Supercomputers/Systems/ACES (Texas A&M)
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ACES (Texas A&M)
Also known as Accelerating Computing for Emerging Sciences
Operated by Texas A&M 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
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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 | - 120 Intel GPU Max 1100 (formerly Ponte Vecchio) | Intel | 120 reported | Reported | hprc.tamu.edustories.tamu.edu |
| Accelerator | - 30 NVIDIA H100 GPUs plus 4 A30 | NVIDIA | 30 reported | Reported | hprc.tamu.edu |
| Accelerator | - Graphcore IPU nodes: 16 Mk2 GC200 IPUs and 16 Bow-2000 IPUs | Graphcore | - | Reported | hprc.tamu.edu |
| CPU | - 110 Intel Sapphire Rapids nodes plus 17 Ice Lake nodes | Intel | 110 reported | Reported | hprc.tamu.edustories.tamu.edu |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 400 Gb/s per port · Under 0.6 microseconds NVIDIA Mellanox NDR200 InfiniBand for MPI and storage | NVIDIA | - | Reported | hprc.tamu.edustories.tamu.edu |
The read
NSF-funded ($5 million build plus $1 million a year for five years of operations) composable testbed led by Texas A&M with UIUC and TACC, built on PCIe Gen5 Sapphire Rapids nodes and NDR200 InfiniBand. TAMU's Fall 2025 primer lists 110 Sapphire Rapids and 17 Ice Lake nodes, 120 Intel GPU Max 1100 (formerly Ponte Vecchio), 30 NVIDIA H100 and 4 A30 GPUs, two Graphcore IPU nodes (16 Mk2 GC200 and 16 Bow-2000), FPGAs, NextSilicon coprocessors and 48 Optane memory devices that can be composed per job. No FLOPS figure is published in the sources fetched and no TOP500 entry was found.
Timeline
- 2021-09 Announced source
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added ACES, Texas A&M's NSF-funded composable accelerator testbed
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 |
|---|---|---|
| hprc.tamu.edu | does not name this system | - |
| stories.tamu.edu | names system and part | NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.