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Dell C6420 HPC system supplied by DELL for Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas in the United States. The cited June 2026 TOP500 configuration delivers 23.52 PFLOP/s on HPL.
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.
- 90 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.
- 23.52 1
- Rpeak PFLOP/s Theoretical peak double-precision performance of the listed configuration. This is not AI or mixed-precision throughput.
- 38.75 1
- HPL efficiency % Rmax divided by Rpeak: the share of theoretical peak the system delivered on LINPACK. Computed from the two sourced figures.
- 60.7 1
- Site Host or operator named by TOP500 for the installation.
- Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas 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.
- Austin 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.
- DELL 1
- Vendor group Supplier grouped for filtering. Bull is the Eviden/Atos line; Other covers single-system suppliers.
- Dell 1
- System model Hardware platform in the cited TOP500 edition.
- Dell C6420 1
- Processor CPU description in the cited TOP500 edition; clock and core count refer to the processor model.
- Xeon Platinum 8280 28C 2.7GHz 1
- Accelerator vendor Maker of the accelerator. None listed means TOP500 names no accelerator for the system.
- None listed 1
- Interconnect Network fabric exactly as listed in the cited TOP500 edition.
- Mellanox InfiniBand HDR 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.
- 448,448 1
- Installed Installation year reported in the TOP500 system record. Not necessarily the year of production acceptance.
- 2019 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.
- CentOS Linux 7 2
- TOP500 record Link to the TOP500 database record for this exact submission.
- https://www.top500.org/system/179607/ 2
Sources
- TOP500 list, June 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 system record accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 site record accessed 2026-11-11