Supercomputers/Systems/Computerome 1
Denmark · operational · hpc
Computerome 1
Also known as Computerome (2014); DTU Riso life science supercomputer
Operated by Technical University of Denmark .
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
- 410.78 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 483.84 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 84.9%
- Cores
- 15,120
- Power
- 834.75 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.
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 Apollo 6000 XL230a servers (TOP500 vendor HPE) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Verified | top500.orgweb.archive.org |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon E5-2683v3 14-core 2 GHz (Haswell), 15,120 cores listed by TOP500 | Intel | - | Reported | top500.orgweb.archive.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
The first Computerome, Denmark's national supercomputer for life sciences, built by the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at DTU. The centre's page (January 2016 web archive snapshot) says it was installed at the DTU Riso campus in two 500 kW Tier IV containerized data centre modules, built from HP Apollo servers with 16,048 Haswell cores, 96 TB of DDR4 and InfiniBand, with 3 PB of storage expandable to 7.5 PB, a backbone of the Danish ELIXIR node, and a tenfold increase over the earlier installation at Lyngby; it also says it ranked 86th on the TOP500 in summer 2014. TOP500 lists an HPE Apollo 6000 XL230a system of Xeon E5-2683v3 14-core 2 GHz processors with 15,120 cores, 410.78 TFlop/s Rmax, 483.84 TFlop/s Rpeak and 834.75 kW, 121st in November 2014 and 426th in November 2016, its last list. The core count and rank differ between the two sources, so the tier is reported. Computerome 2.0 is recorded separately; no retirement date for this machine was found, so the status date is its 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
- 2026-10-09 Computerome 1 added from its source pages
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 |
|---|---|---|
| web.archive.org | names system and part | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR |
| top500.org | names system and part | Mellanox InfiniBand FDR |
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.