Supercomputers/Systems/IronMan (Dell)
USA · operational · mixed
IronMan (Dell)
Also known as Dell IronMan MI300X cluster
Operated by Dell Technologies .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
- 3.11 PFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 5.27 PFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 59.0%
- Cores
- 20,096
- 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.
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 IronMan (Dell), 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 | 3.11 PFlop/s | #202 of 234 · bottom 15% | #113 of 332 · top 34% |
| Rmax ÷ Rpeak | 59.0 % | #203 of 231 · bottom 13% | #283 of 331 · bottom 16% |
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 | - Dell PowerEdge XE9680 | Dell Technologies | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Accelerator | AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators ROCm (CDNA 3) · TSMC N5/N6 · 750 W AMD Instinct MI300X | AMD | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+ CPUs x86-64 · 40C · 2 GHz · Intel 7 · 300 W Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+ 40C 2GHz | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | Broadcom RoCE Ethernet Interconnect Broadcom BCM957608 400G Ethernet | Broadcom | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Operating system | Ubuntu Server Operating systems Linux distribution · Open source, free with paid support tiers Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS | Canonical | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
AMD GPU system in Dell Technologies' HPC & AI Innovation Lab, listed by TOP500 as IronMan: PowerEdge XE9680 with Xeon Platinum 8460Y+ 40-core 2 GHz, AMD Instinct MI300X, Broadcom BCM957608 400G Ethernet and Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, installed 2024. It has 20,096 cores, Rmax 3.11 and Rpeak 5.27 PFlop/s (59 percent efficiency) with no power or HPCG figure, debuted at 339th in November 2024 and was 433rd in June 2026. It is a vendor showcase and benchmarking machine, in the line of the lab's Zenith (zenith-dell) and Rattler (rattler-dell), and its Ethernet fabric contrasts with the InfiniBand NDR of the lab's H100 machine Medusa (dell-medusa). TOP500 is the only source: no Dell page naming IronMan was found, so no site or in-service date is recorded and the tier is reported.
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
- 2026-10-18 Added IronMan (Dell)
Nearby in scale
The machines closest to IronMan (Dell) by Rmax, smaller to larger.
- Matrix · USA, operational · 3.11 PFlop/s
- Lichtenberg II Phase 2 · Germany, operational · 3.1 PFlop/s
- ASEAN-Korea HPC Facility · Indonesia, operational · 3.1 PFlop/s
- Thunder (AFRL) · USA, operational · 3.13 PFlop/s
- Vader · USA, operational · 3.14 PFlop/s
- LiDO4 · Germany, operational · 3.14 PFlop/s
Related systems
Same operator
- Medusa (Dell) · USA, operational, 2024
- Zenith (Dell EMC) · USA, operational, 2016
- Rattler · USA, operational
Same accelerator
- Vultr AMD GPU Supercompute Cluster (Chicago) · USA, operational, 2024
- Lichtenberg II Phase 2 · Germany, operational, 2023
- MAXIMUS-384 · USA, operational, 2025
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.