Supercomputers/Systems/SuperMIC
USA · decommissioned · hpc
SuperMIC
Also known as LSU SuperMIC
Operated by Louisiana State University .
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
- 557.03 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 925.07 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 60.2%
- Cores
- 45,866
- Power
- 370 kW
- Per watt
- 1.5 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 | - Dell C8220X cluster | Dell Technologies | - | Reported | top500.orgcct.lsu.edu |
| Accelerator | - Intel Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors | Intel | - | Reported | top500.orgcct.lsu.edu |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 10C 2.8GHz | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR Interconnect Fat tree · 56 Gb/s per 4x port · About 1 microsecond InfiniBand FDR | Mellanox NVDANASDAQ
rolls up to NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Dell C8220X cluster built around Xeon E5-2680v2 10-core CPUs, Intel Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors and InfiniBand FDR, run by LSU's Center for Computation & Technology in the Frey Computing Services Center machine room. LSU's September 2013 release announces a nearly 4 million dollar NSF Major Research Instrumentation award, the first Phi-based cluster in Louisiana, over 1 PFLOPS of planned capacity and 40 percent of resources reserved for XSEDE. TOP500 lists 557.03 TFLOPS Rmax, 925.07 TFLOPS peak, 370 kW and 45,866 cores, and it ranked 116th in June 2015. No retirement date appears in the pages we cited, so the status date is the data refresh.
Timeline
- 2013-09 Announced source
- 2014 First operational source
- 2015-06 List debut at #116 (June 2015) source
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added SuperMIC at LSU
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 and part | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR |
| cct.lsu.edu | names system only | - |
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.