Supercomputers/Systems/Dhabi Supercomputer
United Arab Emirates · operational · ai training
Dhabi Supercomputer
Also known as TII Dhabi
Operated by Technology Innovation Institute at Technology Innovation Institute (Abu Dhabi) .
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
- 5.09 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 5.84 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 87.2%
- Cores
- 39,680
- Power
- 138.94 kW
- Per watt
- 36.6 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 | - HPE Apollo 6500 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7763 (Milan) CPUs x86-64 · 64C · 2.45 GHz · 7 nm · 280 W AMD EPYC 7763 64C 2.45GHz | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 200 Gb/s per port · About 0.6 microseconds Infiniband HDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Operating system | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating systems Linux distribution · Open source, commercial support subscription RHEL 8.7 | Red Hat | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
The Technology Innovation Institute's HPE Apollo 6500 system of AMD EPYC 7763 64-core CPUs and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB GPUs on HDR InfiniBand, running RHEL 8.7, installed in 2023 at the Abu Dhabi research institute behind the Falcon language models. TOP500 lists 39,680 cores, Rmax 5.09 and Rpeak 5.84 PFlop/s at 138.94 kW; its best rank was 174th in June 2024 and it was still listed at 301st in June 2026. No source we fetched ties the machine to Falcon training, so the workload is a judgement and TOP500 is the only source, hence the reported tier.
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
Technology Innovation Institute (Abu Dhabi)
- Location
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Commissioned
- 2023
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added the Dhabi Supercomputer, the Technology Innovation Institute's A100 system, 174th on the June 2024 TOP500
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 | AMD EPYC 7763 (Milan), NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR |
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.