- -
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- -
- Cores
- -
- Power
- 2.6 kW
- 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 | - Intel-built Hala Point system delivered to Sandia | Intel | - | Verified | intc.comsandia.gov |
| Accelerator | - 1,152 Intel Loihi 2 neuromorphic processors | Intel | 1,152 reported | Verified | intc.comsandia.gov |
The read
Intel's second-generation neuromorphic research system, 1,152 Loihi 2 processors holding 1.15 billion artificial neurons in a six-rack-unit chassis, delivered to Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia says it arrived on 1 February 2024; Intel announced it on 17 April 2024). Intel and Sandia independently state the 1,152-chip count and the Sandia site, so the tier is verified. Funding comes from NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing program and the stated aim is to test brain-based computing at scale for national-security work. Intel quotes a 2,600 W maximum draw, recorded as 2.6 kW, and up to 20 petaops, which is an integer-operations figure and is not recorded as FLOPS. Intel also cites 140,544 neuromorphic cores, left out of the cores column since they are not conventional cores.
Timeline
- 2024-04 Announced source
Site & facility
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Cooling
- Chilled water
- Commissioned
- 1990
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added Hala Point, Sandia's 1,152-chip Loihi 2 system
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 |
|---|---|---|
| intc.com | names system only | - |
| sandia.gov | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.