CHIE-4

SoftBank Corp. runs CHIE-4, a DGX SuperPOD of over 4,000 Blackwell GPUs, as part of its AI computing platform; subsidiary SB Intuitions uses it first to build Japanese-language large language models.

Country JP Rank #21 (2026-06) Asia-Pacific

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What it runs and how to get time

From the operator
Used for What the operator says the system is used for: science domains, missions or workloads. Taken from the operator, its funder or the system vendor, not from TOP500.
Training Japanese-language large language models at SB Intuitions, including the Sarashina model family 3
How to get time How researchers or customers get time on the system, naming the allocation programme where the operator states one.
Used internally and offered as infrastructure as a service to companies and research institutions in Japan 3

Benchmark and hardware

Source per value
Rank Position in the TOP500 edition named in the Edition column. Historic systems keep the rank of the edition where they last appeared.
21 1
Rmax PFLOP/s Measured double-precision LINPACK (HPL) performance of the listed configuration. Older TFLOP/s and GFLOP/s figures are converted to PFLOP/s.
135.4 1
Rpeak PFLOP/s Theoretical peak double-precision performance of the listed configuration. This is not AI or mixed-precision throughput.
151.88 1
HPL efficiency % Rmax divided by Rpeak: the share of theoretical peak the system delivered on LINPACK. Computed from the two sourced figures.
89.1 1
Site Host or operator named by TOP500 for the installation.
SoftBank Corp. 1
Country Country or region reported by TOP500 for the site.
Japan 1
Region World region of the installation country (grouping applied by this site).
Asia-Pacific 1
Vendor Manufacturer or system supplier exactly as submitted to TOP500.
Nvidia 1
Vendor group Supplier grouped for filtering. Bull is the Eviden/Atos line; Other covers single-system suppliers.
NVIDIA 1
System model Hardware platform in the cited TOP500 edition.
NVIDIA DGX B200 1
Processor CPU description in the cited TOP500 edition; clock and core count refer to the processor model.
Xeon Platinum 8570 56C 2.1GHz 1
Accelerator Accelerator model listed for the system. Empty when TOP500 lists none.
NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB 1
Accelerator vendor Maker of the accelerator. None listed means TOP500 names no accelerator for the system.
NVIDIA 1
Interconnect Network fabric exactly as listed in the cited TOP500 edition.
Infiniband NDR400 1
Fabric Interconnect family derived from the listed interconnect (grouping applied by this site).
InfiniBand 1
Cores cores Total cores submitted to TOP500, including accelerator cores where TOP500 counts them. Not a CPU-only count and not a CUDA-core count.
662,256 1
Installed Installation year reported in the TOP500 system record. Not necessarily the year of production acceptance.
2025 2
Edition TOP500 edition (YYYY-MM) that supplies the ranking and benchmark data. A historic edition does not assert current operating status.
2026-06 1
OS Operating system from the TOP500 system record.
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 2
TOP500 record Link to the TOP500 database record for this exact submission.
https://www.top500.org/system/180438/ 2

Sources

  1. TOP500 list, June 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
  2. TOP500 system record accessed 2026-11-11
  3. SoftBank Corp. Builds World's Largest NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs accessed 2026-11-11

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