Supercomputers/Systems/Torch
USA · operational · mixed
Torch
Also known as NYU Torch
Operated by New York 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
- 10.79 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 12.25 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 88.1%
- Cores
- 33,152
- Power
- 210.53 kW
- Per watt
- 51.3 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 XD670 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA H200 SXM Accelerators CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16,896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N · 700 W NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB (272 listed in NYU spec sheet) | NVIDIA | 272 reported | Reported | top500.orggithub.com |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ 64C 1.9GHz | Intel | - | Reported | top500.orggithub.com |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 400 Gb/s per port · Under 0.6 microseconds Infiniband NDR400 | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.orggithub.com |
The read
New York University's flagship HPC cluster, successor to Greene. TOP500 lists the Linpack run as an HPE Cray XD670 system with Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ CPUs and NVIDIA H200 GPUs on NDR400 InfiniBand: 33,152 cores, Rmax 10.79 PFlop/s, Rpeak 12.25 PFlop/s and 210.5 kW, 133rd on the June 2025 list and 175th on June 2026. NYU's spec sheet describes the wider cluster as a mix of 120 B200, 272 H200, 272 L40S, 60 H100, 172 A100 and 48 RTX Pro 6000 GPUs across 177 GPU nodes and 45,248 cores, so the TOP500 figures cover only part of it.
Timeline
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 Torch, NYU's H200 flagship, 133rd on the June 2025 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 |
|---|---|---|
| github.com | names system, part and count | NVIDIA H200 SXM, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) · counts: 272 |
| top500.org | names system and part | NVIDIA H200 SXM, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) |
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
Why accelerators exist, what the memory hierarchy costs, and how the CPU and accelerator merged onto one package.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.