Supercomputers/Systems/Agate
USA · operational · mixed
Agate
Also known as MSI Agate
Operated by University of Minnesota .
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
- 1.88 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 3.55 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 53.1%
- Cores
- 31,744
- Power
- 380 kW
- Per watt
- 5.0 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 | - HPE Apollo 6500 (TOP500 vendor HPE) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB Accelerators CUDA (Ampere GA100) · 6,912C · 1.41 GHz · 7 nm · 400 W NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 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 2.45 GHz | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 200 Gb/s per port · About 0.6 microseconds InfiniBand HDR 100 | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute's flagship cluster, an HPE Apollo 6500 system with AMD EPYC 7763 64-core CPUs, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB GPUs and InfiniBand HDR 100. The November 2021 TOP500 lists 31,744 cores, 1.88 PFlop/s Rmax, 3.55 PFlop/s Rpeak and 380 kW at rank 379 (its only appearance); the TOP500 site page for the institute gives Rmax as 1,884,000 GFlop/s and Rpeak as 3,551,310 GFlop/s. Both cited pages are TOP500 pages, so confidence stays reported. Only the TOP500 hardware is recorded here, and the current configuration may differ from the 2021 entry. The data center location is not stated in the cited pages.
Timeline
- 2021-11 List debut at #379 (November 2021) source
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 Agate, the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute's cluster
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 A100 SXM4 40GB, NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR |
| top500.org | names system and part | AMD EPYC 7763 (Milan), NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB, 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.