Supercomputers/Systems/Tornado SUSU
Russia · upgraded · hpc
Tornado SUSU
Also known as RSC Tornado SUSU
Operated by South Ural State University at SUSU Supercomputer 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
- 288.20 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 473.64 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 60.8%
- Cores
- 28,032
- Power
- 294 kW
- Per watt
- 1.0 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 | - RSC Tornado liquid-cooled blades (480) | RSC Group | - | Reported | supercomputer.susu.rurscgroup.ru |
| Accelerator | - Intel Xeon Phi SE10X coprocessors (added 2013) | Intel | 384 reported | Reported | supercomputer.susu.rurscgroup.ru |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon X5680 6C 3.33 GHz (Gulftown) | Intel | 960 reported | Reported | supercomputer.susu.rurscgroup.ru |
| Storage | - Panasas ActiveStor 11 parallel storage, 177.62 TB | Panasas | - | Reported | supercomputer.susu.ru |
The read
RSC's fully liquid-cooled cluster at South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk: 480 blades with 960 Xeon X5680 processors and, after two 2013 expansions, 384 Xeon Phi SE10X coprocessors on InfiniBand QDR with 177.62 TB of Panasas storage. SUSU says it entered service on 15 January 2011 and quotes 473.6 TFlop/s peak, 288.2 TFlop/s Linpack and a PUE of 1.06; RSC's project page gives the same peak and Linpack and describes board-level direct liquid cooling. TOP500 lists 28,032 cores at 294 kW, ranking it 128th in November 2013 and 499th in June 2016; the status date is the last TOP500 listing, as no source fetched reports a retirement. The TOP500 core count differs from SUSU's roughly 29,184.
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
SUSU Supercomputer Center
- Location
- Chelyabinsk, Russia
- Cooling
- Direct liquid cooling
- PUE
- 1.06
- Commissioned
- 2011
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added Tornado SUSU
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 |
|---|---|---|
| supercomputer.susu.ru | names system only | - |
| top500.org | 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.
Storage and I/O
Parallel file systems, why checkpointing dominates the write load, and the metadata failure mode nobody expects.