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Rostand

Name: TotalEnergies CSTJF (Pau)
Address: Pau, France

Operated by TotalEnergies at TotalEnergies CSTJF (Pau) .

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: 106.10 TFlop/s
Rpeak: 122.88 TFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 86.3%
Cores: 10,240
Power: 442 kW
Per watt: 0.2 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	- SGI Altix ICE 8200EX	SGI HPENYSE rolls up to Hewlett Packard Enterprise	-	Reported	top500.org oilit.com
CPU	Intel Xeon E5450 CPUs x86-64 · 4C · 3 GHz · 45 nm · 120 W Intel Xeon E5450 4C 3GHz, 10,240 cores	Intel INTCNASDAQ	-	Reported	top500.org oilit.com
Storage	Lustre Storage Parallel filesystem, separate metadata and object servers SGI InfiniteStorage plus a distributed file system based on Sun Lustre technology	Sun Microsystems ORCLNYSE rolls up to Oracle	-	Reported	oilit.com
Operating system	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating systems Linux distribution · Open source, commercial support subscription SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with SGI ProPack 5	SUSE	-	Reported	top500.org oilit.com

The read

Total Exploration Production's SGI Altix ICE 8200EX cluster for seismic imaging in Pau, France: 10,240 Xeon E5450 4C 3GHz cores on InfiniBand, SUSE Linux, 106.1 TFlop/s Rmax and 122.88 TFlop/s Rpeak on 442 kW. Oil IT Journal (June 2008) describes the purchase of a 10,240-core SGI Altix ICE with 123 TFlop/s of compute bandwidth, 500 TB of SGI InfiniteStorage and a Sun Lustre-based distributed file system for Total geophysicists in Pau, and says it ranked 10th on the June 2008 TOP500 (TOP500 now lists rank 11). Le Monde Informatique names Rostand as the 2008 machine that Pangea replaced in 2013; the name link to this TOP500 entry is an inference from the shared year, site and operator, which is why confidence is reported. Last appeared at rank 426 on June 2013, which is the basis for the status date.

Timeline

2008 First operational source
2008-06 List debut at #11 (June 2008) source

Public list appearances

Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.

#11: TOP500, June 2008 →

Site & facility

TotalEnergies CSTJF (Pau)

Location: Pau, France
Commissioned: 2019

cstjf-pau.totalenergies.fr

Change history

2026-10-09 Added Rostand

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.

Every source cited on this page was readable, and none of them mentions this system. They are cited at page granularity, normally because no stable deep link could be found. That is a real weakness in this row and it is why the system carries a confidence tier below verified. See how this check works.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
oilit.com	does not name this system	Intel Xeon E5450, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Lustre
top500.org	does not name this system	Intel Xeon E5450

Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.