Supercomputers/Systems/NIG Supercomputer 2012
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NIG Supercomputer 2012
Also known as National Institute of Genetics supercomputer (2012)
Operated by National Institute of Genetics .
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
- 82.90 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 116.81 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 71.0%
- Cores
- 5,616
- 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.
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 Cluster Platform SL230s/SL250s cluster | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | top500.org |
| CPU | Intel Xeon E5-2670 CPUs x86-64 · 8C · 2.6 GHz · 32 nm · 115 W Intel Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.6GHz | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Interconnect | Mellanox InfiniBand QDR Interconnect Fat tree · 40 Gb/s per 4x port InfiniBand QDR | Mellanox NVDANASDAQ
rolls up to NVIDIA | - | Reported | top500.org |
| Storage | - large-capacity storage totalling 5 PB | National Institute of Genetics | - | Reported | ddbj.nig.ac.jp |
The read
The shared supercomputer system of the National Institute of Genetics, which the institute says started operation on 21 March 2012 with more than 350 high-throughput cluster machines on the latest CPUs, a server with 10 TB of memory, 5 PB of storage and a high-speed transfer network. TOP500 lists an HP Cluster Platform SL230s/SL250s with Intel Xeon E5-2670 8-core 2.6 GHz processors, QDR InfiniBand, 5,616 cores, 82.90 TFlop/s Rmax and 116.81 TFlop/s Rpeak, ranked 280th in June 2012 and 432nd in November 2012 (https://www.top500.org/system/177642/). The institute's announcement gives no CPU model, so the match of the two rests on the machine count and date. 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
- 2026-10-09 Added NIG Supercomputer 2012
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ddbj.nig.ac.jp | names system only | - |
| top500.org | does not name this system | Intel Xeon E5-2670, Mellanox InfiniBand QDR |
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.