About ALCF

ALCF staff celebrating Aurora becoming an exascale system and earning the top spot on the HPL-MxP benchmark in May 2024.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at Argonne National Laboratory, enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing and AI resources to the research community.

ALCF computing resources—available to researchers from academia, industry, and government agencies—support large-scale computing projects aimed at solving some of the world’s most complex and challenging scientific problems. Through awards of computing time and support services, the ALCF enables researchers to accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation across a broad range of disciplines.

As a key player in the nation’s efforts to provide the most advanced computing resources for science, the ALCF is helping to chart new directions in scientific computing through a convergence of simulation, data science, and AI methods and capabilities.

Supported by the DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, the ALCF and its partner organization, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, operate leadership-class supercomputing resources that are orders of magnitude more powerful than the systems typically used for open scientific research.

2024 by the Numbers


2024 Stats

Node-hours of compute time

4.2M

Active projects

565 Data from fiscal year 2024

Publications

255

Facility users

2,103 Data from fiscal year 2024

ALCF Training Events

36

ALCF Training Event Participants

3,263




2024 ALCF Users by Affiliation

Academia

1,065

Government

657

Industry

291




2024 U.S. ALCF Users by State

100+ Users   11–100 Users   1–10 Users  
California
Illinois
New York
  Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Iowa
Indiana
Massachusetts
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
North Carolina
New Jersey
New Mexico
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Alabama
Arizona
Conneticut
Delaware
Hawaii
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Missouri
Mississippi
North Dakota
Nevada
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Washington D.C.
West Virginia




ALCF Staff Numbers

Staff Members

148

Postdoctoral Researchers

21

Summer Students

41