Supercomputers/Systems/Zhangbei Intelligent Computing Center
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Zhangbei Intelligent Computing Center
Operated by Alibaba Group at Alibaba Cloud Zhangbei 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
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
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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 | - Alibaba Cloud Feitian (Aspara) full-stack intelligent computing platform; designed AI computing power 12 EFLOPS | Alibaba Group | - | Reported | ehangzhou.gov.cnglobal.chinadaily.com.cn |
The read
Alibaba Cloud's Zhangbei Super Intelligent Computing Center in Zhangbei county, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, officially launched on 30 August 2022 and run on Alibaba's Feitian (Aspara) intelligent computing platform for large-model training, autonomous driving and spatial geography. Alibaba's stated figure is a designed AI computing power of 12 EFLOPS, which the sources call a design capacity rather than a measured rate and which is a low-precision AI figure on a different basis from HPL, so no FLOPS are recorded. A sister centre at Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, is stated at 3 EFLOPS and is not recorded as a separate row. No chip type, count, power or PUE is published, and the exact location within the county is not given, so the site carries no map coordinates. The second source is a trade report of the same announcement, so this stays reported.
Site & facility
Alibaba Cloud Zhangbei Data Center
- Location
- Zhangbei, Hebei, China
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Zhangbei Intelligent Computing Center added (Alibaba Cloud, 12 EFLOPS designed AI capacity)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| global.chinadaily.com.cn | names system only | - |
| ehangzhou.gov.cn | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.