Earth Simulator supercomputer

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supercomputer

The Earth Simulator supercomputer is a high-performance computing system in Japan designed primarily for large-scale simulations of climate, weather, and geophysical phenomena.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Earth Simulator	2
Earth Simulator Center	2
Earth Simulator 3	1
Earth Simulator supercomputer canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1850500 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Earth Simulator supercomputer
Context triple: [Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, operates, Earth Simulator supercomputer]

A. Pleiades supercomputer
The Pleiades supercomputer is a high-performance computing system used by NASA for large-scale simulations and scientific research in fields such as aeronautics, space exploration, and climate modeling.
B. Delta supercomputer
The Delta supercomputer is a high-performance computing system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications designed to support advanced scientific research and data-intensive workloads.
C. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputing center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that provides some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing resources for scientific research.
D. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is a leading U.S. Department of Energy high-performance computing facility that provides advanced computational resources and support for large-scale scientific research.
E. National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a leading U.S. research institution known for pioneering high-performance computing technologies and software, including early web browser development.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Earth Simulator supercomputer
Target entity description: The Earth Simulator supercomputer is a high-performance computing system in Japan designed primarily for large-scale simulations of climate, weather, and geophysical phenomena.

A. Pleiades supercomputer
The Pleiades supercomputer is a high-performance computing system used by NASA for large-scale simulations and scientific research in fields such as aeronautics, space exploration, and climate modeling.
B. Delta supercomputer
The Delta supercomputer is a high-performance computing system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications designed to support advanced scientific research and data-intensive workloads.
C. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputing center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that provides some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing resources for scientific research.
D. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is a leading U.S. Department of Energy high-performance computing facility that provides advanced computational resources and support for large-scale scientific research.
E. National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a leading U.S. research institution known for pioneering high-performance computing technologies and software, including early web browser development.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	supercomputer ⓘ supercomputer ⓘ
architecture	vector supercomputer ⓘ vector supercomputer ⓘ
commissioned	2002 ⓘ 2009 ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
cpusPerNode	8 ⓘ
developer	NEC Corporation ⓘ NEC Corporation ⓘ
fieldOfApplication	climate science ⓘ geophysics ⓘ meteorology ⓘ oceanography ⓘ
floorSpace	about 3200 square meters ⓘ
fundedBy	Government of Japan ⓘ
heldTitle	world's fastest supercomputer ⓘ
interconnect	proprietary crossbar switch ⓘ
locatedInCity	Yokohama ⓘ
locatedInFacility	Earth Simulator Center ⓘ linked to: Earth Simulator supercomputer
locatedInPrefecture	Kanagawa Prefecture ⓘ
measuredPerformance	35.86 teraflops ⓘ
memoryPerNode	16 GB ⓘ
numberOfNodes	640 ⓘ
operatedBy	JAMSTEC ⓘ linked to: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology ⓘ
peakPerformance	131 teraflops ⓘ 40 teraflops ⓘ
powerConsumption	about 7 megawatts ⓘ
primaryUse	climate simulation ⓘ climate simulation ⓘ earth system science ⓘ earthquake simulation ⓘ geophysical simulation ⓘ tsunami simulation ⓘ weather simulation ⓘ
processorType	NEC SX-6 ⓘ
storageCapacity	700 TB ⓘ
successor	Earth Simulator 2 ⓘ
top500List	June 2002 ⓘ June 2003 ⓘ June 2004 ⓘ November 2002 ⓘ November 2003 ⓘ November 2004 ⓘ
top500Rank	1 ⓘ
totalCPUs	5120 ⓘ
totalMainMemory	10 TB ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology → operates → Earth Simulator supercomputer ⓘ

Earth Simulator → locatedInFacility → Earth Simulator Center ⓘ

subject linked to: Earth Simulator supercomputer