Computer systems at Daresbury over the Years

Table D lists some of the computer systems which have been used for research work at Daresbury Laboratory.

**Table 2:** Significant Computer Systems at Daresbury Laboratory
Item	Make	Dates installed at DL	procs and speed	memory	total MFlop/s *
0	Ferranti Atlas (RAL)	1964-		256 kB	1 MIP/s
1	IBM 1800	1966-
2	IBM 360/50	1966-
3	IBM 360/65	1968-	c.1 MHz
4	IBM 370/165	1973-	12.5 MHz	3 MB
5	PDP-11/05	1974-81	100kHz	16kB
	PDP-11/15
	Perkin-Elmer 7/32
6	Cray-1S	1978-83	2x 120 MHz	4 MB	480 (115kW per unit)
7	GEC 4000 cluster	c.1975-
8	NAS 7000	1981-88	100 MHz	8 MB, later 16 MB
9a	FPS 164	1984-89	11 MHz	4 MB	11
9b	FPS 264	1984-89	11 MHz	4 MB	22
	Concurrent 3230 (formerly Perkin-Elmer)	1985-	2x 4 MHz LSI CPU
10a	Meiko M10	1986-89
10b	Meiko M60	1990-93	14x T800 transputers and 10x i860 co-processors		560
11	Convex C220	1988-94	2x 25 MHz custom CMOS CPU	256 MB	72
12	Intel iPSC/2	1988-94	32x 4 MHz 80386/7, Weitek 1167 and AMD VX co-processors	160 MB	212
13	Stardent 1520	1989-94	2x 32 MHz MIPS R3000	32 MB	16
	SGI Power 4D/420	c.1989	4x 32 MHz MIPS R3000		33
14	Intel i860	1990-93	64x 40 MHz 80860. Top500 no. 210 in June 1993	512 MB	2.56 Gflop/s
	Alliant FX/2808	c.1990	8x 80860		320
16	Beowulf cluster	1994-98	32x 450 MHz Pentium III	8 GB
17	Loki cluster	1999-2003	64x 667 MHz DEC Alpha EV6/7	32 GB
15	IBM SP-2/3	2000-02	32x 375 MHz Power3
1 8	Scali cluster	2003-7	64x 1 GHz AMD K7	64 GB
19a	IBM Regatta HPCx phase I	2002-2010	1280x 1.3 GHz Power4. Top500 no. 9 in Nov'2002	1.6 TB	6.66 Tflop/s. 0.015 Gflop/s/W
19b	IBM Regatta HPCx phase II		1600x 1.7 GHz Power4+.
19c	IBM Regatta HPCx phase III
19d	IBM Regatta HPCx phase IV
20	NW-GRID	2005-12	384x 2.6 GHz Opteron
21	BlueGene/L	-2011
22	Hapu
23	Woodcrest		32 Woodcrest
24	BlueGene/P	-2012
25	CSEHT		32 Harpertown
25a	nVidia		Nehalem+Tesla GPU
26	Fujitsu
27	SID IBM iDataPlex	2011-14	480x 2.67 GHz Westmere	960 GB
28	Blue Wonder IBM iDataPlex	2012-16	8,192 Sandybridge		Top500 no. 114 in June 20121 70 Tflop/s. 1 Gflop/s/W
29	Blue Joule BlueGene/Q	2012-16	114,688 1.6 GHz BGC		Top500 no. 13 in June 2012 1.46 Pflop/s. 2.55 Gflop/s/W
30	Napier NextScale cluster	2014-17
31	Iden iDataPlex Xeon Phi cluster	2014-17
32	Neale Novel cooling system	2015-17	96x Supermicro nodes in oil bath
33	Ace development system	2015-17	12x 64-bit ARM nodes
34	DeLorean Maxeler data flow engine	2014-2022	5x Xeon hosts with FPGA accelerators
35	Panther IBM Power-8	2016-2022	36 nodes with Power-8 CPU plus 4x nVidia K80 GPU
36	Paragon IBM Power-8	2017-2922	34 node swith Power-8 NVL CPU plus 4x nVidia P100 GPUs
37	JADE	2017-2022	22x nVidia DGX-1 nodes
38	Scafell Pike Bull Atos X1000 Sequena	2017-present	55,680 Xeon Phi Knight's Landing cores, 25,728 Xeon Gold Skylake cores	192 GB per node (32 cores on SKL)	Top 500 no. 35 at installation, around 4 Pflop/s
39	JADE-2	2020-present	63x nVidia DGX1-MaxQ nodes with 8x V100 GPUs	32 GB per GPU
40	Quasar Atos quantum learning simulator	2021-present	Xeon Platinum 8160M, 8 sockets, 24 cores per socket, 384 virtual cores