Discovery 6
Discovery 6 is ExxonMobil's HPE-built supercomputer for seismic processing across its global assets, running elastic full wavefield inversion and 4D time-lapse imaging to guide field development such as Guyana's Stabroek Block.
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.
- Seismic imaging: elastic full wavefield inversion (eFWI) and 4D eFWI, cutting 4D processing from months to weeks for reservoir management and well placement. 4
- Cooling Cooling design stated by the operator or supplier.
- 100% direct liquid cooling (HPE Cray Supercomputing EX4000). 4
- Upgrade or successor Announced upgrade, expansion, successor or retirement plan, with dates where the operator gives them.
- Replaces Discovery 5 (2022) with up to four times its compute and network performance; installation was planned for the first half of 2025. 4
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.
- 17 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.
- 164.2 1
- Rpeak PFLOP/s Theoretical peak double-precision performance of the listed configuration. This is not AI or mixed-precision throughput.
- 218.44 1
- HPL efficiency % Rmax divided by Rpeak: the share of theoretical peak the system delivered on LINPACK. Computed from the two sourced figures.
- 75.2 1
- Site Host or operator named by TOP500 for the installation.
- ExxonMobil 1
- Country Country or region reported by TOP500 for the site.
- United States 1
- City Site city as reported by TOP500 or the operator. It can be the operator address rather than the machine room.
- Spring 3
- Region World region of the installation country (grouping applied by this site).
- Americas 1
- Vendor Manufacturer or system supplier exactly as submitted to TOP500.
- HPE 1
- Vendor group Supplier grouped for filtering. Bull is the Eviden/Atos line; Other covers single-system suppliers.
- HPE 1
- System model Hardware platform in the cited TOP500 edition.
- HPE Cray EX254n 1
- Processor CPU description in the cited TOP500 edition; clock and core count refer to the processor model.
- NVIDIA Grace 72C 3.1GHz 1
- Accelerator Accelerator model listed for the system. Empty when TOP500 lists none.
- NVIDIA GH200 Superchip 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.
- Slingshot-11 1
- Fabric Interconnect family derived from the listed interconnect (grouping applied by this site).
- Slingshot 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.
- 806,208 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.
- HPE Cray OS 2
- TOP500 record Link to the TOP500 database record for this exact submission.
- https://www.top500.org/system/180352/ 2
Sources
- TOP500 list, June 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 system record accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 site record accessed 2026-11-11
- ExxonMobil seismic imaging and technology | ExxonMobil accessed 2026-11-11