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Vultr AMD GPU Supercompute Cluster (Chicago)
Operated by Vultr at Vultr / Centersquare Lisle Data 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
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- Rpeak
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- 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 | - Vultr-operated cluster expanding Vultr's Chicago cloud data center region at Centersquare's Lisle, Illinois facility; Juniper Networks AI-optimized Ethernet (including 800G switches) is also named as a networking partner | Vultr | - | Reported | blogs.vultr.com |
| Accelerator | AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators ROCm (CDNA 3) · TSMC N5/N6 · 750 W Thousands of AMD Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators on ROCm | AMD | - | Reported | blogs.vultr.comelectronicspecifier.com |
| Interconnect | Broadcom RoCE Ethernet Interconnect Broadcom Ethernet network adapters and switch silicon | Broadcom | - | Reported | blogs.vultr.comelectronicspecifier.com |
The read
Vultr's first AMD Instinct MI300X supercompute cluster, at Centersquare's Lisle, Illinois facility as an expansion of Vultr's Chicago cloud data center region, built in a four-way collaboration with AMD, Broadcom (Ethernet switch silicon and NIC adapters) and Juniper Networks (AI-optimized Ethernet, including 800G switches). Vultr's own announcement and independent trade press both describe 'thousands' of MI300X GPUs on ROCm without giving an exact count, so no accelerator quantity is recorded here and the system carries no FLOPS or rank; it has never submitted an HPL result. This is the dataset's first system where Vultr, rather than a customer it hosts capacity for, is the named operator.
Site & facility
Vultr / Centersquare Lisle Data Center
- Location
- Lisle, IL, USA
- Commissioned
- 2024
Change history
- 2026-09-24 Vultr AMD GPU Supercompute Cluster (Chicago) added (USA)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| blogs.vultr.com | names system and part | AMD Instinct MI300X, Broadcom RoCE Ethernet |
| electronicspecifier.com | names system and part | AMD Instinct MI300X, Broadcom RoCE Ethernet |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
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.
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.