Supercomputers/Systems/Tioga
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Tioga
Also known as LLNL Tioga
Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at Livermore Computing Center .
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
- 4.55 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 5.83 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 78.0%
- Cores
- 30,208
- Power
- -
- 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 | - HPE Cray EX235a | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Verified | top500.orghpc.llnl.gov |
| Accelerator | AMD Instinct MI250X Accelerators ROCm (CDNA 2) · 1.7 GHz · TSMC N6 · 560 W AMD Instinct MI250X | AMD | - | Verified | top500.orghpc.llnl.gov |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7A53 (Trento) CPUs x86-64 · 64C · 2 GHz · 7 nm · 280 W AMD Optimized 3rd Generation EPYC 64C 2GHz (Trento) | AMD | - | Verified | top500.orghpc.llnl.gov |
| Interconnect | HPE Slingshot-11 Interconnect Dragonfly · 200 Gb/s per port · Around 2 microseconds Slingshot-11 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Verified | top500.orghpc.llnl.gov |
| Operating system | Tri-Lab Operating System Stack Operating systems Linux distribution, RHEL-derived, HPC-tuned · Open source, LLNL-maintained TOSS 4 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | - | Verified | top500.orghpc.llnl.gov |
The read
CORAL-2 / ATS-4 early-access system for El Capitan application readiness at Livermore Computing: HPE Cray EX235a nodes with one 64-core AMD Trento EPYC and eight MI250X GCDs each (LLNL counts 32 nodes, 2,048 CPU cores and 128 GPUs, 5.824 PFLOPS combined peak) on HPE Slingshot 11 under TOSS 4. TOP500 lists it with 30,208 cores, Rmax 4.55 PFlop/s and Rpeak 5.83 PFlop/s, first ranked 135th in June 2022, 121st in November 2022 and 314th in June 2026. TOP500 is the only source for Rmax, so the system tier is reported while the architecture edges are confirmed by both pages.
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
Livermore Computing Center
- Location
- Livermore, CA, USA
- Cooling
- Direct liquid cooling (warm water)
- Commissioned
- 1996
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added Tioga, LLNL's El Capitan early-access 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 |
|---|---|---|
| hpc.llnl.gov | names system and part | AMD EPYC 7A53 (Trento), Tri-Lab Operating System Stack |
| top500.org | names system and part | AMD EPYC 7A53 (Trento), AMD Instinct MI250X, HPE Slingshot-11 |
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.