Supercomputers/Systems/farm22
United Kingdom · operational · mixed
farm22
Also known as The Farm
Operated by Wellcome Sanger Institute at Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton .
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
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- Rpeak
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB | NVIDIA | 56 reported | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 Accelerators CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16,896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N · 700 W NVIDIA H100 80GB | NVIDIA | 64 reported | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA H200 SXM Accelerators CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16,896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N · 700 W NVIDIA H200 | NVIDIA | 80 reported | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA L40S Accelerators CUDA (Ada Lovelace) · 350 W NVIDIA L40S 48GB | NVIDIA | 40 reported | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA Tesla V100 Accelerators CUDA (Volta GV100) · 5,120C · 1.53 GHz · 12 nm · 300 W NVIDIA V100 variants | NVIDIA | 30 reported | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip Accelerators Arm CPU + CUDA GPU · TSMC 4N NVIDIA GH200 | NVIDIA | 4 reported | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA Tesla T4 | NVIDIA | 1 reported | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon Gold 6226R 2.90GHz, 78 hosts with 750GB memory | Intel | - | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7713 (Milan) CPUs x86-64 · 64C · 2 GHz · 7 nm · 225 W AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core, 42 hosts at 1.9TB memory plus 2 high-memory hosts at 3.9TB | AMD | - | Reported | hpc.sanger.ac.uk |
The read
The Wellcome Sanger Institute's main research-computing cluster, 165 execution hosts (122 general-purpose CPU hosts plus GPU and R&D hosts) over 400Gb/s networking, running about two million jobs a week for genome assembly, cancer genomics and sequencing pipelines under IBM Spectrum LSF. Sanger's own HPC page states over 20,000 CPUs and 275 GPUs spanning V100 through H200 and GH200 generations; no HPL figure has ever been submitted, so this system does not appear on TOP500 and ranked/FLOPS fields are left blank rather than estimated. An independent trade report (theenergyst.com) corroborates the surrounding 4.5MW Hinxton data centre and an NVIDIA-linked 2024 efficiency upgrade that raised computational output by 50 percent, but does not restate farm22's exact hardware counts, so the tier stays reported.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Site & facility
Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton
- Location
- Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Substation
- 4.5 MW
Change history
- 2026-09-24 farm22 (Wellcome Sanger Institute) added (United Kingdom)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| hpc.sanger.ac.uk | names system, part and count | AMD EPYC 7713 (Milan), NVIDIA H100 SXM5, NVIDIA H200 SXM, NVIDIA L40S, NVIDIA Tesla V100, NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip · counts: 64, 80, 40, 4 |
| theenergyst.com | does not name this system | · counts: 40, 30, 4 |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.