Supercomputers/Systems/Cerrillos
USA · decommissioned · hpc
Cerrillos
Also known as LANL Cerrillos; Roadrunner sibling
Operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
- 63.25 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 80.93 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 78.2%
- Cores
- 7,200
- Power
- 138 kW
- Per watt
- 0.5 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.
How it compares
Ranked against the other machines in this dataset that report the same figure: those that first came into service within two years of Cerrillos, and those in USA. Computed from our tables; a metric is ranked only when at least eight peers report it.
| Metric | Value | Against its era | Against its country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rmax | 63.25 TFlop/s | #59 of 125 · top 47% | #262 of 332 · bottom 22% |
| Energy efficiency | 0.5 GF/W | #8 of 71 · top 10% | #131 of 162 · bottom 20% |
| Rmax ÷ Rpeak | 78.2 % | #80 of 125 · bottom 37% | #132 of 331 · top 40% |
| Power draw | 138 kW | #61 of 72 · bottom 16% | #139 of 171 · bottom 20% |
Every metric is ranked largest-first, so a high power-draw rank means a big power draw, not a good one. Rmax ÷ Rpeak uses HPL-measured results only. Rankings move as machines are added; they describe this dataset, not the world.
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 | - IBM BladeCenter QS22/LS21 cluster, 448 blades salvaged for Narwhal | IBM | - | Reported | top500.orgcmu.edu |
| Accelerator | IBM PowerXCell 8i Accelerators Cell BE (PPE + 8 SPE) · 9C · 3.2 GHz · 65 nm · 92 W IBM PowerXCell 8i 3.2 GHz | IBM | - | Reported | top500.orgcmu.edu |
| CPU | - AMD Opteron dual-core 1.8 GHz in LS21 blades | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Smaller stablemate of Roadrunner (see roadrunner) at Los Alamos, using the same hybrid design of IBM BladeCenter QS22 blades with PowerXCell 8i processors at 3.2 GHz paired with LS21 Opteron blades at 1.8 GHz over InfiniBand. A Carnegie Mellon release of July 2014 says Cerrillos supported non-classified research at LANL and that Roadrunner and Cerrillos were both taken offline 'last year', which gives the 2013 decommissioning year recorded here; CMU then built its Narwhal cluster (1,792 cores) from 448 blades salvaged from Cerrillos. CMU quotes 14,400 cores for Cerrillos while TOP500 lists 7,200, and neither source says how cores were counted, so the TOP500 figure is used. TOP500 lists 63.25 TFlop/s Rmax, 80.93 peak and a stated 138 kW, ranked 42nd in November 2008 and 61st in June 2009, its last list. The accelerator part is IBM's PowerXCell 8i as in the Roadrunner record.
Timeline
- 2008 First operational source
- 2008-11 List debut at #42 (November 2008) source
- 2013 Decommissioned 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
- 2026-10-17 Cerrillos added from its source pages
Nearby in scale
The machines closest to Cerrillos by Rmax, smaller to larger.
- PLCI · Saudi Arabia, operational · 0.06 PFlop/s
- Abe · USA, decommissioned · 0.06 PFlop/s
- Tsessebe · South Africa, decommissioned · 0.06 PFlop/s
- ASC Purple · USA, decommissioned · 0.06 PFlop/s
- Galileu · Brazil, operational · 0.06 PFlop/s
- Galera Plus · Poland, operational · 0.07 PFlop/s
Related systems
Same operator
- Roadrunner · USA, decommissioned, 2008
- Cielo · USA, decommissioned, 2011
- Mustang (LANL) · USA, decommissioned, 2011
- LANL Lightning · USA, operational, 2003
- ASCI Q · USA, decommissioned, 2002
- Grizzly · USA, operational, 2016
Same accelerator
- Lomonosov · Russia, decommissioned, 2009
- QPACE (Julich) · Germany, operational, 2009
- QPACE (Wuppertal) · Germany, operational, 2009
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 |
|---|---|---|
| cmu.edu | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system and part | IBM PowerXCell 8i |
Checked 2026-10-18 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.