Sunway TaihuLight
The National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, run by Tsinghua University, operates Sunway TaihuLight, a domestic Sunway many-core system whose full-machine runs in atmospheric dynamics and earthquake simulation won Gordon Bell Prizes.
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.
- Large science and engineering applications, including global atmospheric dynamics and nonlinear earthquake simulation; also industrial simulation services 4
- How to get time How researchers or customers get time on the system, naming the allocation programme where the operator states one.
- Users apply for machine time through the centre's online application ('我要上机') and connect by VPN 4
- Facility Building, data centre or campus that houses the system, as described by the operator.
- National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, Binhu District, Wuxi, Jiangsu 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.
- 27 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.
- 93.01 1
- Rpeak PFLOP/s Theoretical peak double-precision performance of the listed configuration. This is not AI or mixed-precision throughput.
- 125.44 1
- HPL efficiency % Rmax divided by Rpeak: the share of theoretical peak the system delivered on LINPACK. Computed from the two sourced figures.
- 74.1 1
- Power kW Power reported for the benchmark run. Measurement boundaries vary by site; this is not facility power, TDP or cooling capacity. Empty when the system does not report it.
- 15,371 1
- Efficiency GFLOP/s per W Rmax per watt of reported benchmark power, computed from the two sourced figures (GFLOP/s per W). Empty when power is not reported.
- 6.05 1
- Site Host or operator named by TOP500 for the installation.
- National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi 1
- Country Country or region reported by TOP500 for the site.
- China 1
- City Site city as reported by TOP500 or the operator. It can be the operator address rather than the machine room.
- Wuxi 3
- 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.
- NRCPC 1
- Vendor group Supplier grouped for filtering. Bull is the Eviden/Atos line; Other covers single-system suppliers.
- Other 1
- System model Hardware platform in the cited TOP500 edition.
- Sunway MPP 1
- Processor CPU description in the cited TOP500 edition; clock and core count refer to the processor model.
- Sunway SW26010 260C 1.45GHz 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.
- Sunway 1
- Fabric Interconnect family derived from the listed interconnect (grouping applied by this site).
- Other 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.
- 10,649,600 1
- Installed Installation year reported in the TOP500 system record. Not necessarily the year of production acceptance.
- 2016 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.
- Sunway RaiseOS 2.0.5 2
- TOP500 record Link to the TOP500 database record for this exact submission.
- https://www.top500.org/system/178764/ 2
Sources
- TOP500 list, June 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 system record accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 site record accessed 2026-11-11
- 国家超级计算无锡中心 (National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi) accessed 2026-11-11
- 发展历程 (Development history) - National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi accessed 2026-11-11
- 硬件资源 (Hardware resources) - National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi accessed 2026-11-11