Supercomputers/Systems/Volvo Cars BL460c Cluster
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Volvo Cars BL460c Cluster
Also known as Volvo Personvagnar BL460c Gen9 cluster
Operated by Volvo Cars .
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
- 861.55 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 1.02 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 84.1%
- Cores
- 24,624
- 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 Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c Gen9 and DL380 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon E5-2697v3 and E5-2690v3 12C 2.6GHz, 24,624 cores | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR Interconnect Fat tree · 56 Gb/s per 4x port · About 1 microsecond InfiniBand FDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Volvo Personvagnar AB's HPE Cluster Platform 3000 of BL460c Gen9 and DL380 nodes (Xeon E5-2697v3 and E5-2690v3 12-core CPUs, 2.6GHz) on InfiniBand FDR, 24,624 cores at 861.5 TFlop/s Rmax and 1.02 PFlop/s Rpeak. It debuted at rank 140 in November 2016, then ranked 176 in June 2017, 254 in November 2017 and 356 in June 2018, its last appearance. A second, smaller 20,360-core Volvo cluster was listed alongside it (system 179029). The TOP500 site page gives Sweden but no city, so the system is left unlocated. Status is recorded as of the last list appearance.
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 Volvo Cars' HPE BL460c 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 | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR |
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.