Supercomputers/Systems/Volvo Cars E5-2670 Cluster
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Volvo Cars E5-2670 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: 1263 of 1345 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 56 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
- 123.34 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 145.10 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 85.0%
- Cores
- 6,976
- 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 | - HP Cluster Platform 3000 with BL460c, SL250 and ML350 nodes (then HP) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | Intel Xeon E5-2670 CPUs x86-64 · 8C · 2.6 GHz · 32 nm · 115 W Intel Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.6GHz, 6,976 cores | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand QDR Interconnect Fat tree · 40 Gb/s per 4x port InfiniBand QDR | NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Volvo Car Group's 2012 HPE Cluster Platform 3000 of BL460c, SL250 and ML350 nodes with Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.6GHz processors on InfiniBand QDR, running Linux: 6,976 cores at 123.34 TFlop/s Rmax and 145.1 TFlop/s Rpeak. It debuted at rank 215 on the November 2012 list and last appeared at rank 469 on November 2013, which is the basis for the status date. An earlier machine than the 2016 Volvo Cars BL460c Cluster already in this dataset.
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
- 2026-10-09 Added Volvo Cars E5-2670 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 | Intel Xeon E5-2670, Mellanox InfiniBand QDR |
Checked 2026-10-13 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.